Minority Life, Staying, and Ethical Worlds

Writing on minority life, staying, and the practices that sustain it.

Slow Migration: Financial Uncertainty and the Ethics of Minority Staying
How movement unfolds through financial strain and ethical obligation
→ Read (OSF)

Learning Under Siege: Education as Everyday Repair and Minority Futures
Schooling as repair, discipline, and constrained aspiration under conflict
Forthcoming

The Labour of Staying
Staying as ethical labour shaped by land, memory, and obligation
Forthcoming

The Quiet Pluralism of Kashmir’s Sikhs
On everyday coexistence that sustains social life beyond dominant narratives
→ Read (The India Forum)

Institutions: Education, Policy, Platforms

Writing on how institutions shape, constrain, and reorganize social life.

How the NEP is Reshaping Autonomy for Minority Institutions
How metrics, standardization, and regulation redefine autonomy
→ Read (The Wire)

When Universities Become Sites of Discipline
How dissent shifts from debate to administrative control
→ Read (The Wire)

Diagnostic Dispossession: Minority Mental Health and AI in Kashmir
How clinical and algorithmic systems render minority distress illegible
Forthcoming (Co-authored with Dr Indupriya B)

Public Writing

Writing on contemporary shifts in work, education, and public life.

The ‘Work Family’ Was Always Fragile. Gen Z Refuses to Pretend Otherwise.
How structural shifts, not attitude, shape changing relations to work
→ Read (The Wire)

When War Reshapes the Geography of Indian Education
How geopolitical instability exposes dependence on overseas education
→ Read here

Current Work

Ongoing research and writing projects.

Vand Chakna and the Ethics of Shared Life
On equality sustained through everyday practices of sharing
→ Read (Preprint.org)

Platform Architecture and the Persistence of Rape Myths
On how digital systems amplify harm and suppress counter-discourse
Forthcoming (Co-authored with Dr Indupriya B)

Who Gets to Count as a Minority in Kashmir?
On how narrative frameworks shape visibility and absence
Forthcoming

Raped: The History, Politics, and Psychology of Rape in Independent India
A forthcoming book examining the historical, political, and psychological dimensions of sexual violence

Ongoing research and writing projects.

Vand Chakna and the Ethics of Shared Life
On equality sustained through everyday practices of sharing
→ Read (Preprint.org)

Platform Architecture and the Persistence of Rape Myths
On how digital systems amplify harm and suppress counter-discourse

Who Gets to Count as a Minority in Kashmir?
On how narrative frameworks shape visibility and absence

Raped: The History, Politics, and Psychology of Rape in Independent India
A forthcoming book examining the historical, political, and psychological dimensions of sexual violence