Activities

ICSSR-IMPRESS Project (2019-2021) ‘The Musical Mediation: Competitive and Collaborative Lives of Popular Music in North India’ in collaboration with Dr. Brahma Prakash, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

'Invited Lectures on Contemporary Popular Cinema (1990s- )', at the Film Appreciation Course (Mid-Year 2025), Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. 7-8th July, 2025.

‘Capitalization of Social Mobility in India: Venture Capital in EdTech Platforms’, at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. 27th February, 2025.

‘Wellness as Suboptimal Healthcare: Digitalization in Indian HealthTech’, at Digital Transactions in Asia (DTA) VI, held at Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia. 22-24th January, 2025.

'Streaming the Alter-Ego: ALTBalaji and Streaming Cultures', at Jadavpur University Film Studies Seminar, held at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. 3-4th December, 2024.

‘Venture Capital in the EdTech-FinTech Combine: Capitalization of Social Mobility in India’, at Capitalisation and the Start-Up Economy Workshop, held at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. 20-21st June, 2024.

‘The EdTech-FinTech Combine: Intermediary Platforms and Venture Capital in Indian Education’, at Debating the Digital Transition: Society, Politics, Culture Symposium, held at Humanities and Social Sciences, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar. 9th April, 2024.

‘EdTech as FinTech: Education, Venture Capital and Regulation of Digital Intermediaries’, at Digital Transactions in Asia V Conference, held at The International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science and Education Research, Quy Nhon, Vietnam. 21-23 February, 2024.

‘A Logistical Reckoning with Platform Economy’s Self-governance’, at Specter, Sovereignty, Surplus, Singapore Biennale 2022, delivered online on 31st January, 2023. URL: https://www.singaporebiennale.org/programmes-events/a-logistical-reckoning-withplatform-economys-self-governance 

‘To the Box-Office and Back: Rundown Theaters, YouTube, and the Stage Performances in Bhojpuri Popular Culture’, at Center for India & South Asia (CISA), UCLA, California. 2nd May, 2022.

Virtual Lecture in the Global South and Media Theory Seminar, University of Oregon. 28th April, 2022.

‘To the Box-Office and Back: Stage Performances, YouTube and the Rundown Theaters in Bhojpuri Popular Culture’, at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 25th March, 2022.

‘Cinema after Film: Digital disruption in the Bhojpuri speaking region’, at School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. 2nd March, 2022.

‘Martial Race Fantasy in CGI Historicals’, at The Past as Present: History and the Politics of Representation in Indian Cinema, OP Jindal Global University, Sonepat, Haryana. 30th October, 2021.

‘Dating Apps: Emerging Online Intimacies’, at Rickshaw, Department of Sociology, South Asia University, New Delhi. 24th February, 2021.

‘The Calculus of Platform Media: Logistics, Remediation, Self-Governance and Waste,’ at Platform Economies in India, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 26-27th February, 2020.

‘The Growth of Internet Monopolies,’ at Digital Transactions in Asia III, Monash University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 20-22nd November, 2019.

‘Informality, Archives and Platforms: YouTube and Bhojpuri Media,’ at Platform Capitalism, Communication and Culture in South Asia Research Symposium, Curtin University, Perth, 18-19th June, 2019.

‘Provincializing the University,’ at Disciplinary Landscape Forum, School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen, Tyumen, 8-9 th June, 2019.

‘On YouTube: The ‘Free’ Archive,’ at The Idea of the Archive Conference, Indian International Center, New Delhi, 8-9 th March, 2019.

‘The Insurrectionary Tendencies of the Digital: The Viral Fever Comedies and Indian Media,’ at Digital Transactions in Asia 2018 Conference, De La Salle University, Manila, 10-12th October, 2018.

‘Site-specific Informalities: The interpenetrations of neighbourliness in media industries,’ at Digital Transitions in Cultural and Creative Industries in India Research Symposium, UNESCO, New Delhi, 27-28th February, 2018.

‘Curatorial Informalities in Vernacular Media Industries,’ at Indian Media Economy Conference, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, 6-8 th December, 2017.

‘Govinda at the Cusp: Relaying Provinciality across Territories,’ at Regional Cultures and New Media Technologies, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Shimla, 26-28th April, 2017.

‘Cinema history in the vernacular: The province of Bhojpuri Cinema,’ at What is Cinema History: A HoMER Network conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 22-24th June, 2015.

‘Code-Mixing in Bhojpuri Media’ at Hinglish Workshop by SOAS/SARAI, SOAS, London, 27-28th May, 2015. • ‘Roundtable: Vernacular Performance on Film’ at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, 19th April, 2014.

‘Industries on Rent, Cultures for Sale: Clearing the space for a little Bhojpuri’ at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 27th March, 2014.

‘Provincialising Bollywood: Bhojpuri cinema and the Vernacularisation of North-India’ at Columbia University, New York, 28th October, 2013.

‘From Convex to Concave: Indian Cinemas through a Cosmopolitan Lens’ at Screen Conference (Screen cosmopolitanisms), Glasgow, on 28-30th June, 2013.

‘De-Accenting the Labouring Self in Performance: Subjective Economy of the Bhojpuri Culture Industry’ at MESCAF Conference (Labour, Livelihood and Culture), London, on 24th May, 2013.

‘Women in/of Bhojpuri Cinema and “Rearguard” films’ at Asian Cinema Workshop, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, on 25-26th April, 2013.

‘Being Singular: Figuring the Homeless Ecosystem’ at UID and Homelessness Conference, Bangalore, India, on 16th July, 2012.

‘Watching Bhojpuri Cinema with the 'Indecent Crowds' in Decrepit Single-Screen Theatres: Ethics of Space, Image and Spectatorship versus Aesthetics of Homosocial Masculinity’ at ASA2012 Conference: Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalising World, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 3rd-6 th April, 2012.