Anthropologist and Urban Ethnographer
Writing is the act of turning silence into meaning, and meaning into connection.
Writing for diverse audiences is like weaving a tapestry with threads of many colors — academic precision, public clarity, and policy relevance. To scholars, I bring rigor and depth; to broader communities, I offer language that invites and includes. By moving between these voices, knowledge transforms from a guarded treasure into a shared inheritance, nurturing a world where learning flows freely and insight belongs to all.
Forthcoming
"Shattered Sacred, Wounded Lives: Destruction of Bihars in Ramu, Bangladesh" in An Anthology ofBangladesh Studies. Sayeed Ferdous, Mirza Taslima Sultana, and Sanjana Sajid Parsa (eds.). New York,NY: Routledge.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2024, “Bangladesh - Khola Koborer Golpo-jomin,” Sorbojon Kotha 11:1.
​
2014, “Women Watching Television: Surfing between Fantasy and Reality,” with Samia A Rahim, inFeminisms, Empowerment, and Development: Changing Women’s Lives. Andrea Cornwall and Jenny Edwards,eds. Pp. 277- 294. London: Zed Books.
​
2010, “Women Watching Television,” with Samia A. Rahim, IDS Bulletin 41 (2): 116 – 124.
​
2009, “People's Discourses Against the Dominant Discourse of Population Control,” Samajnirikkhon110: 7-27.
​
2009, “Population Policy: The New Axis of Governance-Discipline-Sovereignty,” Samajnirikkhon 107:15-37.
​
2008, “Some Conceptual, Theoretical and Methodological Issues on Peer Education in HIV/AIDSPrevention,” The Journal of Social Studies 119: 48-66.
Peer-reviewed Essays and Op-ed
2025 "Remembering the Dead without Grave," New Age.
​
2025 "Freedom is a Verb," New Age.
2024 “Bangladesh – Khola Koborer Golpo-jomin,” Daily Star Bangla.
​
2024, “Bangladesh, the Land of Open Graves,” New Age.
​
2022, “Am Gachey Kokhono Kathal Hoy Na,” Daily Star Bangla.
​
2022, “Hirok Rajjer Jinda Lashera,” Daily Star Bangla.
​
2021, “Tale of a Forgotten Dragonfly,” New Age.
​
2021, “Lal Paharer Rupkotha O Chupkothader Golpo,” Daily Star Bangla.
​
2021, “Proboler Nirmane ‘Onner’ Puja,” Daily Star Bangla.
​
2020, “Making of Living Dead in Moment of Calamity,” New Age.
​
2020, Priyadarshini, A. “Fear and Hope in the Time of Pandemic,” New Age.