Souvik Mukherjee
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Souvik Mukherjee, Indian gaming culture, and DH
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 on videogames and narratives from Jadavpur University in 2005 (being probably the videogames researcher from Continue reading
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“Our interest is in looking at how the digital can be useful in helping rethink Humanities research and teaching in India…”

As far as Digital Humanities in India is concerned, our projects certainly fall under that broad umbrella category that we have pitched for DH. We also train our undergraduate students in DH in a gen-ed course run by the department of English. In the past, we have invited scholars and industry personalities from all over… Continue reading
