Our Faculty

• 2018 – 2023
  Ph.D. – Folklore Research, Gauhati University, Assam
• 2014 – 2016
  M.A. – Folklore, University of Kalyani, West Bengal (Gold Medalist)
• 2012 – 2014
  M.A. – Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, West Bengal
• 2009 – 2012
  B.A. – Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, West Bengal

• February 2025 – Present Assistant Professor, Amrita Darshanam, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Chennai
• March 2023 – February 2025 Archivist, Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies, Gurgaon
• December 2022 – March 2023 Art Researcher (Consultant), Rooftop, Mumbai
• May 2022 – March 2023 Research Associate (Consultant), INTACH – Intangible Cultural Heritage Division, New Delhi

• Sahapedia–UNESCO Fellowship (2020) for research on Women Mask Makers of Odisha
• UGC Swami Vivekananda Single Girl Child Scholarship for research in Social Sciences
• UGC-NET Qualified for Assistant Professor (November 2017 and July 2018)
• Suhasini Devi Smarak Puraskar – Gold Medal for securing First Rank in M.A. Folklore

Research Projects

• Research Fellow – Sahapedia–UNESCO Fellowship Project titled ‘Women Mask Makers of Odisha’ (2020–2021).

Project Proposals Submitted

• Submitted five research project proposals focusing on folklore studies, cultural heritage documentation, craft clusters, and community livelihood development.

Reviewer

• Reviewer – Odi Art Magazine, Mask Dance Tradition of Asia (Issue 1).

Professional Memberships

• Associate Member (Lifetime), Folklore Fellows – International Network of Folklorists, Helsinki
• Full Member, International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF)

• Expert Speaker – ‘The Intersection of Tradition and Technology’, Tata Samvaad Fellowship Heritage Residency, Bhubaneswar (2025).
• Guest Talk – ‘The Many Faces of Tradition: Masked Performances as Folkloric Expression’, Christ University, Bangalore (2025).
• ‘How to Write a Research Proposal: With Reference to Research in Folklore’, Centre for Folklore Studies and Research (2025).
• ‘Alternative Methodologies for Data Collection in Folklore’, Centre for Folklore Studies and Research (2025).
• Expert Lecture: “Cultural Heritage: National Perspective,” International Workshop, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
• “Introduction to Culture”, PhD Course Work, School of Sustainability, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri
• Session Chair: “Art at Risk: Strategies for Protecting Cultural Heritage,” International Conference at Techno India University, 2025

• Participated in Week-long Workshop on Indian Knowledge System and Intellectual Property Rights – IKS-TKDL Workshop-7, jointly organized by the IKS Division and the CSIR-TKDL Unit, Ministry of Education, Government of India, New Delhi, from 1st April 2025 to 7th April 2025
• Participated in Seven Days International Workshop on Research in Culture and Humanities: Methodological Issue and Emerging Trends organized by the Centre for Studies in Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing, Jadavpur University in collaboration with the Department of Mass Communication ad Journalism, University of Gour Banga, Department of Bengali, Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University and Byanjanbarna Foundation from 17th- 23rd October 2019
•  Participated in Week-Long Fieldwork – cum- Workshop on Folklore and Tribal Lore held at Rangbul Grampanchayet in Darjeeling District organized by the Department of Folklore, Kalyani University from March 19th to March 23rd, 2015

Conferences and Seminars 

International  

• Presented paper titled “Unveiling the Veiled: An inquiry into Undocumented Death Rituals among the Hijra Community” in the 13th International Conference of Young Folklorists “Dark Side of Folklore and Folkloristics”, Lithuania from 9th October – 11th October, 2024 
•  Presented paper titled “Reimagining cities: narratives of Slum as the bearer of Folkloric Identity in India” in the 15th SIEF Congress on Breaking the Rules? Power, Participation, Transgression held in Helsinki, Finland from 19th June to 24th June 2021  
• Presented Paper titled “Kyriarchy Disguised in Philogyny: A Study of Tribal Marriage and Kinship in North East India” in the Three-Day International Virtual Conference (16-18 September 2020) on GENDER STUDIES Organized by Cape Comorin Trust, India, and Lavendar Literary Club, India, in Collaboration with Al-Maarif University College, Iraq; Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Bangladesh, Department of Folklore; University of Creative Technology Chittagong, Bangladesh, Department of English Language and Literature; Khurasan University, Afghanistan, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of English Language and Literature; Great Imam College, Iraq, Department of Religion Basics.  
•  Presented Paper titled “Ghoti and Bangal: Convergence of Subculture within a Culture of West Bengal from the viewpoint of Post Colonial Factors” in ICSSR sponsored International Conference in September 2018 organized by Centre for Language and Cultural Studies, Gauhati University  
• Presented Paper titled “Hijra: an active culture bearing community through different ages” in UGC- CPE Sponsored International Conference on Gender and Empowerment organized by Bijoy Krishna Girl’s college, Howrah in collaboration with School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata on 16th and 17th of Dec’ 2016  
• Presented Paper at Folklore, Ethnology, Ethnomusicology Conference, Aberdeen, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K. on 2nd July 2016 titled “Third Gender or Eunuch: A unique ethnic group in India”.  

National  

• Presented Paper with the title “ Mask: An Emblem of Religion in North East” in the national seminar on Folklore of North East on 29th and 30th April 2019, organized by Gauhati University  
• Presented Paper with the title “Khoai boner anyo haat: A market to converge rural and urban” in the national seminar on Urbanization and Folklore: Emerging Issues and Perspectives in April 2018 Organized by Gauhati University in collaboration with ICSSR.  
• Presented Paper titled “Function and Significance of Bengali Folk Literature: An Overview” in a National Seminar on Indian Folklore History: Reading Region organized by N.S. Patel Arts College in association with the Indian Council of Historical Research, Gujarati Sahitya Akademi, Sardar Patel University, and Meghani Lokosahitya Kendra held in March 2018  
• Presented Paper in UGC-DEB sponsored One – Day National Seminar on Gender, Culture, Politics: Bengal in the 20th Century, organized by Netaji Subhash Open University on 24th September 2016  
• Presented Paper at a Two-days national seminar on “Dimension of Culture: Integration, Contradiction and Conflict” organized by the Department of Sociology, the University of Kalyani sponsored by UGC, New Delhi on 30th March 2016 titled “Dandiya: Transformation of a cultural element from folk to elite”  
• Presented Paper at UGC Sponsored National Level Seminar on” Folklore and Tribal Studies in Eastern and North-East India: Perspective and Present Status” organized by the Department of Folklore, the University of Kalyani on January 15, 2015, titled “Change in Perspective of Scroll Painting: Contemporary Approach”  

• Cultural and Spiritual Studies
• Mentoring for Live-in-Labs