I work on South Asia with English, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada and Gujrati print and audio-visual materials. I trained in khayal singing in the Hindustani Music tradition. Research interests: privilege and dispossession, discourses of respectability and self-respect, performance and performativity, print and audio archives, translation, sonic cultures.

Courses Taught(Selected)

• Caste in the Modern World (SOC227)
• Kinship and Relatedness (SOC323)
• Anthropological Theory (SOC119)
• From Feminism to Queer Studies (SOC322)
• Understanding Modernity (SOC102)
• Folk and Popular Music in Ind (CCC324)