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Prof. Gurudas Das

Professor
Department: HUMANITIES
Phone: 9435500774
Email: gurudas_das[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]in

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Prof. Gurudas Das

Department: HUMANITIES
Professor
Phone: 9435500774
Email: gurudas_das[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]in

Alternate Contact No.:	03842-222412
Alternate E-mail ID:	dasgurudas.das[at]gmail[dot]com
Academic Qualifications
Qualifications Details :	MA (Economics), Ph D
Currently Teaching Subject:	Managerial Economics
Experience
Experience Description:	Worked as a Lecturer in Economics at St Anthony's College, Shillong, Meghalaya, Research Fellow at OKD Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati, Assam, Reader in Economics at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong Meghalaya, and currently working at NIT Silchar as a Professor of Economics.
Area of Interest/Specialization :	International Trade, Development Economics, Regional Economics and Area Studies
Teaching Interests :	Taught both under graduate and post graduate courses at college and university. Currently offering a course on Managerial Economics to the B Tech 4th Semester batch.
Research Interests :	Actively engaged in research. The main research focus is on the social, political and economic issues relating to the development of India's Northeast.
Administrative Interests :	Worked as the Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Faculty in-charge, Training and Placement, NIT Silchar
Biographical Sketch :	Born in 1960 at Coochbehar, West Bengal. Studied at Vivekananda Vidyapeeth, New town, Coochbehar, upto class X and at Sonapur B K High school, Sonapur, Jalpaiguri, for class XII. Graduated from ABN Seal College, Coochbehar. Received both post-graduation and Ph D degrees from University of North Bengal, Siliguri. Worked as a Lecturer in Economics at St Anthony's College, Shillong, Meghalaya, Research Fellow at OKD Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati, Assam, Reader in Economics at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong Meghalaya, and currently working at NIT Silchar as a Professor of Economics.
Awards/Achievements :	Awarded Silver medal at post graduate level.
Publications
Journals (International):	1. (with Tanuj Mathur and Ujjwal K. Paul ) “Linking “satisfaction” to “intention-to-sell” and “sales performance” of individual agents in the health insurance market: Empirical evidence from India”, Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science, v26 n2 (20160316): 109-128 2. (with Ujjwal K. Paul; Tanuj Mathur ) “Economic efficiency and its effect on cost: a case study of organic pineapple in India’s northeast”, Organic Agriculture, n1, 2016 3. (with Ujjwal K. Paul; Tanuj Mathur ) “Convenience, Satisfaction, and Post-Purchase Behavior in India's Health Insurance Market”, Journal of Global Marketing, n6 (20160805): 1-15 4. (with Ujjwal K. Paul; Tanuj Mathur ) “Sub-regional Cooperation for the Development of Landlocked Peripheral Areas : The Case of BCIM”, South Asian Survey, v20 n1 (3/2013): 74-93 5. “Identity and Underdevelopment-Conflict and Peace in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Assam in India”, in Humanities and Social Sciences Review, Vol 1, No 1, 2012 6. “Cross-Border Cooperation for the Development of Peripheral Regions: The Case of India’s North East and Bangladesh”, published in the International Handbook of Academic Research and Teaching (IHART), Vol 26, 2013, PP: 211-220, Proceeding of Academic Conference on “Multidisciplinary Foundations and Intellectual Perspectives”, held in Bangkok, Thailand, organized by Intellectbase International Consortium (IIC), during March 14-16, 2013, ISSN (online) 1940-1868. 7. “India’s North-East Soft Underbelly: Strategic Vulnerability and Security”, Strategic Analysis, 2002, Vol. 26, No 4.
Journals (National):	1. “Security and Development: The Economic Costs of Insurgency”, in The Social Scanner, Vol 2&3, July 2011. 2. (with K Gyanendra Singh) “Insurgency and Nationalism in Manipur”, in Man and Society, Vol VI, 2009 3. Probable Options : Cementing the Faultlines in Assam”, Faultlines, 2002, Vol 11. 4. “Trade Between North Eastern Region and Bangladesh: Nature, Trends and Implications for Development Cooperation”, 2001, Dialogue, Vol 2, No 4. 5. "Understanding the Underdevelopment of North Eastern Region of India", in the Journal of the Anthropological Society, March/July, 1994, Vol. 29, No. 1 & 2. 6. "The Strategy of Development Planning in Arunachal Pradesh Since Independence", in Resarun, 1994, Vol. XX, No. 1 & 2, Spring-Winter Issue. 7. "The Early Cross-Country Trade of the Frontier Tribes of North East India", in the Journal of North East India Council for Social Science Research, Vol. 17, No. 2, October, 1993. 8. “Structural Change in the Economy of Arunachal Pradesh", in the Journal of North East India Council for Social Science Research, Vol. 16, No. 2, October, 1992. 9. Traditional Handicrafts of the Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh before Independence", in the Journal of North East India Council for Social Science Research, Vol. 15, No. 2, October, 1991 10. "The Role of Mineral Resources in the Development of Arunachal Pradesh", in The Himalayan Miscellany, March, 1991. 11. "Perspective and Issues in Rural Development of North Eastern Region", in The Himalayan Miscellany, March, 1990. 12. "Economic Potentiality : An Anatomy of the Population of Arunachal Pradesh", in The Himalayan Miscellany, March, 1989.
Conferences (International):	(with Ujjwal K. Paul and Tanuj Mathur ) ”, “Making “Act East Policy’ to work for the Development of Northeastern Region of India” in Das, Gurudas and C Joshua Thomas, (eds), 2016, Look East to Act East Policy: Implications for India’s Northeast, Routledge, London “India’s Myanmar Policy: Implications for India’s Northeast”, in Das, Gurudas and C Joshua Thomas, (eds), 2016, Look East to Act East Policy: Implications for India’s Northeast, Routledge, London (with Subodh Chandra Das and Ujjwal Paul) “ Look East Policy: Economic engagements with ASEAN and East Asian countries”, in Das, Gurudas and C Joshua Thomas, (eds), 2016, Look East to Act East Policy: Implications for India’s Northeast, Routledge, London 1. “Indo-Bangladesh Relations: Issues in Trade, Transit and Security”, in Das, Gurudas, (ed), 2008, Indo-Bangladesh Border Trade:Benefiting from Neighbourhood, Akansha publishing House, New Delhi 2. "Trade Between the North Eastern Region and Neighbouring Countries: Structures and Implications for Development", in Gurudas Das and R.K. Purkayastha, (eds), Border Trade : North East & Neighbouring Countries, 2000, Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi 3. “Sino-Indian Border Trade for Frontier Development: The Case of India’s Northeast and China’s Southwest”, in Jayanta Kumar Ray and Prabir De, (eds), 2005, India and China in an Era of Globalization: Essays on Economic Cooperation, Bookwell, New Delhi.
Conferences (National):	1. (with Subodh Chandra Das) “Democracy in the Grass Root: A Case study of Nagendra Nagar Gaon Panchayat in Karimganj District of Assam”, in L S Gassah and C J Thomas, (eds), 2015, Democracy and Development in India’s Northeast: Challenges and Opportunities, Bookwell, Delhi (with Subodh Chandra Das) “Democracy in the Grass Root: A Case study of Nagendra Nagar Gaon Panchayat in Karimganj District of Assam”, in L S Gassah and C J Thomas, (eds), 2015, Democracy and Development in India’s Northeast: Challenges and Opportunities, Bookwell, Delhi "Dynamics of India-China Relations in a Changing Global Geo-Political Environment", in Das, Gurudas and C Joshua Thomas, (eds), Voices from the Border: Response to Chinese Claims over Arunachal Pradesh, 2015, Pentagon Press, New Delhi 2. “Identity, Underdevelopment, and Violence: A Roadmap for the Restoration of Peace in North East India”, in Bera, Gautam Kumar, et al, (eds), 2011, Social Unrest and Peace Initiatives: Perspectives from North East India, EBH Publishers, Guwahati (ISBN 978-93-80261-25-6), pp: 119-134 5. “Development of National Peripheries through Mobilizing Cross-Border Synergies: A Case for Sino-Indian Cooperation for the Development of India’s Northeast and China’s Southwest”, in Das, Gurudas a 3. “Development of National Peripheries through Mobilizing Cross-Border Synergies: A Case for Sino-Indian Cooperation for the Development of India’s Northeast and China’s Southwest”, in Das, Gurudas and C Joshua Thomas, (eds), 2010, India-China: Trade and Strategy for Frontier Development, Bookwell, New Delhi 4. “Globalization and Human Development: Is there any Trade Off?”, in Chakraborty,Kiran Sankar and Gurudas Das, 2007, (eds), Human Develoment: Experiences of North East India, Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi 5. “Security, Engagement and Development: Development Interest of India’s North East and the art of conduct of India’s Relations with the Neighbouring Countries”, in Thomas, C Joshua, (ed), 2006, Engagement and Development: India’s North East and Neighbouring Countries, Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi 6. “War and Peace in India’s North East: Issues, Complexities and Options”, in Biswas, Prasenjit and C Joshua Thomas, (eds), 2006, Peace in India’s North East: Meaning, Metaphor and Method”, Regency Publications, New Delhi 7. “Border Trade in India’s North East: Theory and Practice”, in Syiemlieh, David R., et., al, (eds), 2006, Challenges of Development in North-East India, Regency Publications, New Delhi 8. “Informal Sector in India’s North East: Migration, Competition and Conflict Situations”, in Datta Ray, B. and Gurudas Das, (eds), 2006, Informality and Poverty: Urban Landscape of India’s North East, Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi. 9. “Structural Change and Resource-Industry Linkages in India’s North east: Some Policy Imperatives”, in Gurudas Das, (ed), 2005, Structural Change and Strategy of Development: Resource-Industry Linkages in North East India, Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi. 10. Land in the Hills of North East India: Factor Immobility Vs Market-led Growth”, in C. Joshua Thomas, (ed), 2005, Polity and Economy: Agenda for Contemporary North East India, Regency Publications, New Delhi. 11. “Small Societies in Large Democracy: Problems of Conflict Resolution in India’s North East”, in Monirul Hussain, (ed), 2005, Coming Out of Violence: Essays on Ethnicity, Conflict Resolution and Peace Process in North East India, Regency Publications, New Delhi. 12. “Economy of Myanmar: Trends, Structure and Implications for Border Trade with India’s North East” (with C J Thomas) in Gurudas Das, et al, (eds), 2005, Indo-Myanmar Border Trade: Status, Problems and Potentials, Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi. 13. “Geo-Economy of Arunachal Pradesh: The Cross-Border Trade Dimension”, in S. Dutta, (ed), Cross-Border Trade of North East India, 2002, Hope India Publications, Gurgaon, Haryana 14. “Armed Struggle in Nagaland: Tactics, Strategies and Its Ramifications for Economic Development”, in C. Joshua Thomas and Gurudas Das, (eds), Dimensions of Development in Nagaland, 2002, Regency Publications, New Delhi 15. “Immigration into North-East India : The Security Dimension”, in C. Joshua Thomas, (ed), 2002, Dimensions of Displaced People in North-East India, Regency Publications, New Delhi 16. "Social Change and Traditional Tribal Political Systems in Meghalaya", in M.N. Karna L.S. Gassah and C.J. Thomas, (eds), Power to People in Meghalaya, 1998, Regency Publications, New Delhi. 17. "Limits to Economic Development of North Eastern Region : An Analysis of Contradictions Between Economic Goals and Social Choices", in B. Datta Ray and Prabin Baishya, (eds), 1998, Sociological Constraints to Industrial Development in North East India, Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi. . 18. "Liberalization and Internal Periphery : Understanding the Implications for India's North East ", in Gurudas Das and R.K. Purkayastha, (eds), Liberalization and India's North East, 1998, Commonwealth Publications, New Delhi. 19. "Understanding the Insurgency Phenomenon in India's North-East : An Analytical Framework", in B. Pakem, (ed), Insurgency in North - East India, 1997, Omsons Publications, New Delhi. 20. "Ethnicity and Political Economy of Development in India's North-East : An Appraisal", in Girin Phukan and N.L. Dutta, (eds), Politics of Identity and Nation Building in North-East India, 1997, South Asian Publishers, New Delhi. 21. “Agriculture in Arunachal Pradesh: Trends and Problems of Objective Assessment", in M.C. Behera and N.C. Roy, (eds), Trends in Agrarian Structure in the Hills of North East India, 1997, Commonwealth Publishers, New Delhi. 22. "Features of Peripheral Urbanization : A study of the Nature and Growth of Urban Settlements in Arunachal Pradesh", in J.B. Ganguly, (ed), Urbanization and Development in North East India, 1995, Deep and Deep Publications, New Delhi. 23. "Incorporation of Arunachal Hills into Colonial British India : A Politico-Economic Analysis", in the Proceedings of the North East India History Association, 1994, Fifteenth Session, NEIHA, Shillong. 24. "Reflections on Ethnicity and Politics", in the Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the North-East India Political Science Association (NEIPSA), 1994, NEIPSA, Shillong. 25. "On Some Aspects of Demographic Economy of Arunachal Pradesh", in S. Mukherjee, et.al., (ed), Demographic Profile of North-East India, 1994, Omsons Publications, New Delhi. 26. "The Nehru-Elwin Policy if Tribal Development : Genesis, Growth and Renunciation", in the Proceedings of North-East India History Association (NEIHA), 1994, Fourteenth Session, NEIHA, Shillong. 27. "Tribal Formations and their Economic Base in Arunachal Pradesh : A Reconstruction", in the Proceedings of North East India History Association (NEIHA), 1993, Thirteenth Session, NEIHA, Shillong. 28. "The Pace of Development and Emerging Structural Constraints of the Agrarian Economy of Arunachal Pradesh", in K. Alam, (ed), Agricultural Development in North East India, 1993, Deep and Deep Publications, New Delhi.

