Teaching
Courses
Jigyasa has taught at Department of Political Science at Hindu College, University of Delhi and Miranda House College, University of Delhi.
She holds an M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Political Science from the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her doctoral research explores the role of Political emotions in the Indian Parliament.
She is the Co-ordinating Editor and a founding member of The Daak Review, a platform dedicated to public and academic scholarship. Her academic writing has appeared in journals such as Economic and Political Weekly, Political Studies Review, and Studies in Indian Politics, The Book Review India journal among others. Her bylines have featured in platforms like The Scroll, Café Dissensus. Her forthcoming monograph, Politics of Shame (Routledge) draws on her M.Phil. research and examines the politics of naked protests in India.
Research Interests
- Political Emotions
- Affect Studies
- Indian Parliament
Publications
- 2025: Book review titled ‘Freedom’s Fictions’ of Mukti Lakhi Mangharam’s ‘Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture’, in the Economic and Political Weekly, VOL. LX NO 25, 21 June 2025
- 2024: Essay titled ‘What do we do with Justice, without Friendship’, Siyasat, 13 May 2024.
- 2024: Book review titled ‘Commentary on our fallen times’ of Atharva Pandit’s Hurda in TheBookreview , VOLUME 48, NUMBER 2, 19 February 2024 (https://www.thebookreviewindia.org/commentary-on-our-fallen-times/)
- 2023: Book review of Kishalay Bhattacharjee’s , ‘Where the Madness lies: Citizens accounts of Identity and Nationalism’ in the Studies in Indian Politics, Volume 11, Issue 2, 5 December 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/23210230231203793
- 2023: Book review of Anupama Roy’s, ‘Citizenship Regimes, Law and Belonging: The CAA and the NRC’, in the Political Studies Review, Volume 21, Issue 4, 1 March 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299231159255.
- 2023: Book review of Supriya Singh’s ‘Domestic Economic Abuse: the Violence of Money’ in TheDaak Review, 31 December 2023. ( https:// thedaak.in/2023/12/31/from-the-editors-desk/ )
- 2023: Book review of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Independence in TheDaak Review, 15 January 2023. (Accessed 25 June 2025 https://thedaak.in/2023/01/15/independence/)
- 2022: Essay titled ‘Body of the dead, rituals of the death and disenfranchised grief in post-COVID society’, Cafe Dissensus, 13 November 2022. (https://cafedissensus.com/2022/11/13/body-of-the-dead-rituals-of-the-death-and- disenfranchised-grief-in-post-covid-society/)
- 2022: Special Article titled ’The Political in shame’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 57, Issue No. 8, 19 Feb, 2022.
- 2019: Opinion titled ‘By baring their bodies in protest, Jamia students strip Indian identity down to our basic humanity’, The Scroll, 26 December 2019.(https://scroll.in/article/947889/by-baring-their-bodies-in-protest-jamia-students- strip-indian-identity-down-to-our-basic-humanity )