Currently doing research on Social Construction of Heart Diseases in India. It explores through a variety of sources of data both the medical and the lay discourse on heart diseases (life histories of patients, observation of clinical encounters, lay epidemiology that follows discussion/social analysis of a particular episode of illness, media coverage on the issue, research dialogue within the medical community through relevant articles in medical journals). Also looking at traditional healing practices and the role of traditional healers in treating heart diseases including high blood pressure and diabetes. The research is supported by the University of Delhi.

Working on a research project on Television and Childhood in India (supported by the Commission on the Anthropology of Youth, children and childhood), findings of some part of the work were presented in the conference on ‘Ethnography of Childhoods’, National University of Singapore, July 2006. The work is now under publication.  

Research on the problematic of studying ‘tribal villages’ in villages in Southern Orissa, findings of which have been presented in an international conference and are under publication. The ASSISH program of the U.G.C supported the fieldwork

Research on cultural syncretism among the indigenous and other communities in Orissa, India, part of the work is now under publication. A documentary film on ‘Sivaratri Jatra’ to explore aspects of syncretism is being worked out. 

Finalizing research proposal on Medicalizing obesity among children: Sociological and public health perspectives