Articles by Soumi Banerjee

May 7, 2025

The world at our fingertips, just out of reach: the algorithmic age of AI

Soumi Banerjee

Artificial Intelligence promises unprecedented access to the world’s knowledge, yet delivers a curated illusion. As algorithms prioritise engagement over understanding, what appears open is in fact tightly controlled. Soumi Banerjee explores how algorithmic mediation deepens inequalities, shaping not just what we see — but how, and whether, we understand it

January 10, 2024

AI giving voice to the voiceless, but only to those who can access it

Soumi Banerjee

Voice banking is a new technology that safeguards the distinctive vocal signatures of people who have lost the power of speech. Though this might sound like a good-news story, Soumi Banerjee and Dipjyoti Paul show how such advancements might widen existing cleavages between the affluent and economically disadvantaged, prioritising certain voices over others

April 18, 2023

Hindu nationalists' strategy of ‘othering’

Soumi Banerjee

Soumi Banerjee describes how Hindu nationalists are using ‘othering’ and ‘identity signifiers’ to appeal to a broad section of India's fractured population. This, she argues, lies at the root of current religious tensions

October 20, 2021

🌊 Civil society organisations under pressure in the world’s biggest democracy

Soumi Banerjee

Soumi Banerjee and Rishi Jha argue that the rising wave of illiberalism is causing a shift in state-civil society relationships around the world. In contemporary India, the government often targets NGOs, resulting in the partial or complete seizure of operations

Soumi Banerjee

PhD Candidate, School of Social Work, Lund University

Soumi's doctoral study explores civil society legitimacy, resilience, and resistance and investigates the state-civil society relationship in countries experiencing democratic backsliding.

She is the author of Quintessential Other: The construction of self and other in the narratives of the partition of India (2018), and The History of Perpetual War: Indo-Pak Relations (2016)

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