Dr. Piyashi Dutta

Dr. Piyashi Dutta is a sociologist and media educator with over a decade of experience in teaching and research. She currently leads the Tribal Research and Knowledge Centre in New Delhi. Her scholarly work critically engages with decolonising research methodologies, tribal studies, gender, and communication studies. A double gold medallist from Tezpur University (2010), Dr. Dutta was awarded the prestigious ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship (2014–2016). She is widely recognised for her pioneering documentation of the whistling tradition of the Khasi tribe in Kongthong village, Meghalaya—the only comprehensive academic study currently available on this unique cultural practice. She is working on a monograph that delves deeper into this exceptional oral tradition. Her research has been extensively published in leading Scopus-indexed journals, and she has edited two academic volumes—one published by Routledge and another by Manipal University Press. Dr. Dutta is also the author of the landmark report Stories of Resilience: Media Voices from the Northeast, the first-of-its-kind study exploring regional media narratives hosted by the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI). Prior to her current role, she served as Assistant Professor at the Amity School of Communication, Amity University Noida.

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