Neera Chandhoke is Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Equity Studies, New Delhi. Prior to this, she was Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi and Director of Developing Countries Research Centre at the University of Delhi. Her recent publications include Rethinking Pluralism, Secularism, Tolerance: Anxieties of Co- Existence, 2019; Democracy and Revolutionary Politics, 2015; and Contested Secessions, 2012. Her forthcoming work is titled Violence in Our Bones.