Publications

1. (With Talat) “Dalit Women and Multiple Patriarchies: A Study of Bama’s Sangati and Baby Kamble’s The Prison We Broke,” The IUP Journal of English Studies, (ISSN: 0973-3728), Forthcoming in the December 2023 Issue
2. (With Talat) “Bearing Witness: Dalit Women as Outsider Within: A Standpoint Exploration,” Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, Forthcoming in the December 2023 Issue
3. (With Talat) “Bearing the Burden of Precarity: The Intersectional Struggle of Dalit Women,” Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica Junior, Vol 14, No.1, 2023, pp. 897-904, (ISSN: 2037-4445)
4. (with Sana Asif) “Transgression of Gendered Spaces in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column: Towards Construction of Female Agency,” The IUP Journal of English Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2, June 2023, pp. 41-53, (ISSN: 0973-3728)
5. (with Sana Asif) “Tangible Heritage & Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women,” Studies in Media and Communication, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2023, pp. 18-21, (ISSN: 2325-8071)
6. (with Dipak Kumar Mandal) “Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Trauma Theory with Special Reference to Hysteria”, Journal of Positive School Psychology, Vol. 6, No. 4, April 2022, pp. 10256-10260, (ISSN: 2717-7564)
7. (with MD. Yaqub Alam) “Struggle and Exploitation of the Common and Poor Strata of Society in Arvaind Adiga’s Novel The White Tiger”, Journal of Positive School Psychology, Vol. 6, No. 2, April 2022, pp. 3884-3890, (ISSN: 2717-7564)
8. (with MD. Yaqub Alam) “Study on Social Struggle in Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger”, Webology, Vol. 19, No. 2, March 2022, pp. 3834-3839, (ISSN: 1735-188X)
9. (with Yaqub Ashrafi) “Social Milieu in Arvind Adiga’s Novel”, Natural Volatiles and Essential Oils, Vol. 8, Issue. 5, November 2021, pp. 3794-3802, (ISSN: 2148-9637)
10. “Pada to Dhamma: A Path to the Righteous Self”, The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society, Vol. 11, No. 2, September 2021, pp. 249-261, (ISSN: 2154-8633)
11. Poem “Brahma”, Journal of International Women’s Studies, Vol. 22, No. 5, June 2021, pp. 474-475, (ISSN: 1539-8706)
12. “Nāgaraka in the KāmasÅ«tra: An Introduction to Masculinity in Early India”, Masculinities and Social Change, Vol. 10, No. 1, February 2021, pp. 54-76, (ISSN: 2014-3605)
13. (with Miranda Das) “Crimes of Sexual Violence within International Criminal Law: A Historical Outline”, Journal of Politics and Law, Vol. 14, No. 1, November 2020, pp. 1-11, (ISSN 1913-9047)
14. “Teleological Trajectory of Subjection: A Critique of Marlovian Heroes”, Litera: Journal of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2, December 2020, pp. 385-406, (eISSN: 2602-2117)
15. Chapter on “Kamakhya”, Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, Hinduism & Tribal Religions, Dordrecht: Springer, 2022, pp. 737-739, (ISBN: 978-94-024-1036-5)
16. Chapter on “Buddhism”, The Himalayas: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, & Culture, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2018, pp. 91-93, (ISBN: 978-1-4408-3938-2)
17. Chapter on “Shiva”, The Himalayas: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, & Culture, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2018, pp. 227-228, (ISBN: 978-1-4408-3938-2)
18. (with Satwant Kaur) Chapter on “GhÅ«á¹?ghaá¹­a: A Patriarchal Tool for Veiling Women’s Subjectivity and Sexuality”, Mirror on the Veil: A Collection of Personal Essays on Hijab and Veiling, Ed. Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi & Shaheen Pasha, London: Critical, Cultural & Communications Press, 2017, pp. 163-167, (ISBN: 978-1-905510-51-1)
19. Chapter on “Partition of India: A Manual & Mental Cleft”, The Local and the Global in Postcolonial Literature, Ed. Punyashree Panda, New Delhi: Authorspress, 2014, pp. 73-86, (ISBN: 978-81-7273-881-5)
20. (with Miranda Das) Photograph “Locomonster: Memory of Colonial Modernity”, Monsters and the Monstrous, Vol. 2, No. 1, May 2012, pp. 79-80, (ISSN: 1756-770X)
21. “Cypower: A Virtual Challenge to Actual Power”, Creative Forum, Vol. 19, No. 1-2, Jan-Dec 2006, pp. 113-119, (ISSN: 0975-6396)
22. Play Anti-Gone: An Adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, performed (under the Guidance of Dr. H. S. Shiva Prakash, School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU), 17 April 2006

Papers Presented in Conferences/Seminars: 

