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Personal Details:
Nationality: Indian
Gender: Male
Languages Known: English, Hindi and Bengali (can read, write and speak fluently in all
three languages and use them for complicated communicative purposes with nuance);
Spanish and Sanskrit (can read, write and speak in these two languages with an intermediate
level of understanding)
Objective:
To undertake and conduct rigorous academic research in the area of Indian aesthetics to build
a critique of existing scholarship on the subject by Sheldon Pollock et al, with a focus on the
development of the Rasa Śāstra and its intersection with Kashmiri Śaivism as well as
Vedānta, in the pursuit of a doctoral degree culminating in a PhD research thesis.
Educational Background:
10th Standard:
10+2:
Graduation:
Post Graduation:
3. Authored and presented a paper “Is the ‘Popular’ Political? ‘Hegemony’ and Popular
Culture: Politics and Its Use of Popular Means” at the 7th Annual Debrupa Bal
Memorial National Students’ Seminar on “Popular Culture and Comparative
Literature: Indian Context”, organised by the Department of Comparative Literature,
Jadavpur University in August 2014.
10. Authored and presented a paper titled “Censoring as a Mode of Erasing (or
Rewriting) History: A Case in Epistemic Violence?” in the International Conference
‘Comparative Literature: At the Crossroads of Culture and Society’ organised by the
Centre for Comparative Literature, in collaboration with ICSSR, CIIL, UGC, CLAI
and Rabindra Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, in January 2016.
11. Authored and presented a paper titled “Plurality of Voices within Revolutionary
Punjabi Poetry of the Naxalite Movement: Poetry of Avtaar Singh Sandhu “Paash”
and Laal Singh Dil” at the International Seminar ‘Of Poetry and Revolution (1965-
2015): Wings of Change’, organized by the Centre for Studies in Latin American
Literatures and Cultures, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University,
Kolkata, India in January, 2016.
12. Authored and presented a Bengali paper titled “Bangladesher Shahitya O
Tulanamulak Shahitya – Sanskritik Censorship Ebong Kichhu Shombhabona” at the
International Conference on Bangladesh, titled “Chollish Periye Bangladesh: Atmata
O Shwatontrer Shondhane” organised by the Department of Comparative Literature,
Jadavpur University in collaboration with Rabindranath Studies Centre at Jadavpur
University, Kolkata in February 2016.
13. Authored and presented a paper entitled “Drumbeats of Time: Reading (or Hearing)
Aboriginal Music in Canada and the Parai Drumming of Tamil Dalits” at the
International Conference titled, “No Map, No Trail, No Footprint, No Way Home:
Rethinking Memory, History and Representation in India and Canada”, organized by
the Centre for Canadian Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur
University; in February, 2016.
14. Authored and presented a paper entitled “A quest for an Alternative Historiography
through the Music of the Tamil Dalits: Parai Drumming” at the Young Researchers’
Conference on ‘Critiquing Caste in/as Dalit Literature’ organised by the Department
of English, Presidency University in March, 2016.
15. Authored and presented a paper titled “India’s Independence through the Eyes of
Ismat the Reader” in the Symposium titled “Afsana-e-Chughtai”, organized by the
Centre for Comparative Literature, Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan,
India in March, 2016
17. Authored and presented a paper entitled “The Shanta Rasa and a Hierarchy of Rasas
in Vyasa’s Mahabharata: Themes, Forms and Aesthetics” in the National Conference
titled “Epic in India: Exploring, Variations, Transformation and Mutations” organized
by the Centre for Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of
Hyderabad, India in August, 2016.
19. Authored and presented a paper entitled “Badshah Pather: Adapting King Lear into
the Bhand Pather of Kahsmir” at the International Conference “Shakespeare’s Ashes”
organized by the Shakespeare Society of India and participated in the Conference at
the British Council, New Delhi, in October 2016.
21. Authored and presented a paper entitled “Debendranath Tagore’s Atmajiboni (The
Autobiography of Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, 1914): A Phenomenological
Reading of the Maharshi’s Bangla Self-Narrative and the Nation’s History through
Memory” at the First Biennial International Conference “IACLSC 2016: Postmodern
Nation-State and Nationalism: Citizenship, History and Public Sphere” organized by
the International Association of Comparative Literature, Society and Culture
(IACLSC 2016) and the Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, in
December 2016.
22. Authored and presented a paper entitled “Hindustani Music in the Age of Cross-
Border Tensions: The Plights of a Raga and a Qaul” at the International Seminar
‘Shifting Significations of Borders in Contemporary South Asia and the Americas’,
organized by the Centre for Studies in Latin American Literatures and Cultures
(CSLALC), Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in
January, 2017.
23. Authored and presented a paper titled “A Critique of Sheldon Pollock’s Take on Rasa
in “From Rasa Seen to Rasa Heard” at the Swadeshi Indology II Conference on
‘Global Perceptions of Indian Heritage’, organized by the Indira Gandhi National
Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in association with the Infinity Foundation, India in
February, 2017.
25. Co-authored and presented a paper titled “Simultaneity or Concentric Circles: The
Narrative of the ‘Minor’ in Nepali Literary Historiography through the Case of the
Tāmāng Selo” in the seminar “Worlding Small/Minor Literatures” at the Annual
Meeting 2017 of the American Comparative Literature Association, held at the
Universiteit Utrecht in Utrecht, Netherlands in July 2017.
Publications:
3. Article titled “The Limits of Indian Secularism” in Analysis and Review, a web
journal published from the UK, on May 17, 2017 (Web Journal)
4. His article “The Limits of Indian Secularism” has been featured and republished as
“Secularism Has Been Infected by a Venom Which Must Be Countered” by the online
news portal TopYaps with permission from the original publishers, on May 31, 2017.
(Web News Portal)
5. Article titled “Is ‘Aarambh’ about Concocted Histories and Propagandist Fiction?” in
TopYaps, on June 20, 2017 (Web News Portal)
7. Article titled “How ‘Wonder Woman’ Reinforces the Need to hold on to India’s
Dharmic Values” in TopYaps, on July 5, 2017 (Web News Portal)
8. Article titled “Hindustani Music in the Age of Cross-Border Tensions: The Plights of
a Raga and a Qaul” in Srijan Samay, a journal published from the Department of
Performing Arts (Film and Theatre), Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University,
Wardha, Maharashtra, January-June consolidated issue, ISSN: 2456-771X.
10. The candidate has also written prolifically for various literary magazines based in
Kolkata, contributing poetry, essays and plays written in Bengali and English for the
same; and has contributed translations of poetry and fiction in several acclaimed
literary journals in India and the UK.
Work Experience:
Memberships, Associations:
Member of the American Comparative Literature Association for the year 2017
Member of the “Small/Minor Literatures & Cultures”, an international collaborative
network of researchers who work on small/minor literatures and cultures both
theoretically and empirically with a special focus on a comparative analysis of their
contacts, similarities and differences. Website: http://www.minorliteratures.org
Computer Proficiency:
The candidate is well-versed in using the latest versions of MS Office (MS Word, MS
PowerPoint, MS Excel) and is experienced in blogging, basic photo editing and sound
editing.
Worked as a tutor to unprivileged children from South Kolkata slums as part of the
National Social Service Scheme, during 2010-2011 for earning one full ‘social
credit’ in the graduation course.
Interests:
The candidate is an accomplished musician. He has been obtaining training since the
past 15 years without a break, has been awarded the Young Artiste Scholarship in the
category Hindustani Light Classical Music (with a specialization in Rabindrasangeet,
Tagore's songs) by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India for a two-year
advanced training in his chosen field in the year 2010.