Kaustuv Roy is Professor in the Humanities Department at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India. He has previously held faculty positions at Azim Premji University, India, and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. He has published five books with Palgrave Macmillan, including Teachers and Teaching: Time and the Creative Tension (2019) and The Power of Philosophy: Thought and Redemption (2018).