M A Dissertations
2019-2021
| Abhishek B S | Matters of the Past : Viewing Cultural Memory and Heritage through the Muziris Heritage Project |
| Abhishek Kindo | Reinventing Rides: A Study of the Subculture of Modifying and Stunt riding Motorcycles in Ranchi, Jharkhand |
| Abhishek Vishwas Therkar | A Stage in the Woods: Understanding Zadipatti Culture in Vidarbha Region of Maharashtra |
| Abhra Singha Roy | I Loved the Egalitarianism of the Moment! Understanding ‘power’ through coming-of-age sex stories of queer men |
| Alisha Dutta | Nazarein Hum Ne Bhi Kya Dekhe:Swipe Right to Know More - Deconstructing the Swiping Mechanism on Dating Apps |
| Ambadi B | Evolving Discourses Of Transgender Politics In Kerela : A Study of State Policy for Transgenders in Kerala |
| Ameen Siraj K K | More Than Just A Game: A Study of Sevens Football in Malabar |
| Anant Gupta | Lost In Disawar: Interrogating Narratives of Self - Construction and Identification among the Marwari Elite in Calcutta |
| Divyani Dubey | Come As You Are : Exploring Women’s Engagement with Erotica and its Associations with Sexual Pleasure, Agency and Kink |
| Haneena P A | The Sounds of Resistance and Memories An Exploration of Malabar Rebellion through Mappila songs |
| Isha Tyagi | Not at Home in their Hometown: Understanding Spatial Subjectivities of Women in Meerut |
| Kartikey Tripathi | Branding Beards: A Study of Evolving Middle-Class Indian Masculinities through the Politics of Facial Hair |
| Md. Shadab Khan | God, Sex, And The Restless Hearts Of ‘Difficult’ Women: Reflections on Girls, Chewing Gum, and Fleabag. |
| Nishtha Jaiswal | Swipe to Unlock: How Heterosexual Gen-Z Women’s Navigate Dating Apps in Delhi-NCR |
| Prateek Gupta | Near Reparative Notes In Research, Gender-Sexuality And Ishness |
| Sayantan Banerjee | “This is Our City Too”: Understanding Autistic Individuals’ Accessibility Needs and Negotiations in Public Spaces in Kolkata |
| Spoorthi Bammidi | The Spilling Well Exploring Femininity and Sexuality in Alternate Music in India |
| Tulika Bhattacharjee | An Ephemeral Love: Exploring Cinephilic Performance on Instagram and MUBI |
| Ayush Kumar Yadav | Smartphone Technology and Rural OBC Youth Study of a Village in Uttar Pradesh |
| Kris Chudawala | Trans Lives Matter: On and Off the Silver Screen |
2018-2020
| Ajaykumar Kripashankar Shukla | Portrayal of disability in Hindi Cinema and its impact on youth perception |
| Anagha Smrithi | Comparative textual analysis of sex education curriculum in India |
| Anmol Saini | Social media sexual harassment (#MeToo) Trials in the Digital age of Woke Millennials |
| Anna Binu | Women in Photojournalism |
| Apoorva Jaiswal | Female technician in Bollywood |
| Kavya | Experience (s) from being from a women's college |
| Manasi Chandrakant Doke | A study of Marathi serials from feminist and anti-caste perspective |
| Nayana Kirasur | Caste and private schools |
| Omey Sathe | Cast, Identity and Marathi Cinema |
| Poorvi Priya | Ethnographic study of a circus |
| Pragya Haloi | Instagrame as a marketing tool for small entrepreneurs |
| Prakriti Singh | The everyday of women in Ayodhya after 25 years of babri masjid demolition |
| Prashant V. More | Comparative study of dalit and non dalit documentary maker and representation of caste |
| Priyanshu | Advent of influence culture: politics and business of fashion blogging on instagram |
| Rishika Revo | Ethnographic exploration of Soka Gakkai international |
| Ritika Gupta | Construction of Bihari Identity |
| Sankarsan Behera | A study of NITI ayog proposed doubling of farmer's income by 2022; assessment of challenges and identifying wayouts towards arriving it. |
| Sreya Roy Chowdhury | Looking at caste from an anti-caste Perspective – Navayana publishing house |
