Projects
Long-term commitments, not side projects
Each exists because a particular kind of material was at risk of going unread, unrecorded, or unsupported, and each is built to keep growing rather than to be finished.
Technical Lead. 2025 to present
Oceanic Fiction
- Why it exists
- Water-themed fiction from the Indian subcontinent is scattered across small presses, regional-language originals, and out-of-print editions, exactly the kind of material that falls out of both scholarly and public view.
- What problem it addresses
- Without a shared, searchable point of access, this fiction stays fragmented by language, region, and publisher, and is hard for a researcher or a general reader to find at all.
- What value it creates
- An open archive that scholars from Witwatersrand, Southampton, and Leiden already draw on, keeping this literature teachable and citable rather than merely preserved.
- Where it’s heading
- Expanding language coverage, and building the kind of structured metadata that would let the archive support comparative, cross-regional research rather than single-text lookup.
Dept. of English, DBRAU Agra. Ongoing.
Disability Archives
- Why it exists
- My thesis reads disability across five texts spanning fiction and memoir. The material surrounding those texts, related criticism and cultural forms, needed somewhere to live beyond my own reading notes.
- What problem it addresses
- Disability studies work on Indian material is thin on the ground, and what exists is rarely gathered in one place, so each new project tends to start from scratch.
- What value it creates
- A shared repository of creative and critical work on disability across fiction, cinema, and other cultural forms, a starting point for the next person rather than a private archive.
- Where it’s heading
- Growing alongside the thesis and the essays that follow it, particularly the comparative work on disability in Hindi cinema now under preparation.
Independent Platform. 2017 to present.
English Summary
- Why it exists
- Undergraduate and postgraduate English literature students often have strong syllabi and thin support: good texts, but little structured help working through them.
- What problem it addresses
- Self-directed literature study is hard to do well without a clear, sequenced set of materials, and much of what’s freely available online is unreliable or shallow.
- What value it creates
- A platform I’ve built and managed since 2017, giving students a dependable, self-paced route through the syllabus.
- Where it’s heading
- The oldest of my three projects, and the one that first taught me what accessible, self-directed learning design actually requires, a lesson that now shapes how I teach in person too.