I am an interdisciplinary environmental scholar and currently hold an appointment as the Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo (Norway). I am working on the project: "Riverine Rights: The Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on The Rights of Rivers", funded by the Norwegian Research Council. The project consists of scholars from various disciplines and countries working towards exploring rivers' contours, rights, and legal personhood.

I received my PhD in 20202 from the School of Advanced Study, University of London, which was supported by Louise Arbor Studentship and Yusuf Ali Bursary. Prior to moving abroad, I earnt my degrees in Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and University of Delhi.

My long-term research and doctoral work on “The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India” will be published by the Cambridge University Press in 2023. I have recently edited a volume “At the crossroads of Rights”, published by Routledge Press, London.

I am an aspiring writer with an immense interest in thinking about and working on the intersection of environmental justice, climate change, rivers, history/memory and emotions, notably grief. I am passionate about the radical need to recognise care and kindness in academic spaces; to centre the power of storytelling and develop tender craft of writing as we live through the age of changing climate.

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See my CV here