As a sociologist and as a photographer, I engage with various aspects of the contemporary material, visual, and popular cultures. Forthcoming book-project: 'Flirting with Things and Images: Ephemeral Consumerist Encounters', Oxford University Press, (forthcoming in June 2020)

Educational Qualifications

• 2004 B.A (Sociology) Hindu College, University of Delhi
• 2006 M.A in Sociology JNU
• 2007 M.Phil (Sociology) JNU
• 2012 PhD (Sociology) JNU

Work Experience

• Researcher , A.B.Design Habit
• Fellow , C-PACT, SHSS, SNU

Teaching & Research Interests

Integrating visual approaches to academic analysis, my works broadly explore the following themes:

• Consumer Culture and Advertising
• Contemporary Visual and Popular Cultures
• Auto-Voyeuristic Tendencies and New Ways of Seeing
• Planned-Obsolescence and Industrial Ruination
• Body-Image and Self-Representations
• Philosophy of the Photographic Medium
• Social History — 19th Century Bengal

Awards(Selected)

• 
  2013 Neel Dongre Grants for Excellence in Photography funded by The India Photo Archive Foundation (a collaborative visual project on recycling, later exhibited in India International Centre, April 1-11, 2016)
• Student Fellow of the Media Fellowship Programme, Public Service Broadcasting Trust, 2007.
• ‘Student Stipends for Research on the City’ by Sarai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 2007