Arun Sukumar is assistant professor of international relations at Ashoka University. He was previously an assistant professor at Leiden University, where he was also affiliated as a researcher with the Hague Program on International Cybersecurity. He holds a PhD and MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and a bachelor’s in law (BA LLB) from NALSAR University of Law, India. Arun is the author of Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India (Penguin RandomHouse India, 2019) which chronicled political debates in independent India around the introduction of new and disruptive technologies. Midnight’s Machines was listed among Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2020.