Vaishali Khandekar is a PhD scholar in IIT Hyderabad studying the role of castes and masculinities in the marginal political upsurge of North India. Her research interests are caste and social stratification. She is also interested in urban studies, sexuality, migration, health and pedagogy. She also likes reading poetry, painting and taking long walks.
Two young scholars make sense of their experiences in a casteist academia that places more importance on political correctness than on actual transformation of material everyday hierarchies.