A social anthropologist by training, my primary interests broadly fall under natural resource governance, traditional ecological knowledge, and human-nature relationships, situated at the intersection of political ecology and environmental justice. I hold a Master’s degree in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics (DSE), where I developed a strong foundation in ethnographic research methods. It was also at the DSE that I got the chance to engage with a wide variety of ideas that challenge the conventional nature-culture binary upon which modern science, social or otherwise, is inevitably based and was instead encouraged to imagine ‘a world in which many worlds fit.’ Prior to this, I was living and working in Deosiri F.V., a forest village in Chirang, BTR, Assam, on watershed conservation. A life-changing experience, really; it was amidst the rivers and forests, or whatever remained of them, where my passion for conservation was fully realised. Following this, it is only "natural" then that I am committed to conservation [and research] efforts that emphasise bottom-up intervention, decentralised action, and a collective approach rooted in empathy, care, and community. At the High Altitudes Programme, I will be working with people in the Trans-Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh.