Publications

PUBLICATIONS 

Journal Articles 

2024

Pallavi Panda and Urvashi Kaushal. "Reading the Signs of the Film Qala" Literary Voice No. 23 Vol. 1 September, 2024 pp. 183-188. (WOS, ESCI )

Parul Pandey and Urvashi Kaushal "Analysing skills needed for doctoral researchers: A systematic literature review" accepted for publication in Journal of Engineering Education Transformations. Scopus indexed

Parul Pandey and Urvashi Kaushal "Identifying Employability skills for Indian doctoral researchers: A thematic analysis of the Supervisors’ perception" accepted for publication in  Int. J. of Indian Culture and Business Management. Accepted in January 2024.  (Web of Science/ ESCI)

Parul Pandey and Urvashi Kaushal, "Research related needs assessment of Indian doctoral researchers: a thematic analysis" in International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management,  Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024 (Web of Science/ ESCI) 

Vaghela, Kirankumar F. and Urvashi Kaushal, "A Systematic Review of Research on Pedagogical Practices for Communication Skills in Engineering Education"  in Journal of Engineering Education Transformations. Year: 2024, Volume: 37, Issue: 3, Pages: 99-120, DOI: 10.16920/jeet/2024/v37i3/24007.

2023

Panda, Pallavi, Vasava Mithunbhai G. and Urvashi Kaushal, "Commodifying the Quintessential Masculine Hero :A Study of the Cop Saga of Bollywood "  Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Issue 50, December 2023. https://doi.org/10.25911/QVSC-0K69 ESCI/Web of Science indexed

Vasava Mithun G. and Urvashi Kaushal, "Encoding and Decoding the reviews of the film "The White Tiger" in  Forum for World Literary Studies,  2023, vol. 15 no.2  pp. 360-376. (SCOPUS indexed).

Urvashi Kaushal and Kirankumar Vaghela, "Change in the Demand for Employability Skills of Engineers: An Indian Study" Journal of Engineering Education Transformations , Volume 37 , No. 1 , pp. 120-133,  July 2023, ISSN 2349-2473. DOI-10.16920/jeet/2023/v37i1/23138  

Vasava Mithun and Urvashi Kaushal, "Commodification of India: Analysing the film The White Tiger" in Literary Voice, No. 20 Vol. 1pp.315-322. March 2023 (Indexed in Web of science, ESCI).

Kaushal, Urvashi and Priyanka Tripathi. "Women Breaking the Silence over Violence: Revising Historiography through Sorayya Khan’s Novels." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, vol. 25 no. 1, 2023, p. 1-26. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/882364. (ESCI)

2022

Anila A. Pillai and U. Kaushal. “Duryodhana, ‘the leader’: traced beyond ‘the known’” Int. J. Indian Culture and Business Management, (Indexed in Web of science, ESCI) Vol. 27, No. 3, pp 317–335 • November 3, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1504/IJICBM.2022.126959 

Parekh Krupali and Urvashi Kaushal,(2022) "Perpetuator's Perspective of the Bangladesh Liberation War: Reading Sorayya Khan's Noor"  in Literary Voice, No. 17 Issue 1, March 2022, pp- 231-236 (Indexed in Web of science, ESCI) .

U. Kaushal and Toran Talwar,(2022) “Exploring the Communication Skills of Indian Engineering Undergraduates: A Partial Ethnographic Study” in Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, Vol. 12 No. 2, pp. 256-270. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1108/HESWBL-09-2020-0217.(Indexed in SCOPUS, ESCI, ABDC).

2021 

Urvashi Kaushal, (2021) Writing and Space: Writing the City by Stuti Khanna : Review Article, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (ISSN 0975-2935) Indexed by Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, ERIHPLUS ,Volume 13, Number 4, 2021 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n4.23 . SCOPUS INDEXED

Anila Pillai and U. Kaushal (2021) “Myth Theory: A Study towards Mythic Tale and It's Reach in Today's Life” IJELLH (International Journal of English Language Literature and Humanities) 9(9): pp. 8-21 DOI: 10.24113/ijellh.v9i9.11162.

K. Parekh and U. Kaushal,(2021) “Exploring a Sense of Place and Nationalism in Sorayya Khan’s Five Queen’s Road”, International Journal of  Recent Advances in Multidisciplinary Topics  IJRAMT, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 292–296, Jul. 2021.

