Dr Gayatri Nair is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIITD). She received her M.Phil (2012) and PhD (2016) in Sociology from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests lie in urban informal labour and livelihood patterns with an emphasis on the question of technology, caste and gender. With a focus on political economy, she has published works examining the links between caste, gender and cultures of modernity, working caste lives and popular culture. Her doctoral research has been published as a book Set Adrift: Capitalist Transformations and Community Politics Along Mumbai’s Shore by the Oxford University Press in 2021.