Arani is the author of Understanding Propaganda: A Study of Media in Contemporary India (Palgrave Macmillan Singapore, 2025). His work engages with "propaganda infrastructure", political economy of media in India, politics of religion in contemporary India and digital media and diaspora construction. He is currently based at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS), Krea University, India.
Earlier, Arani worked as a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Visual and Media Anthropology at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS), Heidelberg University, Germany. Arani received his doctoral degree as a Hanns-Seidel Fellow from the Institute for Asian and African Studies (IAAW), Humboldt University, Germany. He also holds a postgraduate diploma in Media Studies, jointly awarded by the South Asian Media School, Lahore, and Goldsmiths, University of London.
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