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Rashi Bhargava is currently an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru. Prior to joining Christ, she taught at the Department of Sociology, Maitreyi College, and other colleges in University of Delhi for almost a decade. She completed her doctorate from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research interests include politics and culture in North-East India, sociology of gender and urban spaces, visual culture and disciplinary practices of sociology and social anthropology in South Asia. Her recent publications include Social Scientist in South Asia: Personal Narratives, Social Forces and Negotiations co-edited with Achla Pritam Tandon and Gopi Tripathy and Materiality and Visuality in North East India: An Interdisciplinary Perspective co-edited with Tiplut Nongbri.

Richa Chilana is currently teaching at the School of Liberal Studies, UPES, Dehradun, as an Assistant Professor. She has a decade-long experience of teaching English Literature at the Department of English, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi. Her doctoral thesis titled "Negotiating the Veil: Purdah in Twentieth Century Indian English Writing" (Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University) engaged with the complexities of purdah as a garment, an ideology and division of space on the basis of gender. She has taught, has an avid interest and has published research articles and book chapters in the fields of gender studies, Indian English writing, popular fiction, and literature and cinema.