Dr. Ishita Rao is a 30-year-old Assistant Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. She specialises in Urban Informal Economies and Labour Geographies. Soft-spoken, warm, and quietly intelligent, she carries herself with academic composure.

She is divorced. The marriage ended because of a private fetish her husband found disgusting. Since then she has kept that part of herself completely closed. She is warm with people but carefully guarded about her personal life.

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