Books

Research Publications:

Literary and Cultural Readings of Goddess Spirituality: The Red Shadow of the Mother. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Why Fiction Matters: Reading and Understanding Fiction in Contemporary Times (New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2017), co-edited with Vanashree. Foreword by Prof. Sukhbir Singh.

The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions: Devi as Corpse. London and New York: Routledge, 2018.

Creative Writing

Indrana: The Daughter of Zeus. [A lyrical epic]. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2016.

After the Three Eyes. Kolkata: Writers Workshop, 2017. [ An imaginative book of fiction in lyrical prose on the relation between Goddess Kali and the City of Calcutta. This book looks afresh at the history of Calcutta through the lens of the spirituality centred on the Mother Goddess and Her devotees like Krishnananda Agamvagisha, Sri Ramakrishna and others. ]

Research Papers, Books Reviews, Review Articles etc.:

• “If the Moon Smiles on the Mappers of Madness: A Critique of the Cartographers of Insanity in Chandani Lokugé‟s If the Moon Smiled”. Research paper published in Transnational Literature 5.2 (May 2013): 1-12. ISSN 1836-4845. [Published by Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia]. Archived in Dspace of Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
• "Ray between Two Owls: Satyajit Ray and the Aporias of Enlightenment”. South Asian Review (special issue on Satyajit Ray, published by South Asian Literary Association, USA) 36.1 (2015):37-54. ISSN 0275-9527. Guest edited by Geoffrey Kain.
• “Mare Tenebrarum Untamed: Appropriation of Kali the “Dark Mother” in India‟s Colonial, Nationalist and Postcolonial Discourses: Lost Relevance and Polychromatic Possibilities”, Asian Studies 26-2(July-December 2008): 53-72[ISSN 0970-7301] [Catalogued at the library of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi]
• "The Body and Freedom: Reading the “Body” in Indian Philosophies with Judith Butler", research paper published in Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 10 (June, 2013): 27-44. [international journal published by Scottish Church College, Kolkata, India] ISSN 0973-8738.
• “Two "Seers‟ of the Hindu Chaosmos: A Diotimean Schizoanalysis of the Approaches of Iris Murdoch and Diana Eck to the Hindu Images.” Research and Criticism (Journal of Dept. of English, BHU, published by Pencraft International, Delhi), New Series 4(2013): 44-56. ISSN 2229-3639.
• “Diotima Tantra: A Cross-Cultural Critique Of The Socratic Solution To The Enigma Of Beauty”. Samyukta.14.1 (January 2014): 54-64.
• “Goddess Sarasvati and the English Language: Musings on the Transculturalization of the Muse.” Research and Criticism, 2015 Issue, (the Centenary Year of BHU and the Department of English, BHU), pp. 35-49.
• “Integrating the Home and the Path: Sankha Ghosh’s Tagore Criticism.” Muse India 76 (Nov-Dec 2017). Special Issue on Jnanpith Awardee Sankha Ghosh.
• “Vedantic Shaktism and Swami Vivekananda’s Heroic Hinduism.” The Vedanta Kesari (A Cultural and Spiritual Monthly of the Ramakrishna Order since 1914) December 2018[Special issue on the 125^th Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s Chicago Address]: 87-92.
• “The Spirit of Romanticism in Charles Dickens’s Novels.” Review Article. The Critical Endeavour 24 (Jan 2018): 386-391.
• "Stillness and the World, or, the "Wordy Watery Womb"." Book Review of Gopinath Kaviraj‟s Jnanaganja, trans. Gautam Chatterjee and Adyashanti‟s The Way of Liberation, in Research and Criticism, the Departmental Journal of English, 2014 issue, a special issue on Literature and Mysticism. Pp. 119-128.

Books Chapters:

1. “Aphrodite of “amor oscuro”: The “Queer” Dialectic of Starngerhood and Familiarity in Urban Spaces in Contemporary English Novels from India and Canada.” At the Crossroads of Culture and Literature, ed. Suchorita Chattopadhyay and Debashree Dattaray. New Delhi: Primus Books, 2016. Pp 147-158.

2. “Introduction: Filaments of Fiction”, in Why Fiction Matters, ed. Prof Vanashree and Anway Mukhopadhyay (Delhi: Pencraft International, 2017).

3. “Loneliness and the Sun: Lonely Women and “Languageing” in Menis Koumandareas’s Koula and Selma Lagerlof’s “The Eclipse””. In Why Fiction Matters. Pp. 109-124.

4. The Postcolonial Critic and Her Naxalite Past: Postcolonial Anamnesis and the Retrospect of the Naxalite Movement in Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s Phoenix. In Naxalite Politics: Poststructuralist, Postcolonial and Subaltern Perspectives. Ed. Pradip Basu. Kolkata: Setu Prakashani, 2017. 119-143.

5. The Naxalite Movement and Sexual Subalternity: The Archaeology of an Absence. In Naxalite Politics: Poststructuralist, Postcolonial and Subaltern Perspectives. Ed. Pradip Basu. Kolkata: Setu Prakashani, 2017. 219-234.

6. The thematic arrangement of the textual analysis of and short critical essays on the Mahabharata (Sabha Parva), Mrichchhakatika, Abhijnanashakuntalam, Kadambari, in BA English Honours CBCS Help Book – One (CC 1 and SS 2), edited by Prof Nandini Bhattacharya, published by Burdwan University Press, 2017. ISBN 8187259949. This book contains critical analysis of and study materials on the texts included in the New CBCS Syllabus introduced to the UG students of English Honours studying in the 200+ colleges affiliated to the University of Burdwan.

7. “Nature Is Not Trash: The Dynamics of Food and Superstructure in the Eco-theography of Goddess Annapurna.” Ecocriticism and Environment: Rethinking Literature and Culture. Ed. Debashree Dattaray and Sarita Sharma. Foreword by Robert P. Goldman. New Delhi: Primus Books, 2017. 21-34.