Syamantakshobhan Basu

I work at the intersections of literature, media and information. My dissertation focuses on a longue durée informational history of biometrics, its origins in colonial Bengal, its growth through the British Empire, its application to civil life in post-independence India, and eventual transformation to its present state as a facilitator of global flows of information in the neoliberal order. As a scholar of Science, Technology and Society (STS), I am interested in how human factors mediate the development of science and technology. I am also a scholar of film and media, and hold a research interest in crime fiction.