The politics within the apparently universal.

I investigate what happens when a computational intermediary helps determine the passages, questions, and interpretive paths through which a text becomes available to a reader. This work develops algorithmic hermeneutics, synthetic dialogue, and interpretive infrastructure as concepts for understanding AI-mediated reading.

The wider question is one of interpretive autonomy: how can readers recognise and question the infrastructure shaping their understanding?

Digital environments carry histories into the present through technical standards, governance, and everyday practice. My work on virtual flight simulation asks how these infrastructural inheritances organise access to a space imagined as global.

This inquiry connects game studies with broader questions about platforms, participation, and the geography of digital culture.

I examine how Digital Humanities and electronic literature take shape within Indian institutions, languages, and pedagogical settings. Indian Postcolonial Digital Humanities names a situated strand within postcolonial Digital Humanities. I am also theorising Muslim Digital Humanities as a field attentive to minoritarian knowledge, cultural memory, language, and computational power.

This research also takes institutional and creative forms through SHABD India, E-Lit India, editorial work, and interactive fiction.

My working monograph examines digital access as an unequal exchange: people surrender data, identity, language, money, and technical labour for forms of participation that remain conditional and revocable. The project develops Postcolonial Access Governance as a framework for reading this relation.