Vasanthi Srinivasan is a Professor in the department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad. She is the author of Gandhi’s Conscience Keeper: C Rajagopalachari and Indian Politics (2009) and Hindu Spirituality and Virtue Politics (2014). Her research interests are in the area of Indian political Ideas, comparative political thought, and the interface between technology and politics. Her latest work, Virtue and Human Ends (Orient Blackswan, 2021), delves into the Pancatantra, Hitopadesa and other literary texts.