Lalitha is a PhD scholar in urban studies under Professor Solomon Benjamin in IIT Madras. Her research interests include housing resettlement, land politics, legal pluralism, gender and caste, subaltern agency and Dalit politics. Central to her work is the conceptualisation of “power-induced spaces” through which she examines the experiential politics of agency, learning, and the mobilisation of “subalterns” in Chennai and Pondicherry. Additionally, she had published critical writings on caste, land, and Dalit feminism on online news platforms. Beyond academia, she is also an amateur violinist and a translator.