MICRO-BIO

• I am an Indian research scholar at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. I am trained in English, cinema and media studies having earned my B.A. Hons. in English from St. Xaviers' College, Calcutta and an M.A. in Film Studi...More

  I am an Indian research scholar at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. I am trained in English, cinema and media studies having earned my B.A. Hons. in English from St. Xaviers' College, Calcutta and an M.A. in Film Studies from Jadavpur University, Calcutta. I am interested in studying the aurality, acoustemology, and sonic cultures of Islam, the emergent globality of an Islamic soundscape in a post-digital context, against a larger dynamics of troubled/contested geographies, Islamophobia, race, gender, identity and media convergence. My larger intellectual aim lies in exploring the synergies between Islamic mysticism and contemporary international popular culture to archive the post-modern and global experience of Islam through cinema, music and media cultures.

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EXPERIENCE

• Jawaharlal Nehru University

  • PhD research scholar
  • Cinema Studies
  • Present

EDUCATION

• Jawaharlal Nehru University

  • MPhil/PhD in Cinema Studies
  • August 2014 to Present

• Jadavpur University, Calcutta

  • M.A. in Film Studies
  • July 2010 to May 2012

• St. Xavier's College, Calcutta

  • B.A. Hons. in English
  • July 2007 to June 2010

Interests

• Sufi Rock And Sufi Rap

• Sufi Pop

• Islamic Music

• Contemporary South Asian Popular Cultures

• Iranian Cinema

• Music

• Post Digital Audiovisual Cultures

• Coke Studio Pakistan

• Qawwali

• South Asian Sufism

Links

• Yale Modern South Asia Workshop 2018
• Linked In
• Articles on Qawwali, Coke Studio Pakistan and Sufism
• Academia