Maya Mirchandani is an award winning Indian broadcast journalist with vast reporting experience on Indian Foreign Policy, with a focus on South Asia. She has extensively covered the Kashmir conflict, the civil war in Sri Lanka as well as internal identity politics and conflicts in India.

She now teaches Media Studies at India’s premier liberal arts institution, Ashoka University; and is a Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, where she heads research on the intersections between hate speech, populist politics and violent extremism.