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Dr. Reena Sanasam

Associate Professor
Department: HUMANITIES
Phone: 8811926111
Email: reena_sanasam[at]yahoo[dot]com

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Dr. Reena Sanasam

Department: HUMANITIES
Associate Professor
Phone: 8811926111
Email: reena_sanasam[at]yahoo[dot]com

Alternate Contact No.:	9954774566
Date of Joining:	2005-09-07
Academic Qualifications
Qualifications Details :	M.A , Ph.D and B.Ed
Currently Teaching Subject:	Communication Skills for B.Tech Students, Report Writing for Ph.D Scholars, Perspectives in Literature, Philosophy and psychology for Ph.D Scholars and Modern Literary Theory for Ph.D scholars
Experience
Experience Duration:	Almost 19 years
Experience Description:	I have been involved in teaching and guiding B.Tech and Ph.D. scholars for almost 18 years to date.
Area of Interest/Specialization :	Women's Writing in India, Feminist Theories and Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Cultural Studies, etc
Teaching Interests :	Communication Skills for B.Tech Students, Report Writing for Ph.D. Scholars, Perspectives in Literature, Philosophy and psychology for Ph.D. Scholars and Modern Literary Theory for Ph.D. scholars
Research Interests :	Women's Writing in India, Feminist Theories and Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Cultural Studies, etc
Administrative Interests :	Have shouldered the responsibility of Warden Girls' Hostel, Head of Department, HSS and NCC ANO.
Biographical Sketch :	I, Dr. Reena Sanasam, hail from Thongju part II, Canchipur, Manipur. I did my High school at Catholic School Canchipur, Imphal; Higher secondary at Vidya Devi Jindal School, Hisar; Graduation at Miranda House, Delhi University; Master of Arts at Kumaun University and Ph.D. at Manipur University. Besides, I have also done B.Ed at D.M College of Teachers' education (Manipur Univ.), Manipur.
Ph.D. Scholars Guided:	2 scholars guided until now.
Book / Chapters Published:	Dr. Reena Sanasam published a book chapter entitled "Cultural Hegemony and Colonialism: A Study of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart" in the book entitled Feminist Engagements: Cultural Expressions and Politics (Page 166-174) published by Authorspress, New Delhi in 2022 (ISBN 978-93-5529-767-9) Dr. Reena Sanasam published a book chapter entitled "Of Tradition, Nostalgia and Spiritualism" in the book entitled "Voices at the Door" published by Upanayan, Delhi. (Page 191-200) ISBN:978-93-91467-00-5 Pankaj Kalita and Reena Sanasam published a book chapter entitled "The Plot of Queer Love Triangle in Hindi Gay Cinema: A Critical Investigation" in Srijanee, published by WSDC, Sibsagar college, Joysagar, 2021 (ISBN:978-81-950273-2-3) Wild Kombireis: The Nostalgia of a Lost Heritage-- Novel-- published by Amazon(kindle) February 9, 2018 (ASIN) B079QG21DW Published a book chapter entitled Masculine Edifice and Angel in the House: A Study of Khaled Hosseini and Virginia Woolf in the book entitled Postcolonial and Feminist Literary Concerns, published by Iterative International Publishers(2022) ISBN: 978-1-68576-385-5 (113-121)
Publications
Journals (International):	Published a paper entitled “Problematizing Development and Education for Sustainability” in International Journal of Comparative Education and Development with ISSN: 2396-7404, dated: 24 September 2024 (a scopus indexed journal) https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCED-06-2023-0051 Published a paper entitled “Simulacrum of Biological Malady HIV+AIDS in the Indian Hindi Queer Movie My Brother Nikhil : A Panoramic Surveillance” in the journal African Journal of Biological Sciences (South Africa) Vol. 6, no. 1, 2024 Scopus indexed Published a paper entitled “ Aesthetics of Characterisation in Asian and European Homophile Cinematic Literature: A Comparative Fractionation” in the journal Gradiva https://gradiva.it/dec-2023/ Vol.62, no.12, December,2023, https://doi 10.5281/zenodo.12794180 Page no (57-82) Web of Science index Amlan Baishya and Reena Sanasam published a paper entitled "Rereading the Naxalbari Movement (1967-72): A Gendered Perspective" in the journal entitled "South Asian Women’s Narratives: Literatures of Their Own" published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2023/8/22 ISBN(10):1-5275-1529-X ISBN(13):978-1-5275-1529-1 Published a paper entitled "LGBTIQPA+ Movies of Europe: A Diachronic Penetration" in the Journal of Frontline Research in Arts and Science, a peer reviewed annual research journal, listed in the International Journal for ISSN, Paris, published by Sibsagar College Teachers’ Unit, Sibsagar College, Assam in November 2022, Volume 10-A ISSN 2249-9903, Page(67-76) Pankaj Kalita and Dr. Reena Sanasam published a paper entitled "Transaction between Literature and Cinema: Two sides of the same coin" in the Journal of Frontline Research in Arts and Science, A peer reviewed annual research journal, Listed in the International Journal for ISSN, Paris, Published by Sibsagar College teachers'unit, Sibsagar College, Assam , Volume 10(2021-2022), Published in November 2022, ISSN 2249-9903 Bhramyamaan Theatre of Assam: A Socio-Historical Perspective, published in Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, UGC CARE-listed Journal ISSN:2278-523X, Vol 21 No. 2 (July-December, 2020) The Oral Folk Literature of the Ancient Meiteis of Manipur: An Analysis of its Cultural Significance (Journal Space and Culture, India), published by ACCB Publishing, England (V6i1. 307 2018, 6:1) Cosmopolitanism in Amitav Ghosh’s Hungry Tide (Jan-Feb 2013; Vol.1, Issue 1; page 86- 91; ISSN2319-6076) in Spectrum: An International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Tradition, Nostalgia and Spiritualism in S.K Sharma’s poems (Jan-Feb 2013; Vol.1; Issue 1; Page 216-223; ISSN2319- 6076) in Spectrum: An International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. A Quest for Identity and Self Independence in Manju Kapur’s A Married Woman (Vol. I; Issue III; August 2013; ISSN 2320 –6101) in Research Scholar: An International Refereed e-Journal of Literary Explorations. Roy’s Reclaiming Voices on Feminist Identity (Volume. 2, Issue 1, January-June 2014; ISSN 2319-6076) in Spectrum: An International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Journals (National):	The Concept of New Woman in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of the Day and Manju Kapur’ Home (Volume-II, Issue-III, January 2014; IISN2278-5264) in PRATIDHWANI: A Journal of Humanities and Social Science, Karimganj College. Clearing the Minefield: The Problem that Women Encountered (December 2012; Volume: 4, 7 and 8; 2012; JLCMS [ISSN: 0974-792)]) in Journal of Literature, Culture and Media Studies, Nagaland University. Study of Myths in Manipuri Literature and Socio-Religious Rituals (16-11-20; Volume-I Issue -II) published by PRATIDHWANI, Karimganj College. Immigrant Dilemma and Feminist Sensibilities in Chitra Divakaruni's Arranged Marriage (2011; Page 29-45) published in Feminism and Recent Literature, Prestige Publishing House, New Delhi. Human Identities and Transculturalism in Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss (Vol.1; No.1 2009 ) in Journal of Literature, Culture and Media Studies, Nagaland University. Study of Social Activism in Arundhati Roy’s work ( Vol.19; Issue 1; February 2014 ) in IOSR Journals. Transculturalism: Rejuvenating Globalisation (2011; Page: 163-167)in Social Scanner, Department of HSS, NIT, Silchar.
Conferences (International):	Presented a paper entitled Rediscovering the Monolith in Digital Worlds: 2001:A Space Odyssey (1968) and Ready Player One at the Two Day Workshop on Digital Infrastructures and Contemporary Urbanities, organised by Humanities and Social Science Department, NIT, Silchar during 15 to 16th September 2023 Presented a paper entitled Indian Travel Writings on Territorial Decentralization: Analyzing Across the Chicken Neck by Nandita Haksar at the One Day International Conference on Negotiating Lives: Migration, Displacement, And Resistance in Post Colonial Nation-State, organised the Department of English , Midnapore College, India on 26th August 2023. Presented a paper entitled "Life Post-Pandemic: An Ecofeminist Reading of Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood" at the two day International Virtual Conference on "Post Pandemic Perspectives: Reflections and Realities", organised by the Department of Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT,Agartala, during 5-6 August 2022. Presented a paper entitled "Policing the Border Amid Pandemic: Perspectives from Media on Cross Border Immigration in Assam and Tripura Border" at the two day International Virtual Conference on "Post Pandemic Perspectives: Reflections and Realities", organised by the Department of Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT, Agartala, during 5-6 August 2022 Presented a paper entitled "Women in Low Context Culture: A Scandinavian Perspective" at the three Day International Virtual Conference on Gender Studies and Women Empowerment, organised by the Department of Management, Humanities and Social Sciences during April 16-18 2021. Also Chaired two technical sessions. Delivered a Lecture entiled "Reading of novels as History: An Interdisciplinary Perspective" --as a special invited speaker-- at the TEQIP sponsored online International Conference on Interdisciplinary Interpretation of Literature organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT, Meghalaya from 14th to 18th December, 2020 Delivered a keynote lecture entitled "Social Constructions and Women: Towards a New Awakening" at the two day International Webinar on Women Empowerment in the Digital Age organised by the Department of HSS, NIT, Silchar during 30th and 31st January 2021. Literature and Ecocriticism: Towards Understanding the Relevance of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Two Day International Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies: Redefining Boundaries of Humanities, Science and Social Sciences during 22-23 November 2019 organised by English Literary Circle, Manipur and the Manipur University Students’ Union. Human Identity in the Age of Technology: A Study of Select American Science Fiction at the Two Day International Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies: Redefining Boundaries of Humanities, Science and Social Sciences during 22-23 November 2019 organised by English Literary Circle, Manipur and the Manipur University Students’ Union A Study of Lai Haraoba as a Cultural and Historical Text of the Meiteis of Manipur at the Two Day International Conference on Interdisciplinarity: Intersections of literature and History for Social and Cultural Change during 19-20th October 2019 organised by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT, Meghalaya. Chaired a technical session too. Native culture, colonization and its ramifications in Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” at the Two Day International Conference on Multiculturalism during 24-25th January 2018 organised by English Literary circle in collaboration with college development council, Manipur university. Identity Crisis and the Contemporary Literature at A Two Day International Seminar on Social inequality and Literature ( 16-17 January 2014) held at Tripura university The Colonial Agenda in Roy’s ‘The God of Small Things’ at the International Conference on Literature to Cinema: Appropriation, Adaptations, Adulteration ( 1st, 2nd, 3rd June 2013) organised by NIT Durgapur, West Bengal,India The changing perceptions of Meetei culture: Resistance through rituals at the International seminar on Ethnicity, Identity and Literature (11-14 October 2012) held at Sibsagar, Assam Immigrant Dilemma and Feminist Sensibilities in Chitra Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage at the seminar on English Literature in Translation (10-12 January 2011) organised by IAES and AIETA at JKC College Guntur Women and War: A Comparative Study of Khaled Hosseini’s ‘A Thousand splendid Suns’ and Margarett Mitchelles’ 'Gone With the Wind’at the Two Day International Conference on Interdisciplinarity: Contemporary Research in Humanities, Social Science and Management Studies during 21-22July 2017, organised by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT,Meghalaya. Chaired two technical sessions-- Social Sciences I and Literature V English as a Global Language at the seminar on Innovative Approaches and Techniques of Teaching (13-14 July 2007) organised by NCIATTE at PSG College Coimbatore Postmodernism as an Attitude: Towards a Global Culture at the seminar on Globalization and Industrial Relocation (27- 28 October 2006) organised by DONER and NEC Shillong at NIT Silchar
Conferences (National):	Presented a paper entitled "Genocide, Utopia and Ecology: American Science Fiction in the 1960s" at the Two Day National conference on Genocides and Oppression: Interpretation, Intersections, and Interstices (COIN 2022), organised by NIT, Meghalaya, in collaboration with the department of English Literature, the English, and Foreign Language University, Shillong Campus during 19th and 20th November 2022 Presented a paper entitled "A Brief History of European Queer Cinema: An Emerging trend in Film Studies" at the Two-day National Seminar on Dynamics of Humanities and Social Sciences: Emerging Interfaces of Flux, organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sibsagar College, Joysagar, Sivasagar, Assam, India, during 22nd August to 23rd August 2022. Delivered a lecture entitled Pronunciation Skills for Personality Development at the 6- day Workshop on Personality Development and Interview Skills, organised by the Department of Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT, Agartala, during June 13-18, 2022 Participated as resource person at the 3 Day Online National Symposium on Reading and Interpreting Literature, organised by the Department of English, Highland National College, Kanglatongbi, Manipur, during 8th to 10th April 2021 . Delivered a keynote lecture entitled "Women for Women" at the two-day National Webinar on "Women Empowerment at Workplace and Beyond" on 5th and 6th December 2020, organised by the Women Empowerment Committee, Department of Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Agartala. Delivered plenary lecture at the two-day National Webinar on “Tribal Literature and Philosophy of North East India”, 2-3 October, 2020 organized by Poorvangan, Shillong in collaboration with ICSSR, Shillong. East- West Encounter in Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red and Snow at A Two Day National Conference on Interdisciplinarity: Theory and Practice organised by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Meghalaya during 22nd and 23rd July 2016 Meitei Lai Haraoba : The Universality of Belief in God at A two-day ICSSR , New Delhi Sponsored National Seminar entitled Knowing Manipur from Endogenous Perspective organized by the Centre for Manipur Studies , Manipur University during 20th and 21st October 2014 Quest for Identity in Anita Desai’s ‘Bye- Bye Blackbird’ and Manju Kapur’s ‘The Immigrant’ at the seminar on Women and Media: Challenges and Opportunities (3rd and 4th March 2014) organised by Centre for Bangladesh Studies, in collaboration with the Department of Bengali and the Department of Mass Communication, Assam University. Role of Ancient Narratives and Globalisation at the seminar on Dynamics of Higher Education; Role of Teachers (21-22 July 2011) organised by Assam University Teachers’ Association at Assam University Silchar Globalization and Language Preservation at the seminar on Linguistics Movement and their Future in Southern Assam (19-20 August 2011)organised by Department of History in Collaboration with Barak Upatyaka Bangla Sahitya at Srikishan Sarda College, Hailakandi, Assam. Indian Identities and Transculturalism in Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss at the seminar on Role of Literature in Promoting National Integration (20-21 November 2007) held at Women's College, Silchar

