LECTURES DELIVERED IN ONLINE MODE:
1. Initiated a Discussion Session under the auspices of “Talking Films Online,” on 15 July 2023, on Bonani, an Assamese film directed by Jahnu Barua and released in the year 1989.
2. Delivered a Lecture in the Orientation Course (Basic Foundation) organized by the Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT), Guwahati, on 10 February 2023. TITLE: “Relevance of Multilingualism: Three Language Formula with Reference to NEP-2020”
3. Delivered a Lecture in the Online Refresher Course on “Literatures of North East India: Translation and National Integration” organized by the Teaching Learning Centre in association with the Dept of Assamese, Tezpur University, on 22nd December 2022. TITLE: “Relevance of Comparative Literature in North East India”
4. Delivered three Lectures as a Resource Person in the Short-Term Course (Online) on “Folklore Studies in the Digital Age,” organized by the Centre for Language, Translation & Cultural Studies, School of Humanities, Netaji Subhash Open University, Kolkata, from December 2022 to February 2023.
Lecture 1: “Folklore and Multimediality” (Date of Lecture: 11th December 2022)
Lecture 2: “Folklore in/through Social Media” (Date of Lecture: 24th December 2022)
Lecture 3: “Folklore & Translation” (Date of Lecture: 28th January 2023)
5. Delivered a Lecture at the 116th E-Sunday Sahityik Satsang organised by the Indigenous Society for the Promotion of English Language & Literature (iSPELL) on 27th November 2022. TITLE: The ‘Comparative’ World of Bhakti in Early Modern India (Link to Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/live/f7Ify0_6zCU?feature=share)
6. Delivered a Lecture in the 14-day Online Lecture Series on “Literature Across the Ages: Literary Schools/Movements,” organized by Daath Voyage from June 16 to June 29, 2022 (Date of Lecture: 29th June 2022). TITLE: Post Modern Age – IV (Nuyorican Movement, Oulpo, Last Poets, Dub Poetry, Creolite, Misery Lit, and Bizzaro Fiction)
7. Delivered a Lecture in a Webinar organized by the Department of English, Women’s College, Shillong, on 28th May 2022. TITLE: The Novel in India: The Formative Years
8. Delivered two Lectures as a Resource Person in the Refresher Course on “Studies on North East Language, Literature & Culture” conducted by the UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Gauhati University, from 21st February 2022 to 7th March 2022.
Lecture 1: Reconceptualising North-East India vis-a-vis Comparative Literary Historiography (Date of Lecture: 24/02/2022)
Lecture 2: Studying the Oral, Textual, and Performative Cultures of NE India: Need for a Multimedial Understanding (Date of Lecture: 26/02/2022)
9. Delivered a Lecture in the 15-day Online Lecture Series on "Understanding Literary Criticism: History and Principles", organized by Daath Voyage from January 25 to February 08, 2022 (Date of Lecture: 3rd February 2022). TITLE: Coleridge: Romanticism and the Role of the Imagination
10. Delivered a Lecture in CC19 Lecture Series organized by Calcutta Comparatists 1919 on 11th December 2021. TITLE: Hemchandra Goswami, Calcutta University, and the Making of a New Assamese Literary Canon (Link to Lecture: https://youtu.be/peknhQS9OX0)
11. Delivered a Lecture in a Live Session of Gender and Sexuality organized by Anaajoree on 21st October 2021. TITLE: Shakti as Social Energy in Precolonial Assamese Literature (Link to Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDBjEpCGj5U)
12. Delivered a Lecture in the 14-day Online Lecture Series on “Indian English Fiction: Selected Texts”, organized by Daath Voyage from September 01 to 14, 2021 (Date of Lecture: 1st September 2021). TITLE: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay’s Rajmohan’s Wife & Anandmath
13. Delivered a Lecture in the 15-day Online Lecture Series on “History of English Literature”, organized by Daath Voyage from June 20 to July 04, 2021 (Date of Lecture: 2nd July 2021). TITLE: The Literature of the Second World War: An Aesthetics of Rupture
14. Delivered a Lecture at the Department of English, Karim City College, Jamshedpur, as part of the 30-hour Online Certificate Course on “The Renaissance and the New Epistemology” from 24th May – 10th June 2021 (Date of Lecture: 5th June 2021). TITLE: Renaissance and the Occidental Gaze (Link to Lecture: https://youtu.be/yqXDhWRh_x8)
15. Delivered a Lecture at the Department of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sharda University, on 26th February 2021. TITLE: The Thousand Desires of Mirza Ghalib: Nineteenth-Century Urdu Literary Culture
16. Delivered a Lecture in the Online Lecture Series organised by the Department of English (UG & PG), Midnapore College, on 6th August 2020. TITLE: Wole Soyinka’s Dance of the Forests: Reading the ‘Past’ for the ‘Future’
17. Special Lecture as an invited speaker in the Department of Comparative Indian Language and Literature, University of Calcutta, on 27th July, 2020. TITLE: Reimagining 'Kamarupa' as a Literary-Cultural Geography in Modern Assam
18. Delivered a talk in the National Webinar on Literary and Cultural Dynamics of Northeast India: Contemporary Perspectives, organized by the Department of English in collaboration with IQAC, Debraj Roy College, Golaghat, Assam, on 15th July, 2020. TITLE: Of/From the Frontiers of Time/Space: Reconceptualising the Literary History of NE India
19. Webinar Presentation in the online lecture series organized by the Department of English, Sewnnarayan Rameswar Fatehpuria College, on 5th June 2020. TITLE: Agency of the Witches and Language Play in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
20. Webinar presentation in the online lecture series organized by the Department of English, Barabazar Bikram Tudu Memorial College, Purulia, on 1st June, 2020. TITLE: Neruda and Walcott: Representing the Polyphonic Voices of the Americas
LECTURES DELIVERED IN OFFLINE MODE:
1. Delivered a Lecture-Demonstration as a Resource Person on 7th July 2023 at the workshop on “Integrating Craft Skills in School Education,” organised by the Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT), Guwahati Regional Centre, on the topic “National Education Policy-2020 with respect to Integration of Indian Languages, Art & Culture into the School Curriculums.”
