Sanjay Srivastava is British Academy Global Professor (2020-2024) in the Department of Geography, University College London and Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. An anthropologist by training, his research spans over themes of masculinities and sexualities, consumerism, middle-class cultures and new urbanism in India. Some of his publications include Constructing Post-Colonial India. National Character and the Doon School (Routledge 1998); Passionate Modernity. Sexuality, Class and Consumption in India (Routledge 2007), Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon (OUP 2015); Key Themes in Indian Sociology (Co-editor, Sage 2019) and (Hi)stories of Desire: Sexualities and Culture in Modern India (Co-editor, Cambridge University Press, 2019). He is currently completing a manuscript entitled Inflexible Materials: Masculinity, Space and the Cultural Economies of the Indian City (Cambridge University Press).