Publications

In case you do not have access to the writings mentioned below, do write to me. I will be happy to provide you with a copy.

 

Journal Articles and Chapters in Edited Books/Handbooks

 

Published

1.     2025. “Negotiating content: the interplay of politics, audience, and gender in Internet-based production cultures in India.” Communication, Culture and Critique. (Co-authored with Dr. Smith Mehta). DOI:10.1093/ccc/tcaf002

2.     2024. “Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating.” Media, Culture & Society. DOI:10.1177/01634437231214635

3.     2024. Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Disability Gaze: Lights, Camera and Sound! In Black and Guzaarish. In Retrieving the Crip Outsider: Representations of Disability in Literature and Culture. Bloomsbury Publications. Dr Someshwar Sati (Ed.). ISBN: 9789356402898. https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/retrieving-the-crip-outsider-9789356402836/

4.     2023. “Bhadraloks on the Move: The Bengali Diaspora in Singapore. South Asian Diaspora. (Co-authored with Dr. Jayati Bhattacharya). DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2023.2287281

5.     2021. Margarita with a Straw: Female sexuality, same-sex love, and disability in India. Economic and Political Weekly. https://www.epw.in/engage/article/margarita-straw-unpacking-portrayal-female

6.     2020. ““Cultured Women” do not act in films: Tracing Notions of Female Stardom in Bombay Cinema (1930s–1950s).” The Journal of Indian and Asian Studies. DOI: 10.1142/S2717541320500126.

7.     2020. Disabled Women: Facing double discrimination. In The Routledge Handbook of Exclusion, Inequality and Stigma in India. Dr NMP Verma and Dr Alpana Srivastava (Eds.). ISBN: 9780367523329. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Exclusion-Inequality-and-Stigma-in-India/Verma-Srivastava.

 

In Progress

1.     Not Just Cut, Copy and Paste: How Editors Package a Disability Affect in Bollywood. Revise and Resubmit.

2.     Filmmaking in Digital India: Platformisation and Audiences with the Loss of Big Screens. (Article)

3.     Producing Disability Affect: Lived, Corporeal, Material and Social Processes of Disability Construction as a New Bollywood. (Book Manuscript)

 

Public Writing 

1.     2024. Reel Revolution: Celebrating Parallel Cinema of India. Asian Film Archive, Singapore.

https://asianfilmarchive.org/reel-revolution-celebrating-parallel-cinema-of-india/#:~:text=It%20was%20a%20film%20society,featuring%20urban%20and%20diasporic%20picturesque

2.     2022. ‘Bhadralok’ Connection: The Bengali Diaspora in Singapore. National Heritage Board, Singapore (Co-authored Short Book with Dr. Rajesh Rai and Dr. Jayati Bhattacharya) https://www.academia.edu/82087518/Bhadralok_Connection_The_Bengali_Diaspora_in_Singapore

3.     2022. Business Connections, Culture and its Continuities: The Gujarati Diaspora in Singapore. National Heritage Board, Singapore (Co-authored Short Book with Dr. Rajesh Rai, Dr. Jayati Bhattacharya and Claudia Chia)

https://www.academia.edu/88945523/Business_Connections_Culture_and_its_Continuities_The_Gujarati_Diaspora_in_Singapore

4.     2022. Kahaani’s Vidya Balan: New Woman, Goddess and Avenging Mother. Café Dissensus.

https://cafedissensus.com/2022/05/30/kahaanis-vidya-bagchi-new-woman-goddess-and-avenging-mother/

5.     2022. The Indian Feminist Staple: Remembering Kamla Bhasin. India News, Australia.

https://issuu.com/indiannewsqueensland/docs/in_oct_1-15_2021/s/13555358

6.     2022. Revisiting Pather Panchali, Neo-realism and Contemporary Bengal. India News, Australia.

https://issuu.com/indiannewsqueensland/docs/in_1-15_jan_2022/s/14441923

7.     2021. Bombay Cinemas – Not For Cultured Women. FemAsia.

https://femasiamagazine.com/bombay-cinemas-not-for-cultured-women/

8.     Women – Silent, Powerless and “Lost in the Kitchen!.” India News, Australia.

https://issuu.com/indiannewsqueensland/docs/india_news__vol_1_issue_17_march_1-15__2021_r3/s/11806945