Asawari earned a bachelor’s in History from Delhi University (2014) and a master’s in Cultural Anthropology from Ashoka University (2016), where she also taught for two years (2018). She later completed a master’s in Visual Anthropology and Media Studies at the University of Chicago (2019). Her research focused on how rapid urbanisation, invigorated by neoliberalism, (re)shapes power relations in rural India and how digital production practices influence contemporary subjectivity. After her studies, she worked as a research consultant on digital public infrastructures.
Currently, her work in the centres on decolonising access to heritage and research infrastructures in the Netherlands, with an emphasis on promoting care and creating safe(r) spaces.