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Prof. N. B. Singh

Professor
Department: HUMANITIES
Phone: 9864486742
Email: nbsingh@hum.nits.ac.in

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Prof. N. B. Singh

Department: HUMANITIES
Professor
Phone: 9864486742
Email: nbsingh@hum.nits.ac.in

Alternate Contact No.:	8486153152
Alternate E-mail ID:	nameirakpambhupendro[at]rediffmail[dot]com
Date of Joining:	1970-07-10
Academic Qualifications
Qualifications Details :	MA (Economics), Ph. D.
Currently Teaching Subject:	Managerial Economics and Quantitative Techniques
Experience
Experience Duration:	15 years
Experience Description:	Worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Economics, Manipur University. Currently working at NIT Silchar as an Associate Professor.
Area of Interest/Specialization :	Agricultural Economics, Rural Development & Reginal Economics
Teaching Interests :	Managerial Economics, Agricultural Economics, Regional Economics & Quantitative Techniques.
Research Interests :	Actively engaged in research. The main research focus is on agricultural economics and rural development relating to the development of North Eastern Region of India.
Administrative Interests :	NSS Programme Officer (April 2006 - June 2012), Faculty in-charge, Guest House (August 2007 - April 2012), Associate Warden, Hostel 2/3 (April 2013 - July 2017), Head of the Department (July 2019 - August 2019), CTO, NCC (Since April 2018).
Biographical Sketch :	Born in 1970 at Malom Tuliyaima, Imphal West, Manipur. Studied at Sainik School Imphal upto class XII. Completed graduation and post-graduation from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda and Ph. D. from Manipur University. At present working at NIT Silchar as a Assistant Professor of Economics.
Ph.D. Scholars Guided:	1. Pallabi Das, “Teaching English with Technology: A Case Study of institutes of Technology in North East India”, 2012. 2. M. Seik Mozibar Rahman, “Agricultural Development in Char-Chapori Areas of Assam: Problems and Prospects”, 2014. 3. Diana Rajkumari, “Role of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the Rural Development of the Northeast Region: A Case Study of Manipur”, 2015.
Projects:	Agricultural Development and Environment Issues in the North Eastern Region: A Case Study of Manipur, ICSSR, Rs. 6.35 Lakh, Completed.
Book / Chapters Published:	1. Capital Formation in Agriculture Sector of Manipur (1972-1997), Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi, 2007. 2. "Public Investment in Agriculture and Agricultural Growth in Manipur”, E. Bijoykumar Singh & Ksh. Jhaljit Singh (eds.), Challenges of Economic Policy in Manipur: Essays in Honour of Prof. M. Iboton Singh, Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi, 2008. 3. “Agrarian Structure and Agricultural Production in Manipur”, Ch. Priyoranjan Singh (ed.), Tribalism and the Tragedy of the Commons Land, Identity and Development: The Manipur Experience, Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi, 2009. 4. “Border Trade at Moreh-Tamu Sector: Bane or Boon for Manipur”, E. Bijoykumar Singh & Damudor Nepram (eds.), Perspectives on the Economy of Manipur, Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi, 2010. 5. Diana Rajkumari and N. B. Singh “Towards Women Empowerment through MGNREGS: A Study on Rural Women Workers of Manipur”, Ayangbam Shyamkishor (ed.), Engaging Failed State – Political, Social and Economic Issues of contemporary Manipur, Mittal Publishing House, New Delhi, 2014. 6. Thangjam Chandra Devi and N. B. Singh “Indo-Myanmar Border Trade at Moreh-Tamu Sector: Retrospect and Prospect”, Ujjwal Kanti Paul, Gurudas Das & C. Joshua Thomas (eds.), ASEAN Calling: Development of India’s North-East through Sub-regional Cooperation, Pentagon Press, New Delhi, 2017.
Publications
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Journals (National):	"Globalization and North East India: Challenges and Opportunities”, The Social Scanner, vol. 1, July, 2009 (with Samsur Jaman & K. Gyanendra Singh) “Decomposition of Real Net State Domestic Product (NSDP) of Manipur and Its Implication on Fiscal Deficit”, Economic Affairs, vol. 57, no. 1, March, 2012. (with Thangjam Chandra Devi) “Prospects of Food processing Industry in the Development of Rural Manipur”, Banijya, vol. 9, no. 1, 2017. (Kelvin Mutum, Ashim Kr. Das & U. Sarita Singha ) "Testing the Efficiency of Indian Options Market by Employing the Box-Spread Strategy: Empirical Evidence from S&P CNX Nifty Index", Indian Journal of Finance, vol. 12, Issue 10, October 2018. (with Loitongbam Athouba Meetei, Tridib Sarma & Kelvin Mutum ) "Job Uncertainty After Ph. D.: A Common Concern for Doctoral Students of Technical Institutes of North East India, Prabandhan: Indian Journal of Management, vol.12, Issue 8, August 2019.
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Dr. Avishek Ray

Assistant Professor
Department: HUMANITIES
Phone: 9678725099
Email: avishekray@hum.nits.ac.in

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Dr. Avishek Ray

Department: HUMANITIES
Assistant Professor
Phone: 9678725099
Email: avishekray@hum.nits.ac.in

URL of Web Profile:	https://sites.google.com/view/avishekray/about
Academic Qualifications
Qualifications Details :	● Ph.D. in Cultural Studies (2014), Trent University, Canada ● M.A. in Comparative Literature (2009), Jadavpur University, India ● B.A. in Comparative Literature (2007), Jadavpur University, India.
Currently Teaching Subject:
Experience
Experience Description:	● Assistant Professor, NIT Silchar, Sep 2015-present ● Teaching Assistant, Trent University, Canada, Sep 2010-May 2014 ● Research Assistant, Centre for the Study of Culture & Society (CSCS), Bangalore, June 2009-May 2010.
Area of Interest/Specialization :	Literary & Cultural Studies, (New) Media Studies, South Asian Studies, Travel & Mobility
Awards/Achievements :	● Seed Funding for Visiting Professorship, Mahidol University, Thailand, June-July 2019 ● Advanced Academic Fellowship, Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec 2018-Feb 2019 ● Purdue University Library Research Fellowship (Summer 2017), USA ● CICOPS Fellowship 2017, Pavia University, Italy ● Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), Edinburgh University, Scotland, Sep-Dec 2016 ● Scholar-in-Residence at Management Centre for Human Values (MCHV), Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, March 2016 ● MITACS Globalink Research Fellowship, Mitacs Foundation, Canada, 2014.
Book / Chapters Published:	● Co-edited (with Ishita Banerjee-Dube): Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India (SAGE, 2020)
Publications
Journals (International):	‘The ‘Vagabond’ as a Nemesis of the Tourist: Toward a Postcolonial Critique of Zygmunt Bauman’, in Tourism Culture & Communication [Special Issue on: Critical Tourism Studies], Vol. 20 (2020; forthcoming) ‘On the Spectacle of Walking: The Migrant Worker and the Mobility Regime’, in Journal of Extreme Anthropology, Vol. 4: 1 (2020), pp. E25-E30 ‘The Discursivity of ‘Hindu’ Gaze: Reading Bholanauth Chunder’s Travelogue’, in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 43: 3 (2020), pp. 1-13 ‘Of Nomadology: A Requiem for India(n-ness)’, in Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, Vol. 10: 2 (2019), pp. 281-291 ‘Vicissitudes of Reading the Mahabharata as History: Problems Concerning Historicism and Textualism’ in Journal of Literary Studies, Vol. 35: 3 (2019), pp. 1-19 ‘Is the University Universalizable? A View from India’, in Multicultural Education Review, Vol. 10: 3 (2018), pp. 246-50 [With S. Bhattacharyya] ‘On Knowledge Ecology: A Dissenter’s Tryst with Scientificity’, in Localities, Vol. 7 (2017), pp. 223-30 ‘A Survey on the Semantic Field of ‘Vagabond’’, in Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies [published by the University of Warsaw], Vol. 26: 2 (2017), pp. 51-60 ‘The Trajectory of a Viral Image: On the Afterlife of the Alan Kurdi Image’, in Sinestesieonline: Il Parlaggio (online), Issue: 16/ Year: 5 (2016) | http://goo.gl/ZbVJ1m ‘Human Values and the Legal Articulation of ‘Vagabond’’, in Journal of Human Values (SAGE), Vol. 22: 3 (2016), pp. 194-201 ‘On The State of Comparative Literature in Canada’, in Canadian Journal of Comparative Literature, Vol. 41:2 (2014), pp. 213-15. [Prefaced & Translated] ‘Mass Commune’ (Hemanga Biswas’ Travel Account on China), in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Routledge), Vol. 15(1): 2014, pp. 164-70. ‘Is There An Ocular Self?’, in Praxis Journal of Philosophy [online], published by Manchester University, Vol. 4: 1 (2014), pp. 42-56. ‘Rural Emigration and The Urban Gaze: Re-historicizing The 1943 Famine’, in Humanities Circle (International Journal of Central University of Kerala), Vol. 2(1): 2014, pp. 157-73.
