Publications

Books

• One Dozen Vignettes. Birutjatiyo Sahitya Sammilani, December 2022.

• Bollywood, Tollywood and Beyond : Literary Essays on Indian Films. New Delhi:  Pencraft International, 2021.

• Vignettes of Life Once More. Bolpur: Birutjatiyo Sahitya Sammilani, August 2019.

• Film and Fiction: Word Into Image. Jaipur & Delhi: Rawat Publishers, 2005 [ISBN 978-81-7033917]

• Reflections, Refractions and Rejections: Three American Writers and the Celluloid World. Leeds, U.K.: Wisdom House Publications, 2002. [ISBN-10: 184290048X/ ISBN-13: 978-1842900482]

• The Handbook of Book Reviews  (online publication)                                                          

Translations

• The Murderer (Khooni) by Manik Bandyopadhyay. Delhi & Kolkata: Shambhabi Third Eye Reprint, 2022. 

• Manottama: A Tale by a Hindu Lady. Anonymous. Foreword by Rosinka Chaudhuri. Delhi: Hawakal Publishers, 2021.

• The Last Days of Rabindranath Tagore in Memoirs. Foreword by Fakrul Alam. Bolpur: Birutjatiyo Sahitya Sammilani, 2021.

• Kobi O Rani: Memoirs and Correspondences of Nirmalkumari Mahalanobis and Rabindranath Tagore. Foreword by Dipesh Chakravarty. Bolpur: Birutjtiyo Sahitya Sammilani, 2020.

• The Journey of a Bengali Woman to Japan [Banga-Mohilar Japan Jatra]  by Hariprabha Takeda. Kolkata: Jadavpur University Press, 2019.

• Crossing Many Seas (Onek Sagor Periye) by Chitrita Devi. Bolpur: Birutjatiyo Sahitya Sammilani, 2018.                                                                                         

• The Popularity of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata: A Comparative Analysis [Ramayan O Mahabharater Anupatik Janapriyota] by Sukumari Bhattacharya. Co -translated with Tanika Sarkar. Kolkata: Anustoop, 2018.  

•  Gleanings of the Road (Pather Sanchoy) by Rabindranath Tagore. New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2018. ISBN: 978-93-86906-25-0                       

•  A Bengali Lady in England  (England-e Bangamohila) by Krishnabhabini Das (1885). Foreword by Michael Fisher. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. [ISBN  (10): 1-4438-7701-8 / ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-7701-5]

• Wanderlust: Travels of the Tagore Family. Kolkata: Visva-Bharati, 2014.[ ISBN: 978-81-7522-594-7]

• The Westward Traveller by Durgabati Ghose. Foreword by Ashis Nandy. New Delhi & Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Ltd, 2010. [ISBN 978-81-250-3991-4]

Edited volumes

• Rituparno Ghosh On/And Film. Edited by Somdatta Mandal and Koushik Mondal. New Delhi & Kolkata: Hawakal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. January,2023.

• Indian Travel Writing: New Perspectives. Delhi: Pencraft International, 2021.

• Edited Special Issue on “India and Travel Narratives” for Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Volume12 (3), May 2020.

• The Persecuted or Dramatic Scenes Illustrative of Present State of Hindoo Society, in Calcutta by Krishna Mohana Banerjea [First Indian Drama in English, written in 1831].  Kolkata: Ebang Mushayera, 2018. [ISBN 978-81-939770-1-9]

• Apperception: Journal of the Department of English, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan Volume X (July 2018) Special Issue on 'Drama and Theatre' Text and Performance'.

• Apperception: Journal of the Department of English, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan Volume IX (October 2017)                                                     

• Apperception: Journal of the Department of English, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan Volume VIII (July 2017)

• Edited with an introduction a special feature on “Indian Performing Arts and Literature” for Muse-India e-journal Issue no. 57 (September-October 2014) ISSN: 0975-1815

• Apperception: Journal of the Department of English & Other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. Volume VII (July 2014) : Special Issue on Rabindranath Tagore. Co-Editor Sukla Basu (Sen) [ISSN: 2321 – 1261]

• A Journal of Forty-Eight Hours of the Year 1945 by Kylas Chunder Dutt.[ First Indian English Narrative, written in 1835]. Kolkata: Shambhobi, May 2014. [ ISBN 978-93-83888-15-3]

• Margaret Atwood: Critical Perspectives. New Delhi: Pencraft International, March 2014. [ ISBN 978-93-82178-06-04]

• Journeys: Indian Travel Writing. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2013. [ISBN 978-81-8043-101-2]

• Bharatiya Engraji Kobita (Indian English Poetry to Bangla). Co-editor: Soma Mukhopadhyay. Kolkata: Abhijan Publishers, January 2013. [ISBN: 978-93-80197-07-4]

• MELUS/MELOW Journal. Volume I.  2011. Co-Editor Anil Raina.[ ISSN:2249-4839]

• Indian Travel Narratives. Jaipur & New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2010.[ISBN : 978- 81-31603555]

• Bharati Mukherjee: Critical Perspectives. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2010. [ISBN 978-81-909416-5-5]           

• Apperception: Journal of the Department of English & Other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. Volume IV 2009. [Special Issue on “Translation and Related Issues”]. Also published in book form by Visva-Bharati Publications Department and distributed by Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd.

• Literature in Times of Violence. Co-editor: Gulshan Rai Kataria. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2009.

• The Indian ImagiNation: Colonial & Postcolonial Literature and Culture. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2007.

• Ethnic Literatures of America: Diaspora and Intercultural Studies. Co-editor: Himadri Lahiri. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2005. [ISBN 978-81-75511637]

• Apperceptions: Journal of the Department of English & Other Modern European Languages. Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. Volume II Special Issue on “Multicultural America.” February 2005.

• The American Literary Mosaic. Co-editor T.S. Anand. Wisdom House Press, 2003.

• Banga-bibhag: Samajik, Sangskritik O Rajnaitik Protifalan (The Partition of Bengal: Cultural and Socio-Political Reflections).Co-editor Sukla Hazra. Kolkata: Pustak Bipani, 2002.

• The Ernest Hemingway Companion. Kolkata: Sarat Book Distributors, 2002.

• Cross-Cultural Transactions in Multi-Ethnic Literatures of The United States. Co-editors: Manju Jaidka, Anil Raina & Vijay Sharma. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2002.

• The Diasporic Imagination: Asian-American Writing (3 volumes). New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2000. [ISBN 978 -81-75510968]

• William Faulkner: A Centennial Tribute. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1999.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Centennial Tribute (2 Vols) New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1997; London: Sangam Books, 1998.

• American History and Culture: A Time Chart (1492-1990).Co-editors: Indrani Haldar & Sudip Chakraborty. Kolkata: Jadavpur University, 1994.

Creative Writing

• Muktinath Jatrir Diary (Travelogue in Bengali) in Parabaas Vol. 60 (August 2015) www. parabaas.com/PB60/LEKHA.bSomdatta60.shtml 

Research articles and interviews (2019 onwards)

• “Colonial Encounters: Documenting Japan Through Bengali Travellers’ Eyes.” Science and Culture, vol. 89, no. 1–2, 2023, pp. 38–44. https://doi.org/10.36094/sc.v89.2023.Colonial_Encounters_Documenting_Japan.Mandal.38.

• “Translation and its problems” in From Canon to Covid: Transforming English Literary Studies in India: Essays in Honour of GJV Prasad. Eds. Angelie Multani, Swati Pal, Nandini Saha, Albeena Shakil and Arjun Ghosh. Routledge, 2023.

• “A truer account than anything factual can be”: Ernest Hemingway’s writings on War from In Our Time to Men at War."Critical and Creative Wings Volume 7 Issues 1 & 2 (March 2020 and September 2020): pp. 20 -43.

•  “Films on the Partition of India, Border Crossings and Survival” in Revisiting Partition: Identity, History and Memory ed. Arzuman Ara, Pencraft International, 2022.

• “Prince Dwarkanath Tagore’s Journey to Europe in 1842 and 1845” in SCIENCE AND CULTURE Vol. 87 Nos. 7-8 (July-August 2021) pp. 286-290 ed. Sudhendu Mondal.

• “Rabindranath Tagore and China” in ed. Santwana Haldar for Journal of The Odisha Association for English Studies Literary Studies Volume 11, Issue 1, 2021. Pp.22-28

• Article in Bangladeshi journal edited by Ahsanuzzaman LITWrite on “Rabindranath Tagore and China”

• Abanindranath’s ‘Haoa Badal’ and Swarnakumari Devi’s ‘Darjeeling Patra’ in an anthology Between Heaven and Earth: Writings On the Indian Hills edited by Ruskin Bond & Bulbul Sharma. Delhi: Speaking Tiger Books, August 2022. 

• “Colonial Bengali Travellers to China” to LitWrite Bangladesh (Online journal) edited by Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman published in December 2021. https://litwritebd.com/documenting-china-through-early-twentieth-century-bengali-travellers-eyes/

• Selections from Pathe O Pather Prante for publication in borderless journal October 2021 issue.

Three letters of Tagore along with “Dus Diner Chhuti” published in the December issue of borderless journal. 

• “Where the world meets in a nest”. Interview by Mitali Chakravarty in Borderless Journal, 15 November, 2021.

• “Celebrating Modernity: Bimal Roy’s Udayer Pathe” in Critical and Creative Wings edited by Tapati Talukdar. Volume 6 no.1, March 2019, pp: 31-41.

• “Assessing the Politics of Subaltern Empowerment through Mahasweta Devi” in Tribal Literature and Oral Expressions in India edited by Prem Kumari Srivastava. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2021, pp. 57-68.

• “Colonial Encounters: Documenting China and Japan through Bengali Travellers' Eyes” in Indian Travel Narratives: New Perspectives. Edited by Somdatta Mandal. Delhi: Pencraft International, 2021.  

• “The Re-incarnation of the American Dream in Hollywood Films” in Essays on American Literature and Art: Multiple Perspectives. Eds. Indrani Haldar & Parantap Chakraborty. Kolkata: Jadavpur University Society for American Studies, 2019: pp. 248-265.

• “ ‘Jowar-Bhatir Desh’: Representing the Sunderbans in Fiction with special reference to Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide” in Journal of The Odisha Association for English Studies Vol.9 Issue 1, 2019.Ed. Santwana Haldar,  pp.24-38 ISSN:2249-6726

Research articles and interviews (2018 to 2015)

•  “Between the Ideal and the Real: Strisiksha, Striswadhinata, and Higher Education in Colonial Calcutta.” Critical and Creative Wings Ed. Tapati Talukdar. Vol.5 Issue 1, 2018, pp. 1-17. ISSN:2348-8026

• “Literary Awards and/or Lure of the Lucre: Assessing Recent South Asian Diasporic Fiction” in English Studies and the Marketplace eds. Fakrul Alam, Muhammed Shahriar Haque & Zohur Ahmed. Dhaka: East West University, 2018. pp. 41-57.

• “Migrants, Sojourners and Border Crossers: A Study of South Asian Diaspora in Early 20th Century America” in Beyond Borders and Boundaries: Diasporic Images and Re-presentations in Literature and Cinema, Eds. Nilufer E. Bharucha, Sridhar Rajeswaran and Klaus Stierstorfer. University of Mumbai, CoHab IDC, 2018: pp.71-84.

• “What Diaspora? Whither Diaspora? Some Random Questions, Answers and Ruminations” in Mapping South Asian Diaspora: Recent Responses and Ruminations. Eds. Ajay K. Chaubey & Asis De. Rawat Publications, 2018. pp. 33- 54; “In Discussions with Critics: Somdatta Mandal, Makarand Paranjape and Manjit Inder Singh.   Discussant Ajay K. Chaubey.” pp.210-227.

• “Of Border-Crossings and Survival: The Partition of India, Memory and Visual Representations” in Journal of the Odisha Association for English Studies, Vol.8, Issue 1, 2018. pp. 43-53. ISSN: 2249-6726

• “Reinterpreting the Bard on the Screen: Whose Text is it Anyway?” in Indian Responses to Shakespeare Eds. Goutam Ghosal & Sarani Ghosal Mondal. New Delhi: Authors Press, 2017, pp.48-61.

• “Re-living the Partition in Recent Bengali Films” in Journal of Bengali Studies (ISSN 2277-9426) Vol.6 no.1, March 2018 pp. 143- 152.

• “Rabindranath Tagore’s Hasyakoutuk” in Rabindranath Tagore: A Concourse: Assays in Art, Literature and Translation. Ed. Debarati Bandyopadhyay. Kolkata: Business Economics Publication Pvt. Ltd, 2017. pp.134-149.

• An Interview with Avtar Brah. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, Volume 11, No. 1 (June 2017): pp.157-167.                                                                                               

• An Interview with Himani Banerjee. Asiatic : IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, Volume 11, No.1. (June 2017): pp.168-179.                                                                                                                                                  

• “Diaspora Studies Now: Where do we go from here?” The Visva-Bharati Quarterly Vol. 25 No 4 (Jan 2017 – April 2017): pp.77-86

•  “Debating, Challenging or Accepting Patriarchy? Assessing Indian Women’s Role in Society and Creative Writing” in The English Paradigm in India: Essays in Language, Literature and Culture. Eds. Shweta Rao Garg & Deepti Gupta. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017: pp. 49 – 71.           

• “Drama/Theatre/Film: The Dynamics of Exchange” in Contemporary Indian Theatre: Theatricality and Artistic Crossovers by Ravi Chaturvedi &Tapati Gupta eds. Jaipur & New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2017: pp.193- 207.                                                                             

• “কালাপানির পরপারেঃ বাঙ্গালির বিলাত ভ্রমণ”[“Kalapanir Poropare: Bangalir Bilat Bhraman”] in VisvabharatiPatrika (Magh – Chaitra 1422): pp. 30-40         

•  “Reinterpreting the Bard on the Screen: Whose Text is it Anyway?” in Indian Responses to Shakespeare Eds. Goutam Ghosal & Sarani Ghosal Mondal. New Delhi: Authors Press, 2017, pp.48-61.

• “Bangla Jatray Purush Rani”.Birutjatiyo Patrika [Rangamancha Sankhya] Vol. 4.1, 2017: 9-23.

• “The Globalized Diasporic Voices from Across the Pacific and the Blue Silk Girdle: An Overview” in Asian Literature in English: Identity and Survival. Eds. Shubha Mishra and Urmila Dabir. New Delhi: Prestige Books International, 2017: 262-70.

