Biography

“So, how did you end up here?”I hear this often—an Indian woman working in the Korean government, researching rural Korean women’s lives, translating Korean literature. But for me, the journey has felt like a thread pulling gently and insistently across borders. I grew up in New Delhi, in a Bengali household shaped by the quiet shifts of rural-to-urban migration. Years later, while learning Korean out of curiosity, I recognized the same patterns—displacement, development, resilience—echoing in a language and history far from my own.That recognition brought me to Seoul National University as a Korean Government Scholar, where I studied rural women’s seed-saving movements and saw how, in both Korea and India, the cost of progress is often paid by women who quietly keep traditions—and food systems—alive. At Cambridge, I will study the gendered impacts of rural decline in South Korea, focusing on older women farmers, marriage migrants, and young gwichon returnees. I hope my work helps reimagine rural futures—not just in Korea, but in other fast-developing nations where women quietly carry the weight of change.

Previous Education

University of Dehli (Lady Shri Ram College) English Literature
Seoul National University Int. Studies(Korean Studies)