RAJIV MALHOTRA is an Indian-American researcher and public intellectual on current affairs, world religions, cross-cultural encounters and science. His focus is on interventions that challenge and disrupt many assumptions concerning Indian civilization. He is the author of Breaking India (Amaryllis, 2011) and Being Different (HarperCollins, 2011), and the chief protagonist in Invading the Sacred (Rupa & Co., 2007). He is chairman of the Board of Governors of the Indic Studies Centre at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. A scientist by training, Rajiv was previously a senior corporate executive, strategic consultant and entrepreneur in telecommunications, information technology and media.