Jonathan Koshy Varghese is Assistant Professor at the English Department of Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. He was awarded his PhD from the History and Civilizations department at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris. He is an Associate Researcher at the French national research center, Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH). He occasionally writes for The Hindu on aspects of writing, aesthetics and visual culture. He is, when times permits, a portraitist.