Although my general interests lay at the intersection of urban and political geography, I actively integrate elements of development discourse, post-colonial, cultural and social theory in my research. Specifically, I’m interested in unraveling the complex urban entanglements that affect the marginalized in the city of Delhi. There is, for example, a growing association between the proponents of market reforms and citizens’ groups and urban (new) social movements. I wish to delve into the much ignored questions of how and why various actors form alliances at sites of contestation. What are the nodal points where the ideologies and grievances of different groups converge? How do these things play out in actual policies and in the lives of people? These insights yield nuanced understandings of the concept and role of civil society, the process of hegemony and counter-hegemony, organic intellectuals and spaces of neoliberalism.