• PhD in sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University , in 2011
• M. Phil. (Dissertation Title: Ideas of Motherhood in Maithili Folksongs- A Psychoanalytical Study) in Sociology & Social Anthropology from Center for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi , in 2005
• M.A. in Sociology & Social Anthropology from Center for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi , in 2003

• Serbet Sensorium: A Sociological Methodology in Phanishwarnath Renu's Parti Parikatha, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 59, Issue No. 4, 27 Jan, 2024
• Covid Cuts in Sociology of South Asia, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 59, Issue No. 9, 02 Mar, 2024
• Ontology of Being and Becoming, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 58, Issue No. 10, 11 Mar, 2023
• Hari Mohan Jha's Khattar Kaka: Humorous Subversion of Hinduism in Mithila, South Asian Review, 43(3–4), 315–332, 2022
• Idea of Research Writing in Sociology: Polemics on the Loss of a Transformative Practice, Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 70, Issue 2, 2021.
• Folklore's Contemporariness: Dynamics of Value Orientation in Bihu, Journal of Human Values, Vol. 25, Issue 3, 2019
• Cinematic Ambivalence on Borders: Ifs and Buts of Popular South Asia (co-authored with Anakshi Pal), South Asian Cultural Studies, Special Edition (2018)
  
• In the Land of Lalon: Enigmatic Interface of Religion and Politics in Bangladesh (co-authored with Ratan Kumar Roy), International Journal of Humanistic Ideology, vol. 8, no. 1, (2018)
• Narrating Nation, Performing Politics: A Conversation with Vasudha Dalmia (2018, Akar)
  
• Rigid Religion and Fluid Faith: Religion and Politics in South Asia (a special issue of International Journal of Humanistic Ideology, coedited with Santosh Kumar Singh) (2018)
• Melodramatic South Asia: In Quest of Local Cinemas in the Region, Journal of Human Values, 23(3) 1–11
  
• Politics of Clicking: A Survey of Blogging in South Asia, coauthored by Dev Pathak and Ratan Kumar Roy, in Shana Udupa and Steve McDowell edited, Media as Politics in South Asia (2017, Routledge, London)
• A Quest of Alternative(s): A Conversation with Ruth Manorama, Indian Journal of Women and Social Change, 1: 2, 2016
• Angry Youth in South Asia and Socio-political Implications: A Soliloquy in Dark Times, Artha, 15: 1, 2016
• Intersections of Sociology, Art and Art History: A Conversation with Parul Dave-Mukherji, edited and introduced by Dev Pathak (2016, Akar, Delhi)
• Bliss and Blase of Fun Voyages: A Polemic on the Underdeveloped Consciousness of Development, Journal of Development Management and Communication, 2(2), 2015.
• In Pursuit of the Spectacles of Success, History and Sociology of South Asia, 2015,  9(2) 126–145
• Mooting South Asia: Utopias and Possibilities beyond Geo-political Calculus, Sociological Bulletin, 64(2), 2015.
• Cultural Imagination of Human Development?: Framing Questions, Internaitonal Critical Thought, 2014, 4(4): 433-447
• Cinematic Imagination of Multiple Gandhi, Gandhi Marg, 2013, Vol. 35, No. 2, page: 231-245
• Marxiological Notes on the Perforated Sheet of Marxism, The Book Review, vol. XXXVII, no. 9, September 2013, page: 8-11
• Singing in the veil: Resistance, redefinition and reconciliation in the Maithili folksongs. In Bismoy Pati and Lata Singh Edited. 2013. Colonial and Contemporary Bihar and Jharkhand. Delhi: Primus
• Through Purdah: Social Criticism in Women’s folksongs from Mithila, SAARC Culture, Vol. 4, 2013, page: 19-39.
• Nero’s sublime flute recital: A teaser for teacher education in India, Mainstream , VOL XLIX, No 26, June 18, 2011.
• Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India, Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews September 2011 40: 597-599
• Experiment with Possibilities: A new genre in Teaching.. Contemporary Education Dialogue, vol.4 No.2 (2007), 285-288
• Where to kill is the byword for growth . Mainstream , xlv: 19 ( August 28, 2007), 3-4
• Bringing up the imaginative and emancipated learner. Mainstream , xliv:49 (Nov. 25, 2006), 21-22
• The reconstructed Normal: Representation of the Disabled in popular Cinema (forthcoming)

Monographs

In Defence of the Ordinary: Everyday Awakenings (Bloomsbury, 2021)

पंचभूत: सांस्कृतिक और शैक्षणिक विमर्श (सेतु प्रकाशन, २०२३) 

Living and Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore (Primus Books, 2018)

Edited Books

Seeing South Asia: Visuals Beyond Borders (edited, Routledge, 2022)

Neighbourhood & Neighborliness in Urban South Asia: Subjectivities and Spatialities (edited, Routledge, 2022)

Intersections of Contemporary Art, Anthropology and Art History in South Asia: Decoding Visual World (edited, Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019)

Investigating Developmentalism: Notions of Development in the Social Sphere (edited, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

Culture and Politics in South Asia: Performative Communication (edited, Routledge, London, 2017)

Modern South Asian Thinkers (coedited, Sage, 2018)

Another South Asia! (edited, Primus, 2018)