Nishat Haider
Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, English, Faculty Member
- University of Lucknow, Department of English and Modern European Languages, Department MemberUniversity of Lucknow, Department of Women's Studies, Faculty Memberadd
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Foregrounding the theoretical frameworks of “ghostpitality” (Coughlan 2016, 19) and “cryptomimesis” (Castricano 2001), this chapter explores how Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider frames the spectro-poetic-historiography of Kashmir to address the... more
Foregrounding the theoretical frameworks of “ghostpitality” (Coughlan 2016, 19) and “cryptomimesis” (Castricano 2001), this chapter explores how Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider frames the spectro-poetic-historiography of Kashmir to address the ghosts of partition of the Indian subcontinent and the Kashmir imbroglio. Mapping out the complex and challenging relationship between hauntology and hospitality, this essay explores how Haider compels us to figure out what it entails to be both democratic and hospitable. Through the Derridean reading of ghosts in tandem with Nicholas Abraham’s and Maria Torok’s notion of cryptonymy, the analysis of Haider aims not only to revisit the traumatic ruptures and the gaps in history but also to stimulate ethical spectatorship. Recognizing the potential of deconstructive practice, this essay claims that our encounter with the ghosts of the haunting legacies of the Kashmiri past might lead to a new engagement with the present which may lead to a different way of imagining Kashmir’s future, both ethically and politically.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003278498-6/screening-spectre-nishat-haider
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003278498-6/screening-spectre-nishat-haider
Research Interests: History and Memory, Jacques Derrida, Derridean Deconstruction, Loss and Trauma, Jacques Derrida & Deconstruction, and 14 moreHaunting and Spectrality, Partition of India, Bollywood cinema, Hindi Films, Maria Torok, Abraham, Torok & Cryptonymy, Kashmir Conflict, Hostipitality, Memory and Trauma Studies, Vishal Bharadwaj, Cryptomimesis, Ghostpitality, hauntology and hospitality, and Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok
This chapter explores the possibilities and limits of analysing Qurratulain Hyder’s fictional narrative River of Fire (originally in Urdu, Aag ka Darya) within the framework of approaches that privilege travelling memory with ‘a focus of... more
This chapter explores the possibilities and limits of analysing Qurratulain Hyder’s fictional narrative River of Fire (originally in Urdu, Aag ka Darya) within the framework of approaches that privilege travelling memory with ‘a focus of attention ... directed towards mnemonic processes unfolding across and beyond cultures’ (9). This chapter claims that such travel in River of Fire consists not only in the movement of people across spatio- temporal and sociocultural borders but also in the perpetual exchange of ideas and knowledge between individuals. Through flexible narratives of memory, the novel elaborates alternate histories and works them into the national consciousness.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/india-and-the-traveller-9789354359484/
https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/india-and-the-traveller-9789354359484/
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This chapter brings together an assemblage of perspectives exploring cinematic memories premised on the enunciations of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948) and Gandhian values in post-independence Hindi films. These cinematic... more
This chapter brings together an assemblage of perspectives exploring cinematic memories premised on the enunciations of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948) and Gandhian values in post-independence Hindi films. These cinematic enunciations serve as a rich archive of images to reinterpret Gandhi’s various versions and archetypes in the contemporary world. Attending to Gandhi’s uncanny presence as “psychoanalytical listening” based on the Hindi films’ interpretations, the chapter aims to explore the spectator’s ethical task in excavating and deconstructing the contents of the cinematic texts.
