I am a  faculty member at the Centre for Political Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi. Before this, I worked as Senior Lecturer in Kirori Mal College. University of Delhi. I am  broadly engaged with political science and public policy, focusing on the intersectionality and reflexivities between gender, language, education, democracy, governance and urban living in culturally diverse societies. Recently, I have started working on the politics of knowledge and decoloniality in Global South, with the caveat that decoloniality in South Asian perspective may have paradoxical connotation.

My research focuses on India's multicultural politics and turn to majoritarianism. I held fellowships at Rhodes University South Africa (2015-2018), University of Edinburgh (2016), Brown University (2015), Fribourg University (2013) and the Shastri-Indo Canadian faculty fellowship at Queens University, Kingston (2007). My first monograph "Language as Identity in Colonial India: Policies and Politics" was published in 2018 and I recently published an edited volume "Critical Sites for Inclusion in India's Higher Education". I am a co-applicant in a British Academy project on Covid 19 and its impact on South Asia and my recent paper on the pandemic and need for critical communication in urban cities have attracted quite a lot of attention, with being interviewed by The Guardian newspaper. I have published in national and international journals such as Economic and Political Weekly, Social Action, Social Change, International Journal of Multilingualism, Geoforum and International Journal on Diversity.

My work on women's rights in India can be found under the Dangerous Women Project of Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities at Edinburgh University and my work on women and representation in India and Bangladesh. I am active in community work and regularly give talks on issues of academic freedom, federalism in India, education policy and human rights, women in foreign policy research.