• Leibniz Collaborative Excellence Funding 2023-26 (Leibniz Competition 2023)
• DAAD ‘A New Passage to India’ Scholarship, 2014, visiting researcher to the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
• DAAD Scholarship Doctoral Studies, 2009–2013.
• Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, European Union, 2006–2008, for pursuing MA in Global Studies (Universities of Leipzig and Vienna)
• Geeta Chopra Memorial Scholarship, 2006, for holding first position in BA Political Science (Honours) (2003-06), Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi.

Since 2019      Editor (with Dr. Heike Liebau) of the MIDA Archival Reflexicon, an open-access online Archival Guide, which is a platform for theoretical and conceptual reflections on archival architectures/organizing logics as well as thematic contributions on India-related holdings of specific German archives and MIDA Thematic Resources

Since 2016      Thesis supervision of BA and MA students’ theses at the Institute for  Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

2017 – 2019   Member of Editorial Board, South Asia Chronicle, a bilingual open-access journal.

2017 – 2019    Organised the Humboldt India Project (HIP) Workshops and HIP Lectures at the Institute for Asian and African Studies (4 workshops every academic year).

2012 – 2019    Regular teaching. Courses offered for BA (in Asian and African Studies) and MA (Modern South- and Southeast Asian Studies, Global Studies Programme) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2009 – 2012   Regular teaching. BA (Departments of Sociology and Indology) and MA (Erasmus Mundus Global Studies) Leipzig Universität.

Entangled Presences: Cultural Actors, sites and practices in India and the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War

October 2021, The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths in a Cold, Cold War?

Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4qLiM_jflw

(Direction, Archival Research, Story, Co-Production– Anandita Bajpai /Camera and Cinematography– Daniel Gatzmaga, Camera and conceptualization– Jyothidaas KV, co-production ZMO)

The documentary film traces the trajectory of Radio Berlin International (RBI), a GDR based international radio broadcaster, from the perspective of its journalists and listeners, based in present day Germany and India. It takes viewers from locales in Berlin, where the station was located, to Madhepura, Bihar in India where a Listeners’ Club called the Lenin Club was active. How were transnational ties of friendship performed among actors from India and the GDR through the sonic medium of short waves during the Cold War? How are those ties remembered today, 30 years after the shutdown of the station?

2018–Present

• The Inter-Image: Transgenerational Conversations with Material Internationalisms, Public lecture at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (with Prof. Dr. Doreen Mende), May 12, 2024, https://www.hkw.de/programme/echos-der-bruderlaender/the-inter-image.
• Warum Heute? Verflechtungen der DDR mit der Welt, Panelist at Public Panel organized by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD), Hermann-Glöckner-Saal, Albertinum, April 26, 2024.
• Modern India in German Archives 1706-1989 (MIDA), Public Lecture at launch event of the MIDA Research Portal and presentation of research paper, organized by the  MIDA-Project and Max Weber Forum, New Delhi March 21 and  22, 2024.
• Material Resonances of Radio Shortwaves from the Cold War: International Broadcasters and their Listening Publics in India, Paper presented at conference "'Sound, Text, Context: Artistic and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Aurality" organized by Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, February 15, 2024.
• Tuning in to Radio’s Hidden Archives in South Asia, Paper presented at the Presidential Round Table, Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Boston, March 18, 2023.
• Warm Wavelengths in the Cold War, Public Talk at Art Gallery Under the Mango Tree, as part of the India Salon Series 2022, Berlin November 25, 2022.
• ‘Seeing’ and ‘Feeling’ Radio-Pasts in India: Fragments from Forgotten, Forbidden and Hidden Archives, Paper presented at the Minor Cosmopolitanisms Assembly, organized by Research Training Group Minor Cosmopolitanisms, Universität Potsdam, November 10, 2022.
• The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths in a Cold, Cold War, Film Screening and Discussion at the Minor Cosmopolitanisms Assembly, organized by Research Training Group Minor Cosmopolitanisms, Universität Potsdam, November 11, 2022.
• The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths in a Cold, Cold War, Film Screening and Discussion at the South Asia Institute, University of Texas, Austin, September 8, 2022.
• Tuning in to ‘things’ of the Past: Radio Berlin International and its Memory Regimes in Cold War India, Paper at the 100. Deutscher Orientalisten Tag (DOT), Freie Universität Berlin, September 12, 2022.
• The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths in a Cold, Cold War, Film Discussion at the Center for the History of Emotions, Max-Planck-Institut for Human Development, Berlin, July 20, 2022.
• Tuning in’ to the Cold War: Objects and Radio-pasts in India, Presentation at International Conference “Ruling the Waves: Transnational Radio Broadcasting in the Middle East and the Mediterranean between Production and Reception, 1920-1970”, German Historical Institute, Rome, June 24, 2022.
• Cordial Cold War: Cultural Actors in India and the German Democratic Republic, Book Launch & The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths in a Cold, Cold War, Film Screening at the India Habitat Centre (IHC), organized by the ICAS: MP (M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies /Metamorphoses of the Political), New Delhi, March 28, 2022.
• Introducing the MIDA Researchportal, Presentation at Symposium “Modern India in German Archives (MIDA): Digital Archiving and New Directions in Research”, History Department, Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University, January 27, 2022.
• The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths of Radio Berlin International during the Cold War years in India, Paper Presentation at the 26^th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS), Panel “The History of Emotions as a New Disciplinary Direction for South Asian Studies”, Vienna, July 28, 2021.
• Warm Wavelengths in the Cold War: Radio Berlin International and its ‘Objects of Love’ in India, Lecture in Colloquium Series “Listening In: Sounds of South Asian History”, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, June 29, 2021.

