Meet Niyati Bhat

Writer | Editor | Cinema, Trauma and Sound Studies Scholar

I am a writer, editor and a PhD Candidate in Cinema Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. My area of research is the cinematic imagination of South-Asian conflict regions like Kashmir and past conflict zones like Sri Lanka. My work has appeared in leading Indian and international publications such as Critical CollectiveIndia TodayThe Hindu, Scroll.inAsymptoteSummerHill Journal among others. I have presented my work on Kashmiri music & cinema and Indian cinema at Harvard University’s Graduate Music Forum, Digital Politics in Millennial India hosted by LMU Germany, Jamia Millia Islamia International Conference 2020 and Association for Asian Studies Conference 2020. I was the 2014 media fellow at Michael Nagler’s Metta Centre for Non Violence.

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