Arani Basu
Arani is a political sociologist with research interests in digital media, migration and diaspora, and politics of religion in India. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Visual and Media Anthropology, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS), Heidelberg University, Germany and on leave from the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences, Krea University. Arani is also a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University Berlin. At the moment, Arani is writing his monograph titled Understanding Propaganda: A Study of Indian Media, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024. Earlier, as a Hanns-Seidel Fellow, Arani earned a doctoral degree from Humboldt University. He has a diploma in media studies jointly received from South Asian Media School, Lahore and Goldsmiths, University of London.
Contact: arani.basu@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de