Brief Bio:

Kaushiki Arha is a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has a master’s in political science from the same centre, and a bachelor’s from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi. She is interested in researching the intersection of gender, politics, and law. Her doctoral project explores the politics of rape law reform in India with a focus on the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013. Her work seeks to investigate how rape myths enter legal discourse and its political implications for women demanding a world without sexual violence. As a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research fellow at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Kaushiki is working with Prof. Vera Bergelson to develop a comparative analysis of the criminal justice systems in India and the United States of America with a focus on rape cases.