It is difficult to put a finger on a moment as the beginning of my interest in Digital Humanities—but maybe sometime around the writing of my dissertation in 2009—a postcolonial inquiry about canons and canon making in the discipline. However,…
Any personal journey into a growingly universal medium and mode of living, which is what the Digital in an overarching and permeating manner has proven itself to be, becomes a monologue of the ‘self’ as a protagonist, that must be…
I started DH as an M.A. student in 2001, researching digital games and storytelling. Having faced much academic ostracism back then, it is heartening to see the interest in gaming cultures and (the) Digital Humanities today. I completed my MPhil…
I have a keen interest in studying political communication through cultural texts. In my doctoral dissertation and my first book, I explored the experiences of one of India’s most active theatre groups who have been practicing street theatre for almost…
During graduate school, I took a course called ‘The Wired Historian,’ which opened my eyes to the possibilities of technology for archiving. Subsequently, as I worked on the Indian Emergency of 1975-77, a relatively recent historical event, the paucity of…
Trying to craft a personal journey for DH (especially in India) is difficult since from Day Zero, I have seen it as a collective journey. If pressed for a year, I would say that my journey with Indian DH began…
I’ve been working as the Director of Institute of Advanced Studies in English (a research institute duly affiliated to SP Pune University) from its inception in 2003. Dr. Dhanashree Thorat, my daughter, who has completed her higher studies and doctoral…
I came to what is now called Digital Humanities through a traumatic experience long ago and far away. A few years after my father’s death, and of my family’s donation of his massive art history and research collection to the…
For us at the Centre for Internet and Society, Digital Humanities suggests various forms of engagement with the ‘digital’ by Humanities scholars and practitioners—including developing software, creating new tools and methods for research and practice, producing and re-organising archives, building…
The Digital Humanities initiative at Presidency University started in 2012 in the very early days of DH in India. When DH (then fashionably called ‘DigiHum’) was more about digital archives, what we aimed at was opening up the field (as…