Vishnupad

Biography
Vishnupad is visiting assistant professor of South Asian Studies. He is finishing his dissertation from the Anthropology Department at Columbia University, NY. The dissertation focuses on the culture of new economy in India following liberalization in early 1990's, and in particular on questions of risk commodification, visual culture and largely the experience of dislocation initiated by economic changes. He is also interested in historical anthropology of South Asia, in anthropological theory and ethnographic writing, in the question of religion, capitalism and media. Currently apart from working on the dissertation he is working on two projects: one on the issue of rule of law in the post colony and two, on the limitations of secular thought. Lacanian psychoanalysis and continental philosophy are two of his enduring interests.

Education
Vishnupad has BA in political science, and masters in political science and sociology. His PhD is in anthropology which he is currently finishing.

Courses

 * Postcolonial theory in South Asia
 * Modern Social Thought: from Marx to Foucault