Vinayak Das Gupta
I teach digital humanities at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence. Since April 2025, I have served on the governing body of DHARTI, the Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations. My primary interests are computational literary studies, digital archives and the visual cultures of South Asia. I also dabble in new media narratives and philosophy of technology, alongside the occasional piece of software that outlives its original purpose.
This site is where I keep things. It holds research projects old and new, essays and talks, and notes on teaching. Some of it is finished. A lot of it isn't.
Latest project. I am currently building gridOCR, a layout engine and desktop OCR tool for digitising historical printed books and periodicals. The code is on GitHub.
Latest publication. "anvay: A Web-based Tool for Interpretive Topic Modelling in Bengali," published in the Journal of Open Source Software (Feb 2026).
Spotlight. anvay is now live and accessible on the web at dhlab.snu.edu.in/anvay.