Nitheesh has been an activist with the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) since 2003 and is currently the vice president. He holds a PhD from the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy of Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India), where he studied the connections between caste and class as well as the political mobilisation of the early communist movement in North Malabar. Nitheesh received his MA in politics with a specialisation in international studies and his MPhil on the agrarian movement and caste question from the same university. He writes about social and political issues in English and Malayalam; has authored, edited, and/or translated five books in those languages; and was previously the editor of SFI’s journal, Student Struggle.