Ranu Kunwar is a PhD candidate in anthropology in the School of Culture, History & Language at the Australian National University. Her research seeks to understand informal urbanism in Siliguri by attending to everyday socio-spatial practices that enable street hawkers to forge social, spatial, and political claims on the markets and the city. Ranu also holds an MPhil degree in English from the University of Delhi where she studied Tibetan life-narratives in the diaspora. Her research interests include informal labour, urban spatial productions, and Nepali identity politics in India.