• “‘Male Ranis’ in Bengali Jatra” in Androgyny and Female Impersonation in India: NariBhav.Eds.Tutun Mukherjee & Niladri R. Chatterjee. New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2016: 93-114. ISBN: 978-93-85285-46-2.

• “What Diaspora? Whither Diaspora? Some Random Questions, Answers and Ruminations” in South Asian Diaspora: An Anthology of 21st Century Criticism. Eds. Ajay K. Chaybey & Prakash C. Pradhan. Jaipur Rawat Publications, 2016.  

• “World War I in Reality and Imagination: Multifarious Responses of American Writers and Creative Artists.” JUSAS Online 2nd Issue, Vol.3, 23 September 2015. http://jusasonline.wordpress.com 

• Foreword to Reading Literature through Feminist Lens: Theory and Praxis. Eds. Subashish Bhattacharjee, Saikat Guha and Mandika Sinha. New Delhi: Authors Press, 2015: 5-9. ISBN:978-93-5207-118-0. “Somdatta Mandal in Conversation with Ajay K. Chaubey on South Asian Diaspora” Reviews Vol.I Issue IV, 28 July, 2015. (ISSN : 2347 198-0) A Print cum Online Magazine. http://reviewsindiamagazine.blogspot.in/2015/07/somdatta-mandal-in-conversation-with.html    

• “Adapting, Interpreting and Transcreating Rabindranath Tagore's Works on Screen" in Adaptations: Some Journeys from Words to Visuals. Eds Srikrishna Rai& Anugamini Rai. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015 : 6-20. ISBN: 978-144-3874663.

• "Satyajit Ray, the Documentarian" in South Asian Review: Satyajit Ray Special Issue. Ed. Geoffrey Kain. Johnston, PA: University of Pittsburg. Spring 2015: 55-68. ISSN: 0038-2841.

• "Redefining Sita by Women in the 21st Century" in Critical and Creative Wings Vol 2. Issue 1(March 2015): 10-27. Ed. Tapati Talukdar. ISSN:2348-8026

• "Was Tagore a Feminist? Re-evaluating Selected Fiction and Their Film Adaptations" in Literature Compass (Special Issue on Rabindranath Tagore's Global Vision) 12/5 (2015):227-237, 10.1111/lic3.12227

• "Evolution, Manifestation and Future Trends of Indian Diasporic Cinema in Britain" in Contemporary Indian Diaspora: Literary and Cultural Representations. Ed. Angshuman Kar. Jaipur & Delhi: Rawat Publishers, 2015: 158-83.

• "Celluloid Representations of the Partition of Punjab" in Bollywoodizing Literature/Forging Cinema: Adaptations and Hindi Cinema. Ed. Simran Chadha. New Delhi: Research India Press, 2015: 213-241. ISBN: 93-5171-005-9 

•  “Interpreting Him Anew: Recent Transcreations of Rabindranath Tagore’s Texts on Screen” in Translation Studies: Exploring Identities Eds. Fakrul Alam & Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman. Dhaka: writers.ink, 2015:142-169. ISBN: 978-984-8715-16-1

• "Bharatiya Engraji Bhasha O Sahityer Kromobikas : Ekti Samajik Oitihasis Somiksha" ( in Bengali) in Visva-Bharati Patrika (Magh to Chaitra 1420 BS): 21-37.

Research articles (2014 to 2010)

• “‘Imaginary Homelands’? Or the Dilemma of Diasporic Indian Writing in English” in Writing out Identity: Individual Claims, Group Perceptions and Socio-Cultural Constructions of the Self in Asian Literature. Ed. Ulrike Middendorf. Ostagen Verlag/ Deutsche Ostasienstudien 9, 2014.

• “Critique or Entertain: Assessing the Role of Women in Contemporary Jatra” in Muse-India –e-journal Issue 57 (September-October 2014) in Special Features section of “Indian Performing Arts and Literature” ISSN 0975-1815.

• "What do they 'write back'? Assessing Fiction of the Old Plantation Indian Diaspora." in Diaspora Space: Emergence of Transnational Literature Ed. Keya Majumdar. New Delhi: Prestige Books International, 2014: 142-61. ISBN: 978-93-82186-49-6.

• “Past, Present and Future of Indian English Language and Literature: Some Random Observations” in Indian Fiction in English: Mapping the Contemporary Literary Landscape. Eds. Sajalkumar Bhattacharya, Arnab Kumar Sinha & Himadri Lahiri. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2014.pp.31-62. ISBN 978-81-8043-10.

• “Was Tagore a Feminist? Re-Evaluating Selected Fiction and their Film Adaptations” in Boundaries of the Self: Gender, Culture and Spaces. Ed. Debalina Banerjee. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014: 70-84.

• “The Evolution of Indian English Language and Literature: A Socio-Historical Survey” in Literature as History: From Early to Contemporary Times. Ed. Chhanda Chatterjee. Delhi: Primus Books, 2014: 109-138.

•  “Wanderlust: Travels of the Tagore Family” [Translation of four travel narratives by Debendranath Tagore, Jnanadanandini Devi, Rabindranath Tagore and Abanindranath Tagore]. – parabaas vol. 53 online magazine: www.parabaas.com

• “Multicultural America: Issues of Theory and Pedagogy” in Different Americas: Resituating American Identity in the Post 9/11 Third Worldian Classroom. eds. Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Dhritiman Chakraborty and Mursed Alam. New Delhi, Author’s Press, 2014: 20-34. ISBN 978-81-7273-751-1.

• “Wither Homeland? Representations of Calcutta/Kolkata in the Fiction of Diasporic Bengali Women Writers” in Constructions of Home in Philosophy, Theory, Literature and Cinema: Essays in Honour of Nilufer E. Bharucha, Eds. Sridhar Rajeswaran and Klaus Stierstorfer, CASII, Centre for Advanced Studies in India, Bhuj, 2014: 94-133.

• Foreword for Locating Asian American Women Writers in the Diaspora by Nandini Bhadra,  New Delhi & Sydney: Prestige Books International, 2013: 7-12.

• “Reiterating Stereotypes: Assessing the Role of Women in Contemporary Jatra.” Society, Representations and Textuality: The Critical Interface. Eds. Sukalpa Bhattacharjee & C. J. Thomas. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2013.

• “The Literature or the Passport? Evaluating Diasporic Indian English Literature” in Indian Fiction Since Independence: Readings From the Periphery. Ed. Prashanta Chakraborty. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2013. ISBN 978-93-82186-17-5.

• “Two Masters one Text: Satyajit Ray’s Transcreation of Ghare Baire” in Filming Fiction: Tagore Premchand and Ray. Eds. M. Asaduddin & Anuradha Ghosh. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2012: 38-47.

• “Dismemberment and/or Reconstruction: Visual Representations of the Partition of Bengal.” Barbed Wire: Borders and Partitions in South Asia. Ed. Jayita Sengupta. Routledge, 2012: 135-55.

• “Film and Fiction after 9/11: A Critical Assessment” in Violence and Its Representations Eds. Uday Chand Das & Himadri Lahiri. Burdwan, Academic Staff College, The University of Burdwan. August 2012: 40-55. ISBN: 978-93-80663-64-7

• “Re-presenting Folk Theatre: The Jatra of Bengal” in ARTLAND (April-June 2012 Issue) published by India International Rural Cultural Centre, New Delhi.

• “Travels to the West” Seminar 623 Special Issue on “The Nation and its Poet”: A Symposium on Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941: Life, Language, Legacy.”(July 2011): 89-92.

• ‘May you be the mother of a hundred sons’: Barrenness and Bengali Cinema” Asian Cinema (USA) Vol. 22 no. 4 (Spring/Summer 2011): 329-347.

• “Cinematic Adaptations of Rabindranath” Silhouette  Vol. 9.3 (December 2011).ISSN: 2231-699X

• “Cinema as an Emergent Art Form and Tagore” in Rabindranath Tagore: A Comemmorative Volume Eds. Udaya Narayana Singh & Navdeep Suri. New Delhi: Ministry of External Affairs 2011: 214-221.

• “Was Tagore an ‘Ecocritical’ Writer?” The Boston Pledge Observatory: Volume 2, Nov 2011 on “Sustainability, Technology and Humanity: The Promise of Universal Conscience.”  www.thebostonpledge.org

• “Of Books and Their Covers: Marketing Fiction in a Globalized Context.” East West Journal of Humanities Vol.2 No.2, 2011. ISSN 2074-6628

• “Of Books and their Covers: Marketing Literature in a Globalized Context.” Literary Transactions in a Globalized Context: Multi-Ethnicity, Gender and the Marketplace. Eds. Himadri Lahiri. Delhi: Worldview, 2010: 147 –168.

• “‘People Said I Created Pornography’: Sexuality, The Gaze and Rituparno Ghosh” in Woman as Spectator and Spectacle: Essays on Women and Media. Hyderabad: Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd. 2010.

Research articles (2009 to 2005) 

• Bharati Mukherjee, Translation of her first Interview in Desh.  In Conversations with Bharati Mukherjee. Ed. Bradley C. Edwards. Knoxville: University of Mississippi Press, 2009: 3-9.

• “History and/or A Sense of Place: Reading Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide.” Crossing Borders: Post 1980 Sub-continental Writing in English. Ed. Jasbir Jain.Jaipur & New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2009: 139-151.

• “Film and Fiction After 9/11: Honoring and Remembering.” Literature in Times of Violence. Eds. Gulshan Rai Kataria & Somdatta Mandal .New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2009:120-32.

• "Internationalizing Gatsby and the American Dream." Icfai University Journal of American Literature. II.I (February 2009)

• "The Literature or the Passport? Evaluating Diasporic Indian Writing in English." Diaspora in Indian Writing in English: University Grants Commission Sponsored National Level Seminar Proceedings. Kolkata: Vidyasagar College, 2009: 34-51.

• “England-e Bongomohila: A Bengali Lady in England”. In Muse-India (e-journal) Vol.25 (May-June 2009) ISSN 0975-1815.

• “Constructing Post Partition Bengali Cultural Identity Through Films.” Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement, and Resettlement.  eds. Anjali Gera Roy & Nandi Bhatia. Delhi: Pearson Longman (Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd), 2008: 65-81.

• "Pearl Harbor Echoes: Of War, Relocation and Documentation of the Japanese-American Internment Experience and the Partition of India 1947”, unpublished, 2008.

• “Of Celebrity Status, Posthumous Publications, Scholar’s Choice and the American Novel: A Case Study of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Trimalchio.” A Distant Drummer: Foreign Perspectives on F. Scott Fitzgerald.  Eds. Jamal Assadi and William Freedman. New York: Peter Lang, 2007: 40-55.  

• “The City as Mindscape? The Indian Immigrant Writer in the USA.” World Literature: Contemporary Postcolonial and Post-Imperial Literatures. Ed. Nilufer E. Bharucha. New Delhi: Prestige, 2007:118- 131.

• “The ‘Des-Pardes’ Syndrome: Texts and Contexts of Diasporic Indian Writing in English.” Contemporary Diasporic Literature: Writing History, Culture, Self. Ed. Manjit Inder Singh. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2007: 37-48. 

• “Dhol Di Awaaz:Popular Culture as Self-expression in the South Asian Diaspora.” Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives: Contexts, Texts and Intertexts. eds. Krishna Sen & Tapati Gupta. Kolkata: Dasgupta & Co, 2007

• “ ‘The beginning of a novel is the belief that the world really needs this book’: Thomas Keneally’s Oeuvre with Special Reference to The Tyrant’s Novel.”Australian Literature: Identity, Representation and Belonging. Ed. Jaydeep Sarangi. New Delhi: Sarup & Sons, 2007: 24-32. 

• “Intertextuality and the Canon:  Reinterpreting Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.”  Landmarks in American Literature: History in the Making. Eds. Manju Jaidka & Anil Raina. New Delhi: Prestige, 2007: 119-132.

• “Autobiography And/Or A Sense of Place: Ernest Hemingway’s “Homage to Switzerland.” Literary Voice 2007. Ed. T. S. Anand : 3-11.

• “Interpreting the Female Gaze: Colonial Travel Writing by Bengali Women.” Antahswar: Meyeder Kothay Meyera (Bi-Lingual) ed. Miratun Nahar. Kolkata: Renaissance Publishers Pvt. Ltd. & Victoria Institution, 2007: 271-282.

• “Re-Presenting the Partition of India: From Bapsi Sidhwa to Deepa Mehta.” Films, Literature and Culture: Deepa Mehta’s Elements Trilogy. Ed. Jasbir Jain. New Delhi & Jaipur, Rawat Publishers, 2007: 142-155.

• “ ‘I am envious of writers who are in India’: Kiran Desai, the Man Booker Prize and Indian Diasporic Writing.” The ICFAI Journal of English Studies, Vol. II No. 3, September 2007: 38-48.

• “The Writer as Transcreator: Are Comparisons Odious?” Translation/Representation. Eds. Anisur Rahaman & Ameena Kazi Ansari. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2007: 66-74

• Translation of three stories on the Partition of Bengal by Mahasweta Devi, Aktaruzzaman Ilias and  Manoj Basu. Bengal Partition Stories: The Unclosed Chapter. Ed. and introduction by Bashabi Fraser. London:  Anthem Press, 2006.

• “African, Indian, and/or Canadian? Locating M.G. Vassanji in Contemporary Diasporic Writing.” Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, 2006.

• “An African ‘Trishanku’: Diasporic Sensibility in M.G. Vassanji’s Fiction.” Dialog: An Interdisciplinary Journal 14 (2006): 30-43.

• “Calcutta Syndrome: A Study of Sunetra Gupta and Jhumpa Lahiri.” The Expatriate Indian Writing in English, Volume I eds. T. Vinoda & P. Shailaja. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2006: 154- 168.

• “An Indian Fish in American Waters”: Texts and Contexts of Indian Diasporic Cinema.”  Ibid: 263-291.

• “Issues in Diasporic Discourse: A Dialogue” with T. Vinoda & Christopher Rollason (France). Ibid. 301-14.

• “Oh Calcutta! The Bengali Strain in Diasporic Indian English Fiction.” The Expatriate Indian Writing in English, Volume I I eds. T. Vinoda & P. Shailaja. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2006: 153-171.

• “Women’s Empowerment in India: Myth, Reality, and Celluloid Representations.” Gender Inequality and Women’s Empowerment. Eds. Rathindra Nath Pramanik and Ashim Kumar Adhikary. Delhi: Abhijeet Publications, 2006: 128-144.

• “Red Rag of Deception: Syed Waliullah’s Tree Without Roots.” The Statesman Features Section, 20 August, 2006.

