Selected Publications

Books:

• An edited volume of critical essays titled Abhijnanasakuntalam: Metaphor, Mysticism and the Play of Memory (forthcoming from Anthem Press, UK).
• Translation of Amritlal Nagar’s Hindi novel Nachyo Bahut Gopal into English (accepted for publication).

Course Material for Universities:

• Modern Drama for M.A English, IASE Deemed University, Rajasthan.(Noida: Vikas Publishing House, 2011). (ISBN 978-81-259-5186-5).
• Modern Drama for M.A English, Mahatma Gandhi University, Meghalaya. (Noida: Vikas Publishing House, 2012). (ISBN 978-93-259-5832-6).

Edited volumes:

• Guest editor for the Special issue on ‘Inter-faith Dialogue in India: Theological Revisioning’, for the refereed, open access peer reviewed journal The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, March 2017.

Chapters in Critical Anthologies/Books:

• ‘Of stone people and river souls: Three women poets from North East India’ in Anisur Rahman and Amina Ansari (eds.) Indian English Women Poets. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2009. (ISBN 81-8043-063-4).
• ‘Not such a Third World Nation: India through the eyes of pulp Indian English Fiction’ in Sarbojit Biswas (ed.) Indian English Fiction: A Reader. Kolkata: Books way, 2009. (ISBN 978-81-89293-71-0).
• ‘Reading Symbolic poetry through the Rasa framework’ in Seema Kashyap and Seema Malik (eds.) Ethics and Aesthetics: Essays in Indian Literature. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2010. (ISBN 81-8043-081-2).
• ‘Indian Theatre and Realism’ in Sarbojit Biswas (Ed.) Colonial Spectre and Beyond: Essays in Indian Writing in English. Kolkata: Books Way, 2011. (ISBN 978-93-80145-83-9).
• ‘Of Tiger Man and Sacred Groves: North East Indian English poetry’ in Rajakrishnan V and Ujjwal Jana (eds.) The Green Symphony: Essays in Ecocriticism. New Delhi: Sarup Book Publishers Pvt.Ltd, 2011.
• ‘Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: Small Heroes in a big Story’ in Nilanshu Agrawal (ed.) Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. Kolkata: Roman Books, 2012. (ISBN 978-93-80905-20-4).
• Introduction to Homer’s The Odyssey. New Delhi: Rupa Publications, 2013. (ISBN 978-81-291-2942-0).

In Journals, periodicals, online journals (International and National):

• ‘An introduction to Alhakhand: A North Indian Folk Epic’, JSL (Journal of the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies), JNU, Autumn 2006. (ISSN 0972-9682).
• ‘Bhakti literature as a cohesive force in Indian Literature’, Pratibha India,Vol XXIII, No.2, New Delhi. (ISSN 0970-2849).
• ‘Lal-Ded: Saint Poetess’, Triveni, October 2006, Hyderabad. (ISSN 0041-3135).
• ‘Love in Two Traditions: A Comparative Reading of Tristan Isolde and Sohni Mahiwal’, Muse India, Jul-Aug 2008. (ISSN 0975-1815).
• ‘Of Tiger Man and Sacred Groves: North East Indian English poetry’ in Rajakrishnan V and Ujjwal Jana (eds.) The Green Symphony: Essays in Ecocriticism. New Delhi: Sarup Book Publishers Pvt.Ltd, 2011.
• ‘Shringara Rasa in Neruda’s Love Poetry’, PROTOCOL, Vol.2, Dept of English, NEHU, Tura, Meghalaya. (ISSN 0973 9807).
• ‘Mysticism in Charya Poetry’, Muse India, May-June 2009. (ISSN 0975-1815).
• ‘Poet as Seer: Nagarjuna’s Badal Ko Ghirte Dekha Hai and Coleridge’s Kubla Khan in Welsyan Journal, Bankura Christian College, Bankura, West Bengal.
• ‘Imaginary Homelands and the Excesses of Imagination: Trivialization of history in Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss’ in the IUP Journal of Commonwealth Literature. (ISSN 0974-8822).
• ‘Bidesia: folk theatre of Bihar’’, Muse India. (ISSN 0975-1815).
• ‘A Buddhist Reading of W.B Yeats’s ‘Among Schoolchildren’’, The Yeats Journal of Korea (co-authored with Aditya Gupta), Vo. 47, 2015.
• ‘Orient and Immortal Wheat: Walcott, Traherne and Poetics of History’, Muse India, May-June 2017.
• ‘Sanskrit Hermeneutics and Christian Devotional Poetry’, International Journal of Asian Christianity, Vol.1, Issue 1.
• ‘Saguna: Indian Christian Autobiography’ (in press).

