Dr. Ayra Indrias Patras is Assistant Professor at Forman Christian College University, Lahore. She focuses on gender, politics and minority rights. Her writings have been published in national dailies and occasionally in academic journals too. She carries grassroots experience of designing and implementing women welfare projects. She is engaged with Women Action Forum, a women rights platform in Pakistan, voicing against patriarchal prejudices and violence
against women. Based on Ayra’s doctoral dissertation, which investigated the intersections of gender, caste and labor producing multiple disadvantages for women, Folio Books has published her book titled “Swept Aside A Story of
Christian Sweepers in Pakistan” in March, 2023. The book critically describes and analyses the histories and structural forces that shape Christian communities as religious minorities and oppressed caste communities.