Rashmi Sadana

Rashmi Sadana teaches anthropology and global studies at George Mason University. She is currently writing a book about how Delhi’s new metro system is changing the city’s cultural geography. Her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal India blog, India Today, Economic and Political Weekly, Caravan, Seminar, and elsewhere.


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Writing on Public Books

The City as Literary Field

Sujan Singh Park is a tiny neighborhood by Delhi standards—more of a large square than a full-fledged “colony,” as the upper-middle-class neighborhoods of South Delhi are called. But this one happens to be where the city’s linguistic, social, and architectural capitals meet. Madhu Jain, a chronicler of the Indian arts scene, describes Sujan Singh Park […]