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About Saronik Bosu

I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of English, New York University, writing my dissertation on South Asian economic writing. I also coordinate research collaboratives in medical and environmental humanities. My research interests in general triangulate money, medicine, and climate in understanding literary and rhetorical formations. I co-host a podcast called 'High Theory', where we do very short episodes on diverse topics in critical theory and cultural criticism.

Saronik Bosu (@SaronikB on Twitter) is a doctoral candidate in English at New York University. He is writing his dissertation on literary rhetoric and economic thought. He co-hosts the podcast High Theory and is a co-founder of the Postcolonial Anthropocene Research Network.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Saronik:

High Theory May 12, 2023

Global Asia

A Discussion with Cheryl Narumi Naruse

Cheryl Narumi Naruse

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
Cheryl Narumi Naruse talks about the transformation of Singapore over the past decades into a site of postcolonial promise, with economic prosperity and cultural soft power. She discusses a range …
High Theory December 30, 2022

Ethical AI

A Discussion with Alex Hanna

Alex Hanna

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Alex Hanna talks with Nathan Kim about Ethical AI. Their conversation is part of our High Theory in STEM series, which tackles topics in …
South Asian Studies July 4, 2022

Properties of Rent

Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi

Sushmita Pati

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa? Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and …
South Asian Studies May 23, 2022

Vernacular English

Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India

Akshya Saxena

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
Against a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India (Princeton UP, 2022) argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import …
South Asian Studies April 12, 2022

Late Colonial Sublime

Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism

G. S. Sahota

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
Taking cues from Walter Benjamin’s fragmentary writings on literary-historical method, Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism (Northwestern UP, 2018) re-constellates the dialectic of Enlightenment across a wide …
South Asian Studies December 27, 2021

Making Women Pay

Microfinance in Urban India

Smitha Radhakrishnan

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
In Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India (Duke UP, 2022), Smitha Radhakrishnan explores India's microfinance industry, which in the past two decades has come to saturate the everyday lives …
South Asian Studies September 20, 2021

Love and Reparation

A Theatrical Response to the Section 377 Litigation in India

Danish Sheikh

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
Two plays about the legal battle to decriminalize homosexuality in India. On September 6, 2018, a decades-long battle to decriminalize queer intimacy in India came to an end. The Supreme …
South Asian Studies June 29, 2021

Geographies of Anticolonialism

Political Networks Across and Beyond South India, c. 1900-1930

Andrew Davies

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
A fresh approach to scholarship on the diverse nature of Indian anticolonial processes, Geographies of Anticolonialism: Political Networks Across and Beyond South India, c. 1900-1930 (John Wiley & Sons, 2020) …
South Asian Studies April 26, 2021

Elementary Aspects of the Political

Histories from the Global South

Prathama Banerjee

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
Prathama Banerjee's book Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South (Duke UP, 2020) studies the rise of modern politics in India, between the mid-19th and the mid-20th centuries …
South Asian Studies April 5, 2021

Outcaste Bombay

City Making and the Politics of the Poor

Juned Shaikh

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
What is the history of caste in a city? Indian modernizers assumed that the various processes of modernity, including industrial capitalism, would attenuate caste and create the possibility of new …
South Asian Studies February 26, 2021

Rethinking Markets in Modern India

Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction

A. Gandhi, B. Harriss-White, D. E. Haynes and S. Schwecke

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
Modern markets and exchange, compared with other social and political spheres, are seen through technical abstractions. This intellectual compartmentalization has political consequences: if capitalism operates through arcane, objective, and rational …