Kanishk Tharoor is Editor of terrorism.openDemocracy, the terrorism-focused division of the leading online journal of international affairs. He has written for numerous publications, including the Times of India, The Hindu, The Telegraph (India), and openDemocracy, on issues ranging from regional security and terrorism to literary culture. His work and research in recent years include positions at Human Rights Watch, YaleGlobal Online, the Indian Permanent Mission to the United Nations and a fellowship to study Muslim integration in the Netherlands.  He has represented openDemocracy at conferences in Spain, Egypt, the United Kingdom, and the United States on security and conflict resolution, and has advised the Spanish think-tank Fride on matters of Indian foreign policy. He is also an award-winning writer of fiction, and was recently published in a Penguin anthology of short fiction. He graduated magna cum laude last year from Yale University with degrees in History and Literature.