I am a researcher and writer from Bengaluru, India currently pursuing a PhD in City and Regional Planning (with designated emphases in Political Economy and Science and Technology Studies) at UC Berkeley. I hold a master's degree from the Institut D'études Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris with a specialisation in Urban Studies and a research emphasis in Sociology, supported by grants from the JN Tata Endowment and the Fondation Palladio. I have also worked previously as a researcher at the Centre for Policy Research (New Delhi) and as a Fellow at the Indian Institute for Human Settlement (Bengaluru).
My work broadly looks at understanding changing urban environments and labour markets through a socio-historical and spatial lens. I am currently working on a dissertation project examining labor matching processes structuring India's current urban transition using a mixed-methods approach inspired by economic geography, public choice theory, anti-caste political history and contemporary ethnographies of state action. I have also worked previously on electoral politics and questions of governance and political economy, and have authored a number of articles on a wide range of subjects in the popular press.
