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
Under Review . "Living in and with Rubble," The New York Times.
Under Review. "Frozen Inequality: Dallas’s Winter Divide," Dallas Morning News.
Under Review. "Afterlives of the Dead: Mourning the Nation’s Others" in The July Uprising in Bangladesh:Intersections, Contentions, and Promises . London and New York, NY: Routledge.
May, 2026. "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.
English Op-eds
2025 "Remembering the dead without graves," People's July, New Age.
2025 "Freedom is a Verb," New Age. March 26, 2025.
2024. “Bangladesh, the Land of Open Graves,” New Age.
2021. “Tale of a Forgotten Dragonfly,” New Age. March 8, 2021
2020. “Making of Living Dead in Moment of Calamity,” New Age. May 11, 2020.
2020. “Fear and Hope in the Time of Pandemic,” New Age. April 20, 2020.
Bengali Op-eds
2024. "বাংলাদেশ, খোলা কবরের গল্পজমিন [Bangladesh - The Land of Open Graves]," Daily Star Bangla, August 13, 2024.
2021." আম গাছে কখনো কাঁঠাল হয় না [As the Tree, So the Fruit]," Daily Star Bangla. October 23, 2021
2021. "হীরক রাজ্যের জিন্দা লাশেরা [Bare Lives and Spatial disparities in Cities during Covid]," Daily Star Bangla. April 23, 2021.
2021. "সব মনে রাখবো [We Will Remember Everything]," Suddhashar. March 10, 2021.
2021. "ক্যান উই ফাইট রেপ কালচার উইথ ন্যাশনালিস্ট সেন্টিমেন্ট ? [Can you fight rape culture with nationalist sentiment?]," Thotkata. February 20, 2021
2020. "লাল পাহাড়ের রূপকথা ও চুপকথাদের গল্প [Untold Stories of Red Mountain], Daily Star Bangla. November, 23, 2020
2020. "প্রবলের নির্মাণে ‘অন্যের’ পূজা [The Nation’s “Other”: Dominance, Power, and Rituals]," DailyStar Bangla. October, 27, 2020.
2020. "করোনাকালের ভয় ও আশা [Fear and Hope in the Time of Pandemic]," Thotkata. April 27, 2020.
2015. "চলুন রংধনুর কারিগর হই [Let Us Become the Architects of the Rainbow]," Thotkata. July 1, 2015.
2015. "শাড়ি চুড়ি হোক শক্তিমত্তার প্রতীক [Let Bangles Speak Power]," Thotkata. April, 26, 2015.
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.