Academic Papers, Podcasts
and Video Essays
A curated selection of academic work: researched, developed and written by me
The Banking Method & The British Raj
Virtue in Vice: Courtesans and the Myth of ‘Mother India’ in Bollywood (PG Dissertation)
Kabhi East Kabhie West: India’s Globalization in Karan Johar Films (UG Dissertation)
Ghosts of the State: Memory, Violence, and Adaptation in Haider (2014)
From Sati Survivor to Bharat Mata: Superslave or Superhuman?
Nautch The Whites Away: Courtesans, Colonialism and Control
Between Cultures: Identities of British-Asian Diasporas in East is East and Bend It Like Beckham
Wild and Free? Post-Feminism and the Limits of Liberation in Mustang (2015)
Flawless Feminism? Beyoncé, Capitalism, and the Politics of Female Representation
The Man, the Myth, the Larger than Life: Effects on a Nation Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh
Spivak’s ‘Subaltern’ in A Passage to India (1984)
“If there’s one thing I hate, it’s people who cross the line”: Technologies of cyborg/human relations in Parasite (2019)
