Anirban Ganguly had his early education at Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Puducherry, and went on to defend his doctoral thesis on Sri Aurobindo and the Indian nationalist education discourse at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is presently a Research Fellow with Vivekananda International Foundation, a leading New Delhi-based think-tank. Anirban’s interests lie in the areas of historical, civilizational and political studies, and he is currently occupied in trying to unravel attempts at creating a counter-narrative to the perception of India – historical, socio-religious – and in tracing the evolution of Indian nationalism.