Welcome to my website. I am an interdisciplinary researcher with a doctorate from the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford. My research focuses on wars and violent conflict, particularly on how narratives across different media forms uphold, partially comply with, or resist sanitised nationalist discourses. I am especially interested in how nations draw the boundaries of empathy — deciding who is included within them and who remains excluded.

My doctoral thesis, supervised by Professor Santanu Das, examines narratives inspired by the 1971 Bangladesh War. In this project, I engage with a wide range of historical and literary materials, from cartoons and photographs to graphic narratives and self-consciously literary fiction in both Bengali and English, produced over five decades by authors based in Bangladesh and across the diaspora.

Before coming to Oxford, I studied English Literature at the University of Delhi, where I held a Junior Research Fellowship. My work has been supported by the University Grants Commission (India), Hertford College, University of Oxford, the Postcolonial Studies Association, and IndOx.

If you would like to collaborate, discuss related research interests, or find out more about my work, please get in touch here.