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About the speaker: Prof. Rajeev Bhargava is currently the honorary fellow and director of Parekh Institute of Indian Thought at Centre for Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. He was the Director of the CSDS from 2007-2014. He has been Professor at the Centre for Political Studies, JNU, and was Head of Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. He has also been a Fellow at Harvard University, University of Bristol, Institute of Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, and the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. He has also been Distinguished resident Scholar, Institute of Religion, Culture and Public Life, Columbia University, and Asia Chair at Sciences Po, Paris. He is Honorary Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford and currently a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Social Justice, ACU, Sydney. Prof. Bhargava’s publications include Individualism in Social Science, What is Political Theory and Why Do We Need It?, The Promise of India’s Secular Democracy and Between Hope and Despair: 100 Ethical Reflections on Contemporary India. His edited works are Secularism and Its Critics, Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution and Politics, Ethics and the Self: re-reading Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj. Prof. Bhargava is on the advisory board of several national and institutions, and was a consultant for the UNDP report on cultural liberty.