I am an activist-lawyer, playwright, and senior lecturer at Monash Law School in the city of Naarm/ Melbourne, where I co-lead the Law and Performance Lab.

I previously worked with the Alternative Law Forum, a collective of human rights lawyers based in Bangalore from 2011 to 2015, where I was involved in research and advocacy on gender and sexuality, free speech and access to knowledge. I then worked at the International Commission of Jurists on research and advocacy relating to access to justice issues for queer persons following which I took up teaching positions at Jindal Global Law School, Melbourne Law School and La Trobe Law School. I have also served as a consultant with the United Nations Development Programme on a project relating to legal gender recognition across multiple Asian countries.

I have engaged with questions of law and justice through the theatrical space from 2015 when I founded the Bardolators, a group which does contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare plays in Delhi and Bangalore. Contempt, my first original play, was longlisted for the Hindu Playwright Award in 2017 and selected to open the Arcola Theatre in London's Festival of Global Queer Plays in 2018. Contempt and its companion piece Pride were published together as Love and Reparation (Seagull Books, 2021), which was longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize in 2025. My lecture-performance Much to do with Law, But More to do with Love won the Midsumma Queer Playwriting Award and premiered at Gasworks Arts Park in 2026, and Bureaucracy: A Love Story was a finalist for the 2026 Griffin Award.

I have law degrees from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor which I attended on a Grotius Fellowship. I was awarded my PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2023. My research has been cited by the Supreme Court of India in its decision to decriminalise homosexuality and has also won multiple awards, including the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia’s Early Career Researcher Article Prize in 2023 and the Melbourne Law School Graduate Student Research Prize in 2022. My book, Lawful Repair: Reimagining Law through Queer Dissent, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in May 2027.