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Dr. Jyotirmay Das is an Assistant Professor at the School of Digital Media and Communication, Mahindra University, where he teaches Media and Cultural Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Humanities and Social Sciences from IIT Delhi, an MA in Media and Cultural Studies from TISS Mumbai, and is a UGC‑NET JRF in Mass Communication and Journalism. Before academia, he spent about seven years as a development communication professional across multiple social-sector organisations in India, and his research interests include the society and culture of Western Assam, traditional theatre and performance, and community media.
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Jyotirmay Das
Assistant Professor
Dr. Jyotirmay Das teaches Media and Cultural Studies at the School of Digital Media and Communication, Mahindra University Hyderabad. Before joining the academia, he worked as a development communication professional for almost seven years in various parts of India. He also manages a YouTube channel with over 11K subscribers (http://www.youtube.com/c/jajaboreeproductions).
He obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in Humanities and Social Sciences. His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with the politics of organising, performing, and communicating traditional performances in the Goalpara Region of Assam, India.
Jyotirmay has attended many certificate and diploma courses. Important among them are the Screenwriting and Filmmaking Course: Imaging Cinema at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2012 and the Theatre Appreciation Course at the National School of Drama, Delhi in 2019. He has attended Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) courses at IIT Delhi from 2017 to 2018. These courses include the Critical Philosophy of Race; Religion, Democracy, and Violence; Truth, Knowledge, and Capitalism in the Anthropocene; and The Psychology of Groups. He attended two Winter Schools organised by the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), Frobenius Institute, Goethe University of Frankfurt (Germany), and IIT Delhi (India)– Changing Grounds: Dynamics of Culture and Livelihood; and Performing Religion: Theory and Practice in 2019 and 2020, respectively. He also served as a Teaching Assistant for a SWAYAM-NPTEL Course on Text, Textuality, and Digital Media conducted by IIT Delhi in 2019 and 2021, respectively.
Jyotirmay’s research interests include the society and culture of Western Assam, traditional theatre and performance, and community media.
- Ph.D. in Humanities and Social Sciences from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi (2023)
- UGC NET JRF in Mass Communication and Journalism
- Masters in Media and Cultural Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)-Mumbai
- Bachelors in English Honours from Hindu College, Delhi University
- Book chapter (forthcoming): Community Communication in India, a Routledge edited volume by Prof. Vinod Pavarala and Dr. Aniruddha Jena
- Papers submitted for publication to the Asian Theatre Journal, Indian Theatre Journal, and Man and Society: Journal of Northeast Studies are under review.
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- Assistant Professor, Mahindra University, Hyderabad (Present).
- Assistant Professor, Manipal University Jaipur (2023).
- Research Assistant, Industrial Research and Development Unit, IIT Delhi (2022).
- Development Communication Professional associated with the Centre for Alternative Dalit Media and National Confederation of Dalit and Adivasi Organizations, Delhi (2010–2017).
- Development Communication Professional associated with the Society for Labour and Development, Delhi (2010–2017).
- Development Communication Professional associated with Seven Sisters Development Assistance, Bongaigaon, Assam (2010–2017).
- Development Communication Professional associated with the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, North East Regional Centre, Guwahati (2010–2017).
- Development Communication Professional associated with the South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies, Hyderabad (2010–2017).
- Founder and Manager, Jajaboree Productions YouTube Channel (since 2012).
Dr. Jyotirmay Das completed his Ph.D. research at IIT Delhi (2017–2022) on the traditional performances of the Goalpara region in Assam. Following his doctoral work, he contributed to a research project at the Industrial Research and Development Unit, IIT Delhi, focused on Optical Character and Handwritten Text Recognition for Indian languages, particularly Assamese. His interdisciplinary research interests span community media, development communication, water safety and security, cultural documentation, and regional performance traditions. His work includes communication strategy research on safe drinking water access in rural Assam, a documentary film on the Musi River in Hyderabad shortlisted at the ‘We Art Water’ Film Festival in Madrid, Spain, studies on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Lower Assam, and visual documentation of the Poi Sangken festival in Assam. He has also contributed to CSR-related field research projects for Indian Oil Corporation Limited and continues to work in the area of community media and communication.
