Ritam Sengupta is Assistant Professor, Jindal School of Art and Architecture, O.P. Jindal Global University. He specializes in the study of infrastructure, energy, the environment and digital media through the lens of history and anthropology. His PhD thesis that he is developing now as a book project focuses on the ways in which colonial and postcolonial rule impacted the development of electricity in Indian cities. His post-doctoral research, initiated as part of a European Research Council project, revisits the history of the monsoon in the Indian subcontinent. He has otherwise studied digital infrastructure like data centres and laws of data protection through a political, economic and ethnographic lens. Some of this work has come out in the form of a co-edited volume Data Centres as Infrastructure: Frontiers of Digital Governance in Contemporary India (Orient Blackswan, 2022).