Absence Against the Architecture
of Ruin

is a writer from Delhi/Uttar Pradesh, India. As an independent researcher, she is interested in visual cultures of majoritarian violence across South Asia, language as the site of caste apartheid in India, and spectral temporalities as forms of resistance in Kashmir. She utilizes essays, poetry, and reportage for individual memory to coalesce into a broader inquiry of the politics of public remembering. Her practice combines approaches in sociolinguistics, soundscapes, photography, counter-cartographies, translation, and ethnography. Her writings have been widely published in national and international publications, and translated into French, Spanish, Urdu, Punjabi, Tamil, Hindi, and Georgian.

In 2013, she was awarded the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Grant for her documentation of the spatial dimensions of oral literature in the Jaunsar-Bawar region of Uttarakhand, India. She is a university drop-out and was previously working with Oxford University Press.​ She is the 2024–25 Editorial Fellow for Logic(s) Magazine at INCITE Center of Columbia University, and the recipient of Graham Foundation’s 2024 grant for research for her project, “Shadow Thresholds: Architecture of Ruin in India.”

She now serves as the Head of Communications at The Funambulist.