• Warm Wavelengths: Radio Berlin International during the Cold War in India, Paper presented at Closed Reading Workshop of the Emmy Nöther Reasearch Group, Reaching the People: New Histories of Communication, Centre for Global History, Freie Universität, Berlin, January 11, 2021.

• Fallen and Hidden Icons: Statues as Contested sites of memory making in India, Paper presented at the Workshop ‘Contested Religious Spaces: Narratives as Evidencxe: De-centering and Re-Authenticating Pasts for the Future’, ZMO, November 30, 2020.

• German Archives, Cold War and Media, Paper presented at the Workshop ‘Decide for Yourself? GDR Newsreels and their Images of India’, organized by MIDA Project, ZMO, Berlin, November 19, 2020.

• The Indian Elections of 2019, Lecture delivered as part of the series ‘Why do Elections Matter?’, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, June 3, 2019.

• From Nation Building to Nation Branding: The arc of Nationalism(s) and National Identifications in India, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 28, 2019.

• India related holdings in the German Archival Landscape, Paper presented at the International Workshop Cultures of Archival Research in India and Germany, Marburg University, Marburg and Berlin, May 15–21, 2019.

• Introducing the MIDA Archival Reflexicon, Presentation at the Launch of the MIDA Project, Leibniz- Zentrum Moderner Orient, May 11, 2019.

• The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths of Radio Berlin International during the Cold War in India, Lecture delivered at the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, April 11, 2019.

• Ola India! Navigating trust and dis/mistrust with India’s new Taxi App, Paper presented at International Workshop Governance and Processes of Bureaucratization, Leipzig, January 31-February 1, 2019.

• Mann Ki Baat (Matters of the Heart): The Affective-Sentimental Indian Prime Minister on All India Radio, Paper presented at International Workshop Populist Discourse and Claims to Authenticity in Brazil, India and Ukraine, Braunschweig, November 8-9, 2018.

• Speaking the Nation: The Oratorical Making of Secular, Neo-liberal India, Lecture at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal University, Sonipat, India, September 18, 2018.

• Speaking the Nation: The Oratorical Making of Secular India, Lecture at Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University, India, September 14, 2018.

• Speaking the Nation: Prime Ministers and the making of neo-liberal India since 1991, Paper presented at the 25th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS) Paris, France, July 24-27, 2018.

2016–2017 (Selected)

• Who Steers the Wheel? Taxi Drivers and bureaucratic Technologies in Senegal and India, Paper presented (with Peter Lambertz) at the Institute colloquium of the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, July, 18, 2017.

• From Nation Building to Nation Branding: Nationalism(s) in India, Public Lecture delivered at the Department of Social Anthropology (in consortium with Sanskrit Studies and Indology departments) Mainz University, within the lecture series ‘South Asia on the Move’, Mainz, June 12, 2017.

• Between East Berlin and New Delhi: Mutually Entangled Trajectories of University Intellectuals 1952-72, November 13, 2016, History Department, New York University, Abu Dhabi.

• Sichtbar werden. Um Anerkennung werben: Die ‚Kulturpolitik der DDR – Indien Beziehungen, 1952-1972, 51. Deutscher Historikertag in Hamburg 2016, Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands e.V. (VHD) German Historical Conference, September 22, 2016.