• “The Chicanization of the United States: Border Culture and the Performance Texts of Guillermo Gomz-Pena.” Rethinking Multiculturalism: Critical Essays on American Literature. Ed. M. Dasan. Chennai: Emerald Publishers, 2006:79-91.

• “Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea: Context and Text.” Journal of the Department of English, Rabindra Bharati University Volume IX :2005-2006:139-157

• “Sunetra Gupta” Dictionary of Literary Biography on South Asian Writing in English. Ed Fakrul Alam. South Carolina: Bruccoli Clark. USA, 2006: 164-169.

• “Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni” Dictionary of Literary Biography on South Asian Writing in English. Ed. Fakrul Alam South Carolina: Bruccoli Clark. USA,2006:112-122.

• “Multiculturalism: A Critical Re-Assessment.” Apperception: Journal of the Department of English, Volume II, February 2005.

• “Shutting Each Other Out? “ Cross-cultural Relationships in Diasporic Indian Fiction.” Humanism in Indian English Fiction. Ed. T.S. Anand. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2005: 32-45.

Research articles (2004 to 1999)

• “The City of the Mind or Return to the Roots? Representations of Calcutta in the Fiction of Diasporic Bengali Women Writers.” Indias Abroad: The Diaspora Writes Back. Eds. Pier Paolo Piciucco & Rajendra Patrick Chetty. Johannesburg, South Africa: STE Publishers, 2004:127-142.

• “F. Scott Fitzgerald and India” in The Foreign Critical Reputation of F. .Scott Fitzgerald, 1980- 2000: An Analysis and Annotated Bibliography. Ed. Linda C. Stanley. Greenwood Press, 2004.

• “Silent Films, Hollywood Genres and William Faulkner.” Apperception: Journal of the Dept. of English & Other Modern European Languages, Visva Bharati Vol.1, Feb, 2004: 89-96.

• “Women’s Empowerment: Myths, Reality and Celluloid Representations.” Role of Women in Developmental Processes, 2004. Sant Longowal Central Institute of Engineering  & Technology, Punjab.

• “I carry the world inside me”: Interview with Meena Alexander.” Indian Journal of World Literature and Culture Volume 1, April 2004. Ed. Subhendu Mund.

• “Multiculturalism and its Limits” Literature and Criticism. Volume IV (August 2004) Ed. Binoy Banerjee.

• “Who is an Ideal Translator?” Translation Today .Vol.1, no. 2, www.anukriti.net Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, 2004.

• “The Globalized Diasporic Voices from Across the Blue Silk Girdle.” Seba Bharati Journal of English Studies, December 2004. rpt. The Visva-Bharati Quarterly Vols 12 & 13, Oct 2003-Sept 2004: 103-109. 

• “Fiction to Film: The Problem of Fidelity.” Interrelations: Literature and the Other Arts. Ed. Indrani Haldar. Macmillan India Ltd.2003: 83-91.

• “Of Celebrity Status, Posthumous Publications, Scholar’s Choice and the American Novel: A Case Study of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Trimalchio.” Indian Response to American Literature. Ed. T.S. Anand. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2003.

• “A Border Sisyphus”: Transcultural Identity and Performance Texts of Guillermo Gomez Pena.” Politics of Location in the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas. Eds. Anil Raina & Manju Jaidka. Chandigarh: Arun Publishing House, 2003: 174-84.

• “The ‘Wild West’:Movies and Fiction, Myths and Reality.” Pegasus II (Dec2002-Jan 2003): 10-21.

• “Walking in a Sari and Combat Boots.” Studies in American Literature (Anniversary Edition) Calcutta: American Literature Study Circle, USIS, 2003.

• “Interrelations of Film and Fiction Theory with special reference to William Faulkner.” Modern Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice (2 Vols) ed. N.D.R. Chandra. New Delhi: Authors Press 2003: 541-596.

• “Which version of Hamlet would you like to see?” Shakespeare: Yearly Souvenir 2003 ed. Goutam Ghoshal. Santiniketan: Sri Aurobindo Study Centre, 24-26.

• “Of ‘Women’ and ‘Relationships’ in Contemporary Bengali Cinema: Rituparno Ghosh’s Oeuvre” Asian Cinema (USA) Fall/Winter 2002: 85-104. 

• “Ethnic Voices of Asian-American Women with Special Reference to Amy Tan”. The Joy Luck Club: Critical Perspective.  ed. with an Introduction by Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea Publications, 2002: 175-184.   

• “Is Charlie Chan Really Dead? The Evolution of Asian American Characters and Images in American  Mainstream Media.” Cross-Cultural Transactions in Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the U.S. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2002.

• “Of Defining and Re-Defining the Asian-American Diaspora: A Case Study of Jhumpa Lahiri.” The American Literary Mosaic. Eds. Somdatta Mandal & T.R. S. Anand, Wisdom House Press. Reprinted in Jhumpa Lahiri: The Master Storyteller. Ed. Suman Bala. New Delhi: Khosla Publishing Co.2002. 17-32.

• “From the Verbal to the Visual: Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple.” Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple: New Perspectives. New Delhi: Khosla Book House, 2002.

• “Rituparno Ghosh: The ‘Woman’s Director’ of Bangla Cinema.” Films & Feminism: Essays in Indian Cinema. Eds. Jasbir Jain & Sudha Rai. New Delhi & Jaipur, Rawat Publications, 2002.

• “Indian Writing in English: Heralding a New Genre.” Pegasus Vol. I No.8, March 2002.

• “Indian Writing in English: The Problematics of Definition.” Modern Indian English Fiction. Ed. T.S. Anand. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2002:37- 46.

• “The Marginalization of Bengal: Representations of the Partition in Anthologies Written in English.” The Partition of Bengal: Cultural & Socio-Political Refllections.(In Bengali) Eds. Somdatta Mandal & Shukla Hazra. Kolkata: Pustak Bipani, 2002.

• “Drama/Theatre and Film: The Dynamics of Exchange.” Drama: Literature and Performance eds. Srobona Munshi & Jharna Sanyal. Calcutta: UGC Academic Staff College & Department of English, University of Calcutta, 2002:187-205.

• “Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient as Fiction and Film.” Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta. Vol. XXIX Nos. 1&2: 2001-2002 :78-87.

• “What Bengal Thinks Today, India Thinks Tomorrow”: Bangla Fiction and its Role in Shaping the Indian Nationalist Movement”. India: Fifty Years After Independence: Images in Literature, Film and the Media. Eds. Felicity Hand & Kathleen Firth. London: Peepal Tree Press, 2001.

• “Reinterpreting the Bard on the Screen: Whose Text is it Anyway?” The Independent (Bangladesh): 20 & 27 January 2001.

• “Tagore’s Home and the World as Fiction and Film.” Home and the World: Critical Perspectives. Ed. Rama Kundu. New Delhi: Asia Book Club, 2001.

• “Hemingway: Fiction & Western Films.” The Atlantic Literary Review Quarterly. Vol.2.No.2. April-June 2001.

• “American Dream: Representations in Literature and the Hollywood Dream Factories.” The Independent (Bangladesh), 16 & 23 December 2000.

• “Indian Writing in English: The Problematics of Definition.” The Independent (Bangladesh): 4 Nov, 11 Nov, & 18 Nov, 2000.

• “Mount Kilimanjaro Revisited: Africa, the Lion’s Roar and Ernest Hemingway” West Bengal  (Special Hemingway Number), 1999. 

•  Interviews of Makarand Paranjape and Neila Seshachari. The Diasporic Imagination: Asian-American Writing  Ed. Somdatta Mandal. New Delhi: Prestige, 2000.

• “Of Soups, Salads, Chutneys and Masalas: The Asian American Film Experience.” The Diasporic Imagination: Asian-American Writing. Ed. Somdatta Mandal. New Delhi: Prestige, 2000.

• “From Page to Screen: Hemingway, To Have and Have Not and Hollywood.” Ernest Hemingway: Centennial Essays. Ed. E. Nageswara Rao. Delhi: Pencraft International, 2000.

• “Traffic of Ideas between India and America: A Case Study with special reference to Rabindranath Tagore”.  West Bengal Vol. 40 nos. 10-11. May 16 & June 1, 1998. Reprinted in Indian English Poetry and Fiction: A Critical Evaluation. Eds. N.R. Gopal & Suman Sachar. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 2000.

• “The Screenplay as Literature: A Case Study of Harold Pinter.” Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta. Vol.XXVII, No.2. 1999-2000.

• “The Curious Case of The Alien: Spielberg vs. Ray.” Asian Cinema (U.S.A.) Vol.10.2. Spring/Summer 1999.

• “Word Into Image: Whose Text Is It Anyway?” Gombak Review (Malaysia) April 1999.

• “Alienation vs. Acculturation: Feminism’s Third Wave and Asian-American Women’s Fiction.” New Waves in American Literature. Eds. A.A.Muttalik Desai & T.S.Anand.  New Delhi: Creative Books, 1999.

• “From the Periphery to the Mainstream: The Making, Marketing and Media Response to Arundhati Roy/” Arundhati Roy: The Novelist Extraordinary. Ed. R.K. Dhawan. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1999.

• “Satyajit Ray’s ‘Rabindranath’: A Case for a Documentary Film.” West Bengal Vol.XLI, nos.10-11. May16 & June 1, 1999: 85-92.

• “Satyajit Ray, Science Fiction and Professor Shonku.” The Literary Criterion Vol. XXXIV no. 3, 1999.

• “Ernest Hemingway and Hollywood” Studies in American Literature (Anniversary Edition)    Calcutta: American Literature Study Circle, USIS.1999.

• “The Itinerant American Traveller: Settings and Locales in Ernest Hemingway’s Fiction.” Journal of the Department of English, Rabindra Bharati University, 1999 (Special Hemingway Centennial Number)

• “Hemingway’s The Spanish Earth: A Case for a Documentary Film.” Journal of the Department of English, Calcutta University Vol.XXVI no.2, 1998-99.

Research articles (1998 to 1994)

• “The Twenties.” F. Scott Fitzgerald: Centenary Essays From India. Ed. Mohan Ramanan. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1998.

• “Ethnic Voices of Asian-American Women with Special Reference to Amy Tan.” Indian Views on American Literature. Ed. A.A. Muttalik Desai. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1998.

• “ ‘Fascism is a lie told by bullies’: The Spanish Civil War and Ernest Hemingway.”.Journal of the Department of English, Rabindra Bharati University 1998.

• “The Detective Fiction of Satyajit Ray.” Rajasthan University Studies in English, 1995-1996.

• “Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea: An attempt at teaching the novella through the audio-visual method of the film.” Literary Voice Vol. 3: Win 1997.

• “Satyajit Ray, Science Fiction and Professor Shonku”. Journal of Commonwealth and Post-Colonial Studies (U.S.A.) Vol.5.1,Fall 1997: 91-99.

• “The Hyphenated Self: Recent Trends in Asian-American Fiction.” The Rabindra Bharati Patrika. Annual Number 1996-97: 58-66.

• “Colonial Perspectives: Tagore’s Home and the World as Fiction and Film.” West Bengal 39 : May & June 1997: 17-22.

• “Hollywood and the Motion-Picture Industry: Multifarious Responses of Some Twentieth Century American Writers.” American Literature and Culture: New Insights. Ed. L. Parasuram. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1995.

• “Eugene O’Neill and Film.” Indian Journal of American Studies. Vol. 25.2 Summer 1995: 135-141.

• “Chinese Past vs. American Present: Multifarious Images of Women in Amy Tan’s Fiction.” Literary Voice Oct.1995: 56-61.

Research articles (1993 to 1987)

• “Eugene O’Neill and Film”. The Dhaka University Studies. Vol.47.1, June 1990: 97-105.

Translation

• Rabindranath Tagore’s “Seafaring”[“SamudraYatra”] and “Foreign Guest and Local Hospitality”“[“Bideshiya Atithi  Ebong Deshiyo Atitthya”]  in Tagore and Cosmopolitanism Ed. Debarati Bandyopadhyay. Bolpur: Birutjatiyo Sahitya Sammeloni, 2019. pp.31-39; 48-55.

•  Translation of Narayan Gangopadhyay’s short story “To Respected Examiner Sir” in Six Seasons Review, Vol.4 No.2 (2018) pp.85-96

•  Translation of short story "The Arrow" by Mahasweta Devi. Dhaka: Six Seasons Review. Vol 2 No 1 (April 2015): 11-17. 

• Translation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s short story “Child Lifter” in 8th Day:The Sunday Statesman on 21 June 2015.

• Several stories by Debal Deb Barma in The Statesman Features Section

• Stories of Amiya Bhusan Majumdar, Jaya Mitra for Harvest edited by Tapati Gupta, Kolkata: Anustoop, 2003.

• Three stories on the Partition of Bengal by Mahasweta Devi, Aktaruzzaman Ilias and Manoj Basu in Bengal Partition Stories: The Unclosed Chapter. Ed. and introduction by Bashabi Fraser. London: Anthem Press, 2006.

• Three stories by Sarat Chandra Chatterjee from his Lalu series in Parabaas  (Online Journal) www.parabaas.comAlso published in Indian Literature Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.(Special 50 Years Commemorative volume) 2007.

• "Recollections of Deoghar" and "Child Lifter" by Sarat Chandra Chatterjee (unpublished).

• “Hell-Heaven” by Jhumpa Lahiri in Kali –O-Kalam Vol. III, no.2, Chaitra 1412/ March 2006: 117-125. 2006.

• “Tell me Tara, where do I stand.” Translation of short story by Esha Dey in Mango Tree

• “Partners in Empire.” Translation of Short Story by Esha Dey in South Asian Review 28.3 (Fall 2007): 22-33.

• “Bharat Ek Khoj.” Translation of short story by Esha Dey in JSL: Journal of the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) New Series. Vol 10, Autumn 2008:

• Translation of four articles of Rabindranath Tagore’s Pother Sonchoy and four skits from Hasyakoutuk. The Essential Tagore. Eds. Fakrul Alam & Radha Chakravarty. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.

• Translated from English to Bengali Ernest Hemingway’s short story “In Another Country” in SWARANTAR 

• Translation of Manoranjan Byapari’s short story “Barnabaad” as “Casteism”. [Originally published in ROBBAR, 1 November, 2020, pp. 10-13]. Published in IACLALS E-NEWSLETTER 10, 2021 & TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE (UK)

• Short story “Landmark” by Bitan Chakraborty translated from Bengali to English and published in REDOLENT RUSH by Hawakal Publishers, 2023. 

