Here are some of my academic and popular writing. My writing is held together by several interlocking preoccupations that cut across disciplinary boundaries and genres. At the core is a sustained engagement with embodied identities, and their interaction (often violent, sometimes, productive) with the state. In these interactions, my particular site of entry is gendered vulnerability, I examine the female body across sites as varied as Bengali fiction, Indian advertising, weight-loss discourse, fat politics, and #occupythenight movements, consistently asking how normativity is enforced upon women's bodies and how resistance is articulated within or against those norms. This leads to my engagement with borders and bordering practices -- not only the geopolitical partition of the subcontinent but also the logistical borders of port cities, and the electoral roll as a new instrument of manufactured statelessness. These concerns converge in my writing on epidemics, particularly Covid-19, where public health, migration, gender, and state power are shown to be deeply entangled. Taken together, my body of work is marked by a distinctly South Asian grounding, a feminist-materialist lens, and a restless movement between academic argument and public intellectual intervention.

At Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration I curate a thought-provoking (book) review section which introduces the readers to new directions in refugee and migration studies, while revisiting crucial older texts.

With Refugee Watch Online, we aim to publish popular texts, photo essays, reviews and opinion pieces that identify emerging concerns and research in migrations studies. I have headed the editorial team for the past eleven years.

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