2. Delivered two Lectures as a Resource Person on 26th June 2023 on “Translation and/in Comparative Indian Literature” and “Translation and Multimedial Textuality,” in the Two-Week Intensive Training Programme on “Introduction to Translation,” organised by the National Translation Mission (NTM), Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.
3. Lecture delivered as a Resource Person on 26th March 2023 at the Workshop on “Creative and Academic Writing”, organized by the Dept of MIL & Literary Studies, Gauhati University, in collaboration with Indreni Prakashan, Assam, on the topic “Criticism and Academic Writing: Writing and Language Structure.”
4. Delivered the Keynote Address on 22nd March 2023 at the 3rd Young Researchers’ Conference on “Rhetoric of Literary Representations: Text and Context,” organized by the Department of English and the IQAC, Pandu College, on the topic “Understanding Comparative Indian Literature: Multimedial Interpretations.”
5. Lecture delivered as a Plenary Speaker on 14th February 2023 in the Workshop on “Research and Academic Writing in Indian Languages,” organized by K.K. Handique Government Sanskrit College, Guwahati, in collaboration with Sanskrit Bharati, Uttarpurbanchalam, and Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti, New Delhi, on the topic “Possibilities of Analyzing Twenty-First Century Assamese Fiction through the Perspectives of Memory Studies and Global South”.
6. Lecture delivered as a Resource Person on 7th March 2020 during the Short-Term Course on ‘Doing Research and Academic Writing’ organized by the Dept of English, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, on the topic “Doing Comparative Literature: With Special Focus on Indian Literatures”.
7. Lecture delivered at the English and Foreign Languages University, Shillong Campus, on 18 November 2019 on the topic “Comparative Literature: Indian Perspectives”.
8. Lecture delivered in the Banikanta Kakati Memorial National Seminar on ‘Prospects and Challenges in Language, Literature and Culture: The Indian Situation, organized by the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, Gauhati University, in association with Comparative Indian Literature Association (CILA), 2019, on the topic “Banikanta Kakati as a Comparatist”.
9. Lecture delivered as a Resource Person in the Refresher Course on Language and Literature of India organized by the UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Gauhati University, on 22 October 2019 on the topic “Indian Drama: Postcolonial Perspectives”.
10. Lecture delivered as a Resource Person in the career-building National Workshop on “Documenting Oral Traditions of North East India” jointly organized by MAKAIAS, Kolkata and ICHR, New Delhi on 15 February 2018 on the topic “'Oral and Textual Traditions of Assam”.
11. Lecture delivered at the Department of English, Karmashree Hiteswar Saikia College on 14 November 2017 on the topic “Understanding Literature through Cultural Studies”.
12. Lecture delivered at a workshop-cum-extended lecture on 28 April 2017 in EFL University, Shillong campus on the topic "Semiotics, Aesthetics and Performance."
PAPER PRESENTATIONS IN ONLINE MODE:
1. Paper presentation in the three-day International Webinar on “Transmission, Alteration, and Voices: Texts and Performative Traditions in South Asia in the Early Modern and Colonial Periods”, organized by NCN Cultures of Patronage Project, Jagiellonian University, on 27-29 October 2022. TITLE: Embodying Transformation and a New Confluence of Styles: The Composition of Hastividyarnava (1734) in the Ahom Court of Assam
2. Paper presentation in the two-day International Webinar on “Post-Independence Bharat and North-East India,” organized by the Department of Bengali, Tripura University, on 19th & 20th May 2022. TITLE: Post-Independence Assamese Novel
3. Paper presentation in the IACLALS Annual International Conference (Online) 2022 on “Circulations, Mediations, Negotiations: New Perspectives on Translation from South Asia”, organized in collaboration with Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi, from March 2-5, 2022. TITLE: Retelling of Sufi Romances in Assamese: A Reading of Chahapari Upakhyan and Madhumalati
4. Paper presentation in the Online Symposium on “Sitala-mangalas and Their Place in Premodern Bengali Literature”, organized by the Dhar India Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, on 29th October 2021. TITLE: The Manasa Cult in Early Assamese Literary Culture: A Study with reference to Mankar and Durgabar
5. Paper presentation in the IACLALS Annual International Conference (Online) 2021 on “Utopias and Dystopias in Our Times”, organized in collaboration with Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi, from March 17-20, 2021. TITLE: A Failed Utopian Dream: Visions of a Commonwealth Desire in Ranju Hazarika's ‘Eta Dwip Satta Kabar’
6. Paper presentation in a Panel Session on “Mapping Indo-Persian Popular Culture” in the International Conference (Online) on “Persian-Arabic Poetics in the Context of Indian Poetics: Readings, Recoveries and Re-Orientations in South Asian Literatures”, organized by Comparative Literature Association of India (CLAI) in collaboration with Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishwavidyalaya Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat, Haryana, and National Council For Promotion Of Urdu Language (NCPUL) from 15-17 March, 2021. TITLE: “Localisation of Perso-Arabic Literary-Musical Forms in Assamese: The Zikirs and Zaris of Azan Fakir”
7. Paper presentation in the Two-Day International Webinar on “Assamese Literature in Translation: Theory and Practice” organized by the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, University of Delhi, from 27–28 November 2020. TITLE: Kandali Ramayana in Hindi Literary Studies: Translation and Analysis
PAPER PRESENTATIONS IN OFFLINE MODE:
1. Paper presentation in the National Conference on “Tantra & Tantric Traditions," organised by INDICA in collaboration with Sri Jagadguru Kripalu University, Cuttack, on 26 & 27 August 2023. TITLE: Localising the Divine Feminine: Exploring the Classical–Folk Narrative Interface in an Assamese Sitala Kavya
2. Paper presentation in the National Conference on “Vaishnavism” organized by Indica in collaboration with Srimad Andavan Arts & Science College (Autonomous), Trichy on 29th and 30th of April, 2023. TITLE: Visual Aesthetics of the Vaishnava Literary Culture of Assam: An Analysis of the Chitra Bhagavata in Assamese
3. Paper Presentation in the two-day National Seminar on “Climate, Conflict and Pandemic: Literary Responses from India’s Northeast”, organized by the Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar, on 30th & 31st March 2023. TITLE: Reconceptualising the Literary Cultures of North-East India: A Few Perspectives from Comparative Literary Historiography
