Indrani (she/her) is a first year PhD candidate focusing on diasporic Hinduism, specifically among displaced communities post-indentured servitude and twice displaced individuals in the United States. She is most interested in the physical spaces of worship, worship music transformed by displacement, and cultural identities refashioning or lack thereof through displacement.
Indrani fuels her interests through traveling and seeing the different cultural adaptations of Sanatani lifestyles. So far, she has visited Hindu Temples in various states within America, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Fiji, and Mexico. The permeability of the religious and spiritual aspects of Sanatan Dharma inspires her to understand how these diverse communities foster and tailor these practices to their lives in lands far away from India.