Kalyani Shankar is a political commentator and columnist. She was Political Editor at Hindustan Times and has been its Washington correspondent. She was also a broadcast and television journalist. Shankar was a Nuffield press fellow at Cambridge University and senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington. She is the author of Nixon, Indira and India: Politics and Beyond, India and the United States: Politics of the Sixties and Gods of Power: Personality Cult and Indian Democracy. Kalyani Shankar lives in Delhi.