Journals (National):	‘The Aesthetic Gaze: Siting Nineteenth Century Indian Travel Writing’, in The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol. 8: 4 (2016), pp. 122-29 ‘(Neo-)Hinduism and Reception of the ‘Other’: Examining the Discursive Rhetoric of Tolerance’. Journal of History and Culture, Vol. 3 (2016), pp. 56-65 ‘The Resurrection of the Vagabond: Identity Politics in Sankrityayan’s Ghumakkar Sastra’, in Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi’s Journal), Vol. LVII: 2 (2014), pp. 163-75. ‘Pre-History of the 'Folk': A Case of Bangla Literary Historiography’, in Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature, Vol. 50 (2014), pp. 161-180. ‘Comparative Constitutionalism and The Case of Bengal Vagrancy Act: Unraveling Histories of Discourse Reception’, in National Law School Journal, Vol. 12, pp. 75-94.
Conferences (International):	International Workshop on Living in the Age of Convergences - Affect, Affordance, Agency, National Library of Singapore, 9 -10 December 2019 Goethe Society of India’s International Conference on The Universal & the Particular: Contemporary Perspectives on an Old Dispute, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India, 14-16 Nov 2019 International Conference on Destruction/Re-Construction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cultural Heritage in Conflict, organized by Arab-German Young Academy (AGYA) in collaboration with the Orient Institut Beirut (OIB), Beirut, Lebanon, 30 September-3 Oct 2019 International Conference on Us and Them: Diasporas for Others in the Indian Ocean, Centre for Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Martin-Luther University, Halle (Saale), Germany, 16-17 September 2019 International Workshop on Cinema and the City, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, Germany, 12-13 September 2019 AAS-in-Asia Conference on Asia on the Rise?, organized by Association for Asian Studies & Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, 1-4 July 2019 2019 Penn State Global Asias Summer Institute on Digital Asias, Penn State University, State College (PA), USA, 3-7 June 2019 International Workshop on Mediated Campaigns and Unmediated Politics in Millennial India, organized jointly by Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) & Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), at CSH, New Delhi, India, 27 April 2019 International Conference on The Cultural Industries in Asia: Into the Digital Age, Hong Kong University, 30 Non-1 Dec 2018 International Workshop on Recalibrating Culture: Reconfiguring the (Trans-)Cultural, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, 22-23 Nov 2018 International Symposium on Digital Politics in Millennial India, organized jointly by the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich & Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), at IIIT Delhi, India, 15-17 Mar 2018 International Conference on Transcending Cultural Boundaries: Studies of Foreign Languages, Literature & Culture in India, Gauhati University, India, 8-9 Mar 2018 Goethe Society of India’s International Conference on Cosmopolitanism, Globalisation and Literary Space: Perspectives and Narrations of a (new) World Citizenship, University of Delhi, India, 21-23 Feb 2018 International Conference on Contemporary Communication Cultures, Controls and Becomings, University of Madras, India, 16-17 Feb 2018 International Conference on Refugees in the Public Imagination: Discourse of (Dis)location and (Dis)placement, University of Liberal Arts (ULAB), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 20 Dec 2017 International Seminar on Reinventing Nationalism: Secularisms & Plurality: Media Discourses & Deconstruction, Gauhati University, India, 11-12 Nov 2017 International Conference on Mahabharata & Inter-Asian Cultures, Delhi University, 6-8 April 2017 International Conference on Thinking Literature across Continents, North Bengal University, 25-27 March 2017 International Seminar on Indian Art Heritage in a Changing World, Banaras Hindu University, India, 27 Feb-1Mar 2017 Dynamic Borderlands: Livelihoods, Communities and Flows, 5th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network, Kathmandu, Nepal, 12-14 December 2016 Comics Forum 2016, Leeds, United Kingdom, 3-4 November 2016 The Act of Media Workshop, SARAI-CSDS, New Delhi, 8-10 January 2016 International Conference of the Goethe Society of India, University of Delhi, Delhi, 18-20 February 2015. Canadian Comparative Literature Association Conference, Canadian Social Science Congress, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada, 18-24 May 2014. Graduate Conference on South Asian Religions, Dept. of The Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 1-2 November, 2013. International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) Conference, Paris, France, July 18-24, 2013. South Asia Conference, Princeton University, USA, April 26-27, 2013. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 4-7, 2013. International Conference on Emerging Issues & Challenges in Education, Nayab Abbasi College, Amroha, India, 9-10 June, 2012. Underhill Graduate Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, March 1-2, 2012. International Conference on Intercultural Studies, Centre for Intercultural Studies, Porto, Portugal, May 25-27, 2011. The International Conference: On Road Writing Travel and Travelers organized by the Centre of Advanced Study, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, November 6-8, 2008.
Conferences (National):	Art Education Summit 2019, organized jointly by Art1st, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) & Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), at IGNCA, Delhi, 18-21 Dec 2019 National Seminar on The Topography of Bhakti: Social Reform Watersheds in Indian Intellectual History, Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla, 22-24 April 2019 National Seminar on Contemporary Debates on Science, Technology and Nationalism in India, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, 31 Oct-2 Nov 2018 National Seminar on Indian Music and Dance: The Absence of Critical Attention and Analysis, The Indian Institute of AdvancedStudy (IIAS), Shimla, 4-6 September 2017 National Seminar on Anthropological Histories and Tribal Worlds in India, The Indian Institute of AdvancedStudy (IIAS), Shimla, 27-29 March 2017 National Conference on Interdisciplinarity, NIT Meghalaya, Shillong, 22-23 July 2016 National Seminar on Reinterpretations of the Past: The Discourse of Cultural Identity in South Asia, North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, 17-18 March 2016 Study Week on ‘Historiography of Translation in India’, The Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla, 10-14 August 2015. EGSS Graduate Conference, University of Montreal, Canada, March 11-12, 2011. Young Researcher’s Workshop 2010, at Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore during March 25-27, 2010.

