Dr. Nader Fekri is a Visiting Professor of Politics at the University of Mumbai and is also a member of the Board of Trustees at the American School of Bombay. He was born in Iran, but as a child moved to the UK, which has been his home for fifty years. He has worked as a TV journalist, a Justice of the Peace, a Mayor, but primarily as an academic. He has taught Politics in universities in the UK and across Europe, and is currently researching a book tentatively titled, “India in the Western Imagination – The Self and the Other”.