Vasanthi Srinivasan is a professor of Political Science at the University of Hyderabad. She has a PhD in Political Science from Carleton University, Ottawa and taught at the College of Humanities, Ottawa. She has been a Commonwealth and New India Foundation scholar. She is the author of Gandhi’s Conscience Keeper: C Rajagopalachari and Indian Politics (Permanent Black, 2009), Hindu Spirituality and Virtue Politics (Sage, 2014), and Virtue and Human Ends: Political Ideas from Indian Classics (Orient Blackswan, 2021). She has been a visiting scholar at CASI, University of Pennsylvania (April 2009) and SAAS, Yale University (April 2011), CPS, JNU (2012).