Stephen’s College (Delhi) where she teaches courses in Indian and Postcolonial Literatures. She received her PhD from the Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia, SOAS in 2012. For her ongoing research project ‘A Study of Male Muslim Modernity and Publicity through Later Nineteenth Century Urdu Writings’, she is based at the Berlin Graduate School for Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität (Berlin).