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Dr. Panchali Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor
Department: HUMANITIES
Phone: 9647504890
Email: panchali@hum.nits.ac.in

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Dr. Panchali Bhattacharya

Department: HUMANITIES
Assistant Professor
Phone: 9647504890
Email: panchali@hum.nits.ac.in

Alternate E-mail ID:	panchalibhattacharya1990@gmail.com
Date of Joining:	2023-10-31
URL of Web Profile:	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8982-6225
Academic Qualifications
Qualifications Details :	• 2015- 2022: PhD (English), School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Odisha • 2013-2014: B.Ed. (English), University of Burdwan, West Bengal • 2010 - 2012: M.A. (English), University of Burdwan, West Bengal • 2007-2010: B.A. (English), Hooghly Mohsin College (University of Burdwan), West Bengal
Currently Teaching Subject:	HS 101- Communicative English; HS 111- Language Laboratory; HU 714- Socio-Political Issues in Understanding North Eastern Region; MS 5114- Business Communication II
Experience
Experience Description:	• Nov 2023 – Present: National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam • Dec 2021- Oct 2023: Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha • Jan 2021- Dec 2021: Sri Sri University, Cuttack, Odisha
Area of Interest/Specialization :	Ecocriticism, Myth and Folklore, Indigenous Studies, North East Indian Literature
Teaching Interests :	Storytelling as a Key to Effective Communication, Indigenous Ecosophy in the Literary Context, Soft Skills for Professionals
Research Interests :	Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Ecofeminism, Eco-Psychology, Religion and Sustainability, Green Lore
Administrative Interests :	• Member, Exam Cell, National Institute of Technology Silchar from December 2023 to present • Programme Coordinator for B.A. English (Hons.) Programme, Faculty of Arts, Communication and Indic Studies, Sri Sri University, Cuttack, Odisha from January 2021 to November 2021
Awards/Achievements :	(1) National Merit Scholarship for pursuing M.A. (English) and B.A. (English Honours) by MHRD, Govt. of India, 2007; (2) University Silver Medal for securing the second rank in M.A. (English), The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, 2013; (3) “Best Presenter of the Session- Folklore and Tradition” and “Best Presenter of the Conference” at 6th International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2019
Book / Chapters Published:	• "Deconstructing the Idea of Manhood in Indian Television Advertisements". Rethinking Media Studies: Media, Meditation and Communicative Action, Edited by Ananta Kumar Giri and Santosh Kumar Biswal, Routledge, UK, pp 294-311. 2024. [DOI: 10.4324/9781032632667-23]; • "Environmental Sustainability through Nature Worship: Understanding the Ecosophy of the North East Indian Indigenous Communities". Sustainable Environments and Interspecies Ecologies, Edited by Shruti Das, Bloomsbury India, pp 185-194. 2023; • "Ecological Memory of the Nonhuman in Rella Two Trees: The Money Chiefs". Mapping Memory in the Wake of the Posthuman: India and Canada, Edited by Punyashree Panda, Bloomsbury India, pp 63-70. 2023; • "Indigenous Ecofeminism and Contemporary North East Indian Literature: Lessons in Eco-Swaraj". Indian Feminist Ecocriticism. Edited by Douglas Vakoch and Nicole Anae, Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, USA, pp 79-91. 2022; • "Social Dynamics of Hindi Eco-Cinema and the Politics of Water". Handbook of Research on Social and Cultural Dynamics in Indian Cinema. Edited by Santosh Kumar Biswal, Krishna Sankar Kusuma and Sulagna Mohanty, IGI Global, USA, pp 1-13. 2020. [DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3511-0]; • "Naga Folk Culture and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Easterine Kire’s When the River Sleeps". Literature and Environmental Discourse: Ecocritical Perspectives on Contemporary English Literature. Edited by Subhajit Bhadra and Sk Mukul, Sarup and Sons, New Delhi, pp 112-131. 2018; • "Journeys and Myths: Transcending Boundaries in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island". Towards a New Art of Border Crossing, Edited by Ananta Kumar Giri, Arnab Roy Choudhury, and David Blake Willis, Anthem Press, UK. (FORTHCOMING); • "Eco-sustainability through Green Lore: A Study of Contemporary North East Indian Indigenous Women’s Literature". Environmental Humanities in India, Edited by Debajyoti Biswas and John Charles Ryan, Springer Nature. (FORTHCOMING); • "Ecopsychology: Understanding the Relationship between Nature and Human Mind". Eco-concepts: Critical Reflections in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thought, Edited by Cenk Tan and İsmail Serdar Altaç, Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, USA. (FORTHCOMING); • "Ecology, Religion, and Indigenous Stewardship: Understanding Sustainable Resource Management in North East India". A Pragmatic Approach to Religion and Sustainability (Book Series: New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion), Edited by Deepanjali Mishra and Jeffery D. Long, Springer Nature. (FORTHCOMING)
Publications
Journals (International):	Bhattacharya, P. 2023. Understanding Eco-Sustainability through Lotha Naga Folktales: Analyzing Jasmine Patton’s "A Girl Swallowed by a Tree". IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship, 12(1): 23-37. [doi: https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.12.1.02] Panda, P., & Bhattacharya, P. 2023. Exploring the Humane in the Posthuman: A Critical Analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Transhumanist Narratives. The International Journal of Literary Humanities, 22(1): 129-140. [doi:10.18848/2327-7912/CGP/v22i01/129-140] Bhattacharya, P., & Panda, P. 2020. Indigeneity, Femininity, and the Practice of Occult in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar's The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey. The IUP Journal of English Studies, 15(4): 7-16. [https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57222524267] Bhattacharya, P. 2020. Reviving the Indigenous Knowledge of the Tenyimia Nagas in Easterine Kire’s "When the River Sleeps". Humanities and Social Sciences Reviews, 8(1): 751-758. [doi: https://doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2020.8190] Panda, P., & Bhattacharya, P. 2019. Oriental Ecofeminism: Contrasting Spiritual and Social Ecofemininity in Mitra Phukan’s "The Collector’s Wife" and Manjula Padmanabhan’s "Escape". UNITAS: University of Santo Tomas, Manila, 92(2): 72-96. [doi: https://doi.org/10.31944/2019922.04] Satapathy, A., & Bhattacharya, P. 2021. Indigenous Eco-Legends in Contemporary North East Indian Literature: Lessons in Ecological Conservation and Preservation. Academia Letters, Article 161: 1-6. [doi: https://doi.org/10.20935/AL161] Bhattacharya, P. Mapping the Changing Landscape of Shillong in Janice Pariat’s "Boats on Land". Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 61(1). (FORTHCOMING).
Journals (National):	Panda, P., & Bhattacharya, P. 2019. Environmentalism of the Marginalized: A Study of Two Contemporary Bollywood Movies. Literary Endeavour, 10(3): 328-335. Satapathy, A., & Bhattacharya, P. 2017. Quest for the Self in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s "Oleander Girl". Apperception: Journal of the Department of English, Viswa –Bharati, 8(1): 132- 142.
Conferences (International):	Bhattacharya, P. 2023. Eco-sustainability through Green Lore: A Study of Contemporary North East Indian Indigenous Women’s Literature. 9th Annual Conference of the World Centre for Women’s Studies (World-CWS) on Women in the 21st Century, Environment & Sustainable Development, co-hosted by Central University of Odisha, Koraput. Bhattacharya, P. 2023. Environmental Sustainability through Nature Worship: Understanding the Ecosophy of the North East Indian Indigenous Communities. World Bank-OHEPEE Sponsored International Conference on Sustainable Environments and Interspecies Ecologies: Literature, Creativity, Theory and Praxis, Post Graduate Department of English, Berhampur University, Odisha Bhattacharya, P. 2022. Exploring the Ecological Memory of the Nonhuman in "Rella Two Trees: The Money Chiefs". Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI) sponsored International Symposium on Mapping Memory in the Wake of the Posthuman: India and Canada, IIT Bhubaneswar. Bhattacharya, P. 2022. Ecological Legends in Contemporary North East Indian Indigenous Literature: Lessons in Preservation and Sustainability. ICSSR Sponsored International Seminar on Environment Across Disciplines: Perspectives on the 21st Century, Bodoland University, Assam. Bhattacharya, P., & Acharya, S. 2022. Retelling the Tale of the Peripheral: A Postcolonial Feminist Reading of Pratibha Ray’s "Yajnaseni". International Conference on Peripheral Writings: Reflections on New Power, Hierarchies and Norms, Arka Jain University, India. Bhattacharya, P. 2022. Revisiting the Green Legends in North East Indian Literature: A Study of the Indigenous Perspective. International Conference on Myths, Legends, Folklores and Itihaas in Indian and Indenture Literature, Centre of Indian Diaspora and Cultural Studies, University of Lucknow. Bhattacharya, P. 2021. Ecosophy of the Lotha Nagas: Analyzing the Folktales in Nzanmongi Jasmine Patton’s "A Girl Swallowed by a Tree: Lotha Naga Tales Retold". ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on Fourth World Literature: Voices of the Marginalized with Special Reference to North East India, Tetso College, Dimapur, Nagaland. Bhattacharya, P. 2021. Mapping the Changing Landscape of Shillong in Janice Pariat’s “Boats on Land”. Narrating the South Asian City: Critical Perspectives, Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Bhilai in collaboration with Association for Literary Urban Studies, London. Bhattacharya, P., & Satapathy, A. 2020. Settler Colonialism and the Ecology of the Adis in Mamang Dai’s “The Legends of Pensam”. Rupkatha International Open Conference (Virtual). Bhattacharya, P. 2019. Eco-myths and Indigeneity in Easterine Kire’s "When the River Sleeps" and Mamang Dai’s "The Legends of Pensam". 6th International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Bhattacharya, P. 2018. Revival of Indigenous Naga Knowledge: Reading Easterine Kire’s “When the River Sleeps”. 7th Annual Academic Conference, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, India. Bhattacharya, P. 2017. Postcolonial Ecological Wisdom of the Adi tribe in Mamang Dai’s “The Legends of Pensam”. 6th International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture, IASE Pune, India.
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Dr. Dinamani Biswal