4. Paper Presentation in the two-day International Conference on “Reflections on the Ramayana”, organized by the K.J. Somaiya Institute of Dharma Studies, Mumbai, in association with Central Sanskrit University, New Delhi, and Ayodhya Research Institute, Lucknow, from 2nd to 4th February 2023. TITLE: Retelling the Rama Story in Assamese: Madhav Kandali’s Satkanda Ramayana (Link to Lecture: https://youtu.be/X6LU067T8-4)
5. Paper Presentation in the two-day Royal Society of Edinburgh-sponsored International Conference on “The British Empire and Colonial Famines: History, Culture, Critique,” organized by the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, on January 7-8, 2023. TITLE: The Mizo Famine of 1959–60 and the Assamese Response
6. Paper Presentation in the two-day International Seminar on “Angarey and the Progressive Writers’ Movement” organized by the Avadh Girls' Degree College, Lucknow, in association with IACLALS, on 16th and 17th December 2022. TITLE: Exploring the Confluence of Art and Activism in the Select Writings of Jyotiprasad Agarwalla
7. Paper Presentation in the two-day National Seminar on “Identity Assertions and the Context of Conflicts in Southeast Asia,” organized by the Department of English, Madhab Choudhury College, Barpeta, Assam, in collaboration with Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Kolkata, on 13th and 14th June 2022. TITLE: From Invasion to Exodus: Exploring the Burmese Connection in Assamese Literature (With Reference to Manomati and Jangam)
8. Paper presentation in the National Symposium on the “Discourse of Subaltern History in Assamese Creative Literature with Special Reference to the Post 1980s,” organized by Sahitya Akademi in collaboration with Debraj Roy College Society for Humanities and Social Sciences, on 3rd June 2022. TITLE: Historicising Subalternity: The Assamese Literary Scenario from the 1980s
9. Paper presentation in the National Conference on “Shaivism” organized by Indica in collaboration with the Bharat Adhyayan Kendra, Banaras Hindu University, 2022. TITLE: Localising the Saiva Cult in Assamese: Rudra Singha’s Siva Purana (Link to Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASKQJhxim6M)
10. Paper presentation in the National Seminar on ‘Unsung Heroes of Freedom Struggle of the Northeast in Folk Narratives’ organized by the Department of Folklore Research, Gauhati University, in collaboration with the Indian Council of Social Science Research, 2022. TITLE: “Ejon Swadhincheta”: Chandranath Sarma and His Contribution to the Freedom Struggle in Assam
11. Paper presentation in the National Seminar on ‘Text and Textuality in Early Modern India’ organized by the Dept of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, University of Delhi, 2020. TITLE: The Bhagavata-Purana in Early Assamese Literary Culture
12. Paper presentation in the International Conference on ‘Re-imagi(ni)ng Identities: Challenges, Transgressions and Articulation’ organized by the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) in association with the Dept of English, Jadavpur University, 2020. TITLE: Marginality in Literary Discourses: Conversations with the Dead in Rabisankar Bal’s Dozakhnama
13. Paper Presentation in the two-day Writers’ Meet on ‘Ashtam Shotikar Pora Dwadash Shotikaloi Kamrup’ organized by the Guwahati Mahanagar Shakha Samiti of Akhil Bharatiya Sahitya Parishad, 2020. TITLE: Kamrup’or Artha-Samajik Byaboshtha (Ashtam Shotikar Pora Dwadash Shotika Parjyanta)
14. Paper presentation in the National Seminar on ‘Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures: The Interfaces, with Special Reference to the North-East’, organized by the Departments of Foreign Languages, The English and Foreign Languages University, Shillong, in collaboration with Indian Council of Social Sciences Research (North-East Regional Centre), 2019. TITLE: ‘Anubador Kotha’: An Analysis of Krishna Kanta Handiqui’s Comparative Essay on the Art of Translation in Europe and India
15. Paper presentation in the International Seminar on ‘Negotiating Culture: New Frontiers in Translation and Language Learning’, organized by Department of Foreign Languages, Gauhati University in collaboration with the Institute of South Asian Studies, Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow, Russia, 2019. TITLE: Political Refashioning of the Rama Story: The Case of Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas
16. Paper presentation in the International Conference on ‘Literary Circulations in South Asia: Producing, Translating, Preserving Texts’, organized by the Institut Français de Pondichéry (French Institute of Pondicherry) in association with DELI Project (A Dictionary of South Asian Literatures), 2018. TITLE: Transcreating the Ramayana in Assamese: Madhav Kandali’s Satkanda Ramayana
17. Paper presentation in the International Conference on 'World Literature: Postcolonial Perspectives', organized by the Department of English and the Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi, 2018. TITLE: Vishwa Sahitya: Exploring an Indian Perspective on World Literature
18. Paper presentation in the International Conference on 'Transcending Cultural Boundaries: Studies of Foreign Languages, Literature and Culture in India', organized by the Department of Foreign Languages, Gauhati University, in collaboration with Institute of South Asian Studies, Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow, Russia and Centre for South East Asian Studies, Gauhati University, 2018. TITLE: Foreignisation of a Vernacular Tongue: The Story of Urdu in India
19. Paper presentation in the National Seminar on 'Literary Consciousness of Ambikagiri and His Contemporaries: 1900-1970', organized by the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, Gauhati University, and Asomiya Sahitya Sanmilani, 2018. TITLE: Literary Consciousness of Ambikagiri and Premchand: A Comparative Study in the Context of ‘Swaraj’
20. Paper presentation in the National Seminar on 'Modern Poetry and Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh', organized by the Department of Hindi, Gauhati University, 2017. TITLE: Muktibodh and Nayi Kavita: Re-evaluating Modernism
21. Paper presentation in the International Conference on 'The Mahabharata and Inter-Asian Cultures: Transmissions, Adaptations, Performances and Histories', organized by the Department of English, University of Delhi, in association with IGNCA, Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia, New Delhi, and the Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Indonesia, 2017. TITLE: The Mahabharata in Early Assamese Literary Culture
22. Paper presentation in the International Conference on 'Shakespeare's Ashes', organized by the Shakespeare Society of India, 2016. TITLE: 'Ramnabami Natak: Textual and Cultural Hybridities in an Assamese Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet'