Book Reviews

    2024

• Review of Ilse Kohler-Rollefson, Camel Karma: Twenty Years Among India’s Camel Nomads. Speaking Tiger, 2023. in Borderless Journal, March, 2024.

• “Social History through Women’s Writings” edited and translated by Sarvani Gooptu and Indrani Bose, Wandering Women: Travel Writing in Bengali Periodicals, 1900 – 1940. (Primus Books, 2023). The Book Review Vol. XLVIII, No.2 February 2024, pp. 27-29.

• Review of Tahira Naqvi, The History Teacher of Lahore. A Novel.  Speaking Tiger Books, 2023. Borderless Journal, February, 2024.

• Review of Sudha Murty, Common Yet Uncommon: 14 Memorable Stories from Daily Life.  Penguin Books, 2023 in Borderless Journal, 15 January, 2024.

• Review of Gemini Wahhaj, The Children of This Madness. 7.13 books, 2023. The Daily Star, Bangladesh, 04.01.2024.

2023

• Review of Jerry Pinto and Madhulika Liddle eds. Indian Christmas: Essays, Memories, Hymns. Speaking Tiger, 2022 in Borderless Journal, 14 December, 2023.

• Review of Rabindranath Tagore’s Journey as an Educator: Critical Perspectives on His Poetics and Praxis, Edited by Mohammad A. Quayum. Routledge, 2022. ASIATIC vol. 17.2 December 2023; pp.192-196.

• Review of Ali Akbar Natiq, Naulakhi Kothi. Penguin Books, 2023. Translated by Naima Rashid in Borderless Journal, 15 November, 2023.

• Review of Swati Ganguly, Tagore’s University: A History of Visva-Bharati 1921-1961 in Online journal Gitanjali and Beyond, Volume 9 published in October 2023.

• Review of Shoma A Chatterji, Through the Lens, Brightly: Women in Cinema, Women at Work. Primus Books, 2023.  Silhouette Journal November 4, 2023. www.learningandcreativity.com

• Review of Usha Priyamvada, Won’t You Stay, Radhika? Translated by Daisy Rockwell. Speaking Tiger, 2023 in Borderless Journal, 15 October, 2023.

• Review of Jatin Bala, A Life Uprooted: A Bengali Dalit Refugee Remembers. Translated by Mandakini Bhattacherya & Jaydeep Sarangi. Sahitya Akademi, 2022  in The Statesman on 12 October, 2023.

• Malati Ramachandran, Begum Hazrat Mahal: Warrior Queen of Awadh. Niyogi Books, 2023.  in Borderless Journal, September 2023.

• Review of Entering the Maze: Queer Fiction of Krishnagopal Mallick, Translated by Niladri R. Chatterjee. Niyogi Books, 2023. The Book Review Vol 47 No. 9, September 2023.

• Review of Amitav Ghosh, Smoke and Ashes: A Writer’s Journey Through Opium’s Hidden Histories. Harper Collins India, 2023 in The Statesman on 17 August 2023 and Borderless Journal on 15.8.2023.

• Review of Ujjal Dosanjh, The Past is Never Dead, Speaking Tiger, 2023 in  Borderless Journal, 15 July 2023.

• “Myth and Philosophies in the Art World” Review of Gandhi in India’s Literary and Cultural Imagination Eds. Nishat Zaidi and Indrani Das Gupta (Routledge South Asia Edition), 2022. THE BOOK REVIEW Vol XLVII, No.6, June 2023; pp. 36-38.

•  Review of  Jyotirmoyee Devi Sen, Behind Latticed Marble: Inner Worlds of Women, Niyogi Books, 2023. in  Borderless Journal, 14 June, 2023.

• Review of Aruna Chakravarti, The Mendicant Prince. Pan Macmillan/ Picador India, 2022. in  The Statesman on 8 June, 2023. Also in ASIATIC Journal June 2023 issue.

• Review of K.R. Meera, Jezebel  (Penguin, 2023) in Borderless Journal, May 2023.

•  Review of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Independence. Harper Collins India, 2022 in Borderless Journal, 15 April 2023.

• Review of Yamuna’s Journey by Baba Padmanji (Speaking Tiger 2022) in Borderless Journal (21 March 2023). https://borderlessjournal.com/2023/03/21/yamunas-journey/

• “A Travelogue to Decipher a ‘Celestial Blinker.’ Review of Samaresh Bose, In Search of the Pitcher of Nectar (Amrita Kumbher Sandhane) translated by Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee in The Book Review Vol.47 No. 3, March 2023.

• Review of A History of India Through 75 Objects by Sudeshna Guha (Hatchette) in Borderless Journal, 15 February 2023.

• “Celebrating a World Without Borders”. Review of Monalisa No Longer Smiles Ed. Mitali Chakraborty (Om Books International) in The Statesman 16 February, 2023.

• Review of Priya Hajela, Ladies’ Tailor (Harper Collins)  in Borderless Journal on 20 January, 2023. https://borderlessjournal.com/2023/01/20/ladies-tailor/

2022

• Review of Ranabir Ray Chaudhury, The Shaping of Modern Calcutta: The Lottery Committee Years 1817 – 1830 in Borderless Journal on 15 December, 2022.

•  Review of Shehan Karunatilaka, The Birth Lottery and Other Surprises in Borderless Journal on 14 November 2022.

https://borderlessjournal.com/2022/11/14/the-birth-lottery-and-other-surprises/

• Review of Our Santiniketan by Mahasweta Devi. Translated by Radha Chakravarty (Seagull Books, 2022) in The Book Review Vol. 46.5, May 2022.

• Review of A History of Sriniketan by Uma Dasgupta (Niyogi Books, 2022) for The Statesman published on 12 May 2022. 

• “History depicted by three Mughal princesses and a Kashmiri queen.” Review of The Mughal Aviary: Women’s Writing in Pre-Modern India by Sabiha Huq in The Daily Star,  19 May, 2022. the dailystar e-paper 

• Review of Transient by Tapati Gupta in Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol.14 no.2 April-June 2022.

• Review of Villainy by Upamanyu Chatterjee in The Book Review Vol. 46.7, July 2022 issue. 

• “From Villainy to Vidyasagar.” Review of Sukanta Chaudhuri, Things Reborn: Essays on the Renaissance (Jadavpur University Press, 2022) in The Statesman 14 July 2022.

• “Short and Poignant Tales of Ordinary People.” Review of It Begins at Home and Other Short Stories by Sanjukta Dasgupta in The Statesman, 28 July, 2022. 

• Review of The Dreams of a Mappila Girl: A Memoir  by B.M. Zuhara, Sage Publishers & Yoda Press, 2022. For BORDERLESS Journal, October 2022 issue.

• Review of Kolkata in Space, Time and Imagination Vols. I & II. Edited by Anuradha Roy and Melitta Waligora. New Delhi: Primus Books, 2019 & 2020 in The Book Review 

2021

• Review of Bashabi Fraser’s The Ramayana: A Stage Play and a Screen Play (Aadi Publishers, Jaipur, 2019) in South Asianist Journal, Edinburgh. Vol.8, 16 April 2021 pp. 1-5. www.southasianist.ed.ac.uk

Reprinted in IACLALS e- Newsletter, Vol. 10, December, 2021.

• Review of Critical Lives: Rabindranath Tagore by Bashabi Fraser (London: Reaktion Books, 2019) in The Daily Star, Bangladesh, 3 April 2021.

• “Perfect blend of fact with fiction.” Review of The Last Queen by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in The Statesman, 13 March, 2021 p. 11.

• “Infinite Variety of Rabindranath Tagore’s Writings.” Review of The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore ed. By Sukanta Chaudhuri, (Cambridge University Press, 2020) in The Book Review Vol. XLV, No. 7, July 2021.

• Review of Indo-German Exchanges in Education: Rabindranath Tagore Meets Paul and Edith Geheeb by Martin Kampchen (OUP, 2020) in The Statesman, Kolkata 17 June, 2021, p. 11.

• Review of A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee (2016) in “Special Detective Fiction Issue” of The Book Review, December 2021.

• Review of Travel Culture, Travel Writing and Bengali Women, 1870 -1940 by Jayati Gupta (Routledge, 2020) in ASIATIC: IIUM Journal Volume 15, no.1, June 2021. pp. 211-214.

• Review of Disciplined Subjects: Schooling in Colonial Bengal by Sutapa Dutta (Routledge, 2021) in IACLALS Journal,  2021.

• Review of Fakir Mohan Senapati REBATI: Speaking in Tongues edited by Manu Dash (Dhauli Books, 2021) in The Book Review in Vol XLVII, No.9, September 2021.

• “Diversity of Lived Experiences.” Review of Beyond the Metros: Anglo-Indians in India’s Smaller Towns and Cities Edited by Robyn Andrews & Anjali Gera Roy. (New Delhi: Primus Books, 2021) in The Statesman, 26 August, 2021. p.11.

• Review of T. Janakiraman’s Wooden Cow translated by Lakshmi Kannan (Orient Blackswan, 2021) for borderlessjournal.org (October 2021 issue).

• Review of Bangladeshi Literatures in English: A Critical Anthology eds. Mohammed A. Quayum & Md. Mahmudul Hasan (Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh), 2021 in ASIATIC: Journal of IIUM, Malaysia, December 2021.

• Review of UNBOUND: New and Selected Poems (1996-2021) By Sanjukta Dasgupta. Edited and Introduced by Jaydeep Sarangi and Sanghita Sanyal. New Delhi: Authors Press, 2021 in The Statesman 11 November, 2021.

2020

• Review of Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, Contestations and Contemporary Relevance. Edited by Mohammad A. Quayum.(UK: Routledge, 2020) in ASIATIC: IIUM Journal, June 2020.

• Review of Interpreting Cinema: Adaptations, Intertextualities, Art Movements by Jasbir Jain (Jaipur & Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2020) in Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, September 2020. Reprinted in Guru Nanak Indraprastha University Journal

• “Tracing Patterns through Various Planes of Interrogation.” Review of Performing Nationhood: The Emotional Roots of Swadeshi Nationhood in Bengal by Mimasha Pandit (OUP, 2019) in The Book Review Vol. XLV No.2, February 2021, pp. 10-11.

2019

• Review of Amitav Ghosh Gun Island in The Statesman 8th Day

Reprinted in Critical and Creative Wings Volume 6 Issue 1, March 2019: pp.147-51 edited by Tapati Talukdar.

• Review of Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India by Anjali Gera Roy. (London and New York: Routledge, 2020) in The Statesman 8th Day

• Review of The Parrot Green Saree by Nabanita Dev Sen translated from Bengali by Tutun Mukherjee. Niyogi Books in The Book Review

• Review of Rabindranath Tagore’s Quartet (Chaturanga) translated from Bengali with an Introduction by Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee. (New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2019) in The Book Review

• Review of Basanti: Writing the New Woman ( Nine authors, One novel) translated from Odia by Himanshu S. Mohapatra and Paul St. Pierre, Oxford UP, 2019 in 8th  Day: The Sunday Statesman, 28 April 2019.

2018

•  “Far away and long ago.” Review of Memoirs of Dacca University 1947 – 1951 by AG Stock. Edited by Khademul Islam. Dhaka: Bengal  Light Books, 2017 in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 25 February, 2018. p.2

•  Review of The Bengalis: Memoirs of a Community by Sudeep Chakravarty, Delhi: Aleph, 2017 in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 18 March  2018.

•  Review of On the Margin of Love: The Nanavati Syndrome (1959-1964) by Abhijit Dutta, 2017 in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 22 April,  2018.

• Review of Subcontinental Histories: Literary Reflections on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Jasbir Jain. Rawat Publications,  2018 in ASIATIC:IIUM Journal of Language and Literature Vol.12 (No.1) June 2018: 235-237.

•  “Religion, Politics and Pleasure.” Review of Beyond Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Sciences of Sex and Politics by Wendy Doniger (2018) in The Sunday Statesman 2 September 2018, p.2.

•  Review of Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’: Andrews, Tagore, and Gandhi – An Epistolary Account 1912-1940 edited and  introduced by Uma Dasgupta. Oxford UP, 2018 in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 13 May, 2018.

•  “The Genius of Ghatak.” Review of Ritwik Ghatak: Five Plays (2018) translated by Amrita Nilanjana and Ritwik Ghatak: Stories (2018)  translated by Rani Ray. Niyogi Books, in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 18 November 2018, p.3.

• “Narratives of Exploitation and Deprivation.” Review of The Case for Bahujan Literature eds. Ivan Kostka and Pramod Ranjan, Forward  Press Books, 2017 in The Book Review Vol. XLII, No.12, December 2018, pp. 26.

• “Matters Etymological.” Review of Wonder Words: Untranslatable Words From Around the World written and illustrated by  Rituparna Sarkar.  Penguin Random House, 2018 in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 30 December, 2018, p. 2.

• Review of Moisture Trapped in a Stone: An Anthology of Modern Telugu Short Stories. Translated by K.N.Rao. Niyogi Books, 2018. The  Book Review Vol. XLIII No. 4, p.26

• Review of Fiction and Film: Ruskin Bond’s Romantic Imagination by Jaskiran Chopra. Rawat Publications, 2018 in Asiatic: IIUM Journal of  English Language and Literature Vol. 12 No.2 December 2018: pp.218-221.

2017

• • Review of Kohinoor: The Story of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond  by William Dalyrimple and Anita Anand in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman,22 January, 2017.

  • Review of 7 books on Rabindranath Tagore in The Book Review Vol. XLI No.3, March 2017.

  • “The prophetic, the literary and the anniversary.” Review of Gitanjali Reborn: William Radice’s Writings on Rabindranath Tagore. Edited by Martin Kampchen in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 26 February, 2017. 3.

  • “Multiple translations of Premchand.” Review of Premchand in World Languages: Translation, Reception and Cinematic Representations edited by M.Asaduddin in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 5 March, 2017. 3

  • “On the South Asian Stage.” Review of Islam in Performance: Contemporary Plays from South Asia edited by Ashis Sengupta in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 02 April, 2017. p 3. Reprinted in The Daily Star, Bangladesh on 13 May, 2017.

  • Review of Gertrude Stein American Modernist: Writing Painting and the Feminist Other by Varghese John. Partridge India, in 8th Day:The Sunday Statesman, 23 April, 2017.  p 2.

• •  “The Rushdie Republic.” Review of Mapping out the Rushdie Republic: Some Recent Surveys. Edited by Tapan Kumar Ghosh and Prasanta Bhattacharyya. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 7 May, 2017. p 2.

  •  Review of Gandharvi by Bani Basu and translated by Jayita Sengupta. Orient Blackswan, 2017 in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 28 May, 2017. p 2.

