Projects & field-building
Making room for other voices.
Research also means building the communities, practices, and spaces through which knowledge circulates.
Founder
SHABD India
October 2024–present
Scholarly Humanities Alliance for Bhasha and Digitalisation in India. A field-building initiative for Digital Humanities and vernacular language scholarship, with attention to underrepresented linguistic traditions and minoritarian cultural production.
Visit SHABD India ↗Project page ↗Core team member
E-Lit India
July 2024–present
Contributing to the electronic literature community in India, supporting Indian-language digital creative practices and the recognition of electronic literature as a scholarly field.
Corresponding and lead guest editor
Digital Marginalisation, AI Bias, and Cultural Representation in South Asia
2026–2027
A special issue of the Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress, co-edited with M. Rizwan Khan and Samya Brata Roy. The issue examines how digital systems shape exclusion, representation, and knowledge in South Asia.
Official announcement ↗Download the call for papers ↗Author · interactive fiction
Zara’s Odyssey: Echoes of Belonging
2026
A work of electronic literature about cultural identity and belonging. Reader choices shape a British-Indian woman’s journey to India, bringing creative practice into conversation with postcolonial research.
Read at the IIT Indore anthology ↗Read and play on itch.io ↗Explore the work ↗Author · working monograph
Data for Data
In development
A book project on access, extraction, and the postcolonial digital. It develops Postcolonial Access Governance to explain how digital participation can require people to exchange identity, language, money, data, and technical labour for access that remains conditional and revocable.
Project page ↗Field-building as scholarly work
These activities extend my research on representation, linguistic diversity, and the infrastructure of scholarly fields. They connect critical inquiry with editorial responsibility, community formation, and born-digital creative practice.
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