(Scientific Secretary, May 2024 – present)

Biography:

Yamini Meena works part-time as the Scientific Secretary at CSH, where she is in charge of communications. She manages the organisation’s website, social media accounts, newsletter, and mailing lists.

Publications:

• Meena, Yamini. 2026. “Paradoxes of Piety: The Kumano Bikuni and the Blood Pool Sutra in Medieval Japan”, in: Japanese Studies: Language, Society and Technology in Transition (Part One), Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. (Forthcoming).
• Bora, Mallika, Yamini Meena, and Kashish Tomer. 2026. “From Margins to Markets: Queer Cinema, Resistance, and the Rise of Homonationalism and Homocapitalism in India”, in: Kumari S. and Dasgupta R. (Eds.), Masculinity and Femininity in Flux: Rethinking Fluidity, Gaze, and Gender Representation in Postmodern Cinema.
• Meena, Yamini. 2024. Review of India–Vietnam Relations: Development Dynamics and Strategic Alignment, by Reena Marwah and Lê Thị Hằng Nga. China Report 60, no. 1: 90–92. https://doi.org/10.1177/00094455241247900.
• Meena, Yamini. “Grey Statues with Red Bibs: Exploring the Cultural and Religious Dynamics of Mizuko Kuyō (水子供養).” ICS Occasional Paper, Issue 102.