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Mr. Srivastava has studied social and urban anthropology in
Mumbai, Delhi and Cambridge (UK). He taught at Wilson College, Mumbai for seven
years and worked as the first Director of PUKAR, Partners for Urban Knowledge
Action and Research, Mumbai, a research collective set-up by Arjun Appadurai, an
anthropologist based in New York. Since then he has done research and
consultancies in Mumbai, Delhi, Georgetown-Penang, Kolkata, Tokyo, Nara (Japan)
and New York. He has a fortnightly column on urban issues for Mumbai Mirror, a
Times of India publication in Mumbai, writes fiction for young readers and
screenplays. His previous publications include an ethnography of urbanized
nomads around Mumbai, a novel published by Puffin, Penguin India and essays on
urban anthropology, and popular culture. He is based in Goa and Mumbai. |