researchwith expertise in both contemporary and historical south asia, i am a researcher across film, academic and investigative projects.  I am an ESRC-funded PhD researcher in Anthropology, previously training at soas and the university of cambridge. I specialise in exploring the intersections of affect and intimacy, through ethnographic, participatory and creative research methods.


research work:

“At Gail’s, what is the human cost behind a £5 loaf of bread’
[Investigation for Vittles Magazine, 2025]

Independent Commission of Inquiry (NDA)
[research associate] Led by academic and ant-racist organisations

Film and documentaries
[credits inc. netflix (NDA), lafcadia productions + jetty films]

Khushkhat, Urdu Type Archive
[co-founder]

‘Ways of Seeing, Women in South Asian Art’ Delhi Art Gallery 
research, curation
Exhibition Feb-April 2021, The Claridges, New Delhi 
[senior documentation and research executive] (2020-2021)

Multiple Exhibitions, Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore 
[researcher] (2020)

Horizon Engage
[south asia analyst]

Academic:

PhD -  “Spatial Politics of Sound and Music in Urban India” [wip title]; University of Sussex, Funded by the ESRC (Anthropology)

MPhil - ‘Sound, Space and Segregation: Mapping Nizamuddin’; University of Cambridge (Modern South Asian Studies)

BA - ‘The Partition of a Tradition: Communalism, Nationalism and Hindustani Classical Music’; SOAS, University of London (History and South Asian Studies)

©2025sasha patel

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