• (with Dipak Kumar Mandal) “The Other Side of Silence by Urvashi Butalia: Feminism of Women’s Voices during Partition,” Two-Day National Conference on Women@75: Work, Life and Freedom (17-18 March 2023), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India
• (with Miranda Das) “Massage: A Study of Slipperiness of Gender or Sex Identity in the KāmasÅ«tra”, 16^th Annual Conference on Asian Studies: Bodies, Gender, Identities (25-26 November 2022), Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
• (with Miranda Das) “A Critique of Subjectivisation in Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, Volumes 1-4”, 2022 Comparative Literature Conference on Truth in the Late Foucault (10-13 February 2022), University of South Carolina, USA
• “Local People’s English: A Case Study of Patna in Bihar”, Transcultural Encounters 3: Debate! Language, Culture and Information in Interaction (10-11 June 2021), Transcultural Encounters Research Center, University of Oulu, Finland
• (with Sana Asif) “Forgetting and Remembering: Reinterpreting Memory and Trauma in Broken Reed,” Postcolonial Narratives: Theorizations and Transformations (11-12 March 2021), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar, India
• “Nāgaraka: An Introduction to Masculinity in Early India”, Historicising Masculinities Conference (02-04 July 2019), School of History, Classics & Archaeology, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
• “Consent & Coercion in the KāmasÅ«tra: A Study of Sexual Violence in Early India”, Interdisciplinary & International Conference on Sexual Violence (15-16 April 2016), College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
• “In the Eye of Horus: Surveillance Technology & Emergence of the New Deviant Subject in Contemporary India”, Exploring Moral Interfaces: Private Worlds & Public Systems, An International Conference (07-09 October 2015), The English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
• “Sexual Violence and Construction of Gender in Early India: A Classic Case of the KāmasÅ«tra of Vātsyāyana”, Violence in Indian History, Second Annual International Conference (1 November 2013), Conference Hall, International Guest House, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
• “Pada to Dhamma: A Path to Righteous Self”, International Conference on Dharma-Dhamma (21-23 September 2012), Sanchi/Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
• “From Mythology to Epistemology: Sex and Gender in Ancient India”, Culture, Myth and Knowledge, International Seminar (25-27 February 2011), College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu & Kashmir, India
• “Partition of India: A Manual and Mental Cleft”, Representing Conflict: Students’ National Seminar (11-13 November 2010), Department of English, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
• “Rise of the Bollywood Item Numbers: A Gender Perspective”, ELTAI J& K Chapter, First National Seminar (13-14 March 2009), Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu & Kashmir, India

Invited Lectures/Talks/Resource Person/Keynote Speaker

1. “Women on the Web: A Study of Women on YouTube” in Free International Webinar 235 (31 October 2021), Institute of Global Professionals, Chattogram, Bangladesh
2. Resource Person for “The Matrix of Power: A Foucauldian Notion” in Seven Day Mentorship Programme for Faculty Development in Critical Theory and Praxis (27 September 2021-05 October 2021), Department of Department of English, Jaipur National University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
3. Resource Person for “Plagiarism: An Introduction” in Virtual Five Days Faculty Development Programme on Application of Tools and Techniques in Research Methodology (15-19 March 2021), Department of Civil Engineering, Sona College of Technology, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India
4. Resource Person for “Information and Communications Technology in Education: An Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning”, Five Days Online Faculty Development Programme on Capacity Building: Research Methods and Effective Teaching Methodology (14-18 December 2020), Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar, India
5. Resource Person for “Research Ethics: Plagiarism and Citation”, Five Days Online Faculty Development Programme on Capacity Building: Research Methods and Effective Teaching Methodology (14-18 December 2020), Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar, India
6. “Plagiarism and its Prevention in Academic Writing: A Webinar”, 08 June 2020, Royal School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Royal Global University, Guwahati, Assam, India
7. Resource Person for “Interview Skills” in Five Day Workshop on Soft Skills (22-26 July 2019), Department of Applied Science & Humanities, Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India
8. As Keynote Speaker “Prevention of Plagiarism”, One Week Faculty Development Programme on Academic Writing: Theory & Praxis (01-06 November 2018), School of Languages & Literature, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu & Kashmir, India
9. As Keynote Speaker “Citations, References and Bibliography”, One Week Faculty Development Programme on Academic Writing: Theory & Praxis (01-06 November 2018), School of Languages & Literature, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu & Kashmir, India

Conferences/Seminars/Workshops

1. Attendee, Five-Day National Workshop on “Translating Folktales of Sikkim: Co-Creation, Critique and Collaboration” (12-16 September 2022), Department of English, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India
2. Member, Technical Committee, 2^nd RSRI Conference on Contemporaneity of Language and Literature in the Robotized Millennium, Department of English and Other Foreign Languages, SRMIST, REST Society for Research International, 23-24 September 2020
3. Attendee, A Two-Week Workshop on “Capacity Building Programme for Faculty Members in Social Sciences” (07-18 March 2018), Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India
4. Organized a Lecture by Prof Dhruv Raina from JNU, New Delhi, on “The Humanities for Scientists & Engineers: The Relationship between the Natural & Social Sciences” (28 August 2017), Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar, India
5. Attendee, Authors’ Workshop (Conducted by Prof Payal Kumar) on “How to Write for and Get Published in Scientific Journals” (09 February 2017), National Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar, India
6. Attendee, Lecture (by Prof SC Dutta Roy, IIT Delhi) on “The Art of Setting a Good Question Paper” (06 February 2017), National Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar, India
7. Attendee, National Symposium on Digital Humanities: Perspectives & Challenges (09 September 2016), Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India
8. Attendee, National Seminar on Questioning Identity: Response of the State & Community in Contemporary India (23-24 August 2013), Barrockpore Rashtraguru Surendranath College, Barrockpore, West Bengal, India
9. Discussion Initiator, Culture, Myth and Knowledge, International Seminar (25-27 February 2011), College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu & Kashmir, India

Collaboration/Consultancy

• External Examiner for Question Paper Setting for PhD Entrance Examination, Shri Vishwakarma Skill University, a State Skill University, Government of Haryana, Gurugram, Haryana, December 2020
• Reviewed an Article for English Language Teaching: An International Journal, ISSN: 1916-4742, 2019
• Member, Syllabus Review Committee for English, Department of Science and Technology, Government of Bihar, 2017