Vasundhara Sirnate

Vasundhara Sirnate is a political scientist, journalist and writer of India. She is one of the founding members of The Polis Project. Her notable works include Passive Police: Institutional Learning Through Inquiry Commissions and Kashmir's Crossroads.

Vasundhara Sirnate was born on 17 September 1979 in Ambala Cantt. She attended schools like Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior. She earned a B.A degree in journalism at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi. Sirnate later went to Jawahar Lal Nehru University for M.A and M.Phil studies in political science. She studied there under the supervision of Professor Zoya Hasan. Sirnate went to University of California, Berkeley for her PhD studies.

Sirnate was Chief Coordinator of Research at The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy from 2013 to 2017. The Polis Project was founded in February 2017, and incorporated in New York in January 2018. She joined it as the Director of Research in November 2017.

Few notable works of Sirnate are:

1. Good laws, bad implementation
2. Students versus the State: The politics of uranium mining in Meghalaya
3. Positionality, personal insecurity, and female empathy in security studies research
4. The RSS and Citizenship: The Construction of the Muslim Minority Identity in India'
5. After Pulwama, the Indian Media Proves it is the BJP's Propaganda Machine
6. Kashmir's Crossroads
7. The Naxalites of India, Maoists of Nepal and Taliban of Pakistan: Ideological Insurgencies in South Asia
8. Demonstrating State-Memory: The Politics of 'Tribe' and India's Counterinsurgency Campaigns in Mizoram and Chhattisgarh
9. Countering Insurgency: Strategies of the Indian State
10. Passive Police: Institutional Learning Through Inquiry Commissions