• “Repetition, Improvisation, Tradition: Deleuzean Themes in the Folk Art of Bengal.” Cultural Analysis, 15 (1), 2016
• “Scripting the Folk: History, Folklore and the Imagination of Place in Bengal.” Annual Review of Anthropology, 45, 2016
• “Myths, Similes and Memory Traces: Images of Abduction in the Ramayana Universe.” Society and Culture in South Asia. 7(2,)  2021 (with Amaan Shreyas) “Seriality and Millennial Fandom in the Indian Superhero Comic Nagraj.” Journal of Graphic Novel and Comics. 2021                                      
• “Superheroes, Science Fiction and Myth” Society and Culture in South Asia 8(1), 2023

Writing Identities: Folklore and the Pwrforming Arts of Purulia.Delhi: IGNCA and Aryan, 2009

Speaking with Pictures: Folk Art and the Narrative Imagination in India, London and Delhi: Routledge, 2012

Graphic Narratives and the Mythological Imagination in India, London: Routledge, 2019

(Edited) Wording the World: Veena Das and Scenes of Instruction. New York:Fordham, 2015

(with D. Mehta) “Boundaries, Names, Alterities. A Case Study of a Communal Riot in Dharavi, Bombay” in  V. Das, A. Kleinman, M. Lock and P. Reynolds eds. Remaking a World. Violence, Social Suffering and Recovery. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley 2000

“Normality and Difference: Institutional Classification and the Constitution of Subjectivity in a Dutch Nursing Home.” In Annette Leibing and Lawrence Cohen eds. Thinking about Dementia. Culture, Loss and the Anthropology of Senility. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2006

“The Experience of Death in a Dutch Nursing Home. On Touching the Other.” In  Veena Das and Clara Han eds. Living and Dying in the Contemporary World. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2016

“9/11 and the Folk Artists of Bengal.” In Uwe Skoda and Birgit Lettman eds. India and Its Visual Cultures. Community, Class and Gender in a Symbolic Landscape. Delhi: Sage, 2018

“The Folk and the Making of an Indian Aesthetic.” In Sanjay Srivastava, Yasmeen Arif and Janaki Abraham eds. Critical Themes in Indian Sociology. Delhi: Sage, 2019

“Medical Institutions and their Counter Cultures.” In Christiane Brosius and Roberta Mandoki eds. Caring for Old Age. Perspectives from South Asia. Heidelburg Studies on Transculturality 8. Heidelburg University Publishing, 2020

• Key Note Address at Centre of Humanities, Manipal, March 20th 2022, Key Note Address at Kelaniya University, Srilanka, November 24th 2023

• Secretary, Institute for Socio-Economic Research on Development and Democracy
• Advisor, Dharicha Foundation for the Study of Folk Culture in Bengal

• 2015-2017: “Words and Images: Intermedial Translations in Narrative Traditions.” Sponsored by India Foundation for the Arts.
• 2009-2011: “European Studies Programme.” Sponsored by the European Comission and Delhi University.
• 2007-2009 “Folk Art, State Patronage and the Global Market.” Sponsored by The India Foundation for the Arts and Delhi University
• 2003-2005 “Mapping City Spaces: Communal Violence, Social Reconciliation and Documentary Practices of the State.” Sponsored by the Indo-Dutch Programme for Alternatives in Development
• 2002-2003 “Folklore vs. Folkloric Culture: Folk Aesthetics and the Print Media in Purulia, West Bengal.” Sponsored by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
• 1998-2001 Fieldwork grant for studying intercommunity relations in Dharavi, Mumbai received from the Volkswagon Stiftung, Germany
• 1994 Fieldwork grant for studying the Mumbai riots of 1992-93 received from Social Science research Council, New York

corresponding editor for medial Anthropology Review and Health and Society, editorial boards of Fordham University Press series, ‘Thinking from Elsewhere’.
Peer Review Service: for journals, Society and Culture in South Asia, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Critical Sociology, Sociological Bulletin, Journal of Graphic Narratives and Comics