  •  Review of Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema: A Freedom Incomplete by Srimati Mukherjee. Routledge, 2016. in Asiatic Vol.11.1 (June 2017): 265-68.

  •  “Myth of the Ring.” Review of The Ring of Truth: Myth of Sex and Jewelry by Wendy Doniger in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 30 July, 2017.p.3. Reprinted in The Daily Star (Bangladesh) on 23 September 2017.

  • “Lights, Camera, Action.” Review of The Cinema of Bimal Roy: An ‘Outsider’ Within by Shoma A. Chatterji. Sage, 2017 in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman, 17 September, 2017.p 2.

  •  “Mysticism of Wandering Minstrels.” Review of Along Deep Lonely Alleys: Baul-Fakir-Dervish of Bengal by Sudhir Chakravarti. Niyogi Books, 2017 in The Book Review Vol XLI No.9, Sept 2017, p.24.

  • “Women and the Nobel.” Review of Battling Injustice: 16 Women Nobel Peace Laureates by Supriya Vani. Harper Collins Publishers India, 2017 in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 5 November 2017.p.3.

  •  “Spread of the epic.” Review of The Thiri Rama: Finding Ramayana in Myanmar. Edited by Dawn F. Rooney. Routledge, 2017 in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 26 November, 2017. p.2

  • Review of Satyajit Ray’s The Making of Shatranj ke Khilari by Suresh Jindal . Harper Collins India, 2017 in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 24 December, 2017.

  • Review of South Asian Diasporic Cinema and Theatre: Re-visiting Screen and Stage in the New Millenium. Eds. Ajay K. Chaubey & Ashvin I. Devasundaram. Rawat Publications, 2017 in Asiatic Vol. 11 No.2, December 2017, pp. 144-47.

2016

• • “The diasporic voice.” Review of The Gurkha’s Daughter and Land Where I Flee by PrajwalParajuly. London: Querkus Books in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 7 February, 2016. http://www.thestatesman.com/mobi/news/8th-day/the-diasporic-voice/121822.html

  •  “The deeds of deities.”Review of The Triumph of the Snake Goddess by Kaiser Haq. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2016 in in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 28 February, 2016.http://epaper.thestatesman.com/730864/8th-Day/28th-February-2016#dual/2/1

  •  Review of Tagore: The World as His Nest. Eds. Sangeeta Datta&Subhoranjan Dasgupta. Kolkata: Jadavpur University Press, 2016 in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman 

  • “A Culturally-Embedded Complex Text.”Review of Rabindranath Tagore GORA: A Critical Companion Edited by Nandini Bhattacharya. New Delhi: Primus Books, 2015 in The Book Review Vol. XL, No.4, April 2016: 10-11. 

  • Review of Kaiser Haq’s The Triumph of the Snake Goddess in Asiatic: IIUM Journal of Language and Literature. Online Journal Vol. X.1(June 2016): 273-74. 

  • “Across three generations” Review of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Before We Visit the Goddess in The Statesman 8th Day, 24 July 2016. 

  • “From Italian to English.” Review of Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words in The Statesman 8th Day, 31 July, 2016.

  • “The ‘Implausible’ and the ‘Fantastic’.Review of Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay’s Kankabati. Translated and edited by Nandini Bhattacharya. The Book Review Vol. XLI No.1. January 2017 : 19-20.

  •  Review of Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture and Politics edited by Amritjit Singh, Nalini Iyer and Rahul Gairola in The Statesman 8th Day, 30 October, 2016.

  •  Review of Twenty-Two New Asian Short Stories edited by Mohammad A. Quayum in ASIATIC Vol. 10.2 (December 2016): 252-55.

  •  Review of Great Fortune Dream: The Struggles and Triumph of Chinese Settlers in Canada 1858-1966 by David Chuenyan Lai & Guo Ding in  ASIATIC 10.2 (December 2016): 301-4.

2015

• "Colonial mind and the regimes of tyranny". Review of The Tale of My Exile: Twelve years in the Andamans by Barindra Kumar Ghose. Edited by Sachidananda Mohanty. Pondicherry: The Aurobindo Ashram in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 23 August, 2015. 

• Review of Exploring Gender in the Literature of the Indian Diaspora. Edited by Sandhya Rao Mehta. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015 in Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Vol.9 No.1 (June 2015):255-259. ISSN:1985-3106

• “Celebrating a Scholar”. Review of India and the World: Postcolonialism, Translation and Indian Literature: Essays in Honour of Professor Harish Trivedi. Edited by Ruth Vanita. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2014 in The Book Review Vol. XXXIX, No. 8, August 2015: 5-6.

• Review of Indian Diasporic Literature and Cinema by Nilufer E. Bharucha. Bhuj-Kachchh, Gujarat: Centre for Advance Studies in India, 2014 in South Asian Diaspora (Taylor & Francis) (ID:1057984 DOI:10.1080/19438192.2015.10579844)

• Review of Rabindranath Tagore: One Hundred Years of Global Reception. Edited by Martin Kampchen and Imre Banga. Editorial Adviser Uma Das Gupta.Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd, 2014 in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 10th May, 2015.

•   "The Other Ashapurna". Review of Ashapurna Devi and Feminist Consciousness in Bengal: A Bio-Critical Reading. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015 in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 5th April, 2015.

• "What Religion Meant to Rabindranath". Review of Religion and Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Discourses, Addresses, and Letters in Translation by Amiya P. Sen. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014 in The Book Review Volume XXXIX No.4 April 2015.

• “Resistant texts set to music.” Review of Swades: Rabindranath Tagore’s Patriotic Songs. Translated by Sanjukta Dasgupta. Kolkata: Visva Bharati Publications Dept. in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 22 February, 2015.

2014

• Review of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America by Vivek Bald. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2013 in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 30 November, 2014.

• Review of Here and Beyond:12 Stories edited by Cyril Wong. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2014 in ASIATIC  Vol.8, No.2, 2014:216-219.  ISBN 978-981-07-7991-7

• “Through a diasporic prism.” Review of Family Life: A Novel by Akhil Sharma. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.2014 in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 26 October, 2014.

• “Doughty Rokeya” Review of The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Mohammad A. Quauym. Leiden & Boston, Brill 2013 in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 12 October, 2014.

• "A Collector's item." Review of A Chughtai Quartet  translated and edited by Tahira Naqvi in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 17 August 2014.

• "Mastery of words." Review of Telling Tales: Selected Writing 1993-2003 by Amit Chaudhuri in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman,  10 August 2014.

• After Melancholia: A Reappraisal of Second-Generation Diasporic Sensibility in the Works of Jhumpa Lahiri by Delphine Munos. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2013. 237 pp. ISBN 978-94-012-0991-5 in ASIATIC  Vol. 8, No. 1, June 2014: 244-248

• The icon of creative freedom.” Review of Radical Rabindranath: Nation, Family and Gender in Tagore’s Fiction and Films by Sanjukta Dasgupta, Sudeshna Chakravarti and Mary Mathew (2013) & Tagore: At Home in the World. edited by Sanjukta Dasgupta and Chinmoy Guha (2013) in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 12 January 2014.

• “The burgeoning area of fiction.” Review of Lifelines: New Writings from Bangladesh edited by Farah Ghuznavi in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 2 March, 2014.

• “Roots of the Language.” Review of Of Ghost and Other Perils by Troikolyanath Mukhopadhyay. Translated by Arnab Bhattacharya. (Orient Blackswan) in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 16 March, 2014.

• “Notes on a filmmaker”. Review of Reading Rituparno by Shoma A. Chatterjee in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 8 June, 2014.

• “Un-put-downable”. Review of Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in Six Seasons Review (Bangladesh) 2014.

2013

• The Politics of the (Im)Possible: Utopia and Dystopia Reconsidered by Barnita Bagchi. Sage Publications, 2012. Review published in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 18 August 2013.

• “Indias in India.” Review of Media, Gender, and Popular Culture in India: Tracking Change and Continuity by Sanjukta Dasgupta, Dipankar Sinha & Sudeshna Chakravarti in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman, 12 May 2013.

• Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 1 September 2013.

• “A Wonderfully Crafted Story.” The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 29 September, 2013.

• “Origins of Literary Modernity in India.’ Review of Freedom and Beef Steaks: Colonial Calcutta Culture by Rosinka Chaudhuri in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 27th October, 2013.

• “Rebellious instincts, fervor for justice.” Review of Warrior in Pink Sari: The Inside Story of the Gulabi Gang by Sampat Pal in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 3rdth November, 2013.

• “History or Period Fiction?” Review of Jorasanko by Aruna Chakravarti in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman, 21 December 2013.

2012

• “A Collector’s Item.” Sita’s Ramayana by Samhita Arni and Moyna Chitrakar in  8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 8 January 2012.

• “Why Tagore should be read today”. Review of On Tagore: Reading the Poet Today by Amit Chaudhuri and Tagore and Japan: A Retrospection eds. Abhijit Mukherjee, Pratyay Banerjee and Anindya Kundu in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 4 February 2012.

• Review of Deep Focus: Reflections on Cinema by Satyajit Ray in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 6 May 2012.

2011

• Review of The Texture of Identity: The Fiction of M.G. Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath and Rohinton Mistry by Martin Genetsch. (Toronto: TSAR Publications) in Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies (USA) Vol. 17 No.1 2011: 210-12.

• “Showcasing India.” Review of India: A Traveller’s Literary Companion. Ed. Chandrahas Chowdhury in 8th Day:The Statesman Literary Magazine on 8 May, 2011.

• “Matrilineal Bondage.” Review of Daughters: A Story of Five Generations by Bharati Ray in 8th Day: The Statesman Literary Magazine on 12 June, 2011. 

• “A Collector’s Item.” Review of Rabindranath Tagore: A Pictorial Biography by Nityapriya Ghosh in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 4 September 2011.

• “Commendable Monograph” Sarala Devi” [Makers of Indian Literature Series] by Sachidananda Mohanty in Muse-India Issue 40: Nov-Dec 2011.ISSN:0975 -1815

• “A Footnote to History.” Review of The Best of Quest. Eds. Laeeq Futehally, Achal Prabala & Arshia Sattar in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 25 December 2011.

2010

• “Home and the World.” Review of Travel Writing in India. Ed. Shobhana Bhattacharji in 8th Day:  The Sunday Statesman. 30 May, 2010.

• Review of Travellers Tale of Old Japan Comp. Michael Wise in Asiatic: IIUM Journal of  English Language and Literature Vol.4 No.1 June 2010: 126-129.

• Review of Sunetra Gupta’s So Good in Black in Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi’s Bi-Monthly Journal) 255 (Jan-Feb 2010): 252-254.

• “Sight and Sound.” Review of Seeing is Believing: Select Writings on Cinema by Chidananda Dasgupta and Mrinal Sen: Sixty Years in Search of Cinema by Dipankar Mukhopadhyay in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman Literary Magazine, 13 June, 2010.

• “A thorough and inclusive compendium.” Review of The Oxford India Anthology of Bengali Literature edited by Kalpana Bardhan (2 vols.) in 8th Day: The Statesman Sunday Magazine, 18 July, 2010.

• “The world’s a stage.” Review of Theatre in Colonial India: Play-House of Power edited by Lata Singh and Modern Indian Theatre: A Reader edited by Nandi Bhatia in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 15 August, 2010. 

• Review Essay on Writers of the Caribbean Diaspora: Shifting Homelands, Travelling Identities. Eds. Jasbir Jain & Supriya Agarwal in South Asian Diaspora.  Vol..2, No.1, March 2010 : 135-138. (Routledge)

 2009

• “Aesthetics of a City.” Review of Memory’s Gold: Writings on Calcutta edited by Amit Chaudhuri in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman Magazine. 11 January 2009.

• “Spotlight: Cultural Translation”. Review of Something To Tell You by Hanif Kureishi in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman Magazine. 18 January 2009.

• Writers of the Caribbean Diaspora: Shifting Homelands, Travelling Identities. Eds. Jasbir Jain & Supriya Agarwal in IACLALS Newsletter. January 2009.

• “A Collector’s Item.” Review of The Golden Treasury of Writers Workshop Poetry. Ed. Rubana Haq in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman. 3 May 2009.

• Review of Mishi Saran, Chasing the Monk’s Shadow: In the Footsteps of Xuangzang in Muse-India (e-journal) Vol.25 (May-June 2009). ISSN  0975-1815

• “A Legacy Restored.” Review of The Art of the Intellect: Uncollected English Writings of Sudhindranath Dutta. ed. Sukanta Chaudhuri in Indian Literature 249 (Jan-Feb 2009): 249-52.

• “In Kolkata, Ireland and London.” Review of So Good in Black by Sunetra Gupta in The Sunday Statesman, 21 June, 2009.

• Review Essay: The Golden Treasury of Writers Workshop Poetry ed. Rubana Haq in Asiatic : IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature  3.1 (June 2009): 126-29.

• Review of The Texture of Identity: The Fiction of MG Vassanji, Neil Bisoondath, and Rohinton Mistry by Martin Genetsch in IACLALS Newsletter, July 2009.

• Review of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s We are Not in Pakistan 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman Magazine. 27 September, 2009.

• Reviews of Women of India: Colonial & Post Colonial Periods. Ed. Bharati Roy; The World is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul  by Patrick French; A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam in Apperception Volume 4 (Journal of the Department of English & Other Modern European Languages, Visva Bharati)

2008

• Review Essay: Growing Up as a Woman Writer Ed. Jasbir Jain. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2007. JSL: Journal of the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) New Series 9 (Spring 2008): 148-151.

• “Sensational Beauty and Visceral Reality”. Review of The Age of Shiva by Manil Suri in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman Magazine. 17 February 2008.

• “Half-History, Half- Myth and Purely Magical.” Review of The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman Magazine. 20 April 2008.

• “Erudite and Original.” Review of The Art of the Intellect: Uncollected English Writings of Sudhindranath Dutta  ed. By Sukanta Chaudhuri in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman Magazine. 25 May 2008.

• “A Landmark Biography.” Review of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S.Naipaul by Patrick French in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman Magazine. 6 July 2008.

• “Enquiring Indianness.” Review of  The Other Indians: A Political and Cultural History of South Asians in America  by Vinay Lal in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman Magazine. 26 October 2008.

2007

• “An Internal Diaspora.” Review of A Mirror Greens in Spring by Selina Sen in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman,17 June  2007.

• “On the Tracks of a Shared Past.” Review of Tramjatra by Mick Douglas in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman, 22 July 2007.

• “Modern Times.” Review of Picturing the Nation: Iconographies of Modern India. Ed. Richard H. Davies in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman, 2 September, 2007.