Assistant Professor
Department: HUMANITIES
Phone: 8008409096
Email: dinamanibiswal@hum.nits.ac.in

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Dr. Dinamani Biswal

Department: HUMANITIES
Assistant Professor
Phone: 8008409096
Email: dinamanibiswal@hum.nits.ac.in

Date of Joining:	2023-11-02
Academic Qualifications
Qualifications Details :	Ph.D. in Economics (2023), Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh
Currently Teaching Subject:	Managerial Economics and Agricultural Economics
Experience
Experience Description:	*Assistant Professor of Economics at National Law University, Tripura, Agartala (11.10.2023 to 01.11.2023) *Lecturer in the Department of Economics, U.K Mahabir College, Madanpur, Kendrapara Odisha (from 24.01.2023 to 09.10.2023)
Area of Interest/Specialization :	Micro Economics, Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics, Public Policy, and Behavioral Economics
Awards/Achievements :	UGC-NET qualified for Assistant Professor conducted by UGC (2017 & 2018) * Received travel grant amount of 750 Euro for participating in South Asian Conference at Ireland India Institute, Dublin, 19-22 April 2023 * Received travel grant amount USD 3000 for participating 17th Globelics conference held in Heredia, Costa Rica, 3-5 November 2021 *Received registration fee grant amount USD 200 from Friends of Globelics (FOG) Fund for the registration in 17th Globelics conference held in Heredia, Costa Rica from 3-5 November 2021 *Junior Research fellowship/Half Time Research Assistantship for PhD by Ministry of Education India (2018 August to January 2023) *Central Sector Scholarship, Ministry of Education, India (2012–2017) *LIC Golden Jubilee Scholarship (2012–2015) *Governer's Award in State Level Quiz Competition (2015)
Projects:	Project Director (PD) for ‘Leveraging Indigenous Medical Care for Tourism and Livelihood in Assam’, funded by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, (Grant amount INR 1200000). (Ongoing)
Publications
Journals (International):	Biswal, D., & Bahinipati, C. S. (2023). Crop-Insurance Adoption and Impact on Farm Households’ Well-being in India: Evidence from a Panel Study. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 1-20 (T & F, ABDC, & Scopus) Biswal, D., & Bahinipati, C. S. (2022). Why are Farmers not Insuring Crops against Risks in India? A Review. Progress in Disaster Science, 100241 (Elsiver: Scopus) Biswal, D., Singh, M., & Bahinipati, C. S. (2022). COVID-19 in India: Reflections from Behavioural Economics. Journal of Developing Areas 56(3) (ABS) Biswal, D. (2020). Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein London, UK: Penguin 2009, ISBN: 978‐0‐141‐04001‐1. Journal of Public Affairs (Willy, Scopus & ABDC)
Journals (National):	Mishra, N.R., Tripathy, P., Biswal, D., (Forthcoming 2024). Extraction of Coal and Local Peoples’ Health Outcomes: Evidence from Talcher Coal-field of Odisha, India. Journal of Health Management (Sage & Scopus) Biswal, D., & Chinara, M. (2020). Socio-Economic Determinants of Education Loan for Higher Education: Evidence from Odisha. Orissa Journal of Commerce (UGC Care)
Conferences (International):	Presented a paper titled ‘Enhancing Farmers’ Resilience Capacity to Climate Change in India: Analysing Intensification of Crop Insurance Adoption’ at the INSEE International Conference on SDGs and Climate Change: Understanding the Imperatives and Intersections organised by BML University, Haryana, India on 31 January to 03 February 2023. Presented a paper titled ''Do Climate Risk Management Strategies Improve Farmers’ Wellbeing in India? Assessing Heterogeneous Impact of Crop Insurance'' in South Asian Conference organised by Ireland India Institute, DCU, Dublin, 19-22 April 2023 Presented a paper titled ''Risk Aversion, Adoption of Safety Nets and Food Security in India: Interlinkages between Crop-Insurance and Crop-Diversification'' 6th SANEM Annual Economists’ Conference (SAEC), Bangladesh, 4-5 February 2023 Presented a paper titled ''Do Climate Risk Management Strategies Improve Farmers’ Wellbeing in India? Assessing Heterogeneous Impact of Crop Insurance'' in Resilient Community Irrigation Management in Context of Climate Change and Multifunctional Rural-Urban Water Use Competition in Asia organised by AIT Thailand and Chiang Mai University Thailand, 24-27 June 2022 Presented a paper titled "Why Farmers in India are not Adopting Crop-Insurance? Insights from Behavioural Economics Literature" at the 2nd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development organised by the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 24 - 25 June 2021 Presented a paper titled ''Adoption and Impact of Crop Insurance in India: Evidence from India Human Development Survey'' at the 17th Globelics Conference held in Heredia, Costa Rica, 3-5 November 2021
Conferences (National):	Presented a paper titled ''Adoption and Impact of Crop Insurance in India: Evidence from India Human Development Survey'' in ‘Sustainable Societies, Ecological Systems and Economic Development conference organised by INSEE-IIITD, 15- 17 December 2021 Presented a paper titled "Exploring a New Paradigm for Crop Insurance in India: Integrating Behavioural Economics Approach for Farmer's Choice of Crop Insurance " in 7th Management Doctoral Colloquium and VGSOM Research Scholars' Day organised by IIT Kharagpur, 3- 4 February 2021 Presented a Thesis Proposal on ''Crop Insurance in India: An Analysis of Determinants, Impact and Behavioural Analysis'' in the 1st Doctoral Colloquium in Management and Development (DOCMAD) organised by the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), 4-7 November 2020 Presented a Thesis Proposal on ''Crop Insurance in India: An Analysis of Determinants, Impact and Behavioural Analysis'' at the 13th Doctoral Thesis Conference organised by IBS Hyderabad, 8-9 October 2020 Presented a paper on "Socio-Economic Determinants of education loan for higher education: Evidence from a primary level study in Odisha" 55th Annual Conference of the Indian Econometric Society (TIES), 8-11 January 2019

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Dr. Shashi Kumar G K

Assistant Professor
Department: HUMANITIES
Phone: 9398896015
Email: shashi@hum.nits.ac.in

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Dr. Shashi Kumar G K

Department: HUMANITIES
Assistant Professor
Phone: 9398896015
Email: shashi@hum.nits.ac.in

