Aarushi Punia is a Doctoral fellow in English Literature and a University Grants Commission Senior Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She is researching on Palestinian and Dalit Literature. Punia is developing a comparative framework that enables the examination of narrative strategies adopted by Palestinian and Dalit writers while opposing the modern, carceral state. She has presented her research at several international conferences and has published articles related to gender, caste, and Palestine in Mondoweiss, New Politics, and The Quint.