Aakash Singh Rathore

Aakash Singh Rathore is an internationally recognised author whose work spans political thought, constitutional history, and the ethics of emerging technologies. His authored books include Will AI Murder Us All? The Moral Psychology of Artificial Intelligence (Penguin, 2026), Becoming Babasaheb: The Life and Times of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (HarperCollins, 2023), and the bestselling Ambedkar’s Preamble: A Secret History of the Constitution of India (Penguin, 2020). His Hegel’s India (Oxford University Press, 2018) was shortlisted for Non-fiction Book of the Year at the 2017 Tata Literature Live! Book Awards.

He has taught politics, philosophy and law at universities across five countries, including Ashoka University, Jindal Global University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, the University of Delhi, the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, the University of Toronto, Humboldt University in Berlin and LUISS University in Rome. An International Fellow at ETHOS, Rome, he was previously a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

Professor Rathore has also edited more than a dozen books across philosophy, law, literature and religion. He is Series Editor of Penguin’s fifteen-volume Rethinking India series and coedited its opening volume, Vision for a Nation, together with Ashis Nandy, and edits Oxford University Press’s Religion and Democracy series, as well as Routledge’s Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought series. Beyond academia, Rathore is a columnist, a speaker at international literary festivals and an accomplished endurance athlete who has completed ten Ironman triathlons on four continents.