| Tanushree Rabha | Assertion of Bodo Identity through Bodo traditional dress |
| Varun Pandey | Understanding fales news distribution w. e. f. 2019 general elections |
| Vishruti Saraf | Ignorance of influence of Tawaifs in enrichment of performing art culture and their contribution to Indian film industry |
| Vyshakh M | Representation of student politics in Indian cinema |
| Priya Singh | Portrayal of women in Shyam Benegal films |
| Srishti Kapil | Spoken word revolution |
| Isha Srivastava | Body positivity movements on Instagram |
| Lavanya Rakesh | An study of the Kochi Muziris Bienalle |
2017-2019
| Aishwarya Vasudev | A Study of video- on Demand platforms in India | |
| Chinar Mehta | Viewing of pornography online by women | |
| Harikrishnan H G | Indian Rock as a sight of East – West Encounters | |
| Jyoti Nisha | Appropriation of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: Engagement of political leaders and academicians. | |
| Kavya Chandel | Pop Art and Identity | |
| Mayura Choudhari | King Bali and the Balai community | |
| Meghna Nandy | The Kolkata People's Film Festival as a space of Resistance | |
| Mohimarnab Biswas | Shahrukh Khan & The Genesis of 'Bollywood' | |
| Pallavi Khare | Military Folklore : A study of Jaswantgarh | |
| Pragya Dhama | Patriarchal Portrayal of Men in Hindi Cinema | |
| Rachel Alexander | Dubbing Cultures | |
| Subodh Wasnik | Navayana Buddhism : A study of Cultural and Aesthetical resurgence | |
| Timmayo Thumra | Understanding Identity of the Tangkhul Naga Tribe across Indo-Myanmar borderline | |
| Vivekina Koul | Art as resistance and medium of expression in conflict areas : A case study of Kashmiri artists | |
| Yaniam Chukhu | Arunachal Cinema and the Politics of Language | |
| Aayush Chaturvedi | Finding Dibakar Banerjee: The City and Society in the Films of Dibakar Banerjee | |
| Himanshu Saikia | Understanding low – budget independent Assamese cinema in the post Ramdhenu era | |
| Medhavi Kimothi | Violence, Victim, Villians In Partition Cinema and Literature | |
| Yamini Nibhanupudi | The Neoliberal Representation of women as criminals in Hindi Cinema | |
| Ankit Pareek | Understanding the growing Football Culture in India in light of broadcasting changes | |
| Jahnavi Reddy | Assertion/ Articulation of a language based identity in the emerging dialect media of Telangana | |
| Yogiraj Bhende | Media Coverage on Farmer Issues | |
2016 – 2018
- Understanding Life of Kunbi Women in Peasant Culture Through 'Shramgeete' – Archana Madhukar Kaware
- Aaj kal market mein fogg nahin feminism chal raha hain: A Study on the commodification of Feminism in Indian Advertising and its Reception – Bursenla
- Media framings of the Kargil war – Dheeraj Kumar Dubey
- Quantitative Content Analysis of English and Vernacular Newspapers of Patna – Ishan Singh Bhadoria
- Throne of films: A Study on Kannada films industry and Kannada film regulations – Kamesh Shekar
- Web Series in India: Probing the “Independence” of the Makers – Madhumoy Satpathy
- City/Cinematic Space: Reflections on Representations of The Subarban in Kochi Films – Mrudula P
- ‘Experiences of Migrant Sex worker women in Sonagachi: Understanding better the Violence associated with migration and sex work – Nayoneka Shankar
- Media Representation and Rural Agricultural Distress: A Study in Yavatmal District of Maharashtra – Nikhil Gajanan Ambekar
- STAGE FOR STAGE: Understanding Space in the Context of Contemporary Theatre in Mumbai – Nikhita Singh
- HATE IN THE TIME OF CINEMA: Tracing the Evolution of Violent Mobile Phone Images – Prthviraj Solanki
- Women Sports: Gender, Body and Open Space – Ruchira Bharat Petkar
- Mobile Theatre in Assam: The Shift and Struggles in a neo-liberal era – Sankuraj Konwar
