Academics

I hail from Shillong, a place that taught me early on that stories, songs, and silences all carry meaning. With a training in Sociology and Mass Communication, I’ve spent my academic life chasing questions about people, power, culture, and why we see the world the way we do.

I’ve taught for over eight years at the Amity School of Communication, where I discovered that classrooms are as much about learning as they are about unlearning. Somewhere between lectures, field notes, and endless cups of coffee, I realised that my interests were delightfully unruly: women’s agency, media representation, tribal knowledge systems, maternal health communication, and the politics of knowledge production.

My work now mixes classroom grounding, field wanderings, and a healthy dose of curiosity. I’m interested in how knowledge gets made, who gets to make it, and how questions of agency, representation, community wisdom, and power shift across spaces. 

At present, I wear two hats: independent researcher and Lead of the Tribal Research and Knowledge Centre (TRKC), New Delhi. This means I get to build collaborations, shape research frameworks, and dive into projects on tribal studies, gender and decolonisation. 

I study how people make meaning, how communities hold knowledge, and how research can stay grounded, sharp, and occasionally when the universe allows a little fun.