Asaf Ali Lone is a PhD candidate at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University. His research investigates how peace-building, transitional justice, rule of law, and redress mechanisms intersect across different temporal nodes, territorial imaginations and spatialities in South Asia and beyond. His previous research focused on the questions of land and housing rights, urban marginality, segregation, urban violence, internal migration, digitalisation, new forms of work and the intersections between governance, citizenship, and participatory planning in Indian cities. Alongside his scholarly work, he experiments with collaborative practices—art, poetry, creative writing, music, and visual ethnography—to capture the textures and forms of everyday life in India and within the South Asian diaspora through a canvas of ethnographic exploration.