• “Collective Glory & Personal Loss”. Review of A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman, 14 October 2007.

• “A Quest for Roots.” Review of The Assassin’s Song by M.G. Vassanji in  8th Day, The Sunday Statesman Magazine. 23 December, 2007.

2006

• “Forces of Change”. Review of Henry James Cousins’ The Renaissance in India in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman, 26 March, 2006.

• “Graphically Told: Review of Persepolis: The Story of A Childhood  and Persepolis II: The Story of a Return  by Marjane Satrapi  in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 28 May, 2006.

•  “Films and Filming”. Review of Another Cinema for Another Society  and The Subject of Cinema  by Gaston Roberge in 8th Day: The Sunday Statesman, 11 June, 2006.

• “Faceless, Voiceless and Forgotten”. Review of Wither Justice? Stories of Women in Prison by Nandini Oza in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman 13 August, 2006.

• “Poetic Cinema.” Review of The Films of Buddhadeb Dasgupta by John Hood in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman, 15 October 2006.

2005

• “Dangling Man” Review of The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji in The Statesman Literary Supplement, 9 January, 2005.

• Review of The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville, in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman Literary Magazine, 17 February, 2005.

• Review of The Cinematic ImagiNation by Jyotika Virdi in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman Literary Magazine, 13 March, 2005.

• “Caged Canary” Review of The Tyrant’s Novel by Thomas Kenneally in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman Literary Magazine, 17 April, 2005.

• “Greene Pastures,” Review of The Life of Graham Greene (3 volumes) by Norman Sherry in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman Literary Magazine, 24 April, 2005.

• “Islam and Women.” Review of Women, Gender and Islam edited by Therese Saliba, Carolyn Allen & Judith A. Howard in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman Literary Magazine, 8 May, 2005.

• “Immigrant Experience.” Review of The Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman Literary Magazine, 12 June, 2005.

• “Of Spies and Bugs.” Review of The Broker by John Grisham in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman Literary Magazine, 24 July, 2005.

• “Women’s Studies.” Review of Women in Colonial India: Essays on Politics, Medicine and Historiography by Geraldine Forbes in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman Literary Magazine, 7 August, 2005.

• “ Feminist and Utopian.” Review of Sultana’s Dream  by Begum Sakhawat Hossain in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman Literary Magazine, 25 September, 2005.

• “Exotic and Timeless.” Review of Season of the Rainbirds  by Nadeem Aslam in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman Literary Magazine, 20 November, 2005.

• “Fresh and Memorable.”  Review of My Ear at His Heart by Hanif Kureshi in 8th Day, The Sunday Statesman Literary Magazine, 25 December, 2005.

2004

•  “Under Foreign Eyes” Review of Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye  by Andrew Robinson in The Statesman Literary Supplement, 6 June, 2004.

• “Living in History”. Review of Martha Gelhorn: A Biography by Caroline Moorhead in The Statesman Literary Supplement, 24 October, 2004.

2003

• “Sincere but naïve” review of Pervez: A Novel by Meher Pestonji in The Statesman Literary  Supplement, 19 January, 2003.

• “Question of Identity” review of Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament o f Postmodernism. Eds. Paula M.L. Moya & Michael R. Hames Garcia. Orient Longman in The Statesman Literary Supplement, February 23, 2003.

• Review of J.A. Bryant, Twentieth Century Southern Literature. In Indian Journal of American Studies Vol. 29 nos 1 & 2:1999. 140-44.

• “Glad to be gay” Review of The Three of Us by Abha Dawesar in The Statesman Literary Supplement  18 May, 2003.

• “Faulkner’s Children”. Review of That Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me by Suzanne Kingsbury in The Statesman Literary Supplement, 30 November, 2003.

• “Disjointed Compendium”. Review of Post-Modern Bangla Short Stories 2002, ed. Samir Roychowdhuri, Murshid AM & Rabiul Karim in The Statesman Literary Supplement  14 December 2003.

2002

• “Of Her Foremothers” review of Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women’s Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope by Jael Silliman. The Statesman Literary Supplement, 20 January, 2002.

• “Telling it Like the Movies” review of Rerun at Rialto by Tom Alter in The Statesman Literary Supplement. 3 March, 2002.

• “Flavours of the Outback” review of Contemporary Australian Short Stories ed. by Santosh K. Sareen in The Statesman Literary Supplement. 4 August, 2002.

2001

• “Finished when I’m 22” review of Danny Boy by Jo-Ann Goodwin in The Statesman Literary  Supplement, 1 July, 2001.

• “Memory and Oblivion” review of Sleepwalkers by Joginder Paul in The Statesman Literary  Supplement, 7 October, 2001.

1997

• “The Writer of Great Things.” Review of The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Katihar Journal of English Studies Vol. II, Summer 1997.

• Book Review of The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. WLWE (World Literature Written in English)  Vol.36.1 (1997): 126-130.

1990

• Review of Less Than a Treason: Hemingway in Paris by Peter Griffin. Indian Journal of American Studies Vol. 20.2 Summer 1990: 102-3.

Selected list of invited lectures/seminar presentations from 2015 onwards

2022

13 February, 2022. Chaired 4th IACLSC Author’s Workshop in Interdisciplinary Studies, Bhubaneswar. Presentation by Sutapa Dutta on “Disciplined Subjects: Schooling in Colonial Bengal.”

6 March, 2022. Presented two books on Tagore and the Muse: Memoirs in the 5th IACLSC Author’s Workshop in Interdisciplinary Studies, Bhubaneswar.

15 March, 2022. ALTLEB Book Discussion 2 on Bangladeshi Literature in English: A Critical Anthology. online book discussion

27 March, 2022. Book discussion of Bollywood, Tollywood and Beyond: Literary Essays on Indian Films at VIth IACLSC Author’s Workshop in Interdisciplinary Studies, Bhubaneswar.

09 April 2022. Online launch and Book Discussion of Beyond the Metros: Anglo Indians in Small Towns and Cities eds. Robyn Andrews & Anjali Gera Roy.

14 May, 2022. Online book discussion of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gleanings of the Road with Prof. Amiya Deb organized by kahaanikoncerti.in

17 May, 2022. Seminar on ‘Tagore’s Relevance in Modern Times’ organised by Arts Council, Rabindra Bharati University. Formal release of my two books on Tagore.

10 June, 2022. Release of three books in the IACLALS forum on Translation. (Manottama, Kobi and Rani, The Last Days of Rabindranath Tagore)

26 August, 2022. "Women and Home in Tagore's Writings" Symposium by Soka University South Asia Research Center (SARC), Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo.

Delivered lecture, “Tradition vs. Modernity: The Myriad Worlds of Tagore’s Women.”

25 August, 2022. Mumbai-Munster Institute of Advance Studies seminar on Diaspora. Spoke on “British South Asian Diasporic Cinema: Texts and Contexts”

14 September, 2022. Women’s Studies Workshop at Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata.  Spoke on Indian women’s travelogues.

2015

• 16-17 January 2015. International Seminar on “Writing India: Colonial, Post-colonial and Transnational Fiction” organized by Department of English, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack. Delivered lecture entitled “Crossing the Kalapani: Colonial Travel Narratives from Bengal.”

• 9 February 2015.  Delivered two lectures at UGC Refresher Course at Academic Staff College, University of Burdwan. i) Orientalism and the Impact of 9/11 in Cultural Productions in the United States and the World ii) Neo-Orientalism: Narrating ‘Homeland’ from the Diaspora in Contemporary South Asian English Fiction

• 12-14 February 2015. Annual Conference of Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) on “Space, Place, Travel, Displacement, Exile” co-hosted by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS-Pilani, K.K.Birla Goa Campus. Presented lecture “Migrants beyond Definition: The East Indian Bengali Peddlers in the New World”

• 14-15 February 2015.  Two day seminar on “Tagore and Modernity” organized by Rabindra Bharati Society, Jorasanko Thakurbari, Kolkata. Presented paper, “The Liveliest Art of the Twentieth Century: Cinema and Rabindranath Tagore” on 15.2.2015.

•  2-4 March 2015. International Interdisciplinary Conference on “Beyond Borders and Boundaries: Imaginings and Representations” jointly organized by CoHaB (Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging) European Union, Marie Curie Actions ITN programme, University of Mumbai and CASII(Centre for Advance Studies in India), Bhuj. Delivered plenary lecture “Migrants, Sojourners and Border Crossers: A Study of South Asian Diaspora in early 20th Century America”.

• 9 March 2015.  JUSAS (Jadavpur University Society of American Studies) one day seminar on  “World War I and America”. Presented keynote paper “World War I in Reality and Imagination: Multifarious Responses of American Writers and Creative Artists.”

•  9-11 March 2015. Conference on “Translation of Cultures: History, Society and Politics” organized jointly by the Department of English and the Department of Sociology, West Bengal State University at Ramakrishna Mission, Golpark, Kolkata. Presented paper on “Deconstructing Identity: Transmigration and Transculturation of Forgotten Bengali Muslims in the New World” on 10th March.

•  12 March 2015. Presented paper “Bilat Deshta Matir Seta Sona Rupar Noi: Assessing Colonial Travel Narratives from Bengal to Vilayet” at National Seminar on “English non-fictional prose writings of Rabindranath Tagore and his contemporaries” at Department of English & other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan.

• 25 March 2015.  Delivered invited special lecture “Indian Writing in English: Evolution, Manifestation and Future Trends” at Alia University, Kolkata.

Selected list of invited lectures/seminar presentations from 2014 to 2009 

2014

• 16-18 January 2014. National Level Translation Workshop on Children’s Fiction at DEOMEL, Visva-Bharati. Co-ordinator of Group which translated two stories by Upendrakishore Roychowdhuri and Buddhadev Basu.. Also chaired a session.

• 18 January, 2014. Chaired a technical session at International Conference on “Crony Journalism: Redefining Journalistic Practices” organized by Centre for Journalism and Mass Communication, Visva- Bharati.

• 22 -24 January 2014. International Conference on “Diasporic Indian Cinemas and Bollywood on the Diaspora: Re-Imagings and Re-Possessions” organised jointly by CASII (Centre for Advanced Studies in India) and OUCIP (Osmania University Centre for International Programmes), Hyderabad. Delivered plenary lecture entitled “Of Angst, Nostalgia, Identity and Entertainment: Assessing South Asian Diasporic Cinema.” Also chaired one session.

• 3 February, 2014. Delivered two lectures at UGC Refresher Course in English at University of Calcutta on “Literature, Media and Popular Culture.” 

• 8 February, 2014. Delivered the keynote address on “Debating,Challenging or Accepting Patriarchy? Assessing Indian Women’s Role in Society and Creative Writing” organized by Centre for Gender Studies of National Law University, Jodhpur at a conference entitled “Forthcoming Feminisms: Gender Activism in Law, Literature & Society.” 

• 10 February, 2014. National Seminar on “Achievements of Women in Indian Theatre” organized by Women’s Studies Centre, Visva-Bharati. Chaired the Technical Session.

• 11 February, 2014. DRS SAP Seminar, Department of History, Visva-Bharati  & ICHR on “The Indian Freedom Movement and Partition of the Sub-Continent.” Presented paper “Assessing the Rhetoric of Images: Visual Representations of the Partition of India.”

• 14-16 February 2014. DRS SAP Seminar at Department of English & Other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati on “Tagore’s Poetry: Gitanjali and Beyond.” Chaired a session.

• 20-22 February, 2014. Annual Conference of IACLALS (Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature & Language Studies) on “Margins, Globalization and the Postcolonial” held at Panjab University, Chandigarh.  Chaired a session. Recipient of the Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize for 2014.

• 11-12 March 2014. National Seminar at Assam University, Silchar on “Navigating Diaspora.” Delivered the Plenary Lecture on 11.03.2014 entitled “What Diaspora? Whither Diaspora? Some Random Questions, Answers and Ruminations”

• 19-21 March 2014. Delivered six lectures at UGC Refresher Course in English at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. Thrust Area: “Transcending the Canon; Emerging Indian Literatures in the New Boundaries.”

• 2-3 April 2014. International Seminar at Arts and Humanities School of Khulna University, Bangladesh on “Translating Studies for Exploring Identities.” Made plenary presentation entitled “Interpreting Him Anew?  Recent Transcreations of Rabindranath Tagore’s Texts on Screen.” Also chaired a session.

• 20-21 April 2014. Participated in Interdisciplinary Workshop “Remembering the Komagata Maru: Historicizing Indian Migration to Canada”  sponsored by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Delhi, and Gurdwara Shaeed Gunj Committee, Budge Budge and organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Presented paper entitled “British Imperialism, Nationalism and Protest: A Case Study of Rabindranath Tagore and the Komagata Maru Incident”

• 15-16 December 2014. International Seminar organized by University of North Bengal on "South Asia: Culture, Liteerature and Performance." Delivered Plenary lecture entitled "The South Asian Diaspora in Theory, Practice and Thereafter." Also chaired a session.

•  18-19 December 2014. International Conference on “The Great War and English Studies” organized by the Department of English, University of Dhaka. Delivered keynote address “A truer account than anything factual can be”: Ernest Hemingway’s writings on War from In Our Time to Men At War.” Also chaired Session IX on “Gender Perspectives.”

• 28-29 December 2014. Anglo-Indian Studies Workshop organized by New Zealand-India Research Initiative and Humanities and Social Sciences Department, IIT, Kharagpur  at University of Calcutta. Made presentation entitled “The Anglo-Indian as the ‘Other’: Cultural Representations in Bengal. 

2013

• 14 January, 2013. Chaired a session at International Seminar on “Values and Contemporary Culture: An Indian Perspective” at Department of Philosophy & Comparative Religion, Visva-Bharati. 

• 7-9 February, 2013. IACLALS (Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) Annual Conference on “The Postcolonial and/in the Indian Languages” at the University of Lucknow. Made presentation “Reassessing Kylas Chunder Dutt and his Utopian Narrative of Colonial Resistance.”

• 14 February, 2013. National Seminar on “Rabindranath Tagore and Indian Folkloristics” organized by Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati. Chaired the Academic  Session I.

• 22 February 2013. JUSAS (Jadavpur University Society for American Studies) Seminar on “Transnational Perspectives in American Literature and Art.” Made presentation on South Asian Diasporic Cinema in the United States.

• 16 March 2013. Chaired the fourth technical session at the National Seminar on “Media Ethics: Reality or Myth?” held at Centre for Journalism and Mass Communication, Visva-Bharati on 15 & 16 March 2013.