23. Paper presentation in the National Seminar on 'Literary Representation of the Freedom Struggle in Assamese and Sindhi Languages', organized by the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, Gauhati University, and NCPSL, New Delhi, 2016. TITLE: Literatures in Assamese and Sindhi: A Study in Interliterariness at the Crossroads of Freedom Movement and Partition
24. Paper presentation in the UGC SAP-DRS National Conference on “Biography: Western Theories, Indigenous Practices in Assam” organized by the Dept of English and Foreign Languages, Tezpur University, Assam (2016). TITLE: Reading Syed Abdul Malik’s Dhanya Nara Tanu Bhal and Rudrani Sarma’s Lauhitya Tirar Amrit Gatha in the light of Assamese Vaishnavite Hagiography
25. Paper presentation in the National Seminar on “Oral and Textual Traditions of North East India” organized by Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies, Rajiv Gandhi University in collaboration with Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi (2016). TITLE: Cosmopolitan Vernacular and Literary Subcultures in Precolonial Assam
26. Paper presentation in the National Seminar on “Re-interpretations of the Past: The Discourse of Cultural Identity in South Asia” organized by the Dept of English, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong (2016). TITLE: Early Assamese Literary Culture: A Study in Cultural Self-Fashioning
27. Paper presentation in the International Conference and Seminar on “Asom Vidya” organized by the Dept of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, Gauhati University & North East Network for Academic Discourse (NEINAD) (2016). TITLE: Literary Culture of Early Assam
28. Paper presentation in the two-day National Seminar on the theme “Intellectual Traditions of the Northeast: Its Influences and Impact” organized by the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla in collaboration with English and Foreign Languages University, Shillong (2016). TITLE: Early Assamese Literary Culture: A Study in ‘Self-Fashioning’ with reference to Three Tantra Poets of Assam
29. Paper presentation in the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Social Movement With Reference To Popular Struggle and Protest Movement in North East India” organized by Department of Political Science, Tihu College, Tihu (2015). TITLE: Moamaria Rebellion as a People’s Movement
30. Paper presentation in the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Financial Inclusion in India with Special Reference to Its North Eastern Region: Issues and Policies” organized by Department of Economics, Tihu College, Tihu (2015). TITLE: Emancipation of Women through Financial Inclusion: The Multiple Benefits
31. Paper presentation in the National-Level Graduate Research Meet 2015 organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati (2015). TITLE: Self-Fashioning in Literary Cultures of Early Assam
32. Paper presentation in the National Seminar on “People’s Art of North East India: History, Identity and Emerging Realities” organized by Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal and Dept of Anthropology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar (2014). TITLE: Kohinoor Theatre: Representing the Contemporary Ethos of the Assamese People
33. Paper presentation in the National Seminar on “The Role of Lakshminath Bezbaroa in the Making of Modern Assamese Literature”, organized by Department of Assamese, Gauhati University in collaboration with Institute of Distance Education and Open Learning, Gauhati University and Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore (2013). TITLE: Lakshminath Bezbaroa and his ‘lives’ of the Mahapurushas
34. Paper presentation in the International Seminar on Translation, Ideology and Politics in the 21st Century, organized by School of Translation Studies and Training, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi in collaboration with Comparative Literature Association of India and National Translation Mission (2012). TITLE: Translating Shakespeare in Indian Literatures
35. Paper presentation in the National Seminar on “Translating Shakespeare in India: Issues and Perspectives”, organized by Dept of English, Sambalpur University (2012). TITLE: Shakespeare in Indian Literatures: Text and Context
36. Paper Presentation in the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “The Neo-Vaishnavite Movement in North-East India” organized by Abhaypuri College, Bongaigaon, in collaboration with Srimanta Sankaradeva Sangha (2011). TITLE: Revival of Vaishnavism in 20th Century Assam
37. Paper presentation in “2nd International Congress of Bengal Studies 2011”, organized by University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (2011). TITLE: Buranjis and the Construction of ‘History’ in Medieval Assam
38. Paper presentation in “Researchers at Work Conference (RAW.CON 2011)”, a National Conference on Literary and Cultural Studies, organized by Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad (2011). TITLE: Protest Literatures in Assam and Manipur
39. Paper presentation in “Social Imagination in Comparative Perspective: Languages, Cultures and Literatures”, an International Conference of the Comparative Literature Association of India, Central University of Gujarat, Sector-30, Gandhinagar, Gujarat (2011). TITLE: Bereft of his ‘text’ and ‘language’: Analyzing de-anglicized Shakespearean Performances in India and (East) Germany
40. Paper presentation in “A Symposium on the Living Traditions of Mahabharata”, held as part of Jaya Utsav, organized by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi (2011). TITLE: Narratives and Variations of Mahabharata in North East India
41. Paper presentation in “Debrupa Bal Memorial Annual Students’ Seminar on Popular Indian Lyric as Literature”, a National Seminar organized by the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (2010). TITLE: Re-contextualizing ‘Popular’ Assertions through Critical Interpolations: Reading the Lyrics of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika’s Aami Axomiya Nohou Dukhiya
42. Paper presentation in “Manuscript Resources in the North-East India: Problems of Conservation and Dissemination”, a National Seminar organized by Department of Bengali, Govt. Degree College, Dharmanagar, Tripura (2010). TITLE: Buranjis and the (Re)construction of Medieval Assamese History/ Historiography
43. Paper presentation in “Expanding Territories: Comparative Literature in the 21st Century”, an International Conference of the Comparative Literature Association of India, organized by Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies, Saurashtra University, Rajkot (2010). TITLE: ‘Love’ as a Socio-Cultural Signifier in Romeo and Juliet, Abhijnanasakuntalam and Ramnabami-Natak, the First Modern Play in Assamese.
