I am a sociologist whose research examines how educational institutions reproduce social stratification and shape unequal life chances. Working at the intersection of the sociology of education, caste, gender, and institutional inequality, I investigate how everyday institutional processes organise opportunity, recognition, and exclusion despite formal commitments to equality and inclusion. Grounded in ethnographic research and informed by a Dalit feminist standpoint, my work seeks to advance sociological understandings of institutions, educational justice, and social mobility while contributing to broader debates on inequality and social change. I am particularly interested in conducting comparative sociological research to explain how institutions produce and sustain unequal life chances across different societies. Through both academic and public scholarship, I hope to contribute to conversations that connect rigorous sociological inquiry with the pursuit of dignity, equality, and social justice. This website brings together my research, essays, and public writing, and I invite researchers, students, educators, activists, and readers to explore, question, and engage with these conversations.
Books that Shape My Thinking

  • B.R. Ambedkar: Annihilation of Caste: A foundational text that exposes caste as a system of graded inequality and calls for its complete annihilation.

  • B.R. Ambedkar: The Buddha and His Dhamma: Reinterprets Buddhism as a path of equality, rationality, and social transformation.

  • Sharmila Rege: Writing Caste, Writing Gender: Centres Dalit women’s voices and shows why feminism must engage with caste.

  • Anandita Pan: Mapping Dalit Feminism: Towards an Intersectional Standpoint: Explores the intellectual and political foundations of Dalit feminist thought.

  • bell hooks: Teaching to Transgress: This influential work reimagines education as a practice of freedom, encouraging critical pedagogy that challenges domination and nurtures transformative learning.