Date of Joining:	2023-11-13
Academic Qualifications
Qualifications Details :	Ph.D. (Central University of Hyderabad, 2022), M.Phil. (Central University of Hyderabad, 2016), M.A. (The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 2014), B.A. (Bangalore University, 2012), D.Ed. (Sathish Chandra Memorial College, Bangalore Rural, 2009).
Currently Teaching Subject:	HS-101 Communicative English
Experience
Experience Description:	Assistant Professor: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, November 2023-present. An Ad-hoc Faculty: School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, January 2023-November 2023.
Area of Interest/Specialization :	Translation Studies, Colonialism and Colonial Modernity, Literary Historiography.
Teaching Interests :	Professional Communication, Communicative English, Professional Ethics and Human Values, Translation Studies.
Awards/Achievements :	1.Shikshana Rathna Award from Vishwajnani Seva Trust (NGO), Doddaballapur, Bangalore Rural Dist, Karnataka. The Award given for receiving the PhD Degree from one of India’s premier institutes, 19 March 2023. 2. Leverhumle Network Funding by the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, to participate and present a paper in an International Conference, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 13-15 June, 2018. 3. ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research) Short Term Doctoral Research Grant, ICSSR New Delhi, 2018-2019.
Book / Chapters Published:	1. Translation as Cultural Transplantation: Translation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, in the book Indian Literature and Culture: Fiction, Feminism, Culture-Clash, Dalit Writing, Prestige Books International, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-93-82186-82-3, (2016), pp.145-158.
Publications
Journals (International):	Fashioning the Social: The Position of Shakespearean Translations in the Kannada Literary Polysystem, in an International Journal of Narrative and Language Studies (NALANS) [Special Issue on Global Folios: Books about Shakespeare from around the World] indexed in SCOPUS, ISSN: 2148-4066, (2024; forthcoming). English Life through Translation: The Vicar of Wakefield in Kannada Language and Literature, in Wesleyan International Journal indexed in UGC Care List, Bankura Christian College, West Bengal, India. ISSN: 0975-1386, Vol. 13: 47 (2019), pp. 132-137. Creating Spectacular: An Adaptation of English Play Pygmalion to Kannada Stage as Sevanti Prasanga (An Episode of Sevanti), in the UGC approved International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities, S. No: 43979, Vol. 3 (2018), pp. 466-472.
Journals (National):	Translation as Cultural Revitalization: Translation of a Classical Text Pygmalion into Kannada Language and Culture, in Translation Today [Special Issue on Translation, Nation and Knowledge Society] the biannual double-blind peer reviewed journal, indexed in UGC Care List, The National Translation Mission, Central Institute of Indian Languages. Mysore, Karnataka. ISSN: 0972-8740, e-ISSN: 0972-8090, Vol, 13: 1 (2019), pp. 176-185.
Conferences (International):	International Conference on Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Text, Place and Agency held on 13th -15th June 2018, organized by the Leverhumle International Network, Translating Feminism: Transfer, Transgression, and Transformation in Glasgow, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. II Annual International Conference of Caesurae Collective Society on Translation across Borders: Genres and Geographies held on 9th -11th October 2018, organized by the Centre for Advanced Research and Training-Translation & Multilingualism, Osmania University, Hyderabad and Caesurae Collective Society in collaboration with Department of English, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad. International Conference on Translation and Knowledge Society held on 7th-9th March 2018, at National Translation Mission, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru, India. International Conference on "Theater and Other Performing Art: Aesthetics, Polity, Economy, History and Space” held on 29th- 31st March 2016 at Bangalore University.
Conferences (National):	National Conference on Contextualizing Migration: Perspectives from Literature, Culture and Translation held on 6th-8th January 2020- at GITAM University, Hyderabad, India. National Conference on Shakespeare in the New Millennium held on 15th-16th April 2016- at Central University of Karnataka. National Literary Conference & Festival theme: Celebrating Indian Literature and Culture, 28th – 30th March 2016 - at Koneru Lakshmaiah University, India.

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Dr. Ujjal Protim Dutta

Assistant Professor
Department: HUMANITIES
Phone: 8436213363
Email: ujjal@hum.nits.ac.in

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Dr. Ujjal Protim Dutta

Department: HUMANITIES
Assistant Professor
Phone: 8436213363
Email: ujjal@hum.nits.ac.in

Date of Joining:	2023-11-14
Academic Qualifications
Qualifications Details :	Ph.D. in Economics (2020), National Institute of Technology-Durgapur, India
Currently Teaching Subject:	Managerial Economics
Experience
Experience Description:	*Assistant Professor , Department of Humanities and Social Sciences , NIT Silchar (Current Position) *Assistant Professor ,Department of Economics, Rangia College ( From 8th October 2020 to 13th November 2023)
Area of Interest/Specialization :	Open-Economy Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Financial Economics, Health Economics
Book / Chapters Published:	1. Dutta, U. P., & Sarmah, J. (2023). Government Expenditure, Governance, and Economic Growth: An Empirical Exercise. In Social Sector Development and Governance (pp. 177-190). Routledge India. 2. Dutta, U. P., & Kankaria, L. (2022). Performance of Microfinance Institutions Under Economic Growth and Fluctuations: Evidence from South Asian Countries. In Microfinance to Combat Global Recession and Social Exclusion: An Empirical Investigation (pp. 51-62). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. 3. Dutta, U. P., Kankaria, L., & Sengupta, P. P. (2021). China and US Economic Policy Uncertainty and its Impact on Major International Markets: A Vector Auto Regressive Analysis. In Global Tariff War: Economic, Political and Social Implications (pp. 109-120). Emerald Publishing Limited. 4. Dutta, U. P., Gupta, H., & Sengupta, P. P. (2020). Mobile phone penetration and health outcome: Panel evidence from 25 selected Asian countries. In Role of IT-ITES in Economic Development of Asia: Issues of Growth, Sustainability and Governance (pp. 163-178). Singapore: Springer Singapore. 5. Kankaria, L., & Dutta, U. P. (2021). A cross-country analysis through investigating the impact of ICT on women’s financial inclusion. Technology and Women's Empowerment, 222.Routledge 6. Gogoi, A. J., Dutta, U. P., & Sarmah, C. (2023). Different Socioeconomic Groups’ Psychological Reactions to the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Cross-Sectional Study. In COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Inequality: Reflections in Labour Market, Business and Social Sectors (pp. 319-333). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
Publications
Journals (International):	Dutta, U. P., & Hazarika, N. (2023). Urbanization and carbon emissions: Panel evidence from 68 low-income and lower-middle-income countries. Journal of Urban Affairs, 1-20.(SSCI ,Scopus Indexed, ABDC- A, Routledge Publication) Dutta, U. P. (2022). Studying the flip side of migrant remittances: A panel cointegration analysis of 18 selected Asian countries. Journal of Public Affairs, 22(4), e2665. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2665 (SSCI, Scopus Index , ABDC-B, Wiley Publication) Dutta, U. P., Gupta, H., & Sengupta, P. P. (2019). ICT and health outcome nexus in 30 selected Asian countries: Fresh evidence from,panel data analysis. Technology in Society,59, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2019.101184 (SCI and Scopus Index, ABDC-C, Elsevier Publication) Dutta, U. P., Gupta, H., Sarkar, A.K., & Sengupta, P. P. (2020). Some Determinants of Infant Mortality Rate in SAARC Countries: an Empirical Assessment through Panel Data Analysis. Child Indicators Research, 13 (6), 2093-2116. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187- 020-09734-8 (SSCI and Scopus Index, Springer Publication) Dutta, U. P., & Saikia, B. (2022). Remittances and Economic Growth: Empirical Analysis from a Panel of Selected Asian Nations. Millennial Asia, 09763996221086745 ( Scopus Index, Sage Publication) Dutta, U. P., & Sengupta, P. P. (2018). Remittances and Real Effective Exchange Rate: An Empirical Exercise with Indian Data. South Asia Economic Journal, 19(1), 124–136. https://doi.org/10.1177/1391561418761077 (Scopus Index, Sage Publication) Dutta U.P., Gupta A., Sengupta P.P. (2019) Exploring the Nexus Between Mobile Phone Penetration and Economic Growth in 13 Asian Countries: Evidence from Panel Cointegration Analysis. In: Wang J., Reddy G., Prasad V., Reddy V. (eds) Soft Computing and Signal Processing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 898. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3393-4_35 (Scopus Index, Springer Publication) Sengupta, P. P., Sinha, M., & Dutta, U. P. (2019). Economic and environmental performances in manufacturing industries: A comparative study. Periodicals of Engineering and Natural Sciences, 7(1), 99-108. http://dx.doi.org/10.21533/pen.v7i1.416.g244 (Scopus Index, Published by International University of Sarajevo)
Journals (National):	Dutta, U. P., & Chakraborty, D. (2022). An Exploration of the Impact of Electricity Consumption on Economic Growth in India using ARDL Cointegration Analysis. Vision, 09722629221105771 (Scopus Index, Sage Publication) Gupta, H., Dutta, U. P., & Sengupta, P. P. (2018). The Socioeconomic Dimensions for the Management of Haemophilia in India: An Empirical Study. Journal of Health Management, 20(1), 38–45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0972063417747699 (Scopus Index, Sage Publication) Dutta, U. P., Gogoi, P. P., Sengupta, P. P., &Phukon, P. “Time Series Analysis of Temperature and Rainfall in the Brahmaputra Basin, Assam” Urban India, Volume 38 (II) 2018, 72-82 (A Journal of National Institute of Urban Affairs, Govt. of India)
Conferences (International):	“Do Remittances have a Flip Side? A Panel Cointegration Analysis of Remittances and Real Effective Exchange Rate in South Asian Countries”, Regional Conference on External Vulnerabilities in South Asia, organised by the World Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka from February 28- March 1, 2019 “Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Health Outcome: Panel Evidence from 30 Asian Countries”, International Conference on Advances in Healthcare Management Services February 16-17, 2019, organised by IIM Ahmedabad “Migrant remittances and economic growth: empirical exercise from macroeconomic viewpoint”,International conference on recent multidisciplinary research (ICRMR-2018), SN Education society and URGEE, USA at TKP conference centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. " Exploring the nexus between remittances, mobile phone penetration and economic growth: Panel evidence from South-Asian countries” Annual International Conference on Social Sciences-2019, Institute of Business Management (IoBM), Karachi, Pakistan, January 28- 29,2019. “Migrant remittances and its impact on poverty: Evidence from India”, 8th ECONference-2016(International Conference) on Inclusive and sustainable development,Department of economics,The university of Burdwan, sponsored by UGC-DRS (Phase-II), February, 2016 “Potential of the North East India’s trade with neighboring Countries: An assessment of the opportunities and constraints” International conference on Look East Policy: Perspective from the South –East Asian Architecture, North Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya, June 2015 “The challenge of Patriarchy in the achievement of Gender Equality in India” in the International Conference on engendering democracy in South Asia: Issues and Challenges, Sikkim University, Gangtok, India, May 2015 “Food security and Its Impact on human development-A Study of PDS and its impact on marginalized section of North East” in International seminar on Human development and the Marginalized sections in North east India: Issues, Challenges, Way Forward, Assam University, Assam, March 2013.
Conferences (National):

