Review: Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations

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Review: Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations, by Souvik Mukherjee. 2022. Bloomsbury. 256 pp.

Samya Brata Roy, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

Samya Brata Roy (he/him) is a PhD student at the School of Liberal Arts at IIT Jodhpur and a HASTAC scholar (2021-23). His current doctoral supervisors are Prof Leonardo Flores and Dr Parichay Patra. His interests lie in and around the intersections of Literary, Cultural, Media Studies and Digital Humanities. He has published, amongst others, a paper on e-lit in Electronic Book Review, a book chapter from Routledge on videogames and has a forthcoming paper from Classiques Garnier with Prof. Astrid Ensslin also on e-lit. He is currently co-guest editing a special issue around e-lit for Reviews in Digital Humanities with Leah Henrickson and Reham Hosny. He has been a peer reviewer and juror for academic conferences and art exhibitions like ELO2021, ELO2022, DH2023 and ICIDS 2022.

His other roles include filling in as part of the Intersectional Inclusion Task Force with the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, as a Technical Advisory Member with Humanities Commons, as an executive member with Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations, as a transcriber with The Canterbury Tales Project, as Liaison with The Association for Computers and the Humanities and as the founding member of Electronic Literature India.