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This chapter situates Nandita Das’s directorial debut film Firaaq (2008) and its memorialisation of Gujarat riots (in 2002) within the ongoing debates on presentist regime of historicity, gendering of memory as well as the politics of... more
This chapter situates Nandita Das’s directorial debut film Firaaq (2008) and its memorialisation of Gujarat riots (in 2002) within the ongoing debates on presentist regime of historicity, gendering of memory as well as the politics of mnemonic practices regarding the question of visual culture’s capacityto map out trauma as a structuring yet elusive subject of representation by exploring the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness that have caused trauma and the ways in which survivors remember. In recent decades, the question of the temporality and historicity of knowledge has resulted in the emergence of new theoretical-critical impulses, which have revolutionized the way in which the relation between history and cinema is viewed. This chapter also explores Nandita Das’s role as a filmmaker, as a witness and as a translator of trauma for deciphering the traces of a history under erasure, which underscores the possibility of what Richard Weisberg calls a ‘poethics’ of production and reception in cinema.
Research Interests: Traumatology, Violence, Precarity, Hindi Cinema, Trauma, and 12 moreCommunal Conflict, communalism in India, Indian History, Cinema and History, Cultural Memory (especially in Relation to Cinema And/or Photography), Cinema/cultural Experience and Psychoanalytic Theory, Film History; Photography and Cultural Memory, Hindi Films, Riots, Communal Violence, HIndi Cinema, Bombay cinema (Bollywood), History and Cinema, Hindi Cinema Studies, and Nandita Das
This chapter attempts to engage with issues related to the central role that narratives play in the construction of the historical past with reference to Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire. Expounding the cognate aspects of historiography,... more
This chapter attempts to engage with issues related to the central role that narratives play in the construction of the historical past with reference to Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire. Expounding the cognate aspects of historiography, historicity, and narrative time, not only from the disciplinary perspectives of history but also from that of literary studies, this analytical framework provides the linkages between history, memory, and time in the memorialization of the past in River of Fire. In this chapter, an attempt will be made to explore the theme of time and temporality in the narrativization of memories in River of Fire through the postcolonial lens.
Research Interests: History, Indian studies, History and Memory, Memory Studies, Collective Memory, and 15 moreUrdu Literature, South Asian Literature, Time Perception, India, Temporality, Oral History and Memory, Partition of India, Time and narrative, Urdu Novel, Progressive Writers Movement, Urdu Fiction, English Translation of Urdu Novels, Qurratul Ain Hayder, Aag Ka Darya, and Modern Urdu Literature
Foregrounding Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), this chapter analyses the intersections between a child’s lived world and post-9/11 melancholia from the theoretical lens of trauma studies. The novel, a... more
Foregrounding Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), this chapter analyses the intersections between a child’s lived world and post-9/11 melancholia from the theoretical lens of trauma studies. The novel, a postmodern bildungsroman, represents the young Oskar’s quest that is triggered by the trauma and guilt for not having answered his father’s last call on the morning of 9/11. By thinking about the world through a child’s storytelling, puzzles, games and visuals, Foer subverts the privileging of rational analysis over the illogical contrivances and mechanisms for coping with melancholia, loss and tragedy. Examining the memorialization of Oskar’s loss, it will be my effort to map out trauma as a structuring yet elusive subject of representation by exploring the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness that have caused trauma, the ways in which survivors remember, and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories.
Research Interests: Jewish American Literature, Psychoanalysis, Literature, Children's Literature, Trauma Studies, and 12 moreContemporary American Literature, Literature and Trauma, Loss and Trauma, Post-9/11 discourse and cultural production, Trauma and Witnessing, Witnessing, Memory and Trauma, Jonathan Safran Foer, Post 9/11 literature, Post-9/11 World, Post 9/11 Novel, Memory and Trauma Studies, and Trauma and Children
Literature and cinema, as institutionalised sites of memory, are especially relevant in the works of postcolonial creative writers and film-makers since they represent the possibility of creating a counternarrative/history as an... more
Literature and cinema, as institutionalised sites of memory, are especially relevant in the works of postcolonial creative writers and film-makers since they represent the possibility of creating a counternarrative/history as an alternative to the hegemonic majoritarian or official discourses. This chapter endeavours to build such a narrative with reference to Sadgati (Deliverance), a fifty-minute film adaptation of Munshi Premchand’s eponymous Hindi short story that Satyajit Ray made in late 1981 for Indian television. Aligning visual and languages codes in real time on screen, the telefilm Sadgati shows callous exploitation of a low-caste tanner, Dukhi, by the Brahmin priest Ghashiram (performed by Om Puri and Mohan Agashe, respectively, in the film) in a small Indian village. By studying one medium’s translation, transmission, transformation and appropriation of the other, I not only wish to enhance our understanding of both media, but also hope to contribute to studies of comparative poetics and cross-media cultural translation.
