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Dr. Lakshana Gupta is Assistant Professor of Sociology. She earned her Ph.D. from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, with a dissertation on transgender identity and societal attitudes in Jammu, and is a recipient of the UGC-NET Junior Research Fellowship in Sociology. Her research spans the sociology of gender and sexuality, social exclusion, and transgender studies. Her scholarship has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. She has presented at international and national conferences, among them the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat, Morocco, and writes for public audiences in Daily Excelsior. A Gender Fellow of the Himachal Pradesh Queer Foundation and Writing Fellow of the Society for the Anthropology of Work, she also serves as a peer reviewer for SAGE and other indexed journals.