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Research

Ongoing research interests, conference presentations, and professional development

Research Interests

Cultural Studies
Comparative Literature
World Cinema
Postcolonialism
Magic Realism
Film Studies
Postmodernism
Avant-Garde
Surrealism
Indian Cinema
Digital Humanities
Bengali Literature
Comics and Graphic Novels
Modernity
Critical Theory
Visual Culture
Posthumanism
Cultural Anthropology
Queer Studies
Religion and Theology
Cultural Studies
Comparative Literature
World Cinema
Postcolonialism
Magic Realism
Film Studies
Postmodernism
Avant-Garde
Surrealism
Indian Cinema
Digital Humanities
Bengali Literature
Comics and Graphic Novels
Modernity
Critical Theory
Visual Culture
Posthumanism
Cultural Anthropology
Queer Studies
Religion and Theology

Conference Presentations

"Magic Realism as JaduGhar: Rethinking vernacular as an archive of emotions through the postcolonial 'concept-metaphor'"

University of Oxford
June 2025

"Log Aur Laqeer: Pirated Bollywood and Citizen Diplomacy"

Jadavpur University IR Symposium
May 2024

"Suicide as Sui-Generis: Problematizing Birth/Life in an Accident Society"

Krea University & IIT Tirupati
February 2024

"Prahelika and Vyuha: Cartographic Fear in Indian Magical Realist Cinema"

IIT Madras
December 2023

"Empire Smiles Back: A Recondite Theory of Happiness from the Global South"

Jadavpur University
March 2021

Workshops Attended

Exploring Digital Archives: Strategies, Technologies, and Preservation for Future Practices

SCTR, Jadavpur University (in association with Endangered Archive Program, British Library)
2025

Film Studies: Pedagogy and Research Methods

IIT BHU
2023

Film Appreciation

FIPRESCI-India
2023

Film Appreciation

IAFTM, Bangladesh
2021–2022

Collaborative Research Opportunities

I'm interested in collaborative research projects that intersect film studies, cultural theory, and digital humanities. My work particularly focuses on how vernacular cultures engage with global aesthetic movements and how technology reshapes our understanding of cultural production.

Technical & Digital Skillset

I work at the intersections of research, design, and computation. Over the past few months, I've built this portfolio website's infrastructure from the ground up—designing, developing, and deploying a Next.js site on Vercel—which has given me a working command of modern web frameworks and the confidence to shape digital environments independently.

My scholarly workflow is grounded in rigorous knowledge-management practices. I organise long-form research through Zettelkasten-inflected systems and work extensively with Obsidian, Notion, and Zotero for bibliographic automation, structured note-making, and cross-platform archival tasks.

On the visual and editorial front, I use Canva and Affinity for image editing, layout, and presentation design, alongside AI-assisted web design. I am also gradually experimenting with lightweight Digital Humanities tools—Voyant and RAWGraphs—to explore how computational methods surface patterns across films, texts, and cultural datasets.

I am steadily expanding this skill set through hands-on projects that combine humanities inquiry with code, curation, and computational thinking, with a particular interest in the digital epistemologies that shape contemporary cultural research.

Yes, let's work together! ✨