Research Interests: Pursuing Ph.D Degree in the Department of English, University of Calcutta since 2002. Working on project entitled – Experimenting with Forms: A Study of Doris Lessing's Novels (Project was supported by UGC Junior and Senior Research Fellowship from 2002-2005 and The Charles Wallace India Trust for collection of material in the UK in 2007)

Publications

• ‘The Novel Cinematised: Re-reading Salman Rushdie's The Midnight's Children ', printed in The Journal of the Department of English, Vol. XXX (1&2), 2002-2003.
• ‘Anamni Angana : Grantha thekey Mancha' in Newsletter commemorating the ninth anniversary of Swapna Sandhani , Calcutta , 2001.

Articles Published in the Pegasus , the Bulletin of the Department of English, Heramba Chandra College, Calcutta.

• ‘The Nobel Prize', vol. 2, no. 1 January 2004 (An overview of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel laureates).
• ‘Women and Literary Imagination', Vol. 1 No. 6, July 2001 (A report on the Seminar organised by Women's Studies Research Centre, University of Calcutta and Shahitya Akademy).
• ‘ Reading ‘Gone with the Wind' as a Victorian Novel', Vol. 1, No. 4, February, 2000.
• ‘Why English Honours: An Interview with the Involved', Vol. 1, No. 1, May 1999.

Publications in The Statesman, Calcutta.

• ‘Singing a Different Tune', in Downtown , January 8, 1999. (An Interview with singer Indranil Sen).
• ‘Your Friendly Local Guide', in Downtown , Mar 27, 1998, 1. (A feature on a little magazine Protidarpan )
• ‘Dreamers of Dreams', in Impressions , July 6, 1997, 3. (A feature on the Bengali theatre group Swapna Sandhani and a Review of their first performance of Prothom Partha )
• ‘Don't Worry Be Happy', in Downtown , May 25, 1997, 12.

Presentations

• ‘Reading The Grass is Singing as Detective Fiction', presented in the Second International Conference on Doris Lessing organised by the Doris Lessing Society in the Leeds Metropolitan University, 6-8 July 2007.
• ‘Negotiating Donne in Tagore's Shesher Kabita ' presented in the UGC sponsored International Seminar Re-evaluations: 16 th and 17 th Century Metaphysical Poetry organised by the Department of English, University of Kalyani on November 21, 2006.
• ‘The Great Indian Family and the Tropes of the Nation and the State' presented in the Annual Conference of Indian Association of Commonwealth Language And Literature Studies on The Nation and the Postcolonial: Indian Perspectives held at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, from 3-5 February 2006.
• Presented a talk on History of English Literature: An Overview in Basanti Devi College on September 22, 2004
• Presented a paper entitled ‘Apocalyptic Visions of a Nation: Lessing's View of England' in the 13 th Triennial International Conference of ‘ACLALS' held in Hyderabad , 4-9 August 2004.
• A paper entitled ‘Pluralising the Self in Doris Lessing's The Four-Gated City ' was presented in “The First International Seminar on Doris Lessing”, organised by the ‘Doris Lessing Society', held in New Orleans , 1-4 April 2004. Paper currently under consideration for publication.
• Presented a talk on ‘American Myths, Acculturation and Francis Coppola's The Godfather ' organised by “The American Literature Study Circle, Calcutta”, on 24 th September 2003 in the American Centre, Calcutta.
• Presented a paper on Literature and Myth at the Inter-University M. Phil Colloquium in Calcutta University in April 2000

 

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