K. Lakshmi Jahnavi
Name: K. Lakshmi Jahnavi
Supervisor: Dr. Suchismita Satpathy
Email ID: p20150007@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Areas of research interest: Sociology of Development, Sociology of Environment and Sustainable Development and Political Sociology.
About her work: A UGC-SRF research scholar, working on land conflicts for her doctoral thesis. She is interested in looking at various narratives around land acquisition.
Publication:
- Jahnavi, K.L. & Satpathy, S. 2021. 'Our wetland is our mother, you cannot take her away from us’: Reconstructing the political space of reclaiming a coastal wetland in Sompeta, Andhra Pradesh, India. Environmental Sociology. Taylor & Francis. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2021.1979716 .
- Jahnavi, K.L. & Satpathy, S. 2021. Unfolding the Enigma of Dispossession in India: An Analysis of the Discourse on Land grabbing, Sociological Bulletin. Sage publication, 7(3): 331-248. DOI:10.1177/00380229211018986
Kopal Khare
Name: Kopal Khare
Supervisor: Dr. Lavanya Suresh
Email ID: p20160019@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Areas of research interest: Gender, Human Development, Rural Sanitation.
About her work: She is currently studying rural sanitation as a phenomenon through social justice lens.
Publications:
- Khare, K., & Suresh, L. (2021). Justice and sanitation well-being: an analysis of frameworks in the context of slippage, based on findings from Shravasti, Uttar Pradesh, India. Journal of Water and Health, 19(5), 823-835. https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2021.094
- Khare, K., & Jose, S. (2020). Closing Access Loop: Situating Post-infrastructural Assurance Circumstances in Rural Sanitation. In Solid Waste Policies and Strategies: Issues, Challenges and Case Studies (pp. 73-83). Springer, Singapore.
Revathy Hemachandran
Name: Revathy Hemachandran
Supervisor: Dr. Maya Vinai
Email ID: p20170018@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Areas of Research Interests: Her research interests are in Trauma Narratives, Malabar Rebellion, Post-colonial literature and Cultural Memory Studies.
Publications:
- Revathy Hemachandran & Maya Vinai. Locating ‘Saguna’:The Native Indian Convert in
- Postcolonial India. Re- Markings. 19.2.(2020): 101- 107. Print.
- Revathy Hemachandran. Jallianwala Bagh Literary Responses in Prose and Poetry (2019) by Rakshanda Jalil. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. 12. 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n2.20.
- Maya Vinai & Revathy Hemachandran. A Fine Balance: Interrogating the changing re- configurations of space in middle class apartments of Mumbai through literary representations and lived experiences. IUP Journal of English Studies. 16.1 (2021): 27-38. Print.
Vinay Sankar P
Name: Vinay Sankar P
Supervisor: Dr Lavanya Suresh
Email: p20170422@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Areas of Research Interests: He cleared UGC NET Economics in 2017. His research interest is in Political Ecology of Common Pool Resources such as water, forests and food.
Publications:
- Sankar, V. (2020). Politics of Cultural Commons: A Case Study of Sacred Groves in Central Kerala. Space and Culture, India, 8(2), 129-139. https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.vi0.774
- Sankar, V. (2020). The Commodification of Food, Farming and Farmers: A Critical Review of Farm Laws, 2020. Space and Culture, India, 8(3), 18-26. https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v8i3.1117
Rohit Jha
Name: Rohit Jha
Supervisor: Dr. Suchismita Satpathy
Email ID: p20170439@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Areas of Research Interest - Political Economy of City Expansion and Urban Space, Development Studies.
About his work: For the doctoral thesis, the scholar is working on Socio-Spatial Analysis of Peri-Urbanization. The interest is to understand the dynamics of peri-urban growth and examine the political economy of the peri-urban space in particular.
MD. Shahid Akhter
Name: MD. Shahid Akhter
Supervisor: Dr. Biswanath Dash
Email ID: p20180437@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Areas of Research Interests: He qualified UGC-NET (Geography) and did his M.Sc (Pondicherry University) and M.Phil in Disaster Studies (TISS, Mumbai). He tries to understand the concept of Disaster Risk at various levels through a methodological exploration of the idea of Disaster Risk Assessment (DRA).
Publications:
- Akhter, M. S. & Dash, B. 2020. "COVID-19: Global financial crisis could cripple Indian tea industry" Down To Earth 12th May: New Delhi. Available at https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/economy/covid-19-global-financial-crisis-could-cripple-indian-tea-industry-71079
- Akhter, S., & Raut, V. N.2020. "Double trouble" millennium post, New Delhi Edition, 20th May: Available at http://www.millenniumpost.in/opinion/double-trouble-409191
- Akhter, M. S.2020." Amidst COVID-19 lockdown, attention should be given to the marginalised" Northeast Now 25th March: Available at https://nenow.in/top-news/amidst-covid-19-lockdown-attention-should-be-given-to-the-marginalised.html
Anwesha Mohanty
Name: Anwesha Mohanty
Supervisor: Dr. Lavanya Suresh
Email Id: p20180436@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Areas of Research Interests: Political Ecology and Local Knowledge
About her work: She/they explores the kinds of local knowledge women hold regarding non-timber forest produce in the process of creating handicrafts, and how this is used in governing forests. She/Their research is funded by the Indian Council Of Social Science Research (ICSSR)-Doctoral Fellowships.
Ahmed Shabin KK
Name: Ahmed Shabin KK
Supervisor: Prof. Shilpaa Anand
Email ID: p20180440@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Areas of research interest: Censorship Studies, Resistance Narratives, Prison Narratives, Literary censorship, Mass media censorship
About his work: A UGC-SRF research scholar, he explores censorship and surveillance issues in India focusing on the recent instances of literary censorship and censorship laws. He looks into censorship and surveillance issues in India focusing on the recent instances of literary censorship and censorship laws.