Seminar/Conference Papers (International and National):

• Presented a paper titled ‘A comparative reading of Tristan and Isolde and Sohni-Mahiwal’ at the seminar titled ‘Irish Literature: Indian Connection’ organized by the Centre of Linguistics and English, JNU and UGC-Special Assistance Programme, February 2006.
• Presented a paper titled ‘Imaginary Homelands and the Excesses of Imagination: Trivialization of history in Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss’ at the UGC national seminar titled ‘Interrogating the Nation: The Legacy of Rushdie in the Indian English Novel’ organized by the Department of English, Kurseong College, Darjeeling, Aug 9-10, 2007.
• Presented a paper titled ‘The Absolute in Indian Aesthetics: Anandavardhana and Abhinavagupta’ at the UGC National seminar titled ‘Dimensions of the Absolute: Indian Scenario’ organized by the Department of Philosophy, Zakir Husain Delhi College, March 22-23, 2012.
• Presented a paper titled ‘Reading W.B Yeats’s ‘Among Schoolchildren’ through Abhinavagupta’s pratibhijna’ at the 2015 International Conference on ‘W.B Yeats: Poetics and the Individual Talent’, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, September 12-13, 2015.
• Presented a paper titled ‘Inter-faith Dialogue: The Mysticism of Raimon Panikkar’ at ICPR National Seminar on ‘Contemporary Indian Thinkers’ organized by the Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi, 13-15 March, 2016.
• Presented a paper titled ‘’Intimations of Immortality’: Prenatal Memory, Romanticism and Kashmir Saivism’ at the ‘Romantic Legacies’ conference held on 18-19 November 2016 at National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan.
• Presented a paper titled ‘Karuna Rasa to Karunaa: Poetics of Compassion in Abhinavagupta and Peter Abelard’ at the ICPR National conference organized by the Department of Philosophy, Goa University, 28-30 January, 2017.
• Presented a paper titled “Hermeneutics of Othering: Reading Ramcharitamanas’ at the seminar on ‘The Other in my Religion’ organized by Samvaad India, Gokul, November 16-18, 2018.
• Presented a paper titled ‘Christ, the Yogi: The Mystical Theology of Paramhansa Yogananda’ at the Indian Journal of Asian Christianity Symposium held on Jan 8-9, 2019, Chennai, India.

Articles and Translations:

• ‘The Inheritance of Stereotyping’, Himal Southasian, December 2006, Vol 19, No. 9 Kathmandu, Nepal. (ISSN 10129804).
• Translation: First chapter of Dharamvir Bharati’s Suraj ka Satwan Ghoda into English, JSL, JNU, Summer 2008. (ISSN 0972-9682).
• Translation: from original Hindi into English of a short story of Dharamvir Bharti (Chaand aur Toote Hue Log) as ‘Moon and Broken People’, Indo- Asian Literature, Winter Issue 9, October 2006-March 2007.
• Translation: some poems of Nagarjuna and Trilochan from Hindi into English, Pratibha India, Vol. XXIII, No.2 and Vol. XXIII, No.3, New Delhi. (ISSN 0970-2849).
• Translation: some poems of Tibetan poet Tenzin Tsundue from English into Hindi, Sahityavarta, Vol.4, Pragatisheel Lekhak Sangh, Shillong, 2008.

Commissioned Reviews:

• Review of I Keep Vigil of Rudra: the Vachanas, translated by H.S.Shivaprakash, New Delhi: Penguin Classics, 2010, published in Indian Literature, Sept/Oct 2010. (ISSN 0019580-4).
• Review of Jahnavi Barua’s Rebirth, New Delhi: Penguin, 2010, published in The Book Review, Vo.l XXXV Number 10 October 2011.
• Review of Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom, New Delhi: Aleph Book Company,2012, published in Biblio, May-June 2012.
• Review of Chetan Raj Shreshtha’s The King’s Harvest, New Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2013, published in Biblio, July-August 2013.
• Review of Hansda S Shekhar’s The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey, New Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2014, published in Muse India, July- Aug 2014.
• Review article ‘Unraveling Realities’, Himal Southasian (Kathmandu, Nepal), Jan 2016.
• Review of Hansda S Shekhar’s The Adivasi Will Not Dance, Deccan Herald, Nov 2015.