Dr Debaroti Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Performing Arts, Presidency University, India. As a researcher–artist, her areas of interest include oral history, women’s narratives, border studies, and creating cross-cultural and inter-cultural performances based on lived experiences. She is the co-editor of two volumes published with Routledge titled Centering Borders in Latin American and South Asian Contexts: Aesthetics and Politics of Cultural Production (July 2022) and Pandemic of Perspectives: Creative Re-imaginings (November 2022). She also writes a column on invitation for the Daily Telegraph as a performance critic.