Ashariya Gadhavi is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of English, The Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Vadodara. He has received the prestigious SHODH Fellowship (July 2021 to June 2023) by the Education Department, Government of Gujarat and Junior Research Fellowship by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India (July 2023 onwards). His areas of research interest include Chāran literature, Cultural Studies, Heroism, and Mnemocultures.