Research Interests: Hindi Literature, Caste and Untouchability, Hindi Cinema, Power, Realism, and 7 moreSatyajit Ray, Caste, Indian Cinema, Bollywood, Film Studies, South Asia, Media, Progressive Writers Movement, Munshi Premchand, Indian Progressive Writer's Association, and Progressive Indian literature, Dalit literary historiography, Dalit literature
This chapter is centrally concerned with understanding the ontological preeminence of the imaginal, imaginary, and narrative for mapping out the relegation of urban Muslims through the shifting and/evolving contours of Delhi, as the locus... more
This chapter is centrally concerned with understanding the ontological preeminence of the imaginal, imaginary, and narrative for mapping out the relegation of urban Muslims through the shifting and/evolving contours of Delhi, as the locus of historical memory, in Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi.
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Research Interests: Gender, Violence Against Women, Urdu Literature, Indian theatre, Women and gender in Muslim societies, and 9 moreIndian Muslims, Muslim Women's Studies, Muslim Women, Indian Literature in English, Translation, Women and Theatre, Progressive Writers Movement, Progressive Women Writers, Angarey, and Rashid Jahan
"This comprehensive study, mapping out the subversive trajectory of Post-Independence Indian English women poets (engaged in a double enterprise--to poetize the "silenced" issues of female sexuality and to expose the attempts of... more
"This comprehensive study, mapping out the subversive trajectory of Post-Independence Indian English women poets (engaged in a double enterprise--to poetize the "silenced" issues of female sexuality and to expose the attempts of patriarchy to destroy the female "identity"), gives incisive insights into ways of looking, evaluating and critiquing patriarchy. It also offers a fresh perspective on the theoretical issues involving women's writing and the development of feminist theory in the west.
Research Interests: Women's Studies, Poetry, Embodiment, Feminism, Desire, and 13 moreContemporary Poetry, Indian Writing in English, Indian English women's poetry, Feminism and Gender Issues in Indian Writing in English, KAMALA DAS, Poetry of Imtiaz Dharker, Love and Relationships, Confessional Mode in the Poems of Kamala Das, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Meena Alexander, Eunice de Souza, Sujata Bhatt, and Postcolonial Women's Poetry
Foregrounding Anubhav Sinha's Hindi mainstream film Anek (released on 27 May 2022), I will draw upon the discourses of nationalism and nation to examine the issues of separatist insurgency, violence, and militarization in the Northeast... more
Foregrounding Anubhav Sinha's Hindi mainstream film Anek (released on 27 May 2022), I will draw upon the discourses of nationalism and nation to examine the issues of separatist insurgency, violence, and militarization in the Northeast from the affective and performative lens in order to unsettle the reified categories of identity politics. As ‘nation-building' has important implications for nationalism and the nation-state, an attempt is made to map out the contours of the historical legacy of state formation in the Northeast India, which is characterized by ‘ethnic polities’ of Northeast groups with a connection to a real or imagined homeland, and the recurrent politics of subnationalism. Delineating the current scholarship on the relationship between hot and banal nationalism, an endeavour is made to offer new ways to understand insurgency and counter insurgency in the Northeast. Lastly, the paper explores how sports serve as a galvanizing force for mobilizing national identity and unity.
