Dr.Manika Kamthan is a lawyer by training and works with Symbiosis Law School, Pune. She holds Ph.D. on “Women in Agriculture: A Comparative Study of Selected Villages in U.P. and Punjab” from CSLG/JNU. She also holds a post graduate degree in law from A.M.U. She did her M.Phil from the Centre for the Study of Law & Governance (CSLG), JNU. She has several national and international publications to her credit. She writes regularly on interjections of law, gender and disasters. Her interest areas include Gender, disaster and social vulnerabilities, politics of identity, constitutional law and environment studies.