- Metal Music Culture in Kochi – Sarath P Raju
- The Existential Monkeys Existential philosophy in the films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan and idea of the conflicted self. – Satyam Sai
- Digital Nomads: Exploring the experiences of solo women travel bloggers – Shreya K.A
- All about English Vinglish : A Sociological Study of an 'English Speaking' Class – Shrishti Malhotra
- Face of the Leader: The Politics of the 'Modi masks' – Sukrita Baruah
- Manga/Anime/Cosplay In Nagaland: A Fad Or To Stay? – Vilo K Awomi
- CREATING OUR OWN CANON Engaging with marginalised desires and sexualities in and through fanfiction – Srishti Raj
- TEA AND DOMESTICITY: Representations of the Urban Home in 1970s Hindi Cinema – Ketan Krishna
- Dil Baccha Hai_Looking for childhood in Hindi cinema Post 2010 films – Malvika
- Critical Discourse Analysis Of An Indian Text From A Latin American Perspective A Study Of Roll No 21 – Andres Camilo Orrego Ramiret
- hokkolorob and Facebook - Sayan Bhattacharjee
2015 – 2017
- Bombay Bangs its Head : The Metalhead Fan Culture in Mumbai – Abir Dasgupta
- Commercializing Cultures, A look into the Lifestyle brands of India – Adhvaidha Kalidasan
- The Coloured Mirror And The Hungry Earth: A Comparative Analysis Of Shetkaryacha Asud and Neel Durpan – Adwaita Subrata Banerjee
- English Press Scribes on Bombay’s Labour – Ajeet Uday Mahale
- Love’s Life: Understanding Inter-caste Relationships Among Heterosexual Couples – Akhil Vasudevan
- The Avenging Feudals in Malayalam Cinema – Ambu G
- Old game in a new Field: A Study of Football Culture in India in the time of Sporting Leagues – Amlan Jyoti Das
- Kiss of Love: A study exploring protest, spaces and manifestations – Amrutha K P
- THAT STILL POINT OF THE TURNING WORLD: An exploration of the re-invention of the tradition of Bharatanatyam in Lucknow – Aparna Srivastava
- Talking Bodies: Negotiations of “Womanhood” by Young, Middle-Class Women – Bhamini Lakshminarayan
- Impact of Migration of Language : A study of the changinglinguistic traditions and attitudes of the Kashmiri Migrant community in Delhi – Garima Kaul
- Pushing For Throne: LAN Gaming Cafes And the Social Dynamic of Video Gaming – Milen Mathew John
- Normalizing Nuclear: A Cultural Study of How India Learned to Love the Bomb – Prerna Gupta
- Chasing BrahminicaI Illusion; Textual Analysis of films Fandry and Sairat – Pruthviraj Shinde
- Inspired By True Events:Talvar, Black Friday and the Cinephiliac – Sameer Daniel Gardner
- Questioning Cages: A study of production of Gendered Spaces in Higher Education Institutes – Tanya Mishra
- Visual and Text Based Reviews: An analysis of Consumer Perception and Credibility of Text based and Visual reviews in E-Commerce – Sanghamitra Dutta
- Our Love for the Man-Cub: A Study on Visual Adaptions of The Jungle Book – Aayushi Bengani
2014 – 2016
- The Strange, The Smart And The Imagined (UNDERSTANDING Realism In Contemporary Hindi Cinema) - Aditi Saraswat
- Screening The Indigenous Other A Study Of Two Television Serials In Assamese Language - Akash Basumatari
- The Discourse Of Digital India Campaign : Invisibilizing Caste Identity - Akshat Jain
- The Emergence Of The Adolescent Protagonist In Marathi Cinema - Akshay Sham Panse
- Creating Dialogue An Exploration Into The Realist Depiction Of Language In Hindi Cinema - Arpita Katiyar
- Charlemagne's Island: A Study On Gothuruth And Chavittunatakam - Geetha K Wilson
- Cinema, In Your Pocket A Study Of Young Women Watching Popular Hindi Films On Mobile Phones - Maanvi
- Of (F) Stage An Inquiry Into The English Theatre Cultures Of Chennai - Nayantara Nayar
- Alternative Dalit Media: A Case Study Of Round Table India - Pranali Sanghajit Garud
- Television Society: The Indian Urban Youth, Taste, Social Hierarchies Constructed - Priyamvada Jagia
