Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee is a poet, writer, and political science scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Looking for the Nation: Towards Another Idea of India (Speaking Tiger, 2018) and a collection of poetry, Ghalib's Tomb and Other Poems (The London Magazine, 2013). He frequently writes for The Wire, and has contributed to The New York Times, Al-Jazeera, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, The Hindu, The Indian Express, Outlook, among other publications. His poetry has appeared in Rattle, World Literature Today, Acumen, The Fortnightly Review, among others. He has taught lyric poetry and literary journalism at Ambedkar University, New Delhi.