Urvashi Kaushal and Pratima Shah, Understanding the Needs of Engineering Students: With Reference to Communication Skills GAP BODHI TARU A GLOBAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES (ISSN – 2581-5857) Volume - IV Issue III September- December - 2021, pp.53-67.

2020 

U. Kaushal, “Re-Orientalism in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s The Selector of Souls” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (ISSN 0975-2935) Indexed by Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, ERIHPLUS Special Conference Issue (Vol. 12, No. 5, 2020. 1-6) doi -http://rupkatha.com/V12/n5/rioc1s5n5.pdf. SCOPUS INDEXED

Anila A. Pillai and U. Kaushal.  “Research methodology-An Introduction to Literary Studies.” Central Asian Journal of Literature, Philosophy and Culture, Vol. 1 No. 1 pp.1-11 2020. 

Krupa Sophia J. and Urvashi Kaushal. “Diasporic Displacement in M. G. Vassanji’s No New Land” in Re-Markings: A Biannual Refereed International Journal of Research (ISSN- 0972-611X) Vol. 19 No.1, March 2020 pp.52-58.

Krupa Sophia J. and Urvashi Kaushal. “Asians in Africa”: Examining the Implications of the “in-between” place and Hyphenated Identities in M. G. Vassanji’s The In-Between World of Vikram Lall” Ars Artium: An International Peer Reviewed-cum-Refereed Research Journal of English Studies and Culture ISSN (Online): 2395-2423 ISSN (Print) : 2319-7889 Vol. 8, January 2020 pp. 16-23 http://www.arsartium.org

2019

Krupa Sophia J. and Urvashi Kaushal. “An Exploration of the concepts of Place and Space in selected novels of M. G. Vassanji” in Forum for World Literature Studies Vol.11 No. 4, Dec 2019 pp-563-583. https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21100201711&tip=sid&clean=0 .

Urvashi Kaushal. (Re) Defining The Indian Woman: Indian English Fiction Perspective. GAP Bodhi Taru - A Global Journal of Humanities (ISSN 2581-5857) Volume II Issue III. pp- 16-21, Dec 2019.

Babita Kar and Urvashi Kaushal. Negotiating Space, Identity and Individuality: A study of the Protagonists in the selected works of Manju Kapur, Langlit: An International Peer reviewed open access journal Vol. 5 Issue 4 May 2019, pp-725-730.

R.K. Singh, T.R. Singh and U. Kaushal. Review article Note on the crop yield forecasting methods in Asian Journal of Agricultural Research.2019,1-5, DOI: 10.3923/ajar.2019.

Krupa Sophia J. and Urvashi Kaushal. “Negotiating Place, Memory and Identity” in M. G. Vassanji’s The Assassin’s Song: A Humanistic Geographical Perspective’” IUP Journal of English Studies Vol. XIX No. 1. (2019) Pp-67-78. <a https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=19900193213&tip=sid&clean=0, ESCI/SCOPUS

2018

Urvashi Kaushal. "Integrating Employability Skills in Engineering Education". Journal of Advanced Research in Social Sciences and Humanities Volume 3, Issue 5 2018, pp-179-185, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.26500/JARSSH-03-2018-0503.

Urvashi Kaushal. Non Verbal Communication and Intercultural Communication: Complimentary or Contradictory? International Journal of Communication. Vol 28 No.1-2 Jan-Dec 2018. Pp-169-178.

Krupali Parekh and Urvashi Kaushal “A Review of the Literature from Bangladesh and Pakistan” in The Commonwealth Review Vol. XXVI No.1 (2018) pp- 105-120.

2017

Urvashi Kaushal. “Women as Metaphor in Anita Rau Badami “Can you Hear the Night Bird Call and Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers” to Re-Markings. Vol. 16 no.2 March 2017. Pp 86-91. 

2016

Urvashi Kaushal. “Understanding the Migrant experience through Neil Bissoondath’s On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows", in IUP Journal of English Studies Vol. XI No.3 September 2016. p 7-15. 

Urvashi Kaushal, "Empowering engineering students through employability skills" Higher Learning Research Communications Vol 6 No. 4. 2016, DOI:10.18870/hlrc.v6i4.357 

Urvashi Kaushal. Book Review of Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy in  Literati (A Peer- Reviewed Journal Devoted to English Language &Literature) Summer &Winter (6.1&6.2) 2016. P- 126-128.