- Collective Brahminisation Of Bahujan Community The Reproduction And Reinforcement Of Brahminical Values And Culture A Case Study Of Politics Of Hindu Nationalist Forces Through WarkariKirtan - Rajendra Jadhav
- The Perfect Bump Changing Representations Of Pregnancy In Contemporary Urban India - Shreya Katyayini
- The 'SONG Divine' As Sung Today: Exploring Chinmaya Mission's Commentary And Discourses On Bhagavad Gita - Tanvi Khemani
- A Room Of Their Own An Ethnographic Study Of A Beauty Parlour - Tarishi Verma
- Inscriptions In The Air: exploring Dimasa Identity Through Orality, Language And Religion'. - Vishal Langthasa
- Screening Telangana: Exploring Cinematic Discourse In Telugu Cinema - Arjun Chavah
2013 – 2015
- New Ways Of Seeing: Same-Sex Desire and Popular Hindi Cinema - Aditi Maddal
- Revisiting the Many Kabirs: The myriad musical evocations of the poet-saint in the contemporary times - Ananya Gaur
- Batwara aur Vidroha: Gendered Violence and Female Agency in Partition Films - Ankita Bhatkande
- Party Alliances and the Campus Student Politics: A Study Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University - Aurangabad and its Representation in Media.‘ - Anurup Khillare
- Sharing Control? Algorithmic Image Production and Consumption - Ashwin Nagappa
- Representation and Hindi Language Newspapers: A study in Bihar and Jharkhand - Atul Anand
- ‘Looking for Jugni: The Muse, The Metaphor and The Journey - Deepti Murali
- CAPABILITIES AND LIVELIHOOD: A STUDY OF A VILLAGE IN ORISSA - Dinesh Mahapatra
- Searching the Lost Voice: Re-tracing Life history of a Dalit Woman Activist - Disha KR
- "The Vilayati Punjabis: Portrayal of Women and Diaspora in Punjabi Cinema" - Elisha Walia
- Malayalam Rock - Faebitha Rahiman
- Stories of Naigaon: Meanings of Collective Politics Past and Present - Firdaus Soni
- CULTURAL TRANSITION AMONG THE PAITES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY’ - Jamminlian Vualnam
- The Religious under-structure of the Pre-Christian Angami Society - Keduokhrietuo Sachu
- Darjeeling Tea Plantations: Histories, Lives and Struggles’ - Kritika Agarwal
- Understanding the Dynamics of Community Volunteering and Representation: (A Case Study of Waqt Ki Awaaz Community Radio Station) - Kshitij Katiyar
- Not just a number, Not just a Game: A study of Sevens football in Malabar - Nevin Thomas
- Bhramyomaan Theatre: The Mobile Theatres of Assam - Nishajyoti Sharma
- Manto’s Bombay: Creating An Alternative Narrative Of 1930s-1940s - Prateek Shekhar
- Identity-in-Conflict: Realising Realities in the midst of Fiction in Rehnuma Library, Mumbra - Reetika Subramanian
- Extra”-ordinary: Locating the Background Artist in Contemporary Hindi Cinema - Shreya Sinha
- PORTRAYAL OF MARGINALIZED IDENTITIES IN ‘NEW GENERATION’ MALAYALAM CINEMA: A case study of six films to analyze the politics of inclusions and exclusions - Shuaib Shafi
- ‘Dharma and Desire: A Look at the Intersection of Religious and Sexual Performance in Popular Hindi Cinema of the 1990s’ - Shubhra Dixit
- To Mingle and Make Friends Online: Lesbian and Bisexual Women in India and the Internet as a Safe Space to Socialise - Smita Vanniyar
2012 – 2014
- Bharat Mata ki Betiyaan : Young Women, Identity and Hindutva – A Study of the Rashtriya Sevika Samiti – Aastha Tyagi
- Shonpa Phoeba Kache : Understanding the Tibetan Muslim youth in Kalimpong – Anisa Bhutia
- The Spirit of Film Noir in Hindi Cinema – Bishaldeb Halder
- Production of Culture through the television show “Patturumal Ishal Marhaba” – Fareeda Muhammed
- Notions of Tamil womanhood in contemporary Tamil Cinema – Gitanjali Somanathan
- Sacred Groves of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh : A multifaceted institution – Munmun Dhalaria
