Rahul Srivastava writes fiction and commentaries on urban issues and new knowledge practices via airoots.org, organizes knowledge initiatives on urbanism around the world and is a founding partner of URBZ and Urbanology. He has worked as the first Director of PUKAR, Mumbai and subsequently was invited to be a research fellow at Nara University, Japan and New School University, New York. He lives in Goa and Mumbai. He has studied Anthropology in Mumbai, Delhi and Cambridge (UK).