Rohit K Dasgupta is an associate professor of gender and sexuality at the London School of economics. He is also an elected councillor in the London Borough of Newham. He is currently working on a new AHRC funded project on craft labour and equitability in India. He is the author of Digital Queer Cultures of India (Routledge, 2017) and coauthor of India's Imperial Formations (FDUP, 2024) and Desi queers (Hurst, 2025) amongst others.

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