Dibyadyuti Roy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dibyadyuti Roy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dibyadyuti |
| FAMILY NAME | Roy |
| SIGNATURE | ROY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Management Indore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0684-7977 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Like Fiction, Only Considerably More Dangerous”
This article investigates twenty-first-century literary depictions of contestations between the nuclear surveillance infrastructures of two of the largest democracies in the world—the United States and India. Recognizing that these disputes have shaped US-India relations since Indian independence from colonial British rule in 1947, this article examines how themes of deception—central to Cold War spy fiction—appear in contemporary literary works …
Even God Seems to Have Gone into Hiding’
This article argues that seemingly secular expressions of postcolonial nuclear nationalism in India actually reflect a Hindu nationalist understanding of India as a civilisational entity with a moral claim to nuclear power. Such an understanding echoes American invocations of Christian mythology to justify its divine right to nuclear power and global dominance. This intervention operationalises the above through analysing Anushakthi Amma (Atomic …
Digital Humanities
This year’s review of digital humanities (DH) continues to position DH at the epicentre of debates around AI, while tracing how these conversations have evolved within disciplinary scholarship from 2024 and early 2025. The surveyed interventions critically examine trajectories in contemporary DH where uncritical endorsements of massive datasets and computational complexity often result in algorithmic reductionism, which can obscure and oversimpli…
Digital Humanities
Current conversations around the manifestations of artificial intelligence have led to binary viewpoints that either predict apocalyptic visions of imminent human obsolescence or forthcoming machinic sentience and technological singularity. Amid these polarized perspectives, the materiality of massive digital infrastructures that regularly exploit vulnerable labour forces and the environmental costs driving such emerging forms of digitality are b…
Introduction to the Basas 2023 special section
This special section of Contemporary South Asia brings together a curated selection of papers presented at the 2023 British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) Annual Conference, held at the University of Leeds.These papers explore enduring themes of memory politics, state power, and socio-spatial exclusion in South Asia, examining how colonial legacies shape contemporary dynamics.Collectively, the studies underscore the persistence of co…
Digital Humanities
The absence of an entry on digital humanities in the last volume of The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory due to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as the exacerbation of academic precarity (that was acknowledged in the editorial preface of the last volume) predicates that this chapter develop a narrative bibliography of notable scholarship in the digital humanities from both 2021 and 2022. Therefore the unprecedented circumstances that have…
Hybrid habitats
This paper is set within the context of a rapidly urbanizing India with shrinking avenues of physical play and social engagement. The loss of traditional play spaces has redefined leisure activities for youth beyond offline sites into online spaces. These newer leisure engagements including gaming, binge-watching and social media interactions are predominantly virtual and sedentary. This shift, and the restrictions in their physical movements, re…
Anxious postcolonial masculinity in online video games
This article examines representative games from Zapak.com: India's most-popular gaming website (highest number of daily visitors) to conceptualize the relationship between masculinity and colonialism within digital geographies, in postcolonial spaces. Three of the four games chosen here, Sleeping at the Meeting, Zombie Pirate and Yoga Teacher, are representative of games categorized as 'Girl's Games' on Zapak.com: where the ludic engagement is li…
Illicit Motherhood
Cultural constructions of passive motherhood, especially within domestic spaces, gained currency in India and Ireland due to their shared colonial history, as well as the influence of anti-colonial masculinist nationalism on the social imaginary of these two nations. However, beginning from the latter half of the nineteenth century, postcolonial literary voices have not only challenged the traditional gendering of public and private spaces but al…
Mediating postcolonial pregnancies in neoliberal times
“All we women need to be well organized and willful to fulfil both the roles successfully.”–Jimmy Kaul, CEO, Shopotox(“7 working, mother entrepreneurs share tips on work-life balance”, Jain 2017)Du
Will the Real Atomic Subaltern Please Stand Up? Critiquing Nuclear Historiography through Nucliteracy
On May 11, 1998, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Indian prime minister and leader of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), proudly proclaimed that under the aegis of Operation Shakti (Power) India had gone nuclear – again. Four days later, continuing this narrative of postcolonial progress through aggressive nuclear nationalism, he visited the Pokhran nuclear testing desert range in Rajasthan and commemorated this achievement by spr…
From Non-places to Places
The political partition of India in 1947 into a truncated India and the dominion of Pakistan witnessed a wave of forced migration, hitherto unseen in human history. The alteration of a singular national space into two separate nation-states based on religious identities forced the movement of almost twelve million people, in search of a new homeland. Although this exodus was experienced differently based on socio-economic backgrounds—unfortunatel…
Strategic Science vs. Tactical Storytelling
In both USA and India, nuclear bomb tests were first carried out and continue to be implemented in marginalized sites—Native American reservations and Bishnoi territory in India—inhabited by non-normative subjectivities. Nuclear proliferation emerging from such soft spaces (Williams) is always concomitant with performances of what I term as radioactive masculinity: a very specific form of militarized masculinity emerging from the contingent assoc…
Hybrid habitats
This paper is set within the context of a rapidly urbanizing India with shrinking avenues of physical play and social engagement. The loss of traditional play spaces has redefined leisure activities for youth beyond offline sites into online spaces. These newer leisure engagements including gaming, binge-watching and social media interactions are predominantly virtual and sedentary. This shift, and the restrictions in their physical movements, re…
Anxious postcolonial masculinity in online video games
