He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India on the works of the Chinese film director Jia Zhangke. He was a visiting fellow at the School of Arts, Peking University, China, for the academic year 2016-17. His areas of interest are Chinese language, literature and culture. Along with conducting his doctoral research, he is also involved in an India-China Translation Program and is eagerly awaiting the publication of his first Hindi translation under this program, Wang Shuo’s Looks Beautiful.