Author Bio

Sayak Roy (He/Him) is an urban cultural geographer pursuing a P.hd. in Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana -Champaign(UIUC), USA. He has a MA in Geography from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India, and an M.Phil. Degree in Urban Studies from the African Centre for Cities(ACC), University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research interest focuses on urban lived experiences, informality, and urban everyday and night geographies from the perspectives of southern urban theory. Being a knowledge seeker and trained in interdisciplinary footing, Sayak has drawn his theoretical and methodological inspirations from different disciplinary domains, like - geography, planning, architecture, sociology, and knowledge that exists beyond academic life.