Ashoka University

Vrinda is an interdisciplinary scholar of economic geography and sociology. She read her MPhil in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, her MSc in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics (LSE), and her BA (Hons) in Sociology at the University of Delhi. Vrinda’s research is on narratives of socio-economic change and transformation in the informal economy, and postcolonial and decolonial pedagogies. She teaches courses and workshops on creative cartography, ethnography, policy analysis, and critical thinking and academic writing across the liberal arts and sciences. Her scholarly work has been published in premier journals, including Economic Geography and The Professional Geographer. Vrinda also writes creative non-fiction on identity, place and memory, and has been published in The Bombay Literary Magazine, The Sociological Review Magazine, and Writing Women, among others. She also edits maru mori journal, a new creative non fiction publication, she helped conceptualize.