44. Paper presentation in “International Congress of Bengal Studies”, organized by the Department of Modern Indian Languages & Literary Studies, University of Delhi (2010). TITLE: Empowerment through Embodying ‘Foreignness’: Performing Shakespeare to Non-English Audience Communities.
45. Paper presentation in “Diverse Harmonies: Literary and Cultural Confluences”, an International Conference of the Comparative Literature Association of India, organized by the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad and EFL University (2009). TITLE: Socio-Cultural Orientation of Vaishnavite Studies in 20th Century Assam.
46. Paper presentation in “Politics & Polemics”, the 2nd International Conference of the Children’s Literature Association of India, Karnataka (2008). TITLE: The Passive Child as an Active Participant: A Study of Violence and Death in Bezbarua’s Burhi Aair Xadhu and the Interface with the ‘Gendered’ Politics of Storytelling.
PANEL DISCUSSIONS:
1. Participated as a Discussant in the 4th IACLSC Author’s Workshop in Interdisciplinary Studies featuring Dr. Sutapa Dutta’s book Disciplined Subjects: Schooling in Colonial Bengal and organized by the International Association of Comparative Literature, Society and Culture (IACLSC) on 13th February 2022.
2. Participated as a Panelist in the Panel Discussion on the topic ‘Time Is a Book”: Locating the Many Post-Pandemic Regional, Psychological and Global Shifts in Reading Cultures’ in a webinar on The Post-Pandemic Challenges of Reading, Publishing and Archiving in the Region organized by Readers’ Collective, Assam, on 10th June 2020.
3. Participated as a Panelist in the Panel Discussion on the topic ‘Encountering Modernity and Indigeneity in North-East India: Culture, Literature and Language’ during the two-day National Seminar on ‘Modernity and Indigeneity: Shifting Perspectives in Culture, Literature, and Language’ organized by the Dept of English, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, 2020.
WORKSHOP AND OTHER COURSE PARTICIPATIONS:
1. Participated in the Module on ‘Epigraphy as a Source of Heritage’ conducted jointly by the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in collaboration with Heritage India Communications Pvt. Ltd. and Nyansa, from 27th July 2020 to 1st August 2020.
2. Participated as a Reading Participant in Seventh Early Hindi and Brajbhasha Workshop organized online by the South Asia Research Cluster, Wolfson College, Oxford, between 13 and 25 July 2020.
3. Participated in the Capacity Building Programme on ‘Cultural Resource Management’ organized by Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, in collaboration with Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi (2015)
4. Participated in the 21-day Intensive Training Programme-Course on ‘Introduction to Translation’ organized by National Translation Mission, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore (2014)
5. Participated in the workshop on ‘Reading Manuscripts of Early Assam’ held at the Centre for Assamese Studies, Tezpur University under the aegis of the Srimanta Sankaradeva Chair (2013)
6. Participated in the Capacity Building Programme on ‘Cultural Resource Management’ organized by Janapada Sampada Division, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi (2011)
7. Participated in the international workshop on ‘Research in Literary Studies: New Directions’ organized by the Dept of English, University of Delhi (2009)
8. Participated in the national workshop on ‘Folklife and Fieldwork: The Process of Documentation and Presentation’ organized by the Dept of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, University of Delhi and Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore (2008)
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:
In English—
Book:
1. Presently working on A Critical History of Assamese Literature (under the series Critical Histories of Indian Literatures) to be published by Orient Blackswan Private Limited.
Book Chapters:
1. Chapter entitled “Plural Embodiments: The Performative World of Sankari Vaishnavism in Assam” was published in Cultural Forms and Practices in Northeast India (People, Cultures and Societies: Exploring and Documenting Diversities), edited by Kailash C. Baral, and published by Springer Nature (May 2023), ISBN 978-981-19-9291-9, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9292-6_2.
2. Chapter entitled "The Maibi Tradition and Lai Haraoba" (co-authored with Dr. Ahanthem Homen Singh) was published in Cultural Forms and Practices in Northeast India (People, Cultures and Societies: Exploring and Documenting Diversities), edited by Kailash C. Baral, and published by Springer Nature (May 2023), ISBN 978-981-19-9291-9, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9292-6_9.
3. Chapter entitled “‘Ejon Swadhincheta’: Chandranath Sarma and His Contribution to the Freedom Struggle in Assam”, was published in Freedom Struggle and Northeast India: History, Social Memory, and Folk Narratives, edited by Pallabi Borah and published by Purbayon Publication for the Department of Folklore Research, Gauhati University (October 2022), ISBN 978-93-95103-61-9.
4. Chapter entitled “An Essay on the History of Assamese Literature” was published in Lokparampara, a compendium edited by Dilip Kumar Kalita and Gargi Saikia Mahanta, and published by the Intellectual Forum of North-East, Guwahati, Assam, in association with Anundoram Borooah Institute of Language, Art & Culture (ABILAC), Assam (September 2022), ISBN 978-93-82680-59-8.
5. Chapter entitled “Imagi(ni)ng the Self and Identity: A Reading of Padmanath Gohain Baruah's Mor Sowarani” was published in Padmanath Gohain Baruah: Yatra aru Matra, a book on his life and works, edited by Sima Bhuyan, Surendra Sadiya, and Hasnahana Gogoi, under the supervision of Tunujyoti Gogoi, and published by J.S. Publications, Guwahati (September 2022), ISBN 978-93-93419-13-2.
6. Chapter entitled “From Invasion to Exodus: Exploring the Burmese Connection in Assamese Literature (With Reference to Manomati and Jangam),” was published in Identity Assertions and the Context of Conflicts in Southeast Asia, edited by Bhatima Barman and Bhaskarjyoti Gogoi, and published by the Dept of English, Madhab Choudhury College, Barpeta, Assam, in association with Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Kolkata (June 2022), ISBN 978-93-95103-23-7.
