Rashmi Sadana is Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. She received her B.A. in English and Ph.D. in Anthropology from U.C. Berkeley and her M.A. in South Asia Studies from the University of London-SOAS. She is an urban ethnographer whose research has focused on questions of identity and mobility in India. She is the author of The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure (University of California Press, 2022) and English Heart, Hindi Heartland: The Political Life of Literature in India (University of California Press, 2012). She is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Rashmi has written essays and op-eds for a number of periodicals including Caravan, The Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, DNA, Economic and Political Weekly, The Hindu, and The Wire.