- Cinema in Manipur: A Study of Its Growth Dynamics – Pibathoi Naorem
- Romancing Feminisms : Young Urban Feminists and their Dilemmas about Love, Sex and Desirability – Rajashree Gandhi
- The Nation and Schooling: Exploring the manifestation of ‘nation’ in a non-denominational school in Mumbai – Ridhima Sharma
- The Adaptation and Portrayal of Elements and Themes from Indian Mythology in Fantasy Fiction – Ruchi Sawardekar
- The Stuntman of Kannada Cinema – Sandeep Viswanath
- Emerging Screen : Understanding the Cinema of ‘Khandesh’ – Shivdas Thorat
- Why This ‘KaadhalVeri’? : Making meaning of ‘love failure’ through the Tamil film song – Sriram Mohan
- Gender, Space and Human Rights : Hijras in Mumbai – Silja Wurgler
2011 – 2013
- Kanglawood: A study of Manipuri Films Post 2000 – A. Lohrii Francis
- Marginalization, Displacement and the Forest Rights Act : A Study of the Rajiv Gandhi National Park in Karnataka – Ananda Siddhartha
- Hope & Despair: The Case Study of Widows from Suicide Prone Vidarbha – Archana Vijay Sadar
- Star, Stardom and Salman Khan : The Image of Salman Khan after the success of Dabangg – Epti Pattnaik
- Transformation of televisual spaces of Indian comedy – Gursimranjeet Singh Khamba
- Understanding Local News : A Case Study of Kalimpong Sub Division – Juanita Mukhia
- Zeenat Aman : The Ultimate Hippy – Krishna Ketan Panchal
- Gunda and Loha : A Study of Cult Film Cultures – Kshitij Pipaleshawar
- Representation of The Eastern Nagas in the Local Newspapers of Nagaland: Nagaland Post and Morung Express – Likokba
- Comic Kaun: Contextualising Comics in India – Mridula Chari
- Austen’s Emma across Centuries and Cultures (A textual analysis of Emma and it’s adaptations) – Mrinal Singh
- In the Silences of A Newsroom : Reflections on the Gendered Politics of a Profession – Nithila Kanagasabai
- The Unlikely Stardom of Chiyan Vikram : Fan Cultures of Contemporary Tamil Cinema – Nitya Menon
- Ambedkar in the Songs of his People ( A study of Cultural Resistance in Dalit Movement Through Songs) – Piyush Garud
- “Spotting the Queer in Mainstream Hindi Cinema” – Pratik Bhakta
- Reflections on Kathak: Gender and Sexuality.’ – Shivani Gupta
- Graphic Meta-narratives: Exploring the Personal and Political in Comic Art – Shruti Ravi
- Negotiating Pleasure and Resistance: Women Reading Femina – Sujatha Subramanian
- Jagaran and Gondhal (An exploratory study of nomadic art and culture ) – Tanvi Barge
2010 – 2012
- Construction of female sexual agency in contemporary Indian advertising – Aakriti Kohli
- ‘Boipara’ to ‘Barnaparichay’: The transformation of College Street – Anurag Mazumdar
- A Forgotten Community in India: the Residents of Chhit Mahals – Arpita Chakraborty
- Keeping alive the Street Theatre in India: A case study of the street players of Jana Natya Manch – Amol Ranjan
- Marathi Cinema of this Decade (2000-2010) – Avadhoot A Khanolkar
- Role of Media during Victimization of Deprived Populations- Khairlanji, 29 Sept. 2006 – Devendra S Ghorpade
- Social Identity, Resistance and Metal Sub-Culture in India – Gin Khan Siam
- Representation of Women in Assamese Literature – 1985 – 2007 – Joyashree Sarma
- Mobile Culture: using internet through phones among the Mao Naga youth – Kaikho Paphro Chachei
- The Maharashtra Folk Theatre Tamasha – Manoj B
- Unique Identification Project of the Govt. of India – Prakash Sao
- On the margins of power: Dalits in Print Media – Raju Hittalamani
- Negotiating the Local: The ‘Adaptation’ of Hollywood Films Within Hindi Cinema – Sandeep Kumar Singh
- Imperialism, Islam and the Media – Investigating the political economy of the “War on Terror” – Sharib Aqlesh Ali
- Politics of Education in Dantewara – Shazia Nigar