7. Chapter entitled “The Story of Rama in the Critical-Intellectual Imagination of Indira Goswami” was published in Indira Goswami: Margins and Beyond, edited by Namrata Pathak and Dibyajyoti Sarma, and published by Routledge India (2022), ISBN 9781003147015, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003147015-29.
8. Chapter entitled “Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Rajmohan’s Wife: India’s First English Novel” was published in Literary Resonance: A Collection of Scholarly Articles on Literature, edited by Sikhamoni Gogoi and Hasnahana Gogoi, and published by Purbayon Publication on behalf of English Study and Literary Forum, Department of English and IQAC, Kakojan College, Jorhat (2021), ISBN 978-93-93881-54-0.
9. Chapter entitled “A ‘Home’ away from Home: The Enduring Presence of Calcutta in Asamiya Writings” was published in Celebrating the City: Kolkata in Indian Literature, edited by Sayantan Dasgupta and published by Sahitya Akademi (2021), ISBN 978-93-5548-111-5.
10. Chapter entitled “From Revolt to Rustication: Urdu and the Indian National Imagination (1857–1947)” was published in Nationalism in India: Texts and Contexts, edited by Debajyoti Biswas and John Charles Ryan, and published by Routledge (2021), ISBN 978-1-032-01544-6, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003181408.
11. Chapter entitled “Reimagining 'Kamarupa' as a Literary-Cultural Geography in Modern Assam” was published in Unmasking Silence: Voices Heard and Unheard, edited by Mukuta Borah, and published by Aadi Publications (2021), ISBN 978-81-952501-3-4.
12. Chapter entitled “North East Indians and Their Contribution to Indian Literature” was published in Discrimination, Challenge and Response: People of North East India, edited by Venkat Pulla, Rituparna Bhattacharyya, and Sanjai Bhatt, and published by Palgrave Macmillan (2020), ISBN 978-3-030-46250-5, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46251-2_6.
13. Chapter entitled “Narrative Traditions in Early Assamese Literary Culture: Confluence and Conflict” was published in Narrative Cultures and Textual Traditions of North-East India (A Collection of Essays in Honour of Prof. Kailash. C. Baral), edited by Arzuman Ara, Dhurjjati Sarma, and Bhaskar Jyoti Gogoi, and published by Purbayon Publishers in association with North East India Association for Human Sciences (NEIAHS) (2019), ISBN 978-93-88593-31-1.
14. Chapter entitled “Foreignisation of a Vernacular Tongue: The Story of Urdu in India” was published in Convergence, edited by Jogen Kalita and Shyamanta Chakravarty, and published by Purbayon Publications on behalf of UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Gauhati University (2019), ISBN 978-93-88593-33-5.
15. Chapter entitled “Music and National Culture in Aami Axomiya Nohou Dukhiya: The Story of Two Men and One Refrain” was published in Lakshminath Bezbaroa: Perspectives on His Life and Works, edited by Dilip Borah and Anup Kumar Deka, and published by Dept of MIL & Literary Studies, Gauhati University (2017), ISBN 978-81-931064-2-6.
16. Chapter entitled “Tantra in Early Assamese Literary Culture: A Study with reference to Mankar, Durgabar and Pitambar” was published in Glimpses of Research: Critical Essays on Humanities, edited by Kamal Ch. Saikia and Jatin Sharma, and published by the Golden Jubilee Celebration Committee, Dr. B.K.B. College, Puranigudam, Nagaon (2017), ISBN 978-93-846798-2-8.
17. Chapter entitled “Examining the Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Vaishnavite Studies in Twentieth-Century Assam” was published in Neo-Vaishnavite Movement in North-East India, published by Abhaypuri College, Bongaigaon, Assam (August 2014), ISBN 978-81-930006-0-1.
Journals:
1. Article entitled “Visual Aesthetics of Vaishnava Literary Culture of Assam” was published in Indica Today, published by Indica Academy, August 25, 2023, https://www.indica.today/research/conference/visual-aesthetics-of-vaishnava-literary-culture-of-assam/.
2. Article (Review Essay) entitled “‘War’s Not Just Only War, It’s Years Out of People’s Lives’: British Literature of the Second World War,” was published in English Forum: Journal of the Department of English, Gauhati University, vols 10 & 11: 2022-23 (A UGC-CARE listed journal), ISSN 2279-0446.
3. Article entitled “Localizing the Saiva Sampradaya in Assamese (Rudra Singha’s Siva Purana)” was published in Indica Today, published by Indica Academy, April 5, 2023, https://www.indica.today/research/conference/localizing-the-saiva-sampradaya-in-assamese-rudra-singhas-siva-purana/.
4. Article entitled “A Brief History of ‘Literary History’ in Assamese” was published in Rhetorica: A Literary Journal of Arts, Volume 2 Issue 4, published by the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow, https://www.lkouniv.ac.in/site/writereaddata/siteContent/202210191307519626Rhetorica_2022.pdf.
5. Article entitled “Vernacular Historiography and North-East Literature: A Critical Reading of the Kachari Buranji” was published in the “Themed Issue on Literature of Northeast India.” Rupkatha Journal, Vol. 14, Issue 2, April-June, 2022, Pages: 1-13, ISSN 0975-2935. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n2.ne19.
6. Article entitled “Reconceptualising Love in the Context of Modernism: Comparing Neruda’s ‘Tonight I Can Write’ and Faiz’s ‘Do Not Ask From Me, My Beloved, Love Like That Former One’” was published in the Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (DUJES), Vol. 30, 2022, ISSN 0975-5659, ISSN [Online] 2581-7833, https://www.dujes.co.in/p/vol-30-2022-reconceptualising-love-in.html.
7. Article entitled “Agency of the Witches and Language Play in Shakespeare’s Macbeth” was published in Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January–June 2021), pp. 93–119, e-ISSN (Online): 2582-9858. DOI: https://doi.org/10.53034/Transcript.2021.v01.n01.005.
