As a student of Sociology I always want to study social phenomena from different perspectives. Sociology as a discipline offers so varied choices of research that it is really hard to leave aside any of those interesting fields. My main reasearch area is Sociology of Death. Until now I have also conducted research on popular culture, media, gender, sexuality, and happiness.
After some personal encounter with the process of dying and death, I have decided to pursue my doctoral thesis on sociology of death. My PhD thesis was on Politics of Cinematic Death. Just before this foray I was doing research on the discourse of Happiness. Prior to that I have worked on films, television reality shows, gender, sexuality and family. My M.Phil. thesis was on M-TV reality shows. Now I am planning to conduct some more research in the field of Sociology of death and dying witn special reference to Hospice and Palliative care which is relatively an unexplored arena in India.
Before joining Presidency University I was teaching Sociology in Sarojini Naidu College for Women and have also delivered lectures as a guest faculty in Jadavpur University. In Sarojini Naidu College for Women, I used to take regular classes on Introductory Sociology, different strands of Sociological theories and perspectives of Indian society and social problems. In Jadavpur University, I delivered lectures on Industrial Sociology, Organization, and Sociology of Science and Technology. Now I am taking classes on Sociological Theory, Gender, Media Studies, and Politics.
Publications
2013. Book Review of ‘Seeing Like a Feminist’ by Nivedita Menon. Culture and Social Categories: Journal of Sociology: Jadavpur University. IISN 0976-5212
2015. Representing Bharat Mata in Mother India and Deewar: Study of Nationalist Politics of Cinematic Death. Journal of Sociology. Jadavpur University. Vol. 8 No. 8. IISN 0976-5212.
2018. Has Bollywood Become 'Death-Denying'?: Cinematic Deaths of Terminally-ill Protagonists in Hindi Films before and after Liberalisation in India. The International Journal of Literary Humanities, 16(1): 13-21. ISSN: 2327-7912 (Print). ISSN: 2327-8676 (Online)
2021. Truth-Telling to Terminal Stage Cancer Patients in India: A Study of the General Denial to Disclosure. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (SAGE Journal). doi:10.1177/00302228211032732
2022. Living in a Limbo: A Sociological Study of Missing Funerals, Death Rituals, and Complicated Grief in COVID-19. Illness, Crisis & Loss (SAGE Journal). doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/10541373221131760
2023. Dying with Shame: A Qualitative Study of Stigma Experienced by Terminal Stage Male Breast Cancer Patients and Family Members in India. Mortality (Taylor and Francis). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2023.2215704
Paper Presentation
2012. Presented Paper "Titled Feminism of the Popular: Studying visuals of the Bollywood using feminist lens". Conference on Reading the Culture, organized by Sorojini Naidu College for Women, Kolkata.
2015. Presented Paper Titled "Representing Bharat Mata in Popular Hindi Films: A Socio-historical Study of Nationalist Politics of Death". International Conference on Social Science and Economics organized by ICSSE at Barcelona, Spain.
2017. Presented Paper Titled "Has Bollywood Become 'Death Denying'? Cinematic Deaths of Terminally-ill Protagonists in Hindi Films before and after Liberalization in India". Fifteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Organised by Common Ground Research Networks at Imperial College London, UK.
2018. Presented paper titled "Politics of Karma: Representation of‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Deaths in Bollywood Films". Eight International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, Organized by Common Ground Research Networksat University of California at Berkeley, USA.
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