Dr Arani Basu is a Sociologist with research interests in media-society interface, transnational migration and religion-politics mutuality in India. As a Hanns-Siedel Fellow he received his PhD from the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University. Dr Basu also has a diploma in Media Studies jointly from the South Asian Media School, Lahore and Goldsmiths, University of London. His doctoral thesis focussed on the role of media in India. Currently, Dr Basu is preparing his monograph titled Understanding Propaganda: A Study of Indian Media, to be published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2024. At Krea University, Dr Basu teaches undergraduate students, and conducts his research project on media and migration.

Sociology of Media
Media and Transnational Migration
Religion-politics Mutuality in India

Book: Basu, A. (2024) Understanding Propaganda: A Study of Indian Media, Palgrave Macmillan: Singapore (forthcoming)

Journal Articles:

1) Basu, A. and Datta, A. (2023) Religion and Secularism in Surinder Jodhka and Boike Rehbein ed. Handbook of Global Inequality, Springer (pre-print)

2) Basu, A. and Datta, A. (2023) Transnational Migration in Surinder Jodhka and Boike Rehbein ed. Handbook of Global Inequality, Springer (pre-print) 

3) Basu, A. (2023) Ranabir Samaddar: Nation, Nationalism and Nation-State in Ananta Giri ed. Social Theorizing in Contemporary India: Critique, Creativity, Transformations and Planetary Realizations, Routledge (pre-print)

4) Basu, A. and Datta, A. (2023) Kerala Nurses in Germany: From Heteronormativity to Transnational Patriarchy, Migration Letters pre-print)

5) Basu, A and Datta, A (2023) What is Development? Locating the indigenous People in India, South Asia Research, Sage (under review)

6) Basu, A and Datta,A (April, 2023) Saffronization of a ‘Land’: Has Hindu Politics in India co-opted ‘Hinduism’? Transcience: A Journal of Global Studies (under review)

7) Basu, A. (2021) Review of Freedom, Civility, Commerce: Contemporary Media and the Public by Sukumar Muralidharan, Gurgaon: Three Essays Collective, 2018 in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 55, Issue 41 

8) Basu, A.  (2018) Review of Making News in Global India: Media, Publics and Politics by Sahana Udupa, Cambridge University Press, 2015 in Society and Culture in South Asia, Vol. 5, Issue 1

9) Basu, A. (2016) Understanding Media-Politics-Society-Economy Interrelationship: Relevance of Habermas and Chomksy in India, Transcience: A Journal of Global Studies, Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 27-35

10) Basu, A. (2016) Dissemination of News in India through Mediated Buzzwords, Journal of Media Critique, Vol. 2, Issue 7, pp. 55-76

11) Soyler, T., Basu, A.,Datta, A.(2016) Hindistan’dan tanıdık bir hikâye, Birikim Dergisi, Vol. 10, pp. 106-114 

12) Basu, A. (2013) Political Bias of the Media in Bengal: A Sociological Perspective, Mainstream Weekly, Vol. LI. No. 13, pp. 19-24

13) Basu, A. (2013) History of Media in Bengal: A Chronological Overview, Transcience: A Journal of Global Studies, Vol. 4, Issue.1, pp. 13-19

14) Basu, A. (2013) Merkel Short of Absolute Majority Reaches out to Leftist Rivals”, Mainstream Weekly, Vol. LI. No. 43, pp. 35-41

Political Economy of Development

Media and Public Sphere

Identity and Society in India