Indian Democracy

Arvind Sivaramakrishnan is a former Visiting Professor and currently a member of the Guest Faculty, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. From 2008 to 2014, he was the Senior Deputy Editor on The Hindu, writing editorials, specialist articles, and book reviews on international politics, public policy, and political theory; he combined his duties with teaching and research as an Associate Professor at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. He took his degree, a postgraduate diploma in social administration, and doctorate as well as a professional teaching qualification at the University of Southampton, where he also taught politics. Since then, he has taught at Suffolk College, Ipswich, the Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad, Southampton Institute of Higher Education (now Southampton Solent University), and Taunton's College (now Richard Taunton College), Southampton. He has published a range of academic papers in politics, political philosophy, public policy, and related fields, and has conducted research seminars and research training sessions at universities in the European Union and India. His books include Introduction to Political Ideologies (2017), Public Interest Journalism (2014), Public Policy and Citizenship (2012), Short on Democracy (2007), and Through a Glass Wall (2007).
Sudarsan Padmanabhan is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He specializes in social and political philosophy, Indian philosophy and culture, and his research focus is on the confluence of law, democracy, and ethics in the public sphere. Sudarsan is the Co-coordinator of an Erasmus+ grant, funded by the European Union (EU) and coordinated by Aarhus University, Denmark. Sudarsan was also the Co-coordinator of Interdisciplinary Bridges for Indo-European Studies (IBIES), a consortium of 19 EU and Indian Higher Education institutions funded by Erasmus Mundus, coordinated by Aarhus University. He was Principal Investigator of the EU-funded Contemporary European Study Centres Project in India during 2010-2011; this research group works on Democracy and Development and Contemporary Global Politics. With Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Sudarsan coedited The Democratic Predicament: Cultural Diversity in Europe and India (2013) and Becoming Minority (2015); with Sonika Gupta, he coedited Politics in the Global Age: Critical Reflections on Sovereignty, Citizenship, Territory and Nationalism (2015).