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About Kalyani Kalyani
K Kalyani is Assistant Professor of Social Science at School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. She researches on different dimensions of social inequalities, gender, intersectionality, cultures of caste, sociology of music, subaltern studies. Her current book Dissenting Melodies is upcoming from Cambridge University Press. She was awarded her doctorate degree in Sociology from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She has previously been the resource person at Julian J Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School, New York City and has also served as lecturer at Delhi University. She has contributed her research in several reputed journals and edited volumes. It include journals like Social Change (Sage), Contemporary Voice of Dalit (Sage), Journal of Social Inclusion Studies (Sage), J-Caste (Brandeis University), Local Development and Society (Taylor&Francis) to mention a select few. The edited volumes she has contributed to are Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Springer publication to mention some. A believer in social justice, she also occasionally writes in media and other public forums. She has been currently awarded as CRASSH (Centre for Research in Arts, Social Science and Humanities) Summer fellowship, at University of Cambridge.Kalyani Kalyani is a sociologist and currently teaches at School of Arts and Sciences in Azim Premji University at Bengaluru.
NBN Episodes hosted by Kalyani:
May 21, 2024
Abundance
In Abundance: Sexuality’s History (Duke UP, 2023), Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subalt…
July 19, 2023
Body on the Barricade
Brahma Prakash's book Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India (LeftWord, 2023) is an interesting gaze into life, art, a…
June 3, 2023
The Evolution of Pragmatism in India
Scott R. Stroud's The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction (U Chicago Press, 2023) is a philosophical…
February 12, 2023
The Vulgarity of Caste
Shailaja Paik's book The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India (Stanford UP, 2022) is an important reflection on the que…
September 16, 2022
Retro-modern India
Manuela Ciotti's Retro-modern India: Forging the Low Caste Self (Routledge, 2020) is interesting engagement with Chamar identity and understanding it …