I am a scholar of media and cultural studies, and I specialise in ethnographic and arts-based research methods. Primarily focused on contemporary Asia, particularly in India, my research interests and expertise include

• Disability studies

• Production cultures

• Feminist media studies

• Anthropology of the body

• Social media and Internet studies

• Critical media industry and labour studies

• Diaspora studies

My doctoral thesis titled “Disability in New Bollywood: Mapping Production and Circulation of Affect”, has been awarded the “Best Thesis 2024-25” by the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. I am now turning it into a book, which foregrounds the prejudices, preoccupations and precarity underlying the production, distribution, and reception of disability in contemporary Bollywood cinema.

I am a recipient of the Humboldt Research Fellow Award (2025). As part of this, I am pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship at Humboldt University zu Berlin. Here, my research foregrounds the implicit gendering of labour practices, production cultures and new media genres in classifying “editing as women’s work.”

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