I am a historian of South Asian religion, sexuality, gender and food history. My recent research has been in the field of history of horror in South Asian cinema and popular culture. Drawing from a criminal case from 1892 in Bombay, my current project is on forensics in colonial India and the role it played in determining criminal cases.
Chapters and Articles
- 鈥淒o you want to know the Raaz?: S膩vitri, Satyav膩n and the Other Woman.鈥 In Bollywood Horrors. (Bloomsbury, 2020).
- 鈥淢aking of a Monster: The Various Villains of Hindi Horror Comics.鈥 In Kasia Ancuta and Deimantas Valanciunus eds. South Asian Gothic: University of Wales Press. 2021
- 鈥樷淚 Wasn鈥檛 Born with Enough Middle Fingers鈥: How low-budget horror films defy sexual morality and heteronormativity in Bollywood.鈥 Acta Orientalia Vilnensia, 12, no. 2 (2011): 75-90.
- Regular contributor to The Hindu, Livemint and Open Magazine.