Academic record & distinction

MMC (Mass Communication), Assam University
MPhil (Mass Communication), Assam University

PhD (Communication), Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. PhD Topic: “Televising religion: An anthropological reading of selected programmes on Indian television.”

Communication for Development, Media and Religion, Journalism Studies

Book

• Das, M.K. (2021). Televising religion in India: An anthropological reading. Routledge.

Areas of Specialization 

Media and Religion, Media Anthropology, Journalism Studies, Media and Politics, Communication for Social and Behavioural Change (CSBC)

ORCid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0. 002-6609-9950 

Latest Publications

     Book

• Das, M.K. (2022). Televising Religion in India: An Anthropological Reading. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Televising-Religion-in-India-An-Anthropological-Reading/KumarDas/p/book/9780367757533

  Monographs

• Das, M.K. (2003). Media and Young People, (Working Paper No.4). New Delhi: MAMTA Health Institute for Mother and Child. (Grant by Swedish SIDA). 

• Das, M.K., et. al (2004). Review of Policies and Programmes: Focusing Young People’s Reproductive and Sexual Health with Special Reference to Early Marriage and Early Pregnancy in the State of Rajasthan. New Delhi: MAMTA Health Institute for Mother and Child. (Grant by MacArthur Foundation, USA). 

   

  Journals Papers (Select)

• Das, M.K., & Das Mollick, S. (2025). Filming the environment: Lessons from a climate change communication initiative in Kolkata Schools. Development in Practice. doi:10.1080/09614524.2025.2457059

• Das, M. K., & Roy, B. (2023). Invoking myths in conflict reporting: Evidences from Gorkhaland agitation in India. Critical Arts, 37(4), 94–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2023.2230252 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02560046.2023.2230252

• Das, M. K. (2018). Prioritising communication in development initiatives: The missing link between theory and practice in India’s development sector. The Journal of Development Communication, 28 (1-2): pp. 12–22. 

• Das, M. K. (2015). Televising religion: A study of Sathya Sai Baba’s funeral broadcast in Sikkim, India. Anthropological Notebooks, 21 (3):83–104. Accessible on http://www.drustvo-antropologov.si/anthropological_notebooks_eng.html 

• Bhutia, C.W., & Das, M.K. (2022). Factors influencing Internet usage in India: A review based on technology acceptance model. Communicator LVII (3):53-61. 

• Chattopadhyay, A., & Das, M.K. (2022). When Folk Meets Digital: A Study of Purulia Chhau and the Mediatization of Religion, Global Media Journal,14 (1), 1–25. 

• Chattopadhyay, A., & Das, M.K. (2021). Communication through traditional rituals: A study of ‘Pang Lhabsol' as a medium for socio-religious parley. Communicator, LVI (2), pp. 72–80. 

• Das, M. K. (2018). Prioritising communication in development initiatives: The missing link between theory and practice in India’s development sector. The Journal of Development Communication, 28 (1-2): pp. 12–22. 

• Das, M.K. (2018). Visibility and Scope for Information and Communication Functions in India’s Development Sector. The Journal of Development Communication, 29(2), 21-33. 

• Das, M. K. (2016). Television and religious studies: Mapping the field and exploring the scope in India. Mass Media, 4 (46):17–25. 

• Das, M.K. (2016). Private events, public occasion: A study of a mediated musical concert in contemporary India. Mass Media, 5 (52):4–12. 

   

  Award/ Recognition 

  Recipient of the 2023 Climate Change Communication Award. Awarded by the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) at its Annual Conference in Lyon, France, on 13 July 2023. Visit  https://iamcr.org/awards/ccc-2023-awarded

   

  Research Supervision

  Supervised 05 Doctoral scholars and 08 M.Phil scholars. Helped scholars publish (out of their thesis) in high-impact journals like Anthropological Notebooks, Critical Arts (Routledge), Journalism (Sage).

   

  Research Project Completed

  Religion in the Digital Age: A study on online religious meaning-making in everyday life of the youth in Sikkim. 2018-2020. Project funded by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi.