Vinay LalVinay Lal is a Professor of History and Asian American Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a cultural critic, writer, and blogger. His intellectual interests include South Asian history, comparative colonial histories, the Inian diaspora, public and popular culture in India, cinema, and the global histories of non-violence. He has authored and edited numerous books which include The Fury of Covid-19: The Politics, Histories, and Unrequited Love of the Coronavirus (2020); the two-volume Oxford Anthology of the Modern Indian City (2013); Deewaar: The Footpath, the City, and the Angry Young Man (2011); Political Hinduism (2009); Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi (2005); The History of History (2003); and two books co-edited with Ashis Nandy. Read More Read Less