Amitava Kumar is a professor of English and the Helen D. Lockwood Chair at Vassar College. He is the author of A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb and Husband of a Fanatic: A Personal Journey Through India, Pakistan, Love, and Hate (The New Press). His writing has appeared in The Nation, Harper’s, American Prospect, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Times of India.