Parul Bhandari is the Director of Studies (Human, Social and Politial Sciences), Bye-fellow, and Associate Tutor at St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge. She was an Associate Professor of Sociology at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), India. A sociologist and social anthropologist, Bhandari's research interests lie in the study of love, marriage, intimacy, gender, family and class (elites and the middle class) in contemporary South Asia. She is the author of Matchmaking in Middle Class India: Beyond Arranged and Love Marriage (Springer, 2020), and Money, Culture, Class: Elite Women as Modern Subjects, (Routledge, London 2019).