Cchavi Vasisht is a Senior Research Associate at Chintan Research Foundation. She has been awarded her PhD in the Centre for South Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been awarded the UGC NET Senior Research Fellowship to pursue her research work. She completed a Master of Philosophy from the Centre for South Asian Studies and a Master of Arts in Sociology from the same university. For the past four years, she has had a keen interest in Myanmar and has published articles and commentaries on the same. She has also co-edited a book titled "Revisiting Myanmar" along with Brig Vinod Anand.