I am a feminist geographer interested in everyday working lives, socio-cultural processes, postcolonialism, and class-based identities, focussing primarily on urban India. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, where I work within the Governance and Inclusive Development research group at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research. I am a board member of the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality and a member of the Centre for Urban Studies.

My long-term research project examines class, gender and labour dynamics in the Indian information technology sector, highlighting the tensions in class formation that characterise work in this transnational industry. I have extended this research in multiple directions that have revealed how work can shape social identities, and how this in turn impacts our understanding of modernity as a contextually-informed phenomenon. I have also developed a particular interest in the study of emotion. I hold a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge and have previously taught at Cambridge and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.