- Manisha Sethi is a Sociologist by training. She has taught at JamiaMilliaIslamia, Delhi – from where she is currently on leave – since 2005, first at the Centre for Comparative Religions, and later at Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies. She was a fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library between 2013-15.Sethi also helps edit Biblio, India’s preeminent book review magazine.
- Sethi’s research interests encompass a wide range: from gender, politics and religion, to law and counterterrorism. She is the author of Kafkaland: Law, Prejudice and Counterterrorism in India (Three Essays, 2014) and Escaping the World: Women Renouncers among Jains (Routledge, 2012). Sethi is finishing a monograph on law and the evolution of modern Jain identity.
- At Nalsar, she is associated with the newly initiated Centre for Criminal Justice Reform and Research.
