Rajnish Mishra is an Associate Professor at the School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research interests include Sanskrit Linguistics, Philosophy of language, Indian Grammatical Tradition, Literary Theory, Comparative Poetics and Aesthetics, Kashmir Shaiva Philosophy, Buddhism. He has a deep understanding of the Indian intellectual tradition and has authored/edited several critically acclaimed works related to Indian knowledge systems. He was one of the assistant editors of the eleven volume Encyclopaedia of Hinduism that was published by Rupa.