 My name is Deepi Chhatti and I'm a doctoral candidate at Yale University in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and I bring together the two disciplines of Engineering and Anthropology to better understand cookstove adoption in rural India. I think one of the main insights that I've gained through my ethnographic research in rural Himalayas is that people, households and communities are far more complicated than as researchers we sometimes give them credit for. I think their societies are as complex as ours and I think that as cookstove researchers we should be more aware of our own thoughts and our own perspectives and values when we go into someone's home and someone's community and I think that we should focus on their values and their ideas rather than ours.