Saurav Kumar Rai currently works as a research officer at the Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi. He previously served as a senior research assistant at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. Rai regularly writes on themes such as Gandhian thought, Gender, and Social Histories of Health and Medicine. In 2024, he published his book ‘Ayurveda, Nation and Society: United Provinces, c. 1890–1950’ under Orient BlackSwan’s ‘New Perspectives in South Asian History’ series.