Aparna Bhatnagar is a Research Associate at The Square Circle Clinic, NALSAR University of Law (India). Her current research at The Square Circle Clinic focuses on the criminalisation of poverty in India. She thanks Maitreyi Misra for her guidance in developing this piece.
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