Ira Raja is a professor of English at the University of Delhi. Her primary research interests are postcolonial literature and ageing studies. She co-edited The Table is Laid: The Oxford Anthology of South Asian Food Writing (2007), a pioneering collection of literary and non-literary texts on food in English and Indian languages. She is part of the Global Editorial Collective of the journal Postcolonial Studies and co-editor, Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology.