UTTARAN DAS GUPTA

I am a journalist with more than 15 years of experience. I have worked as a reporter and editor, as well as taught journalism. My key skills are research, writing, editing and communication. My research interests are democracy and technology.

• Chevening South Asia Journalism Fellowship, 2019, University of Westminster, London, UK
• Robert Bosch India-Germany Media Fellowship, 2018, University of Tubingen, Germany
• Sangam House International Writers’ Residency, 2016

• Artificial Intelligence as a Metaphor for Corporate Greed in Indian Science Fiction, annual seminar of the English Department of Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, October 2023
• Padding Up for 2024: Artificial Intelligence and Indian Fact-checkers, 29th Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, Bandung, Indonesia, September 2023
• Post-desk NYT: A replicable model? (co-written with Dr Ruchira Sen) 'Writing Data: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' at the Centre for Writing and Communication, Ashoka University, Ashoka University, April 2023
• No Longer at Ease: The Murder of Bloggers and Hate Spin in Bangladesh, 'Media and Democracy Seminar,' organized by Jindal School of Journalism & Communication and The Media School, Indiana University, Indiana University, January 2022

Books

RITUAL, Novel, Pan Macmillan, New Delhi, 2020 

VISCERAL METROPOLIS, Poetry, Red River, New Delhi, 2017

MY MOTHER SAID I NEVER SHOULD, Translation (From English to Bengali), Red Curtains, Kolkata, 2012

Academic articles

Chili Powder and Resistance: Mirch Masala, Shaheen Bagh, and the Politics of Space, Jindal Global Law Review (SCOPUS), April 2021

Modi’s Bollywood: How ‘Social Message’ Films Amplify the Indian Government’s Policies, Senses of Cinema, May 2022

Mrinal Sen’s Second Calcutta Trilogy: A Study in ‘Late Style’, Routledge Book of Indian Indie Cinema, ed. Anil Sarkar, FORTHCOMING in 2024

Woh Humsafar Tha: The Long Afterlife of the Bangladesh War, Violence in South Asia, ed. Kishalay Bhattacharjee, FORTHCOMING in 2024

Journalism

I have written hundreds of book and film reviews, as well as news stories for The Telegraph, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, Indian Express, Himal, Scroll.in, Firstpost, News18, Outlook, Outlook Traveller, FirstPost, NY Doc, and many others.