Babita Kar and Urvashi Kaushal. “Defining the New Woman: With special reference to the major works of Shashi Deshpande and Manju Kapur in Forum for World Literature Studies (SCOPUS/ESCI) Vol. 8 No. 1 March 2016 p 143-160.

Urvashi Kaushal. Book Review of “Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction: Gender, Narration and Globalisation” by Ruvani Ranasinha, Palgrave Macmillan 2016, ISBN 978-1-137-40305-6 published in http://www.grfdt.com/PublicationDetails.aspx?Type=Book%20Review&TabId=7056  publication date Saturday, Sep 17, 2016.

Ramchandra Joshi and Urvashi Kaushal. Book review of “Parsis in India and the Diaspora” ed. John R. Hinnells and Alan Williams. http://www.grfdt.com/PublicationDetails.aspx?Type=Book%20Review&TabId=7049 Publication Date:   Friday, Jul 08, 2016.

2015

Ramchandra Joshi and Urvashi Kaushal. “Migration; An inevitable phenomenon in the diaspora study: A Theoretical perspective.” GNOSIS (An International Journal of English Language and Literature) Vol. 4 issue 1, July 2015 issue ISSN: 2394-0131.

Ramchandra Joshi and Urvashi Kaushal. “Defining Diaspora: A theoretical perspective on diaspora studies” Research Journal of English Language and Literature. Vol. 3 Issue1 (April 2015) ISSN:2395-2636(P):2321 – 3108(E)

2014

Urvashi Kaushal “Teamwork and Communication” in International Journal of Communication, Vol.24 No. 1 Jan-Jun2014. Pp-30-38.

Babita Kar and Urvashi Kaushal. “Quest for Self-Reliance: A study of Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters and The Immigrant.” LangLit: An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal.

Urvashi Kaushal. “Inheritance of Crime in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables.” sent to International Journal of English Language and Literature. Edition Aug 2014 http://www.tjprc.org/view-archives.php?year=2014_48_2&id=40&jtype=2&page=3.pp- 33-36.

Urvashi Kaushal “Homecoming and Displacement in Anita Nair’s Lessons in   Forgetting” in International Journal of Culture, Literature and Criticism Issue no. 9/ April- 2014.

Urvashi Kaushal and Babita Kar. “A Review of Indian English Fiction: Second Innings” in Contemporary Discourse: A Peer Reviewed International Journal (ISSN 0976-3686) (Vol- 5, Issue-1, and July 2014).pp.-65-69.

2013

Urvashi Kaushal “Representing the Ethnic Life: Vishal Bhardwaj’s adaptation of The Blue Umbrella” published in The Criterion in Vol. IV, Issue- V Oct. 2013.

Ramchandra Joshi and Urvashi Kaushal. “Indo-Caribbean Diaspora Literature: (Dis)location and Mo(ve)ment” published in Journal of Indo- Caribbean Research in Vol. 8, No. 1, 2013.

Urvashi Kaushal, “Implications of Technology in the Second Language Context” in International Journal of Educational Science and Research (IJESR);   ISSN(Print):2249-6947 ;   ISSN(Online): 2249-8052 ;   Impact Factor(JCC): 2.5437, March 2013.

Babita Kar and Urvashi Kaushal, “Contemporary Indian Women Novelists: A Review” in International Journal of English Literature (IJEL) Volume 3 issue 1 March 2013.

2012

Urvashi Kaushal, “Shashi Deshpande’s Growth as a writer” Creative Forum (Vol. 12, No. 2, 2012 issue).

Urvashi Kaushal, “Psychoanalytical traits in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment” in International Journal of English Literature (IJEL) Oct- Nov- Dec 2012 ISSN(Print):2249-6912;  ISSN(Online): 2249-8028 ;   Impact Factor(JCC): 2.6987

2011

Urvashi Kaushal, “Theme of Fear in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call” Contemporary Discourse: A Peer Reviewed International Journal (ISSN 0976-3686) (Volume-2, Issue-2, and July 2011).

Urvashi Kaushal, “Theme of Double Displacement in Manju Kapur’s The    Immigrant” in E Women, an Online Journal http://the-indian-subcontinent.org/content/double-displacement.

2010

Urvashi Kaushal, “Quest for Self-Actualisation in the novels of   Shashi Deshpande The Journal of Contemporary Literature (Volume 2, no.1 January 2010).

