I am currently a doctoral researcher in Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany. I hold a Master's degree in Political Science from the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and an MPhil in Political Science from the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi.
April 2023 – Present
Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology
Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
Dissertation: Reading as Resistance: Study Circles and the Everyday Politics of Belonging on a University Campus in India
First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka
Second Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Minh Nguyen
August 2021 – May 2022
Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), Bengaluru, India
Project: Space, Belonging and Everyday Learning Experiences: A Case Study of Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)
Project Supervisor: Dr. Gautam Bhan, IIHS
Elective Papers: Southern Urban Theory, Governing Mega-Infrastructure Projects, Experiencing Home: Affect and Housing in Modern South Asia
October 2018 – February 2021
Department of Political Science
University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Dissertation: Changing Contours of Caste in Urban Spaces: A Case Study of Delhi
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. N. Sukumar
July 2015 – July 2017
Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Optional Papers: Methods in Social Sciences, Globalisation and Development, Radical Movements in India
July 2011 – June 2014
School of Social Sciences
Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India