Speakers
The Undocumented is a work of narrative non-fiction that follows a Bangladeshi family who crossed into India without papers in 2009, and the life they built since. This conversation, based on the book, explore migration: why people leave, what they encounter on arrival, and what it means to build a life where your presence can be questioned. The panel will also discuss the invisible work of telling someone else’s story.
Amid love, survival, loss, and the constant uncertainty of being undocumented, the book looks past the labels to uncover the lives underneath; beyond the politics of migration to the histories, routines, and relationships that make a place home.
Venue: Library
Speakers
Nidhi Dugar Kundalia
Nidhi Dugar Kundalia is a journalist and author whose work illuminates lives at the margins of power and privilege. She believes the most important stories are those we’re not yet telling, and that listening is the first act of justice. Her books include The Lost Generation: Chronicling India’s Dying Professions (2016) and White as Milk and Rice: Stories of India’s Isolated Tribes (2020), later adapted for young adults as Ten Indian Tribes (2023). Her reportage has appeared in The Hindu, Hindustan Times, Caravan, Open Magazine, and Platform, among others. She has served as Assistant Editor of Kindle Magazine and as a features writer with The Times of India.
Srikar Raghavan
Srikar Raghavan is an independent writer, researcher, and translator from Mysore. His debut nonfiction work Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka was published in 2025.
Aditi Surie
Aditi Surie is a researcher and faculty member at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), where she leads academic and policy research on technology, work, and society. Her work examines how digital labour platforms and emerging AI systems reshape livelihoods, worker well-being, and labour markets across India and the Global South. She has co-edited Platformization and Informality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), which brings Southern scholarship into dialogue on the governance of platform work.
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