Urvashi Kaushal, “Life Beyond Relationships in Shashi Deshpande’s Moving On in The Quest (July 2010).

2009- 2004

Urvashi Sinha and Gur Pyari Jandial, “Crime and Punishment in the novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nathaniel Hawthorne”, published in IJAS (International Journal for Asian Studies) Indo-American Centre for International Studies, Hyderabad (Winter and Summer 1999).

Urvashi Sinha and Gur Pyari Jandial, “Breaking of the Silence: The Novels of Shashi Deshpande”, published in The Atlantic Literary Review, Atlantic Publisher and Distributors, New Delhi (Jan.- March & April – June 2004).

Conference Proceedings 

Edited  Conference Proceedings 

• Gender Equity: Challenges and Opportunities: Proceedings of 2nd International Conference of Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Eds. Mahajan, V., Chowdhury, A., Kaushal, U., Jariwala, N., Bong, S.A. Springer, Singapore. 2022. 

• Conference Proceedings of TEQIP-III Sponsored International Conference on Gender Equity: Challenges and Opportunities, SVNIT held on 19-20 Dec 2019. ISBN 978-93-5396-182-4 Editors Dr. V. Mhajan, Dr. Urvashi Kaushal, Dr. A. Chowdhury, Dr. N. Jariwala.

Publication in Conference Proceedings

• Pallavi Panda and U.Kaushal, "Semiotic Analysis of the Film Qala" MELOW 2023, 

• Pandey, Parul  and U.  Kaushal , "Researcher Development: The Past, Present and Future" in  2nd International Research Conference and Doctoral Workshop AIRC 2022 organised by  IIM Lucknow 2022 

• U. Kaushal and T. Talwar, "Researchers' Perception of MOOCs: An Indian Case Study," 2022 IEEE Learning with MOOCS (LWMOOCS), 2022, pp. 37-41, doi: 10.1109/LWMOOCS53067.2022.9927819.

• Parekh, K.S., Kaushal, U. (2022). From Marginalization to Independence: Journey of a Mother and a Nation. Gender Equity: Challenges and Opportunities: Proceedings of 2nd International Conference of Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Eds. Mahajan, V., Chowdhury, A., Kaushal, U., Jariwala, N., Bong, S.A. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0460-8_27.pp 271–281.

• Pillai, A.A., Kaushal, U. (2022). She Education, Not Necessarily a Job Quotient. Gender Equity: Challenges and Opportunities: Proceedings of 2nd International Conference of Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Eds, Mahajan, V., Chowdhury, A., Kaushal, U., Jariwala, N., Bong, S.A. (eds) Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0460-8_6 . pp 63–76.

• U. Kaushal, “Re-Orientalism in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s The Selector of Souls” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (ISSN 0975-2935) Indexed by Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, ERIHPLUS Special Conference Issue (Vol. 12, No. 5, 2021. 1-6) doi -http://rupkatha.com/V12/n5/rioc1s5n5.pdf.

• U. Kaushal, "Using MOOCs for Developing Skills of Engineers," Proceedings of 2020 IEEE Learning with MOOCS, LWMOOCS 2020 9234350, pp. 144-147 2020, https://doi.org/10.1109/LWMOOCS50143.2020.9234350.

• Anandita Chowdhary, Vasundhara Mahajan, Urvashi Kaushal Namrata Jariwala and Somya Mudgal. “Women, Society and Development” in Proceedings of International Conference on Gender Equity: Challenges and Opportunities, SVNIT held on 19-20 Dec 2019. ISBN 978-93-5396-182-4 pp.31-33.

• Anila Pillai and Urvashi Kaushal "Gender conversation as reflected in the mythic tales of the Mahabharata" in Proceedings of International Conference on Gender Equity: Challenges and Opportunities, SVNIT held on 19-20 Dec 2019. ISBN 978-93-5396-182-4 pp. 35 to 40 

• Krupali Parekh and Urvashi Kaushal "Gender concerns during Nation formation" in Proceedings of International Conference on Gender Equity: Challenges and Opportunities, SVNIT held on 19-20 Dec 2019. ISBN 978-93-5396-182-4. pp. 82 - 87.

• Urvashi Kaushal, Krupa Sophia Jeychandran and J. David Livingston. Exploring Formal Elements in M. G. Vassanji’s The Magic Of Saida in conference proceedings “Recent Trends In Language, Literature and Linguistics of International Conference on Inter-Survival Dynamics of Language, Literature & Translation organised by Post Graduate & Research Department of English Thiruvalluvar Govt. Arts College, Rasipuram on 22nd August 2019.