Research Interests: National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, Ethnicity and Race in Film, Subnational Politics, Northeast India, and 14 moreHindi Cinema, Gender and Race, Sports, Cinema Studies, Ethnonationalism, Nation-building, Banal nationalism, Bollywood films, Insurgency Movements In Northeast India, Ethnicity and National Identity, Subnationalism, Banal Terrorism, Race and Film, and Hot Nationalism
Foregrounding Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider (2014), the Hindi cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” this paper extends the spatial and temporal aspects of haunting to the political and ethical questions concerning the framing of... more
Foregrounding Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider (2014), the Hindi cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” this paper extends the spatial and temporal aspects of haunting to the political and ethical questions concerning the framing of “spectrality of the postcolonial nation,” catastrophic history, negative heritage, the problem of the haunted subject, the social and phenomenological aspects of ghosts, and the political responsibility of the people as the implicated subject. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02759527.2020.1765070
Research Interests: Ghosts As Political Trope, Shakespeare and film, Derridean Deconstruction, Hospitality, Haunting and Spectrality, and 15 moreKashmir, Vishal Bhardwaj, Forgiveness and Reconciliation, Shakespeare adaptation, Partition of India, Bollywood cinema, Shakespere's Hamlet, Spectrality, Spectropolitique, Kashmir Conflict, Enforced Disappearances, Politics and Ethics of Recognition, Screen adaptations of Hamlet, Anamnestic Solidarity, and Basharat Peer
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In Nala Sopara: Post Box No. 203, a trailblazing Hindi epistolary novel about the insensitivity of the society towards hijras (transgender), the Sahitya Akademi Award-winning writer, Chitra Mudgal, takes us into the life of a young... more
In Nala Sopara: Post Box No. 203, a trailblazing Hindi epistolary novel about the insensitivity of the society towards hijras (transgender), the Sahitya Akademi Award-winning writer, Chitra Mudgal, takes us into the life of a young transgender, Vinod, who challenges the notions of the homophobic society at great personal cost. An immaculate storyteller, Mudgal highlights not only the silences around the complexities of gender and sexuality by mapping out the constraints and effects of the complex ways in which transgender people experience their bodies, but also the ‘policing’ of gender in family and public spaces.
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Mohsin Hamid's novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007, engages with the complex issues of Islam and the West, fundamentalism and America's War on Terror. As a “counterhistory” to post-9/11... more
Mohsin Hamid's novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007, engages with the complex issues of Islam and the West, fundamentalism and America's War on Terror. As a “counterhistory” to post-9/11 Islamophobia, the novel contests common notions of terror as an unreasonable ideology of retribution and redemption by exposing the trajectories of imperialism. Analyzing The Reluctant Fundamentalist from the political perspective of a 9/11 novel, this paper aims to create counterintuitive rethinking on the Clash of Civilizations theory and to elucidate the linkages between new American imperialism, fundamentalism, globalization and terrorism.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02759527.2012.11932885
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02759527.2012.11932885
Research Interests: Political Violence and Terrorism, Islamophobia, 9/11 Literature, War on Terror, Neoimperialism, and 13 moreReligious Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Imperialism, Racism, Identity, Islamophobia, Twin Towers, Mohsin Hamid, Islamic fundamentalism, Post 9/11 literature, Islamophobia in United States, Post 9/11 Novel, Post 9/11 Theory, mohsin hamid's Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Man Booker Prize
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This article seeks to (re)position Bama's Karukku and Sangati as autoethnographies from a Tamil Dalit perspective. Drawing on the combined tradition of Bakhtin's thought and feminist dialogics, the author engages in a transdisciplinary... more
This article seeks to (re)position Bama's Karukku and Sangati as autoethnographies from a Tamil Dalit perspective. Drawing on the combined tradition of Bakhtin's thought and feminist dialogics, the author engages in a transdisciplinary analysis of theoretical debates of Dalit autoethnographic narratives in order to understand the creation of dialogic spaces as spaces that both subordinate and subvert.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989575.2015.1086952
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989575.2015.1086952
Research Interests: Autoethnography, Dialogism, Intercultural dialogue, Dalit studies, Mikhail Bakhtin, and 12 moreDalit Literature, Dalit Feminism, Translation of Bama's Karukku, Bama, Bakhtinian critical theory, Bama's karukku, Dalit Women, Bakhtinian Dialogism, Tamil Dalit Writers, Dalit Literature, Auto-narratives, Indian Writing in English, Dalit Women's Writings, and Sangati
