Talks

invited talks

• "Practising Postcolonial Theory: The Indian Context". Organised by the Department of English and Modern European Languages, Banasthali Vidyapith, India, on 3rd September, 2023.

• "Revisiting Mimicry: Colonial India and the Middle-class Desire for Anglicisation". A conversation with Professor Claire Chambers on the book, Being English: Indian Middle Class and the Desire for Anglicisation, organised by the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, UK, on 25th May, 2023.

• ""Single, Singular and Together": Self-identity as Repetition of Difference in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's "If Only"". Organised by the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, UK, on 22nd May, 2023.

• "The Biography of Defiance." Roundtable discussion with Professor Arupjyoti Saikia and Dr Bharati Puri, hosted by SynTalk, Mumbai, India, on 29th April, 2023.

• "Beyond the Trope of National Homecoming: Indian English Life Writings and the Secret History of Anglicized Self-fashioning." Organised by the Department of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, South Asian Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany, on 22nd April 2022.

• "The Tradition of Political Autobiography in Indian Literature." Organised by Gokhale Memorial Girls' College, India, on 12th March, 2022.

• "Shal Trees Turning into Oaks: Lure and Anxiety of Anglicization in Colonial Bengal." Organised by Bidhan Chandra College, Asansol, India, on 29th November 2020.

• "Locating the Intimate Self: Gandhi, Anglicisation, and the Nationalist Discourse of the Indian Middle Class." Organised by NSS College Ottapalam, India, on 2nd October 2020.

• "Gandhi as Absence: Indian Middle-Class Nationalism and the Politics of Elsewhere." Jointly organised by IIT Kanpur, India and La Trobe University, Australia, on 27th August 2020.

• “Burying the Weathervane: Networks of Violence, Dispossession, and Charity in Anuradha Roy’s Sleeping on Jupiter.” Organised by the Centre d’Enseignement et de Recherche en Etudes Postcoloniales, University of Liège, Belgium, on 23rd May 2018.

• “Negotiating Hindu Indigenism: Rabindranath Tagore and the Problematics of Cultural Reform in a Postcolonial Society”. Organised by South Asian Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany, on 21st May 2018.

• “Imitation and Subjectivity: Exploring the Idea of “Anukaran” in the Writings of Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay”. Organised by South Asian Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany, on 30th May 2017.

conference presentations

• "Untranslatability as Environmental Justice: Planetarity, sacredness, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s translation of Mahasweta Devi’s “Pterodactyl”". Presented in the 18th triennial conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS), organised jointly by the French Society for Postcolonial Studies (SEPC/Société des Études Postcoloniales) and Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, France, from 6 to 10 June, 2023.  

• “Un-remembering the Homeland: Trauma, Nostalgia and the Past in Dom Moraes’s Non-Memoirs”. Presented in the 15th symposium of the Scientific Observatory of the Written, Oral and Filmic Memory and of the Autobiographical Patrimony, organised by Mediapolis-Europa in Rome, Italy, from 20 to 22 June, 2016

• “Return to Indiannness: Chamcha, Chaudhuri, Rushdie and the Trajectories of Indian Homecoming”. Presented in the colloquium titled “Le Retour: Espaces – Fractures – Transitions” organized by Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour in Pau, France, from 27 to 29 May, 2015.

• “Realigning the Journey of Homecoming: The Unique Trajectory of Nirad C. Chaudhuri's Journey from India to Britain". Presented in the conference on “Migration” during the triennial convention of the British Comparative Literature Association, organised jointly by the University of Essex, UK, and the British Comparative Literature Association in Colchester, UK, from 8 to 13 July, 2013. 

•  “Return as a Stranger: Dom Moraes and the Ambiguity of Homecoming". Presented in the international conference on "Extraterritoriality of Languages, Literatures and Civilizations: Assessment and Prospect", organised by University of Paris (Est Créteil) in Paris, France, from 18 to 20 October, 2012

• "Of Ex-White Men: Whiteness and Nationalist Self-Fashioning in Rabindranath Tagore’s Gora and Nirad Chaudhuri’s Autobiography of an Unknown Indian". Presented in the "Second Global Conference on Images of Whiteness" organised by Inter-Disciplinary.Net, in the University of Oxford, UK, from 7 to 9 July 2012.