• Ramchandra Joshi and Urvashi Kaushal. “Double Diaspora Double Identity: A Thematic Study of the Indo- Caribbean Diaspora Writers.” in Conference Proceedings of International Seminar on Ethnicity, Identity and Literature at The Sibsagar College, Joysagar, Assam on 11-14 Oct. 2012.

Book Chapters 

Forthcoming

• Urvashi Kaushal ,"A Casual Brutality" in Encyclopedic Dictionary of Diasporic Indian English Writing, Springer Nature edited by Manju Jaidka, Tej Nath Dhar and Natasha Vashisht.  

• Urvashi Kaushal ,"Neil Bissoondath" in Encyclopedic Dictionary of Diasporic Indian English Writing, Springer Nature edited by Manju Jaidka, Tej Nath Dhar and Natasha Vashisht.  

• Urvashi Kaushal ,"Robin Cohen" in Encyclopedic Dictionary of Diasporic Indian English Writing, Springer Nature edited by Manju Jaidka, Tej Nath Dhar and Natasha Vashisht.  

• Urvashi Kaushal ,"Sanjena Sathian" in Encyclopedic Dictionary of Diasporic Indian English Writing, Springer Nature edited by Manju Jaidka, Tej Nath Dhar and Natasha Vashisht.  

• Urvashi Kaushal, book chapter "Discontinuity and Displacement: Re-locating Indian Migrant in Select Stories of Neil Bissoondath" in Literature and Transdisciplinarity , Macmillian Education, edited by Gurpyari Bhatnagar, Jyoti Jayal & Sapna Aggarwal

2022

• Parul Pandey and Urvashi Kaushal, "Decoding the Degree vs. Skills Debate", Resilience and Transformation for Global Restructuring  Eds. Manju Singh, Nupur Tandon, Vidy Potdar and Preeti Bhat, Ethics International Press Limited, UK, ISBN (printed book): 978-1-871891-59-1,ISBN (ebook): 978-1-871891-60-7.(2022)  pp.59- 70.

• Kiran Vaghela and Urvashi Kaushal, "Students’ Employability: An Empirical Study", Resilience and Transformation for Global Restructuring  Eds. Manju Singh, Nupur Tandon, Vidy Potdar and Preeti Bhat, Ethics International Press Limited, UK, ISBN (printed book): 978-1-871891-59-1,ISBN (ebook): 978-1-871891-60-7 (2022). pp. 71-83.

• Anila Pillai and Urvashi Kaushal, "Manasa-Vacha-Karmana Karna: An Embodiment of Loyalty and Candour",  Resilience and Transformation for Global Restructuring  Eds. Manju Singh, Nupur Tandon, Vidy Potdar and Preeti Bhat, Ethics International Press Limited, UK, ISBN (printed book): 978-1-871891-59-1,ISBN (ebook): 978-1-871891-60-7. (2022) pp. 405- 415.

• Krupali Parekh and Urvashi Kaushal, "Literature and History: Retrospecting the Liberation War on Bangladesh through Tahmima Anam's A Golden Age" Role of Language, Literature and Culture in Nation Building, Editors, Sandip Sarkar, Shashikanta Tarai, Anoop Kumar Tiwari, Publisher, Edwin Mellen Press, 2021, ISBN, 1495508919, 9781495508912

• Ramchandra Joshi and Urvashi Kaushal, "From Sugar to Snow: Changes and Challenges in Girmitiya Literature of Indo-Caribbean Canadian Diaspora"  End of Indenture: An Agonising Journey to Freedom  Eds. Ruchi Verma, Narayan Kumar & Anup Mudgal, Prabhat Prakashan  2021 pp.164-171

• Urvashi Sinha and Gur Pyari Jandial, “Marriage and Sexuality in the novels of Shashi Deshpande an anthology, Shashi Deshpande: A Critical Spectrum, Ed. T.M.J. Indramohan, Atlantic Publishers and Distributors (2004).

• Urvashi Sinha, “Shashi Deshpande’s Small Remedies: a Journey Towards Selfhood'' published in an anthology, Shashi Deshpande: A Critical Spectrum, Ed. T.M.J. Indramohan, Atlantic Publishers and Distributors (2004).