8. Article entitled “Marginality in Literary Discourses: Conversations with the Dead in Rabisankar Bal’s Dozakhnama” was published in Space and Culture, India, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2020), ISSN 2052-8396. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v8i1.861.
9. Article entitled “Vishwa Sahitya: Exploring an Indian Perspective on World Literature (With Special Reference to Banikanta Kakati and Krishna Kanta Handiqui)” was published in Margins: A Journal of Literature and Culture (published by the Department of English, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India), VII-VIII (2017-18), ISSN 2250-0731.
10. Article entitled “Self-Fashioning in the Literary Culture of Early Assam: A Study with Reference to Sankardeva’s Kirttan-Ghosa” was published in Prajna, Vol. XXVI, Annual Journal of the Gauhati University Teachers’ Association (GUTA) (2017), ISSN 0976-9072.
11. Article entitled “Comparative Literary History in Assamese: Some Possibilities” was published in Space and Culture, India, Vol. 4, No. 3 (2017), ISSN 2052-8396. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v4i3.245.
12. Article entitled “Reading Syed Abdul Malik’s Dhanya Nara Tanu Bhal and Rudrani Sarma’s Lauhitya Tirar Amrit Gatha in the light of Assamese Vaishnavite Hagiography” was published in Space and Culture, India, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2016), ISSN 2052-8396. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v4i2.222.
13. Article entitled “Protest Literature in Assam and Manipur: ‘Exploring Possibilities of Comparative Analysis through Dialogue’” was published in Space and Culture, India, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2015), ISSN 2052-8396. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v3i1.142.
14. Article entitled “Renaissance Humanism: Problematizing the Concept and Its Understanding” was published in International Journal of English: Literature, Language & Skills (IJELLS), Vol. 3, No. 3 (October 2014), ISSN 2278 0742, https://www.ijells.com/volume-3-issue-3-october-2014/
15. Article entitled “The Historical Play in India: An Ongoing Dialogue between the Past and the Present” was published in International Journal of English: Literature, Language & Skills (IJELLS), Vol. 3, No. 2 (July 2014), ISSN 2278 0742, https://www.ijells.com/volume-3-issue-2-july-2014/
16. Article entitled “Reinterpreting the ‘Bard’: Shakespearean Performances in India and (East) Germany” was published in Space and Culture, India, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2013), ISSN 2052-8396. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v1i2.29.
17. Article entitled “Examining the Time-frame of Assamese ‘Modernism’ through Four Selected Anthologies of Poetry” was published in The Marginal Voice: An International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (Volume-II, 2011), published by Northeast India Network for Academic Discourse (NEINAD), ISSN 0976-853X.
18. Article entitled “Juxtaposing ‘Love’ with Tragedy and Social Reform: Ramnabami-Natak” was published in The Marginal Voice: An International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (Volume-I, 2010), published by Northeast India Network for Academic Discourse (NEINAD), ISSN 0976-853X.
In Assamese—
Book: 1. Book entitled “Anvikshan: Sahitya, Sanskriti Aru Itihash”—A Critical Analysis of Various Aspects related to Literature, Culture and Historiography was published by Rekha Prakashan, Guwahati, (January, 2016), ISBN 978-93-83611-75-1.
Articles Published in Books and Journals:
1. Article entitled “Dr. Prafulla Kotoky’r ‘Prabandha Saptak’: Eti Somu Alochona” appeared in Prajnar Sadhak Dr. Prafulla Kotoky (a commemorative volume of Assamese litterateur and critic Late Dr. Prafulla Kotoky), published by Dr. Prafulla Kotoky Memorial Book Editorial Committee, Guwahati, Assam (2019), ISBN 978-93-85230-64-6.
2. Article entitled “Suryya Kumar Bhuyan aru Madhyajugiya Asomiya Buranji: Buranji Adhyan Prakriyar Gatixilota” appeared in Natun Ninad (Volume-II, Issue-V, February 2016), published by North-East Indian Network for Academic Discourse (NEINAD), ISSN 2249-5142.
3. Article entitled “Edward Gait aru Asomar Prothomkhan ‘Juktisangata-Baigyanik Chintajukta’ Buranji” appeared in Natun Ninad (Volume-II, Issue-IV, January 2016), published by North-East Indian Network for Academic Discourse (NEINAD), ISSN 2249-5142.
4. Article entitled “Bharatiya Sahityar Tinikhon Buranjimulok Natakar Tulanamulok Adhyayan” was published in Pragjyotika: Journal of Axom Xahitya Xanmiloni (Volume-II, January 2015), ISSN 2347-257X.
5. Article entitled “Lakshminath Bezbaruar ‘Sankardev Adhyan’: Ek Nobo-Oitihashik Bishleshan” appeared in Adhunikotar Adhinayak: Sahityarathi Lakshminath Bezbarua, published by Northeast India Network for Academic Discourse (NEINAD), ISBN 978-93-81485-69-9.
6. Article entitled “Prem, Tragedy aru Samaj Sanskaror Ekok Protirup: Ramnabami Natak” was published in Pragjyotika: Journal of Axom Xahitya Xanmiloni (Volume-I, October 2013), ISSN 2347-257X.
EDITED BOOKS & JOURNALS
1. Issue Editor of the transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol. 3 1 (Jan – Jun 2023), published by the Department of English, Bodoland University, India, e-ISSN (Online): 2582-9858, https://thetranscript.in/.
2. Assistant Editor of the Delhi Journal of Comparative Studies, Volume 01, Issue 01 (Aug 2021), published by Delhi Comparatists (DC), https://delhicomparatists.org/.
3. The IACLALS Journal, Volume 6, 2020, on “Reimagi(ni)ng Identities in the Global South: Challenges, Transgressions and Articulations”, jointly edited by Albeena Shakil, Amitendu Bhattacharya, and Dhurjjati Sarma (2020), ISSN: 2395-1206.
