Research Interests: Indian Writing in English, Diaspora Studies, Romantic and Victorian Literature, Modern Fiction.

Publications

I. Research Articles in Books

1. “The Changing Face of the West and the Indian Diaspora: Reading Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta and Jhumpa Lahiri", Disquisitions on Indian Diasporic Literature, Ed. K. V. Dominic, (Accepted, Forthcoming in 2011).

2. "The Indian and the Western Traditions in the Diasporic Fictions of Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta and Jhumpa Lahiri", Conflicting Mythologies: Mapping Culture, Tradition and Modernity in Indian Writing in English, Eds. Anindya Bhattacharya and Boddhisatva Khan. (Accepted, Forthcoming in 2011)

3. "Emotional and Sexual Wants in Diasporic Life as Depicted by Jhumpa Lahiri", Indo-English Fiction: New Perspectives , Ed. Arvind Nawale, Jaipur: Aadi Publications, 2011. (Forthcoming)

4. "The Economic Aspect in Diasporic Theory and Literature" in Diasporic Consciousness: Literatures from the Postcolonial World . Eds. Dr. Smriti Singh and Dr. Achal Sinha, ISBN No.: 9783639302035, Germany :  VDM Verlag Dr. Müller. 2010, 18-24.

 
II. Research Articles in Journals

1. "The Spiritual Sense of Alienation in Diasporic Life: Reading Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta and Jhumpa Lahiri", The Criterion: An International Journal in English , Vol. I. Issue III (December 2010), ISSN 0976-8165, Ed. Dr. Vishwanath Bite. < http://www.the-criterion.com/2011/01/the-spiritual-sense-of-alienation-in-diasporic-life-reading-anita-desai-bharati-mukherjee-sunetra-gupta-and-jhumpa-lahiri/ >

2. "Defining Selves through Nomenclature: Reading Select Diasporic Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri", Research and Criticism (Journal of the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University , Varanasi), Volume 1, 2010, ISSN: 2229-3639, Ed. R. N. Rai, 117-123.

3. "Two Forms: Exploration of Diaspora in Jhumpa Lahiri", Pegasus: An English Critical Journal, Collection 3, June 2010, ISSN 0975-8488, Eds. Sukanti Dutta and Siddhartha Biswas, 72-81.

4. “Exile Literature and the Diasporic Indian Writer”, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities: An Online Open Access E-Journal, Volume 1, Number 2, Autumn 2009, ISSN 0975 – 2935, Ed.Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay, 186-196 < http://rupkatha.com/journalvol1no2.php >

5. "The Problem of Personal Identity: A Philosophical Survey through the Selected Fictions of Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta, and Jhumpa Lahiri in the Context of the Indian Diaspora", Humanicus: Academic journal of humanities, social sciences and philosophy , Issue 3, Summer 2009, ISSN 1803-7836, Ed. Srdjan Jovanovic, Czech Republic, 60-74, < http://www.humanicus.org/global/issues/humanicus-3-2009.pdf >

6. “Parent-Child Relationship in Diasporic Life: Engagement with the issue by Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta, and Jhumpa Lahiri”, Families: A Journal of Representations , Vol 5 No 2 & Vol 6 No 1, December 2008 – January 2009, Ed. Sanjukta Dasgupta, 30-44.

7. “Loneliness in Diasporic Life as Depicted by Anita Desai”, Cerebration , Issue II, May 2005, The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University, USA, Eds. Smita Maitra and Amrita Ghosh, < http://www.cerebration.org/issueaprilmayjune.html >  

III. Literary Essay

  1. "The Psychological Sense of Exile and Alienation: A Selection from Anita Desai's Fictional Characters", Boloji , 3 May 2009 , < http://boloji.com/literature/00141.htm >

IV. Interview

1. "Sunetra Gupta – In Conversation with Amit Shankar Saha", MuseIndia: A Literary e-Journal , Issue 31, May-June 2010, ISSN 09751815, < http://www.museindia.com/showcurrent16.asp?id=1645 >
 
V. Book Reviews

1. "Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo: Review", Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities: An Online Open Access E-Journal , Volume 2, Number 3, 2010,   ISSN 0975 – 2935,Ed. Reynaldo Thompson, 358-360. < http://rupkatha.com/v2n3.php >

2. "So Good in Black by Sunetra Gupta: Bespoke Ethics", MuseIndia: A Literary e-Journal , Issue 27, Sept-Oct 2009, ISSN 09751815, < http://www.museindia.com/showcurrent16.asp?id=1417 >
3. "More Light ... by Sanjukta Dasgupta: A Review", Boloji , 24 May 2009,  < http://boloji.com/bookreviews/177.htm >

4. “Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri: A tour de force”, MuseIndia: A Literary e-Journal , Issue23, Jan-Feb 2009, ISSN 09751815,  < http://www.museindia.com/showcurrent12.asp?id=1182 >
5. “The Namesake: The Book and the Film”, DesiLit Magazine , Issue 3, October 2007,     < http://desilit.org/magazine/issues/2007/Winter/reviews/Namesake.php >

VI. Autobiographical Stories

  1. "The Professor", Chicken Soup for the Indian College Soul , New Delhi : Westland Publishers, 2011 (Forthcoming).

2. “Remembering a Room and an Age”, Chicken Soup for the Indian Teenage Soul , New Delhi : Westland Publishers, 2009.

VII. Short Stories (Selected)

  1. “Monsoon Sonata” in Palki Issue 10, December 2010. <http://calcuttans.com/palki/monsoon-sonata-prose-by-amit-shankar-saha/>

2. "Bhimpur" in Asia Writes , September 2010. <http://www.asiawrites.org/2010/09/featured-story-bhimpur-by-amit-shankar.html>

3. "Who's Where?" in Word Catalyst Magazine , Vol. 3 No. 7, 2010. <http://wordcatalystmagazine.com/pages103/Sahass103.html>

4. "Mr. Sen" in Muse India , Issue 29, 2009. <http://www.museindia.com/showfocus18.asp?id=1514>

5. "Blitz" in Long Story Short , September 2006. <http://www.alongstoryshort.net/blitz.html>

  VIII. Poems (Selected)

  1. “Avenue of No Fear” in Muse India Issue 34, Nov-Dec 2010. <http://museindia.com/regularcontent.asp?issid=34&id=2325>

2. "Love Pastiche" in Anjuman , June 2010. <http://www.aparnaonline.com/amitpastiche.html>

3. "A Bust Called Tagore" in Kritya , Vol. V Part VIII, 2010. <http://www.kritya.in/0508/En/poetry_at_our_time.html>

4. "Sanctum Sanctorum" in Writing Raw , December 2009. <http://www.kritya.in/0508/En/poetry_at_our_time.html>

5. "Mind & Thought" in Pens on Fire , Sept 2008. <http://www.pensonfire.com/September08/mind.html>

 

 

 

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