Summary
I'm in my third year of a doctoral programme with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. My Bachelors degree was in Sociology in Madras, India, but I branched out into Culture Studies for my Masters at Goldsmiths College, University of London. After a brief foray into the NGO sector back in India, I taught an Undergraduate degree in Sociology for a couple of years back at my old college. My specialisation has largely been in Critical Social Theory, specific to Gender and Sexuality, and my current research focuses on Corporealising political and social theory- critiquing the elision of body within theory. My interest here has been largely to do with South Asian theory in particular, and trying to articulate such theory outside of the existing postcolonial framework which, though revolutionary and important is no longer adequate in terms of envisioning alternative ways of theorising that are not purely in relation to a "western" framework, such as post colonialism and subalternity. I currently work on the elision of  corporeality within cosmopolitan thought and I use the queer movement in India and more recently, the diasporic imaginaries of indo-Caribbean migration to explore this elision further.