Through reference to Sadgati (Deliverance), I will delineate Ray's formal and enunciatory cinematic usages and their applications in Sadgati, along with the critique of Premchand's progressive realism and aesthetics. I address the aporia... more
Through reference to Sadgati (Deliverance), I will delineate Ray's formal and enunciatory cinematic usages and their applications in Sadgati, along with the critique of Premchand's progressive realism and aesthetics. I address the aporia of the aesthetic to caste issues by exploring and reconfiguring caste in terms of the delineation of Dalit life-worlds in Ray's and Premchand's narratives through modalities of the aesthetic-ethical framework.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02759527.2015.11933011
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02759527.2015.11933011
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Tum Kabir (2017) is the seventh collection of poems of Fahmida Riaz—a celebrated Progressive Urdu writer of Pakistan who challenged both the traditional form and idioms that have dominated Urdu poetry since its inception. Describing the... more
Tum Kabir (2017) is the seventh collection of poems of Fahmida Riaz—a celebrated Progressive Urdu writer of Pakistan who challenged both the traditional form and idioms that have dominated Urdu poetry since its inception. Describing the many facets of Fahmida Riaz in the introduction to Tum Kabir, the renowned writer Masood Ashar asks, ‘Does Fahmida Riaz need an introduction? Is it necessary to describe her as a renowned poet, an accomplished short story writer, a trustworthy and impeccable translator or a passionate human rights activist? Is it not enough to say that Fahmida Riaz is Fahmida Riaz? There is no one like her.’ Indeed she has no parallel in South Asian poetry.
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This paper engages with the politics of framing to explicate how Bollywood has framed the political, material and ideological compulsions of Kashmir insurgency, nation-formation, and citizenship in India. Moving beyond traditional... more
This paper engages with the politics of framing to explicate how Bollywood has framed the political, material and ideological compulsions of Kashmir insurgency, nation-formation, and citizenship in India. Moving beyond traditional readings, I will focus on the multiple ways in which the images of Kashmir's conflict in the past and present are communicated to, and shared in, the popular culture, highlighting the importance of “remembering” certain segments of the past and “forgetting” or ignoring others. This paper deals with the cinematic images that seek to challenge and renegotiate modern, political, and ethical dilemmas by exploring the constitutive tension, aporias, perplexities and paradoxes between— “man” and “citizen,” the principle of universal human rights and that of state sovereignty, the growing problem of statelessness, and biopolitical humanitarianism.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02759527.2014.11932989
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02759527.2014.11932989
Research Interests: Visual Studies, Human Rights, Popular Culture, Indian studies, History and Memory, and 11 moreBiopolitics, Hindi Cinema, Indian Politics, Insurgency, Cinema Studies, Kashmir, Framing, Indian Cinema, Bollywood, Film Studies, South Asia, Media, Kashmir Conflict, Popular Hindi Cinema, and Memory and Rememberance
Research Interests: Violence, Embodiment, Women and Gender Issues in Islam, Contemporary Poetry, Quran, and 11 morePoetics of Silence, Women and gender in Muslim societies, Muslim Women, Feminism and Gender Issues in Indian Writing in English, Female Veil, Indian Women Writers, Female body, Poetry of Imtiaz Dharker, Purdah System, Imtiaz Dharker, and Quran and Veiling
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In recent years one of the most challenging areas of research in the field of English and cultural studies has been the study of diasporas, and with good reason: this recent privileging and its related compulsions of both location and... more
In recent years one of the most challenging areas of research in the field of English and cultural studies has been the study of diasporas,
and with good reason: this recent privileging and its related compulsions of both location and space have brought to the fore the pattern of experience likely to dominate the future. Emphasizing the importance of experiences of migrancy and living in a diaspora, Homi K. Bhabha observes that "it is from those who have suffered the sentence of his- tory - subjugation, domination, diaspora, displacement-that we learn our most enduring lessons" (Bhabha 1996). In the increasingly transnational world brought about by globalization, the diasporic subject has come to be regarded as a representative protagonist rather than a marginalized exile. Indeed, the descendants of the diasporic movements generated by colonialism have developed their own distinctive diasporic cultures which both preserve and often extend and develop their originary cultures. Thisnecessarilyquestionsessentialistmodels, interrogating the ideology of a unified "natural" cultural norm, one that underpins the center/margin model of colonialist discourse.