• 23-25 March 2013. Presented a paper entitled “Buddhism, the United States and American Literature” at the three-day National Seminar on “Prospective Scope of Buddhist Studies” organized by the Centre for Buddhist Studies, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan.

• 1-3 June 2013. International Conference on “Literature to Cinema:  Adaptation, Appropriation, Adulteration”  organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,  National Institute of Technology, Durgapur , WB. Delivered a plenary lecture on “Adapting, Interpreting and Transcreating Rabindranath Tagore’s Works on Screen”.  Also chaired a session on 3rd June.

• 11 December 2013. Delivered two lectures at UGC Refresher Course in Comparative Literature at the University of Burdwan.

  • High or Low Art? Assessing Jatra as Popular Culture

  • Myth and Reality of Women’s Empowerment in India

2012

• 14-15 January, 2012. UGC DRS SAP International Conference, Department of History, Visva-Bharati on “History and Imagination.” Presented paper, “Fact and/or Imagination” Assessing Selected Travel Narratives of Rabindranath Tagore.”

• 21-22 January, 2012. UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Relevance of B.R.Ambedkar in Modern Times: A Feminist Perspective” organized jointly by Sailajananda Falguni Smriti Mahavidyalaya, Khyrasole, Birbhum and Women’s Studies Centre, Visva-Bharati. Chaired a session and spoke on Dalit Literature.

• 6-7 February, 2012. UGC Refresher Course at North Bengal University on “Literature, Film and Media Interface.” Delivered four lectures.

• 9-10 February, 2012. UGC Sponsored National Seminar at Brahmananda Keshabchandra College, Kolkata on “Re-writing Culture, Re-telling Narratives: Gender and the Politics of Representation.” Delivered Invited Lecture on “Retellings of Sita in the 21st Century”

• 11 February, 2012. International Seminar organized by Rabindra Bharati Society, Jorasanko, Kolkata celebrating 150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. Chaired a session on “Tagore’s Visits to the East.”

• 16-17 February, 2012. National Seminar organized by Women’s Studies Research Centre, Calcutta University on TAGORE: THROUGH THE GENDER LENS. Delivered Invited Lecture on “Portrayal of Tagore’s Women on Screen: Some Observations.”

• 17-19 February, 2012. DRS SAP International Seminar at DEOMEL, Visva-Bharati in collaboration with Sahitya Akademi on “Tagore and Translation.” Chaired a session on 17.02.12.

• 26-28 February, 2012. Comparative Literature Association of India International Conference at Central University of Rajasthan, Kishengarh on “Minority Discourses Across Cultures.” Presented paper on “The Anglo-Indian as the ‘Other’: Cultural Representations in Bengal.”

• 15-17 March, 2012. Three-day International Conference & Exhibition on “Revisitng Tagore” at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Made presentation on “Cinematic Adaptations of Tagore’s Noukadubi.”

• 21-22 March, 2012. Seminar-cum-Interactive Session on “Writing by Women and Writing about Women” organized by The Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, Paschim Medinipur, W.B. Made Presentation on “Sita through Women’s Eyes.”

• 24 March, 2012. Translation Workshop organized by the Department of Odiya, Visva-Bharati. Conducted two courses on Translation Theory and Practice.

• 29-31 March, 2012. UGC Refresher Course on “Contemporary Literature: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Influences” at North Eastern Hills University, Shillong. Delivered six lectures.

• 4-6 May, 2012. International Tagore Conference “Tagore: The Global Impact of a Writer in the Community” at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. Presented paper entitled “Was Tagore a Feminist? Re-evaluating Selected Fiction and their Film Adaptations.” Also chaired a session.

• 13 August, 2012. Chaired a lecture on ‘Tagore and Cinema’ at Lipika Auditorium, Santiniketan on the occasion of Tagore week organized by Karmi Mandali, Visva-Bharati.

• 5 September, 2012. Delivered special invited lecture on “The Politics of Women’s Writing in India” at Sidhu Kanhu Murmu University, Dumka, Jharkhand.

• 9-18 October, 2012. Delivered invited lectures at different universities in Poland and Czech Republic.

  • "Representing Muslim and the Anglo-Indian Minority Culture as the 'Other' in Indian Cinema" at Institute of Middle and Far East Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow.

  • “Walking in a Sari and Combat Boots”: Space, Bodies and Affect in South Asian Diasporic Cinema” at an International Conference in Cultural Studies on “Dialogue of Cultures & Culture of Dialogue” at The Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University.

  • “Women’s Empowerment in Contemporary India: Myth and Reality” at Asian Studies Department of Metropolitan University, Prague.

  • “Contemporary Women’s Retellings of The Ramayana” at Department of Gender Studies, Charles University, Prague.

• 19 December, 2012. International Conference on “Vibrations between Tagore and World Culture and Literature with special reference to China” at Cheena Bhavan, Visva-Bharati. Presented paper “Empathizing with his Oriental Brethren: Tagore’s Early Essays on China.”

2011

• 15 January 2011. Delivered Special Invited Lecture at Nehru Centre, Mumbai in celebration of Tagore’s 150th Birth Anniversary on “Tagore in America.”

• 8-10 April, 2011. Moderator of a Three day workshop on Gendered Representation of Women in Indian Cinema” organized by Women’s Studies Centre, Visva-Bharati and Bikshan Film Society, Santiniketan.

• 13-14 May, 2011. International Conference at Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh on “Thinking Otherwise with/in English Studies.”

  • Participated as Discussant in panel on “Tagore and Translation” (Celebrating 150th Birth Anniversary of Tagore).

  • Audio-Visual presentation “The Word and the Image: Teaching Fiction through Films.”

  • Chaired the session on ‘Popular Culture.’

  • Presented translation of Tagore’s Pother Sonchoy at the Book Launch Programme of The Essential Tagore edited by Fakrul Alam and Radha Chakravarty and published by Harvard University Press and Visva-Bharati.

• 13 June, 2011. Jadavpur University Society for American Studies (JUSAS) Workshop on teaching literature in class through other media. Moderated the panel on ‘Literature and Film.’

• 30 June, 2011. UGC Refresher Course on Comparative Literature at University of Burdwan on“Violence and its Representation in Literature and Other Forms of Art”. Delivered two lectures on “Film and Fiction after 9/11”

• 22-23 July 2011. Invited Resource Person at National Seminar on “Post-1945 Indian Fiction in English” organized by Women’s College, Tripura. Presented paper, “The Literature or the Passport?: Evaluating Diasporic Indian Writing in English.”

• 29-30 August, 2011. UGC Sponsored National Conference on “Women and Spaces: Engendering and Re-gendering Identities” organized by Vidyasagar Evening College, Kolkata and Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark, Kolkata. As Invited Resource Person made audio-visual presentation “Reiterating Stereotypes? Assessing the Role of Women in Contemporary Jatra.”

• 23-25 November, 2011. National Workshop on “Rights of Women, Legal and Social Dimensions” organized by Purnidevi Chowdhury Girl’s College, Bolpur & Women’s Studies Centre, Visva-Bharati. As Invited Resource Person made audio-visual presentation on “Empowerment of Indian Women at the Grassroots Level: Myth and Reality” and also chaired an academic session.

• 28-29 November, 2011. Invited Resource Person at UGC Sponsored International Seminar at Gour Mahavidyalaya, University of Gour Banga, Malda, West Bengal on “Different Americas: Resituating American Identity in the Post 9/11 Classroom.” Delivered Special Invited Lecture “Multicultural America: Issues of Theory and Pedagogy” and chaired an academic session.

• 5 December, 2011. Invited Panelist at British Council, Kolkata on “India in Britain: The Influence of the South Asian Presence, 1858 – 1950.” Spoke on South Asian Diasporic Cinema in Britain.

2010

• 6 February, 2010. AICTE/MHRD Winter School at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur on “Imaginative Reading, Creative Writing: Literature and the Teacher.” Delivered two lectures:

  • Reading a Moving Text vis-a-vis Frozen Text: Cinema and Novel

  • Reading Reality, Portraying Life: Artistic Movies and Commercial Movies

• 17-18 February 2010. Burdwan University Golden Jubilee International Seminar on “Literatures in English in Asia and the Asia-Pacific: Reconfiguring the Cultural Map”. Presented paper on “What do they ‘write back’? Assessing Fiction of the Old Plantation Indian Diaspora”.

• 25-27 February 2010. MELUS-MELOW International Conference at Punjab University, Chandigarh. Chaired a session and made an audio-visual presentation on  “Fat Studies’: The Obsession and the Discourse of Revolt in American Culture”.

• 16-18 March 2010. National Seminar on “Society and Literature: Interdisciplinary Transactions” at North Eastern Hills University, Shillong  in collaboration with ICSSR – NEHC and IIAS, Shimla. Audio-visual presentation on “Reiterating Stereotypes: Indian Women in Contemporary Jatra.” Also chaired a session on “Literature, Art and Life World”.

• 29-30 March 2010. National Conference on “American Studies in the 21st Century” at the Osmania University Center for International Programs (OUCIP), Hyderabad. Sponsored by Office of Public Affairs, American Embassy New Delhi. Presenter in the session “Representation of American Culture, Media and Education in Contemporary American Studies.”

• 26 October 2010. Delivered invited lecture “Tagore the Educator and Santiniketan” at the Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.

• 4 November 2010. Delivered Invited Lecture at the University of Connecticut (India Studies Program and co-sponsored by Asian American Studies Institute and Department of English) on “The Itinerant Traveller: Tagore and America”.

• 25-27 November 2010. National Seminar at Jaipur on “Tagore 150 Years” organized by Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies and Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.  Presented paper, “Rabindranath, ‘Chhayachitra’, ‘Cinema-Natya’ and Thereafter”

2009

• 6 March 2009. Department of English, Tulane University, New Orleans. Delivered lecture on “American Literary Studies in India: Problems and Possibilities.”

• 10 March 2009. Department of Liberal Arts, Savannah State University, Savannah, Georgia. Delivered lecture “Women’s Writing in India /Women’s Empowerment in India.”

• 11th March 2009. Department of Literature and Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia.

  • Enquiring Indianness in the United States: Issues of Immigration and Acculturation

  • Audio-visual presentation on “Globalization and the United States: Seeking a New America through Indian Lens.”

• 8-11 April 2009. International Conference on “Migration, Border, and the Nation-State” held at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA. Presented paper, “Of Border Crossings and Survival: Films on the Partition of India from Chinnomul (The Uprooted) to Kaantataar (The Barbed Wire)”.

• 14 July 2009.  AICTE/MHRD Sponsored Summer School at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur on Functional English for Science and Engineering Teachers. Delivered three lectures:

  • Keynote lecture : “Politics and Polemics of English in India”

  • Gender and Diaspora

  • The Indian Diaspora in the US

• 13-14 August, 2009. International Seminar on “Provincializing America: Diasporic Mediations and Culture Studies” at American Center, Kolkata. Made presentation on “Fat Studies: New Trends in American Culture”

• 24-26 November 2009. Joint International Conference at KSKV Kutchchh University, Bhuj, Gujarat & WW. University of Munster, Germany on “Constructs of Home”. Chaired a session and participated in panel discussion speaking on ‘Home in South Asian Diasporic Cinema.”

• 14-15 December, 2009. International Conference of Shastri Institute of Canadian Studies & Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur on “Bollywood’s Soft Power.” Presented paper, “Aping the Vamp: Eisha Marjara’s Desperately Seeking Helen”.

Selected list of invited lectures/seminar presentations from 2008 to 2002 

2008

• 8-10 January 2008. Three-day Workshop on “Texts and Textualities: Comparative Perspectives” Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad. Presented paper: “Negotiating with Travelling Texts: A Case Study of Syed Waliullah’s Lal Shalu.”

• 19 February 2008. Delivered the ‘Day of Remembrance Public Address’ at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA. on  “Of Wars, Relocation and Documentation: Surveying the Japanese American Internment and the Partition of India 1947.”

• 3- 7 March 2008. Delivered five lectures at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

  • i)“Women’s Empowerment in India’ Myth and Reality.” (ii) “Subaltern and Tribal Voices of Women in India.” (iii) “South Asian Diasporic Cinema: Texts and Contexts” (iv)“Honoring and Remembering: Film and Fiction after 9/11” (v)“Race, Caste and Gender in India.”

• 30-31 March 2008. National Symposium on “Ethnicity, Identity and Contemporary Indian Literature” at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in collaboration with Sahitya Akademi. Presented paper:  “Between Community Activism & Creativity:Assessing the Politics of Subaltern Empowerment through Mahasweta Devi and Ananya Chatterjee”.

• 21 May 2008. Resource Person at English Curriculum Development Workshop at D.S.College, Katihar of B.N. Mandal University, Madhepura. Delivered lecture entitled “Between Pedagogy & Dissemination of Knowledge: Teaching English Literature in UG and PG Classrooms.”

• 24 July 2008. Burdwan University UGC Refresher Course on “History, Nation and Creative Imagination: Comparative Perspectives.” Delivered two lectures on “Remembering the Partition of India: Historical. Literary and Cinematic Representations.”

• 12 September 2008. National Seminar at Department of History, Jadavpur University in association with USIEF, Kolkata on “American Environmentalism & South Asia”. Presented paper:  “Of Whales and Dolphins: Environment, Ecology and Fictional Representations.”

• 25-27 September 2008. Three-day National Seminar of Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies (IRIS) at Jaipur on “Rethinking Ability/Disability: Reflections and Representations in Indian Cinema.” Delivered audio-visual presentation, “’May you be the mother of a hundred sons’: Barrenness and Motherhood in Bengali Cinema.”

• 15-16 November 2008. International Conference of UNESCO & Visva-Bharati on “Women after Independence: Politics, Development, Law and Media.” Delivered audio-visual presentation,  “Critique or Entertain? The Role of Women in Contemporary Jatra.”

• 25 November 2008. National Seminar on “Diasporic Indian Writing in English” at Vidyasagar College, Kolkata. Presented paper: “The Literature or the Passport? Evaluating Diasporic Indian Writing in English.”

• 28-30 November 2008. MELUS-India/MELOW International Conference at DEOMEL, Visva-Bharati on “Literary Transactions in a Globalized Context: Multi-Ethnicity, Gender and the Marketplace.” Presented paper: “Of Books and Their Covers: Marketing Literature in a Globalized Context.”

2007

• 24-25 February 2007. National Seminar on “Scripting their own stories :Indian Women’s Writing in English at DEOMEL, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. Presented paper: “ ‘I am envious of writers who are in India’: Kiran Desai, theMan Booker Prize, and Indian Diasporic Writing.”

