Biography

I grew up in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. My schooling took place in local schools — Lawrence Vidya Bhawan and Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Amira Kadal — till the late 2010s. The permeation of the conflict into daily civilian lives affected, at times, my access to education, as well as my critical thought. I moved to Delhi to obtain higher education. My research at University of Cambridge will examine literary and visual texts produced by Kashmiris, and try to engage with the politics of being evidenced in their making. Using the framing arc of the conflict, I will also make enquiries into how the dynamics of caste, class, religion, ethnicities, and sexual orientation brings forward varied Kashmiri subjectivities in complex dialogues of solidarity and differences, instead of a homogenous Kashmiri posited in narratives discourses.

Previous Education

Jamia Millia Islamia English 2023
University of Dehli (Lady Shri Ram College) English 2020