4. Narrative Cultures and Textual Traditions of North-East India (A Collection of Essays in Honour of Prof. Kailash. C. Baral), jointly edited by Arzuman Ara, Dhurjjati Sarma, and Bhaskar Jyoti Gogoi, was published by Purbayon Publishers in association with North East India Association for Human Sciences (NEIAHS) (2019), ISBN 978-93-88593-31-1.
5. Reimagining Life in/through Literature: Essays and Reviews on Arun Sarma’s Works, jointly edited by Namrata Pathak and Dhurjjati Sarma, was published by Asomiya Sahitya Sanmilani (2019), ISBN 978-81-930616-7-1.
TRANSLATED WORKS:
English to Assamese:
1. An Assamese translation of Prof. G.N. Devy’s book Mahabharata: The Epic and the Nation, under the title Mahabharat: Mahakavya aru Rashtra, was published by Purbayon Publication (July 2023), ISBN 978-81-19001-98-9.
2. Article entitled “Tulonamulok Sahitya: Osihnakendrik (Non-Logocentric) Adarshar Dishot” was published in Natun Ninad (Volume-I, Issue-IX, June 2015), published by North-East Indian Network for Academic Discourse (NEINAD), ISSN 2249-5142.
Assamese to English:
1. The following short story in translation was published in Medical Maladies: Stories of Disease and Cure from Indian Languages, edited by Haris Qadeer and published by Niyogi Books India, ISBN-13: 978-93-91125-75-2.
i) “The Cavern” by Bhabendra Nath Saikia
2. The following two short stories in translation were published in The Silence That Speaks: Short Stories by Indian Muslim Women, edited by Haris Qadeer and published by Oxford University Press, Online ISBN: 9789354975035, Print ISBN: 9780190132613.
i) “Rehmat’s Red Calf Has Gone Missing” by Eli Ahmed, https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190132613.003.0019
ii) “I Am Reminded of You” by Kasema Khatun, https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190132613.003.0029
3. The following three articles were published in Essentially Speaking: Biographical Snapshots — A Compilation of Biographical Essays written by Munin Borkotoki, published by Gauhati University Press and Munin Borkotoki Memorial Trust, ISBN 81-86416-76-5:
i) Lokapriya Bordoloi: Personality and Leadership
ii) Hem Barua: Then and Now
iii) Birendra’s Masterworks
SELF-LEARNING MATERIALS (SLMs):
1. The following chapter appeared in the Master of Arts (MA) reading material published by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi
MA in Folklore & Culture Studies (MAFCS), Second Year
Course 6: Folklore: Canon, Multimediality, Interdisciplinarity and Social Epistemology
Block 2: Folklore and Multimediality
Unit 2: Discourses of Orality: Scriptocentric, Phonocentric, and Bodycentric
https://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/84077/1/Block-2.pdf
2. The following chapters appeared in the Bachelor of Arts (BA) reading material published by the Dept of English, Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University, Guwahati, India
BA in General English
Block 1 (Poetry)
Unit 5: Strange Meeting (poem composed by Wilfred Owen)
Unit 7: The Road Not Taken (poem composed by Robert Frost)
BA in Alternative English
Block 1 (Poetry)
Unit 1: The Tyger (poem composed by William Blake)
Unit 5: Shakespeare (poem composed by Matthew Arnold)
Block 1 (Non-Fictional Prose)
Unit 3: I Have a Dream [essay composed by Martin Luther King (Jr.)]
BOOK REVIEWS:
1. A review of Himadri Lahiri’s book Asia Travels: Pan-Asian Cultural Discourses and Diasporic Asian Literature/s in English (Birujatio Sahitya Sammiloni, 2021) was published in Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi’s bimonthly journal, no. 329 (May–June 2022).
2. A review of The Great Bengali Poetry Underground (translated by Rajat Chaudhuri and published by Kitaab Singapore, 2021) was published in Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi’s bimonthly journal, no. 328 (March–April 2022).
3. A review of Prose Writings from North East India (edited by Malsawmi Jacob and Jaydeep Sarangi, and published by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2020) was published in the IACLALS E-Newsletter, Issue No. 10, 2021. https://www.iaclals.com/uploads/2/7/2/5/27251011/iaclals_e-newsletter_issue_10_2021.pdf
4. A review of Susheel Kumar Sharma’s book of poems Unwinding Self: A Collection of Poems (Cuttack: Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute, 2020) was published in The Thumb Print: A Magazine from the East on September 15, 2020. http://www.thethumbprintmag.com/unwinding-self-a-never-ending-pursuit-of-knowledge-and-liberation/
PLAY/EVENT REVIEWS
1. A review of Rudrani Sarma’s play Kalachakra appeared in the Assam Tribune, dated October 15, 2019.
2. A review of Rudrani Sarma’s play Janaknandini appeared in the Assam Tribune, dated May 29, 2018.
FEATURE/OPINION/OBITUARY NOTES/PIECES
1. An obituary note on “Aijaz Ahmad (1941–2022)” was published in the IACLALS E- Newsletter, Issue No. 11, 2022. https://www.iaclals.com/uploads/2/7/2/5/27251011/iaclals_e-pdf.
2. A feature piece entitled “Dub Poetry: Poetry for Change” was published in the Assam Tribune, dated September 30, 2022.
3. An obituary note on “Lakshmi Nandan Bora (15th June 1932–3rd June 2021)” was published in the IACLALS E-Newsletter, Issue No. 10, 2021. https://www.iaclals.com/uploads/2/7/2/5/27251011/iaclals_e-newsletter_issue_10_2021.pdf.
4. An obituary note on “Avadhesh Kumar Singh (20th June, 1960–12th August 2019)” was published in the IACLALS E-Newsletter, Issue No. 9, 2020. https://www.iaclals.com/uploads/2/7/2/5/27251011/iaclals_e-newsletter_issue_9-_2020.pdf.
5. An opinion piece entitled “Syed Abdul Malik's Readers Have Trapped His Intellectual Vision Within His Religious Identity” was published in The Wire (English) on 14 May 2020. https://thewire.in/culture/syed-abdul-malik-sankardeva.