Jaya Sarkar
Name: Jaya Sarkar
Supervisor: Dr. Anhiti Patnaik, Co-Supervisor: Prof. Shilpaa Anand
Email ID: p20180439@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Areas of research interest: Posthumanism, Disability Studies, Feminist Studies, and Digital Humanities.
About her work: A UGC-NET research scholar, working on posthumanist and crip aesthetics for her doctoral thesis. She is interested in looking at posthuman subjectivities, cyborg literature and emancipated narrative.
Publication:
- Sarkar, Jaya. “Reading Hypertext as Cyborg: The Case of Patchwork Girl.” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, vol. 12, no. 5, 2020. https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v12n5.rioc1s2n2
- Sarkar, Jaya. “Indian Supercrip Cyborg: Deconstructing Normativity through Feminist Posthumanism.” Posthumanism and India: Envisaging and Manifesting, 2020.https://posthumanism.in/articles/indian-supercrip-cyborg-deconstructing-normativity-through-feminist-posthumanism-by-jaya-sarkar/
Archita Majumder
Name: Archita Majumder
Supervisor: Dr. Santosh Mahapatra
Email Id: p20180438@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Areas of research interest: ESL Teacher Professional Development, Online Communities of Practice
About her work: She is trying to investigate the effectiveness of an online community of practice as a professional development tool for tertiary level EAP teachers.
S Saritha Sasidharan
Name: S Saritha Sasidharan
Supervisor: Prof. M. G Prasuna
Email ID: p20190059@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Area of Research Interest: Queer literature and gender.
About her work: A research scholar in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus. She is interested in exploring the concepts of family and identity in queer texts.
Publication:
- Sasidharan, Saritha S. “Gender in Select Vacanas of Devara Dasimayya” Zeitgeist: Pandemic 2020, special issue of Aesthetique Journal for International Literary Enterprises (AJILE), vol. 4, 2020. https://www.mutemelodist.com/postings.php?pid=604&cid=10&subid=37
Krithika Nambiar
Name: Krithika Nambiar
Supervisor: Dr. Pranesh Bhargava
Email ID: p20190436@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Research Area: Cognitive Psychology, Visual and Auditory Perception
About her work: The researcher is working on the cognitive processes of attention and perception. She is also interested in analysing the effect of multiple parameters on attention such as modality and nature of tasks to understand the selective nature of attention.
Nandana R
Name: Nandana R
Supervisor: Prof. Shilpaa Anand
Email: p20200034@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
About her work: The research attempts to explore the discourses of disability and examines the modalities in which they are framed. The study also looks into the biopolitics of disability, debility, and Care.
Amrit Amlan Pattanaik
Name: Amrit Amlan Pattanaik
Notional Supervisor: Dr. Spandan Bhattacharya
Email: p20200447@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
About his work: In the course of his doctoral research, he aims to engage with the key debates around regional film scholarship and contextualize the social history of alternate Odia cinema through narrative formations, archival research and documentation.
Mithuna S M
Name: Mithuna S M
Supervisor: Maya Vinai
Email ID: p20200450@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
About her work: She focuses on the genre of Crime Thriller and works on select movies in Malayalam. Her research looks into the cinematic representation of gendered subjectivities through criminological perspectives.
Ati Srilekha
Name: Ati Srilekha
Supervisor: Dr. Suchismita Satpathy
Email ID: p20200475@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Areas of research interest: Public Policy, Urban Studies, Water Governance
About her work: Srilekha is a JRF under the Department of Science and Technology (DST) Project on “Structured Dialogue for Sustainable Urban Water Management”. She is currently working on urban water issues in three secondary cities Jaipur, Madurai and Visakhapatnam.
Apurba Raychoudhury
Name: Apurba Raychoudhury
Supervisor: Dr. Biswanath Dash
Email ID: p20210419@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bitspilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Areas of Research Interest: She completed her MSc in Disaster Management from Pondicherry University. Her research areas include Disaster Politics, Climate Change, Multi-Hazard Warning Systems and Cyclones.
Muthyalu Ashwini
Name: Muthyalu Ashwini
Supervisor: Dr. Santosh Mahapatra
Email Id: p20210421@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bitspilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Areas of Research Interest: Multilingualism in India, Policy Documentation, Cyber Culture, New Literary Trends.
About her: She qualified UGC-NET JRF in 2020. She is working on multilingualism in India, equity and access ideologies, Policy documentation and use of multilingualism in education.
Ravi Bhushan
Name: Ravi Bhushan
Supervisor: Dr. Lavanya Suresh
Co- Supervisor: Dr. Manik Gupta
Email Id: p20210420@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bitspilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Areas of Research Interest: Political ecology, marginalization, environmental justice.
About his work: His research interest lies in exploring the urban-rural continuum from the lenses of political-ecology and marginalization. For his doctoral research, he is working on policy based analysis of air pollution in India and Australia by using remote sensing as a tool.
Ponnapalli Siri Varshini
Name: Ponnapalli Siri Varshini
Supervisor: Dr. Lavanya Suresh
Email ID: p20220024@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
Areas of Research Interest: Her research interest lies in the study of aquaculture from the perspective of political ecology.
Chhaya Verma
Name: Chhaya Verma
Supervisor: Dr. A. K. Jayesh
Email: p20220025@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Official Page: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/Languages/ResearchScholars
About Current Research Interests: Her research interest lies in the study of alienation and/in language.