Sreerupa is a graduate in Sociology from Presidency College and has completed her post graduation from Delhi School of Economics. Currently as a SYLFF Fellow (2008-2011), she is pursuing her doctoral research on HIV & AIDS media campaigns in India: Exploring issues of gender and human rights from the School of Women’s Studies (SWS), Jadavpur University, Calcutta. Her study seeks to explore the evolution and transformation of HIV&AIDS media campaigns in India over the years and the issue of funding of these communication programmes which significantly influence the approach and agenda of these campaigns.

Her interest in HIV&AIDS primarily stems from her research experiences during her M.Phil programme at SWS. As a research fellow at the SWS and Action Aid, a leading international NGO, she has had the opportunity to work on diverse issues such as health, education, sexuality and human rights. She has also worked with Graphiti, the Sunday magazine of The Telegraph.

She is a bookworm and enjoys reading mostly fictions.