C.Yamini Krishna works on film history, urban history, and Deccan history. She has been the recipient of India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) Arts Research Grant (2022), Asia Art Archive – Shergil Sundaram Foundation archival grant (2022), Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Independent Research Grant (2022), Philip M Taylor Award for best article by a new researcher (2021), Charles Wallace India Trust fellowship (2017). Her work has been published in Urban History, South Asian Popular Culture, Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television and South Asia. She has also written for the digital publications The Wire, The News Minute, Caravan, Scroll and Café Dissensus.