Radhika Seshan retired as Professor and Head of the Department of History, Savitribai Phule Pune University. She is now visiting faculty at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune. A reputed academic writer, she is the author and editor of several books, including Narratives, Routes and Intersections in Pre-Modern Asia, Trade and Politics on the Coromandel Coast: Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries and Medieval India: Problems and Possibilities. She currently lives in Pune.