• 6-8 March 2007. National Seminar on “Women and/in Media” at Osmania University College for Women, Hyderabad. Presented paper: “ ‘People Said I Created Pornography’: Sexuality, The Gaze and Rituparno Ghosh.”

• 15 March 2007. Seminar on New Literatures in English at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. Presented paper: “Internationalizing Gatsby and the American Dream.”

• 22-24 March 2007. International Seminar of MELUS-MELOW-India at Chandigarh on “Literature in the Time of Violence.” Audio-visual presentation:  “Post 9/11 Fiction and Film: Honoring and Remembering.”

• 11-13 April 2007. Delivered six lectures at UGC Refresher Course at Manipur University, Imphal on American literature, postcolonial theory and Research Methodology.

• 11-13 September 2007. International Seminar on “Refiguring Identity: Bridging Faiths and Cultures in the U.S.” organized by the American Literature Study Circle, American Center, Kolkata. Audio-visual presentation delivered on “Post-9/11 Films”.

• 14 September 2007. International Seminar on American Avant-Garde Cinema organized by JUSAS ( Jadavpur University Society for American Studies) and the Mass Communication and Film Studies Department of St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. Delivered an audio-visual presentation entitled “Maya Deren and American Experimental Filmmaking.”

• 20-22 September 2007. International Seminar at Jaipur organized by Sahitya Akademi and Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies on “Post 1980 Subcontinental Writing in English: Borders, Border Theories and Crossing Borders”. Presented paper: “History and/or a Sense of Place: Reading Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide.”

• 16-18 November 2007. National Seminar at Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh on “The Indian Novel Today”. Presented paper: “The Prize at the End of the Tunnel? Locating Indian English Diasporic Fiction Today.”

• 28 November 2007. UGC Sponsored Seminar at Vivekananda College, Thakurpukur, Kolkata. Audio-visual presentation: “Adapting Classic 18th Century Novels to Screen.”

2006

• 5-7 January 2006. MELUS-India International Conference at Hyderabad. Audio-visual presentation, “Through the Lens Jovially: Viewing American Multiculturalism.” 

• 10-11 January 2006. UGC-DRS (SAP) International Conference at Calcutta University on  “Imperial Constructions and Indegeneous Self-Fashioning.” Presented an audio-visual lecture titled “Dhol di Awaaz:Popular Culture as Expression of the South Asian Diaspora. 

• 14 February 2006. International Seminar at the University of Burdwan on 14 February 2006. Presented paper, “Pandita Ramabai and Krishnabhabini Das: Women’s Travel Narratives in Colonial India.”

• 17 February 2006. National Seminar at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. Presented paper,”Envisioning a Borderless Future: Chicano Activism and Literature.”

• 21-22 February 2006. National Seminar on Australian Literature at Seba Bharati Mahavidyalaya, Paschim Medinipur.  Presented paper on “Identity, Representation and Belonging in Australian Literature: Thomas Keneally’s Oeuvre.”

• 2 March 2006. Delivered Extension Lecture at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata on “Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea as a postcolonial text.”

• 12 April 2006. Conducted Workshop on American Literature at Surendranath College for Women, Kolkata

• 15-16 April 2006. International Conference at East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh on “Crossings: English Studies in the Region”. Presented paper “From Raj Bhasha to Rashtra Bhasha : Locating Indian ‘Inglish’ in Popular Media and Advertisements.”

• 10 August 2006. UGC Refresher Course on Comparative Literature at University of Burdwan on “Translation and Transcreation.” Delivered two lectures a) The Author as Transcreator: Are Comparisons Odious?  (b) Translating the Medium: Fiction to Film.

• 7-10 September 2006. Participated in Salzburg Seminar American Studies Symposium on “Redefining America: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration” at Salzburg, Austria.

• 12-15 October 2006. Presented paper at the American Studies Association Conference at Oakland, California on “American Studies in India.”

• 27-29 October 2006. USACLALS Conference at Santa Clara University, California. Presented paper on “Constructing the Post-Partition Indian Identity through Bengali Films”.

• 19 November 2006. Delivered Special Lecture at the Centre for Journalism and Mass Communication, Visva-Bharati on “Ernest Hemingway and Journalism.”

• 23-25 November 2006. National Seminar of Sahitya Akademi at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi on “Fiction Into Film: Satyajit Ray’s Interpretation of Tagore and Premchand.” Presented paper “Two Masters, One Text: Satyajit Ray’s Transcreation of Ghare Baire”

• 8 –9 December 2006. National Seminar for Post Centenary Golden Jubilee Celebration of Calcutta University at Bijoy Krishna Girls College, Howrah . Presented Paper “Between the Ideal and the Real:  Striswadhinata, Strisiksha, and Higher Education in Colonial Calcutta.”

• 18-19 December 2006. National Seminar at Jadavpur University, Kolkata on “Western Popular Literature and its Reception in India.” Presented paper: “Holmesiana: Popular Whodunits in Bangla.”

2005

• 2-3 February, 2005. Jadavpur University Society For American Studies (JUSAS) Annual Seminar. Presented paper: “Of Belles, Cavaliers, Wars and Histories: Mythical Representations of American Southern Literature.”  

• 17-18 February 2005. National Seminar cum Workshop at University of Burdwan on “Twentieth Century English Literature & Language: Pedagogy and Praxis.” Presented paper on “An African ‘Trishanku’: M.G. Vassanji’s Fiction.” Also participated in the workshop as a Resource Person on American Literature.

• 23 February 2005. Delivered lecture “Understanding Chicano Literature” at UGC Refresher Course at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

• 28-29 March 2005. MELUS-India International Seminar at Chandigarh. Presented paper: “Intertextuality and the Canon: Reinterpreting The Great Gatsby.”

• 30-31 March 2005. UGC National Conference at G.G.N. Khalsa College, Ludhiana on “Humanistic Concerns of Indian Writing in English 1950 – 2000.” Presented paper: “Shutting Each Other Out”? Cross-cultural Relationships in Diasporic Indian English Fiction.”

• 24 May 2005. Delivered lecture on teaching Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea at American Literature Summer Course for Undergraduate college teachers  at American Centre, Kolkata.

• 20 July 2005. Delivered two lectures at UGC Refresher Course at Calcutta University.  (a) Understanding Chicano/a Literature. (b)Women’s Empowerment in Myth and Reality: Literary & Cinematic Representations.

• 27-30 July 2005. Delivered six lectures at UGC Refresher Course at Manipur University, Imphal.

• 2 August 2005. Delivered two lectures at UGC Refresher Course on Comparative Literature at University of Burdwan. (a)“The Great Indian Bazaar: Texts & Contexts of Indian Writing in English” (b) “Anuvad-Vivad: Translation in Theory and Practice.”

• 20-24 August 2005. International Conference 4 of International Association of Asia Studies at Shanghai, China. Presented paper: “Mapping the Occidental Gaze: Colonial Travel Writing from Bengal.”

• 29-31 August 2005. Participated in 3-day International Seminar on “When American Literature Leaves Home: Curriculum Development and Internationalizing American Studies” at American Center, Kolkata.

• 22-23 September 2005. UGC National Seminar on “The Expatriate Indian Writing in English.” At Kakatiya  University, Warrangal, Andhra Pradesh, 22-23 September, 2005. Acted as Resource    Person and also  presented paper, “Oh, Kolkata! The New Bengal Movement in Diasporic Indian Writing in English.”

• 12-13 November 2005. Conducted Panel Discussion at National Seminar on “Europe Exiled in America” held at DEOMEL, Visva-Bharati.

• 27-29 November 2005. Delivered six lectures at UGC Refresher Course on “Other English Literatures: Texts and Contexts” at DEOMEL, Visva-Bharati.

• 7 December 2005. Conducted a one-day workshop on teaching American literary texts to students and teachers of Surendranath College for Women, Kolkata.

• 8 December 2005. Delivered plenary lecture at Seminar on “Women’s Consciousness – A prerequisite for Women’s Empowerment” at Durgapur Women’s College, Durgapur.

• 26-28 December 2005. Delivered six lectures on American Literature and Culture at UGC Refresher Course, University of Mumbai.

2004

•  3-5 January 2004. Presented paper “The South Asian Diaspora vis-a vis the Ubiquitous Bhangra” along with audio-visual aids at the International Conference organized by MELUS-India at Indo-American  Centre for International Studies, Hyderabad.

• 28-29 January 2004. Attended and presented paper in seminar at Jadavpur University (JUSAS) on “The City in American Literature, Art, and Culture.”

• 15-16 March 2004. Keynote Speaker at National Seminar on “Women in Developmental Processes” at Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology, Longowal, Punjab.

• 20-21 March 2004. International Seminar on “Emerging Voices in American Literature” at University of North Bengal. Presented paper : “The City as Mindscape? The Indian Immigrant in the United States”.

• 30 March 2004. National Seminar on “Cultural Memory & Globalisation: Reconfiguring New Literatures in English”” at University of Burdwan. Presented paper : “The Globalized Diasporic across the Pacific and the Blue Silk Girdle : An Overview.”

• 31 March 2004. Seminar on “Nationalism and Indian Writing in English” at The Asiatic Society, Kolkata. Presented paper “Whither Nationalism? Post-Independence Indian Writing in English”.

• 28 June 2004. 7th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference at Vevey, Switzerland. Presented Paper: “Autobiography and/or a Sense of Place: Hemingway’s “Homage to Switzerland.”

• 7  August 2004. 13th International Triennial of Association of Commonwealth Literature & Language Studies, Hyderabad. Presented paper: “Crossing the Kala Pani: Colonial Travel Literature from Bengal.”

• 9 August 2004. Delivered lecture at UGC Refresher Course of Osmania University, Hyderabad. “Texts and Contexts of Indian Diasporic Literature.”

• 3 September 2004. Asiatic Society, Mumbai seminar on “From the Indian Renaissance to the Republic: Two Centuries of Indian Writing in English. Presented paper “The Desh-Pardes Syndrome: Recent Trends in Diasporic Indian Writing in English.” 

• 2 December 2004. Delivered two lectures at the UGC Refresher Course in English at University of Calcutta. (a) “The Great Gatsby: The Text and its Critical Reception.”  (b) Interrelations: Narrative Theories of Film and Fiction.”

•  11-12 December 2004. DEOMEL, Visva-Bharati National Seminar on “Narrative and the Canon.” Presented paper:  “The Female Gaze: Colonial Travel Writing by Bengali Women.”

•  14-15 December 2004. UGC National Seminar at Kishinchand Chellaram College, Mumbai on “The Postnational and the Protean: Revisiting the Indian Diasporic Consciousness in Literature and Media.” Audio-visual presentation on “An Indian Fish in American Waters”: Texts and Contexts of Indian Diasporic Cinema.”

2003

• 8-9 January 2003: Presented audio-visual lecture on “The Immigrant Experience: Mira Nair’s The Perez Family” at Seminar of Jadavpur University Society for American Studies, Kolkata. 

• 22-23 February 2003. Delivered lecture at National Seminar on “Contemporary Hollywood in the Context of Globalization” and chaired session at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata organized by United States Education Foundation in India & the Mass Communications Department, St. Xavier’s College., Calcutta.

• 12-13 March 2003: Delivered  three lectures for UGC Refresher Course at North Bengal University on Indian Writing in English, Multi-ethnic Literature & Black Drama.

• 26 March 2003: Delivered lecture on “From Conrad to Coppola: Darkness then and Apocalyse Now” at Department of English, University of Calcutta.

• 27 March 2003. Presented paper on “Multiculturalism and Its Limits” at National Seminar Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.

• 28 March 2003. Presented paper “Who is an “ideal” Translator? Problems and Possibilities” at National Seminar on Post-Colonial Translation  organized by Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur & CIIL, Mysore at Kharagpur, W.B.

• 4 -5 April, 2003.  National Seminar of MELUS- India at Chandigarh. Presented Paper: “Faces of the South Asian Diaspora in American Cinema”

• 22-25 May 2003. International Seminar of American Literature Association at Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Presented paper : “The Hollywood Connection: Ernest Hemingway,  William Faulkner and To Have and Have Not.”

• 2-5 July 2003: Delivered six lectures at UGC Refresher Course at Department of English, Mizoram University, Aizawl.

• 19 July 2003. Seminar of Jadavpur University Society of American Studies (JUSAS) on American Drama. Presented Paper: “Of Screenplays and Plays: A Study of Tennessee Williams”.

• 18-22 August 2003. Sponsored Delegate to International Seminar of ICAS3 [3rd International Convention of Asian Scholars] at National University of Singapore. Presented Paper: “Is She a Step-Daughter?:Representations of the Partition of Bengal in English Anthologies and Novels.”

• 20 November 2003. Delivered audio-visual presentation “Multiculturalism and the South Asian Diaspora in American Cinema” with Gurinder Chadha’s What’s Cooking at American Center, Kolkata.

• 27 November 2003. Attended UGC Sponsored Seminar “The Many Faces of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature” at the University of Calcutta.

2002

•  19 July 2002: Presented paper on “Le Roi Jones’ Dutchman” at UGC Seminar on “Quest For Truth: Six Plays” at Ashutosh College, Kolkata.

•  26 August 2002: Participated in seminar “Melville in Perspective” at Kolkata organised by Jadavpur University Society of American Studies.

• 27-29 August 2002: Presented paper in an International seminar at American Center, Kolkata on “Walking in a Sari and Combat Boots: Faces of the South Asian Community in American Diasporic Cinema.”

• 12-13 September 2002: Participated as Resource Person at Film Appreciation Workshop  of SAARC countries on “Understanding Hollywood: From Reel to     Real and Back” organized by United States Educational Foundation in India, New Delhi & Punjab University, Chandigarh.

• 23-26 September 2002: Delivered six lectures on American literature as Resource Person in UGC Refresher Course at Manipur University, Imphal.

• 15 –16 November 2002 : Presented paper “The Great Indian Bazaar: Trends and Directions of Indian Fiction in English” at UGC National Seminar at Bolpur College, Birbhum.

• 20 November, 2002: Delivered lecture on “Black Drama: Problems and Possibilities” at UGC Refresher Course at University of Calcutta.

• 20 December, 2002: Presented paper “The Ballot or the Bullet: The Black Power Movement in America with special reference to Malcolm X” at UGC Seminar at Rishi Bankim Chandra College, Naihati.

• 23 December 2002: Presented paper at UGC Seminar on “Oh Calcutta! The New Bengal Movement in Contemporary Indo-Anglian Fiction” at Maharaja Shrish Chandra College, Kolkata.