The South-Asian diaspora (though smaller than the African or the Chinese diaspora) is ll million strong. The biracial London-based writer, Hari Kunzru-a self-confessed "British Asian" (Kunzru Flicker}-has been billed by The Guardian as one of the top six novelists of the year. He is the recipient of the largest advance in publishing history and is the winner of The Betty Trask Award 2002 for his debut novel The Impressionist. He is, in short, the latest find in the literary firmament of the South-Asian diaspora or specifically the Indian Diaspora.
and with good reason: this recent privileging and its related compulsions of both location and space have brought to the fore the pattern of experience likely to dominate the future. Emphasizing the importance of experiences of migrancy and living in a diaspora, Homi K. Bhabha observes that "it is from those who have suffered the sentence of his- tory - subjugation, domination, diaspora, displacement-that we learn our most enduring lessons" (Bhabha 1996). In the increasingly transnational world brought about by globalization, the diasporic subject has come to be regarded as a representative protagonist rather than a marginalized exile. Indeed, the descendants of the diasporic movements generated by colonialism have developed their own distinctive diasporic cultures which both preserve and often extend and develop their originary cultures. Thisnecessarilyquestionsessentialistmodels, interrogating the ideology of a unified "natural" cultural norm, one that underpins the center/margin model of colonialist discourse.
The South-Asian diaspora (though smaller than the African or the Chinese diaspora) is ll million strong. The biracial London-based writer, Hari Kunzru-a self-confessed "British Asian" (Kunzru Flicker}-has been billed by The Guardian as one of the top six novelists of the year. He is the recipient of the largest advance in publishing history and is the winner of The Betty Trask Award 2002 for his debut novel The Impressionist. He is, in short, the latest find in the literary firmament of the South-Asian diaspora or specifically the Indian Diaspora.
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The present paper is an attenpt to explore the reflection ofmodern Indian reality in Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize awarded debut magnum opus, The God ofSmall Things. The novel with its flowing omniscient narrative based on a... more
The present paper is an attenpt to explore the reflection ofmodern Indian reality in Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize awarded debut magnum opus, The God ofSmall Things. The novel with its flowing omniscient narrative based on a congeries ofevents structuring a beginning and ...
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Chair: M. Asaduddin Panelists: Prayaag Akbar (Author) Suhani Kanwar (Screenwriter) Nishat Haider (Jamia Millia Islamia) Avishek Parui (IIT Madras)
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Speaking on "Videogames Based on Bollywood Films" at the online International Workshop on Digital Humanities: Theory and Praxis (21-22 December 2020), organized by the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia in collaboration with... more
Speaking on "Videogames Based on Bollywood Films" at the online International Workshop on Digital Humanities: Theory and Praxis (21-22 December 2020), organized by the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia in collaboration with Michigan State University, USA [Ministry of Education, Government of India SPARC Supported]
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Celebrating the Poetry of Louise Glück, a Nobel Laureate of 2020