This article examines representative games from Zapak.com: India's most-popular gaming website (highest number of daily visitors) to conceptualize the relationship between masculinity and colonialism within digital geographies, in postcolonial spaces. Three of the four games chosen here, Sleeping at the Meeting, Zombie Pirate and Yoga Teacher, are representative of games categorized as 'Girl's Games' on Zapak.com: where the ludic engagement is li…
Mediating postcolonial pregnancies in neoliberal times
“All we women need to be well organized and willful to fulfil both the roles successfully.”–Jimmy Kaul, CEO, Shopotox(“7 working, mother entrepreneurs share tips on work-life balance”, Jain 2017)Du
Strategic Science vs. Tactical Storytelling
In both USA and India, nuclear bomb tests were first carried out and continue to be implemented in marginalized sites—Native American reservations and Bishnoi territory in India—inhabited by non-normative subjectivities. Nuclear proliferation emerging from such soft spaces (Williams) is always concomitant with performances of what I term as radioactive masculinity: a very specific form of militarized masculinity emerging from the contingent assoc…
Strategic Science vs. Tactical Storytelling
In both USA and India, nuclear bomb tests were first carried out and continue to be implemented in marginalized sites—Native American reservations and Bishnoi territory in India—inhabited by non-normative subjectivities. Nuclear proliferation emerging from such soft spaces (Williams) is always concomitant with performances of what I term as radioactive masculinity: a very specific form of militarized masculinity emerging from the contingent assoc…
Will the Real Atomic Subaltern Please Stand Up? Critiquing Nuclear Historiography through Nucliteracy
On May 11, 1998, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Indian prime minister and leader of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), proudly proclaimed that under the aegis of Operation Shakti (Power) India had gone nuclear – again. Four days later, continuing this narrative of postcolonial progress through aggressive nuclear nationalism, he visited the Pokhran nuclear testing desert range in Rajasthan and commemorated this achievement by spr…
From Non-places to Places
The political partition of India in 1947 into a truncated India and the dominion of Pakistan witnessed a wave of forced migration, hitherto unseen in human history. The alteration of a singular national space into two separate nation-states based on religious identities forced the movement of almost twelve million people, in search of a new homeland. Although this exodus was experienced differently based on socio-economic backgrounds—unfortunatel…
Illicit Motherhood
Cultural constructions of passive motherhood, especially within domestic spaces, gained currency in India and Ireland due to their shared colonial history, as well as the influence of anti-colonial masculinist nationalism on the social imaginary of these two nations. However, beginning from the latter half of the nineteenth century, postcolonial literary voices have not only challenged the traditional gendering of public and private spaces but al…
Mediating postcolonial pregnancies in neoliberal times
“All we women need to be well organized and willful to fulfil both the roles successfully.”–Jimmy Kaul, CEO, Shopotox(“7 working, mother entrepreneurs share tips on work-life balance”, Jain 2017)Du
Anxious postcolonial masculinity in online video games
This article examines representative games from Zapak.com: India's most-popular gaming website (highest number of daily visitors) to conceptualize the relationship between masculinity and colonialism within digital geographies, in postcolonial spaces. Three of the four games chosen here, Sleeping at the Meeting, Zombie Pirate and Yoga Teacher, are representative of games categorized as 'Girl's Games' on Zapak.com: where the ludic engagement is li…
Hybrid habitats
This paper is set within the context of a rapidly urbanizing India with shrinking avenues of physical play and social engagement. The loss of traditional play spaces has redefined leisure activities for youth beyond offline sites into online spaces. These newer leisure engagements including gaming, binge-watching and social media interactions are predominantly virtual and sedentary. This shift, and the restrictions in their physical movements, re…
Digital Humanities
The absence of an entry on digital humanities in the last volume of The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory due to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as the exacerbation of academic precarity (that was acknowledged in the editorial preface of the last volume) predicates that this chapter develop a narrative bibliography of notable scholarship in the digital humanities from both 2021 and 2022. Therefore the unprecedented circumstances that have…
Digital Humanities
Current conversations around the manifestations of artificial intelligence have led to binary viewpoints that either predict apocalyptic visions of imminent human obsolescence or forthcoming machinic sentience and technological singularity. Amid these polarized perspectives, the materiality of massive digital infrastructures that regularly exploit vulnerable labour forces and the environmental costs driving such emerging forms of digitality are b…
Introduction to the Basas 2023 special section
This special section of Contemporary South Asia brings together a curated selection of papers presented at the 2023 British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) Annual Conference, held at the University of Leeds.These papers explore enduring themes of memory politics, state power, and socio-spatial exclusion in South Asia, examining how colonial legacies shape contemporary dynamics.Collectively, the studies underscore the persistence of co…
Digital Humanities
This year’s review of digital humanities (DH) continues to position DH at the epicentre of debates around AI, while tracing how these conversations have evolved within disciplinary scholarship from 2024 and early 2025. The surveyed interventions critically examine trajectories in contemporary DH where uncritical endorsements of massive datasets and computational complexity often result in algorithmic reductionism, which can obscure and oversimpli…
Like Fiction, Only Considerably More Dangerous”
This article investigates twenty-first-century literary depictions of contestations between the nuclear surveillance infrastructures of two of the largest democracies in the world—the United States and India. Recognizing that these disputes have shaped US-India relations since Indian independence from colonial British rule in 1947, this article examines how themes of deception—central to Cold War spy fiction—appear in contemporary literary works …
Even God Seems to Have Gone into Hiding’
This article argues that seemingly secular expressions of postcolonial nuclear nationalism in India actually reflect a Hindu nationalist understanding of India as a civilisational entity with a moral claim to nuclear power. Such an understanding echoes American invocations of Christian mythology to justify its divine right to nuclear power and global dominance. This intervention operationalises the above through analysing Anushakthi Amma (Atomic …
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Digital Games and Media (4 works)