Manu Belur Bhagavan

Manu Bhagavan is Professor of History, Human Rights, and Public Policy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. He is the author of The Remarkable Madame Pandit (Columbia University Press, 2025; Penguin/Allen Lane India 2023), the definitive biography of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, one of the most important women of the twentieth century. His numerous other books include the critically acclaimed The Peacemakers (2012, 2013) and, as editor, India and the Cold War. Manu regularly appears in the media to comment on global affairs.