


"Opinion | The Young Suicide Bomber Who Brought India and Pakistan to the Brink of War". "Kailash Vajpeyi: A poet embraces his favourite subject – death". She has conceived, commissioned and guest edited several issues of Seminar magazine. She writes regularly for The Hindu newspaper and Scroll.in. She is the co-editor with Ramin Jahanbegloo of Ashis Nandy: A Life in Dissent (OUP, 2018) and with Volker Kaul of Minorities and Populism: Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe (Springer, 2020). It was also featured on the Books of the year 2012 list on The Guardian and The New Republic. It also won the Thomas J Wilson Memorial Prize from Harvard University Press and the Tata First Book Award for Non-Fiction (2013). Her book " Righteous Republic" won the Crossword Award for Non-Fiction (2013), jointly with " From the Ruins of Empire" by Pankaj Mishra. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts and Columbia University Works Vajpeyi received her MA at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, M.Phil from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and Ph.D. She is married to Basharat Peer, an opinion editor with the New York Times. Vajpeyi is the daughter of Sahitya Akademi award-winning poet Kailash Vajpeyi.

She is the author of the award-winning book " Righteous Republic: The Political foundations of Modern India" published by the Harvard University Press. She is Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. Ananya Vajpeyi is an Indian academic and writer.
