Publications

Books (Authored/Edited)

Book Series

  • Book Series Editor: Peter Lang Book Series on Food and Cultures from the Global South. In collaboration with Dr. Gurpinder Lalli. Peter Lang, Switzerland.

Special Issues

  • Co-edited (Su-Ming Khoo and Anique Vered) of Special Issue titled: “In medias res – Decolonial Interventions”. Journal of International Women’s Studies, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts. Link: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol21/iss7/. 2020.

Journal Articles

  • “The aesthetics of childhood hunger and dreams in contemporary Indian cinema: Representations of children Sahaj Pather Gappo, Kaaka Muttai, and Stanley ka Dabba.” Studies in South Asian Film and Media (Volume 17, Issue 1, ISSN: 1756-4921). Published by Intellect Books, Bristol. Link: https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/safm_00096_1.

  • “Saffronization of Public Knowledge in India.” Public Humanities (Volume 1, Issue 1, ISSN: 2977-0173). Published by Cambridge University Press. Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/pub.2024.19.

  • “Suffocations and Breathing: Flash Mobs as a Decolonial Exercise of Wellbeing in India.” Aguipo Global South Journal (Volume 3, Issue 3, ISSN: 2984-8342). Published by the University of Philippines Cebu Chapter. Link: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13859194. 

  • “Devastative Naturescapes and Superhuman Saviors: Analyzing Postcolonial Ecological Crises in Contemporary Times with a reference to Kornei Chukovksy’s Doctor Powderpill”. Ecokritike (Volume 1, Issue 1, ISSN: 3034-9214). Published by Apeiron Editoria e Comunicazione, Italy. Link: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:64117/.

  • “Gender Empowerment in Transoceanic Feminine Folklore and Shrines: A Kin Study of Siddi Women’s Participation in Mai Misra Worship in Gujarat, India” (Co-written with Tias Maity and Tanmay Srivastava). Journal of International Women’s Studies (Volume 26, Issue 1, ISSN: 1539-8706). Published by Bridgewater State University, US. Link: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol26/iss1/4/.

  • “Pedagogy of ‘Refusing’ – commentary to Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Sreekanta, Mwambari, Mehta and Majumdar.” Fennia: An International Journal of Geography (Volume 201, Issue 2, ISSN: 1798-5617). Published by Geographical Society of Finland. Link: https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/126102.

  • “Brewing Indigenisation, Filtering Westernisation: A Socio-historical Study of Locally Brewed Alcohols in Bhutan.” Research in Social Change (Volume 14, Issue 1, ISSN: 2463-8226). Published by De Gruyter, Poland. Link: https://sciendo.com/es/article/10.2478/rsc-2022-0001.

  • “’Corona-logy’: A Re-Configuration of Racial Dynamics in Contemporary India”. Research in Social Change (Issue: 13, volume: 1, ISSN: 2463-8226). Published by De Gruyter, Poland, 2022. Link: https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/rsc-2021-0001.

  • “’Covid Batch’: A case study on unethical assessment practices in selected higher educational institutions in Assam and West Bengal, India.” Published by Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching, Kaplan Singapore (ISSN: 2591-801X, Voume 4, Issue: 2), Link: https://journals.sfu.ca/jalt/index.php/jalt/article/view/429/367.

  • “In Medias Res: Decolonial Interventions: Editorial Introduction” (Co-authored with Su-Ming Khoo and Anique Vered). Published in Journal of International Women’s Studies, Bridgewater State University, US (ISSN: 1539-8706 Volume: 21, Issue: 7), Link: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol21/iss7/.

  • “Voices of the Dead: A Documentary on the Scottish Women of Calcutta”. Published in Journal of International Women’s Studies, Bridgewater State University, US. (ISSN: 1539-8706 Volume: 21, Issue: 6). Link: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol21/iss6/31/.

  • Their Stories, Their Voices: The Orphans of the British Raj in Journal of International Women’s Studies. Bridgewater State University Press, Massachusetts, (ISSN: 1539-8706 Vol: 20, Issue: 2). Link: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol20/iss2/27/.

  • Le théâtre marathi post-colonial – Contribution de Mahesh Elkunchwar à son évolutionTranslated into French by Martin Chemana from the English original “Contribution of Mahesh Elkunchwar in the evolution of Post-colonial Marathi Theatre: Tracing the Theatrical History in Theatre/Public: Arts of the Contemporary Scene in India (Volume 219, Jan-Mar 2016), France (ISBN: 978-2-84260-708-1).

  • Reviving Indigenous Spaces: Echoes of a Native Spirit – An Interview with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Interview conducted with Jonnelle Walker. Writers in Conversation (Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Feb. 2018, ISSN: 2203-4293). Published by Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities, Flinders University, Australia.https://journals.flinders.edu.au/index.php/wic/article/view/26/31.

  • “Translating Contexts, Transforming Cultures: Bengali Adapation of Mahesh Elkunchwar’sWada Chirebandi” by Arti Nirmal and Sayan Dey. In Translation Impossible: The Ethics, Politics and Pragmatics of Radical Literary Translation in South Asia, a Special Issue of Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry (September 2018, Volume 5, No.1 ISSN: 2349-8064). Link: https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/167.

Book Chapters

  • “Littoral Gastronomies and Border Eating: Dismantling the Narratives of ‘Disgusting Food Habits’ by a Study of Culinary Practices of Coastal Communities in West Bengal” (Co-authored with Kashyapi Ghosh). In Food, Culture and Society of India: Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Rituparna Patgiri and Gurpinder Lalli. Published by Berghahn Books, 2025. Link: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/PatgiriFood.

  • “Pedagogy of Ecological Kinships: Community Teaching-Learning Practices of the Siddis in Gujarat.” (Co-written with Niharika Sinha). In Harnessing Indigenous Epistemologies for Sustainable Progress, edited by Patrick Ngulube. Published by IGI Global, 2025. Link: https://www.igi-global.com/gateway/chapter/370551.

  • Space, Race, Garbage and the Posthuman: An Intersectional Analysis of the Photographic Representations of the Wasteocene in Varanasi by European Tourists.” In Posthumanism and India: A Critical Cartography, edited by Debashish Banerji, Md. Monirul Islam, and Samrat Sengupta. Published by Bloomsbury India. 2024. Link: https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/posthumanism-and-india-9789356404175/.

  • “Green Marxism, Ecocentric Pedagogies and De-capitalization/Decolonization.” In The Palgrave International Handbook on Marxism and Education, edited by Richard Hall, Inny Accioly, and Krystian Szadkowski. Published by Palgrave MacMillan, New York. Link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-37252-0_18.

  • “De-indoctrination and Pluralization of Research Methodologies: A Case Study on the contextual-experiential approach in Cultural Studies”. Legal Research and Methodology: Perspectives, Process and Practice. Edited by B.C. Nirmal, Arti Nirmal and Rajnish Kumar Singh. Published by Satyam Law International, New Delhi. 2019. Link: https://www.amazon.in/Legal-Research-Methodology-Perspectives-Practice/dp/B082VBZTN1.

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