Chaiti Basu

Chaiti Basu is a Lecturer in Bengali at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University since 2016. She specializes in colonial and postcolonial Bengali literature, satire, and gender representation in film/media.

• Master's in Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
• Master's in South Asian Studies and English, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Her research explores 19th-century Bengali satire through the pseudonymous writings of Panchu Thakur (Indranath Bandyopadhyay), analyzing cultural responses of Bengali intelligentsia to colonialism. She contributes to Heidelberg University's interdisciplinary focus on cultural dynamics in globalized worlds.