Publications

Book Chapters and Papers

“Loving but critical: The empathetic gaze of Luck By Chance.” in ReFocus: The Films of Zoya Akhtar, edited by Aakshi Magazine and Amber Shields. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. (forthcoming)

“A language of its own: The songs in the films of Mani Ratnam.” in Musicals at the Margins: Genre, Boundaries, Canon, edited by Martha Shearer and Julie Lobalzo Wright, 144-157. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021.

Tum Toh Mohammed Rafi Nikle: The song sequence in contemporary Hindi cinema.” South Asian Popular Culture Volume 17, Issue 2 (2019): 133-144.

“Ghoul: Challenging the category of the ‘Nationalist Muslim’.” Economic and Political Weekly Volume 53, Issue 45 (2018).

Edited Books and Journal Issues

ReFocus: The Films of Zoya Akhtar, edited by Aakshi Magazine and Amber Shields. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. (to be published in July 2022)

Guest-editor, with co-editors Senjuti Chakraborti and Souradeep Roy, for “Writing (in) the Post colony: Practicing Academic English in Indian Higher Education” for Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, November 30, 2020.

Book Reviews

“The Irony and Legacy of Om Puri’s Career.” In Media Res, May 17, 2017. http://mediacommons.org/imr/2017/05/17/irony-and-legacy-om-puri-s-career

Review of Biswarup Sen and Abhijit Roy, Channeling Cultures: Television Studies From India, in Studies in South Asian Film and Media Volume 8, Issue 1 (2016): 63-84.

Review of David Neumeyer, Meaning and interpretation of Music in Cinema, in Frames Cinema Journal April 9, 2016. http://framescinemajournal.com/article/meaning-and-interpretation-of-music-in-cinema/