Bhoomika is an anthropologist of the Indian Himalayas, development, mobility, caste, and gender. Her research has focused on how upper-caste-ness reproduces and sticks to expressions of masculinity, desire, politics and economic activity in post-liberalisation India. For her forthcoming research, she is examining the circulation of astrological practices in Southeast and South Asia with a view to studying astrology as a practice of making meaning of the future and its contradictions, much like big data, political forecasting, and matchmaking.  Bhoomika has published her work in the American Anthropologist, Cultural Anthropology, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, among others. She is currently working on her book manuscript Attachments to Hurt, which examines the claims to ‘hurt’ and its social, economic, political, and cultural life in India. Her debut novella is Lachchi: The Newness of Nostalgia, published by Vani Prakashan in 2020.