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Dr. Sumallya Mukhopadhyay

Assistant Professor
Department: HUMANITIES
Phone: 9599790564
Email: sumallya@hum.nits.ac.in

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Dr. Sumallya Mukhopadhyay

Department: HUMANITIES
Assistant Professor
Phone: 9599790564
Email: sumallya@hum.nits.ac.in

Alternate E-mail ID:	mukhopadhyay.sumallya@gmail.com
Date of Joining:	2023-11-16
URL of Web Profile:	https://nitsilchar.academia.edu/SumallyaMukhopadhyay
Academic Qualifications
Qualifications Details :	• Ph.D.: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi (2017-2022) • M.A.: English Literature, Presidency University, Kolkata (2013-2015) • B.A.: English Literature, Presidency College (University of Calcutta) (2010-2013)
Currently Teaching Subject:	HUS 101: Communicative English
Experience
Experience Description:	• Assistant Professor: HSS, NIT Silchar (November 2023 - Present) • Assistant Professor: Department of English, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies (February - October 2023)
Area of Interest/Specialization :	1947 Partition Studies, Oral History, Memory Studies, Material Culture, Narratology, Refugee Literature, Migration Studies, Sports Studies, South Asian Literature
Teaching Interests :	Approaches to Literature, Digital Storytelling, Historical Methods in Literature, Commonwealth Literature, Modern Indian Political Thought
Research Interests :	South Asian Studies, Colonial and Post-Colonial Bengal, Border Studies, Oral History, Memory Studies, Narratology, Refugee Literature, Sports Studies
Administrative Interests :	• Convenor: Course Feedback Form Committee (2024 - present) • Secretary: Department Undergraduate Programme Committee (DUPC)
Awards/Achievements :	1) Awarded “Distinction in Doctoral Research” for the academic year 2022 by IIT Delhi in February 2024 2) Awarded the International Oral History Association Scholarship in February 2023 by the International Oral History Association (IOHA) 3) Awarded South Asia Speaks Fellowship to work with Aanchal Malhotra on a book based on the 1947 Partition 4) Awarded the Research Excellence Travel Award (RETA) by IIT Delhi in 2022 5) Awarded the TATA Trusts – Partition Archive Research Grant by the 1947 Partition Archive in association with the University of Delhi in April 2021
Projects:	• Lead Research Associate (2021-2022) in Kolkata Partition Museum’s initiated project ‘Virtual-Kolkata Partition Museum’ [https://virtual-kolkata-partition-museum.org/]
Book / Chapters Published:	• Mukhopadhyay, S. (2024). Life Stories and Material Objects: Revisiting the Memory of the 1947 Bengal Partition. Edited by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Rituparna Roy & Jayanta Sengupta. The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Identity. Routledge. ISBN- 9781003317210, pp. 107-121 [https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003317210-8] • Mukhopadhyay, S. & Kaveri. (2023). Understanding Climate Change and Its Impact on Myanmar: Migration, Migrants and Legal Framework. In Environment, Climate Change and Migration in South Asia. Routledge. ISBN-9781003367802, pp. 145-164 [https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003367802] • Mukhopadhyay, S. (2016). ‘John Keats: Life and Work’ & ‘The Muse of John Keats, ‘sad and lone’: A Critical Reading of ‘To Autumn’’. Edited by Debdas Roy. Understanding Romantic Poetry: A Critical Reader, pp. 161-195 (ISBN: 978-81-922233-4-6) • ---------------. (2016). ‘Speaking Truth to Power through One’s Body: Politics of Protest of Subaltern Women in Mahasweta Devi’s Short Stories ‘Dhouli’ and ‘Draupadi’’. Gender, Culture, Politics: Bengal in the Twentieth Century, pp. 183-194 (ISBN: 978-93-82112-32-7)
Publications
Journals (International):	Mukhopadhyay, S. (Forthcoming). Affective Listening and Digital Oral History Archives: A Study Based on the 1947 Bengal Partition. The Oral History Review (Taylor & Francis). ---------------. (2024). The Changing Face of Kolkata Football: Fans, Fandom, and Political Statements. Economic & Political Weekly, 59(19): 1-11. [https://www.epw.in/engage/article/changing-face-kolkata-football-fans-fandom-and] ---------------. (2023). “To Give Voice to the Voiceless”: An Interview with Tanvir Mokammel. Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Taylor & Francis). [Online First Version]. [https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2023.2264148] ---------------. (2022). “I Am a Refugee in This Land”: Performative Narration, Recollection and Resilience in Refugee Narratives of West Bengal, India. Narrative Culture (Wayne State University Press), 9(1): 197-216, Project MUSE. [https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2022.0009] ---------------. (2021). Memories of the 1947 Bengal Partition and Its Aftermath: Tanvir Mokammel’s Seemantorekha. Studies in People’s History (SAGE), 8(1): 135-146. [https://doi.org/10.1177/2348448921999039]
Journals (National):	Mukhopadhyay, S. (2023). A Reading of Violence in Partition Stories from Bengal. Summerhill: IIAS Review, 28(2): 92–93. [http://14.139.58.200/ojs/index.php/summerhill/article/view/1531] ---------------. (2021). ‘Victory Colony: Bhaswati Ghosh’s Victory Colony, 1950’. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, 7(2): 155-161 [https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/156] ---------------. (2021). Who is a Refugee? Understanding the Figure of the Refugee Against the Backdrop of the Bengal Partition (1947-1970). Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 13(2): 1-11. [https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.31] ---------------. (2019). Thinking of Migration through Caste: Reading Oral Narratives of Displaced Person(s) from East Pakistan (1950-1970). Journal of Migration Affairs (TISS), 2(1): 113-131. [https://doi.org/10.36931/jma.2019.2.1.113-131]
Conferences (International):	Mukhopadhyay, S. (September 2024). An Oral Historical Look at 'After Empire'. Asian Studies Centre, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Türkiye. Mukhopadhyay, S. and Rhitabrata Das. (August 2024). Fans, Protest, and Business: Mohun Bagan and the #RemoveATK Movement in Kolkata Maidan. Annual Sports Conference of The Sport in Society Journal. NEOMA Business School, Reims, France. Mukhopadhyay, S. (September 2023). Negotiating ‘Postcolonial Disaster’: From Rift to Recollection through Football in Post-Partition West Bengal. From Colonial Modernity to Decolonisation: The British Empire & Beyond. University of Auckland, New Zealand. ---------------. (July 2023). Learning to Affectively Listen in a Digital Age. 22nd International Oral History Association Conference. The School of Social Sciences of the Getulio Vargas Foundation. FGV CDPOC, Brazil. ---------------. (June 2022). ‘I Belong There’: Affective Geography of Space in Refugee Reminiscences from Bangladesh and West Bengal. American Comparative Literature Association. National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. ---------------. (June 2022). Life, Loss and Longing: Performative Narration, Recollection and Memory of East Pakistani Refugees in West Bengal. University of Bamberg, Germany. ---------------. (August 2021). ‘[A]ll Time is Eternally Present: Conceptualising Time in Oral History Narratives’. International Oral History Conference, The National Archives of Singapore, Singapore. ---------------. (April 2021). Refugees in the Making: The National Register of Citizens and its Politics of Documentation. Fourth Ireland India Conference, Dublin City University, Ireland. ---------------. (December 2020). ‘Remembering ‘Legacy’ and Establishing ‘Linkage’: The National Register of Citizens and Memory Politics in Assam. Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET), Lund University, Sweden.
Conferences (National):	Mukhopadhyay, S. (March 2024). Exploring Pastoral Life-Worlds. 9th Oral History Association of India Conference. North-Eastern Hill University, Shilllong. ---------------. (March 2022). The Narrator, the Interviewer and the Listener: Affective Listening and Digital Oral History Archives. Seventh Oral History Association of India Conference. Jadavpur University, Kolkata. ---------------. (March 2022). Conceptualising Memoryscape and Historical Time in Oral Reminiscences of East Pakistani Refugees in West Bengal. Memory in Transition, IISER Bhopal. ---------------. (August 2018). Reminiscence/Reticence: Interpretive Conflict in Oral Narratives. Two-Day National Seminar on ‘New Directions in New Humanities Research: Theories, Modalities and Praxis’, English and Foreign Language University (EFLU), Hyderabad. ---------------. (April 2017). ‘Censorship and the Subject: Political Repression and Strategies of Resistance of the Public Intellectual’. Two-Day Seminar on ‘Censorship and Contemporary India: Histories, Texts, Contexts’, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi.

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Academics

The Department has started offering the Ph D programme since 2006. The Department covers a number of areas in social sciences and language like Economics, Education, Philosophy, English and Management. The Department has the distinction of producing the first Ph. D. from NIT Silchar. Currently there are 19 number of registered Ph d scholars associated with the Department.

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Research

Language Lab: The Department has a state of the art language lab to assist students to avail technically assisted language learning programme. Currently the Department is giving courses only on English language. Efforts are being made to introduce other foreign languages.

Computer Lab: The Department has setup the up-to-date computer lab with internet connectivity for the researchers. There are 14 numbers of PCs along with internet ports in the computer lab.

Departmental Journal: The first issue of the Departmental Journal The Social Scanner has been published in July 2009 in association with Society for North East Development Studies, Silchar. The journal has been widely accepted by the academic community in the country.

E-Resources: Apart from various e-journals the Department has procured the CMIE data bank on Foreign Trade, Economic Intelligence service and State Analysis Service to provide secondary data support to the researchers.

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