- ‘Chakh-ing India through Khadya Bhramanti’- A study of the production, representation and reception of identities and spaces through food and travel shows on national and regional television – Shweta Ghosh
- Performing Caste: Exploring Caste and the Politics of Space in Kodungalloo – Shweta Radhakrishnan
- Phenomena of Product Placement in the Indian Entertainment Sector – Sumit Singh
- Subaltern Understanding of Communalism – Ufaque Paiker
- Football culture and identity among the people in north-east India – Vikram Buragohain
2009 – 2011
- Dhrupad and the Guru Shishya Parampara: Interrogating musical transcendence through an alternative pedagogical framework – Ajinkya Shenava
- Food Scape: The changing dynamics of food habits and culinary culture in Kolkata – Arindam Banerjee
- ILM: Study of Madrasah Education in Latur District – Ayesha Maria Mualla
- Tune Out: A study on Traditional Khasi Music – Dev Choudhuri
- Crime: A Celebration in Bollywood – Isha Pungaliya
- A Land Locked Ark: Salvaged and Created Elements of Tibetan Identity in Exile? – Ishani Dasgupta
- Human Rights Violation in Assam: A Case Study of Secret Killings and AFSPA – Jenisha Borah
- Y Politics: Understanding Youth Political Cultures in Mumbai and Media Representation – Meera Khokhani
- Fashion, Beauty and Teenage Anxiety: A study of school girls’ responses in Lucknow – Shruti Dhapola
- Representation of Indian Diaspora in Bollywood Films – Uma Ranade
2008 – 2010
- Power and cinema: a portrait of the Bollywood ‘struggler’ – Darpan Ved
- ‘The Parsi Community and the Politics of Gendered Exclusion: Implications for the 21st Century’ – Divya Zal Cowasji
- Regarding Crime: An Analysis of Representation of Crime in Hindi Cinema – Jyotirmay Das
- An Exploration of the dynamics of the relationship between the civil society and the government as shown in mainstream hindi cinema and its reception by the youth – Kaustubh Chandra
- ‘Healing’ through Expression: Living with Communal Violence – Lynne Henry Karahthra
- Resonating Notes: Songs and Poetry in the Dalit Movement – Manasi Pareek
- “Self-Perception and Identity of the Irular Community of M.G.R Nagar” – Bhargavi
- Truth, tears, talent and TRPs: Watching Reality television in India – Parool Sharma
- Exploring the dynamics of social exclusion in a post disaster situation: A study of two Panchayats in the aftermath of the Kosi flood in 2008 – Ram Krishana Ranjan
- Adda, in Those Days and These: Modernity and Masculinity in Bengalis’ Adda – Romit Chowghury
- Issued in Public Interest: Television, Social Education and HIV/AIDS in India – Sharanya Gautam
- Dera se Dilli : Exploring Identity instruction of migrants from Dera Ismail Khan in Delhi – Shilpi Gulati
2007 – 2009
- ‘Cracking the Cooking Code’: Exploring the politics of representation in Cookery shows on television – Smita Lakra
- Devdas Revisited: An analysis of the various cinematic interpretations of Devdas – Shalini Nirmal
- Exploring the character of the ‘Tapori’ in Bollywood – Ashwini Falnikar
- Representation of Child Sexual Abuse in Audio-visual Medium – Sneha Anand
- The Performative in the Photographic: Negotiating Gender and Power in the Images of Tejal Shah – Subuhi Jiwani
- The Changing Face of Bazaars, A study of the spaces of consumption in Thevara, Kerala – Nandita Mary Thomas
- STAR GAZING: A Study in the construction of a star through the characters played by Amitabh Bachchan in Hindi and Mohanlal in Malayalam Cinema during the period of 1973-2007 – Nikhil Thomas Titus
- Spaces of Journeys -An analysis of Space in the Delhi Metro System – Shephalika Mishra
- Contesting Identities :Exploring the Issue of Identity Politics through Indian Documentary Films – Sanjay Pratap
- Community Video in an Adivasi Area of Andhra Pradesh – Its Relevance, Reach and Potential – Karuna D’Souza
- The Representation of Goa in Bollywood – Shaira Sequeira Shetty