Dr. Brinda Bose has been awarded a three year fellowship by the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti Bhavan, New Delhi to pursue research on Gender and Cinema. Her edited book, Gender and Censorship, has just been published by Kali for Women and Women Unlimited, New Delhi, 2006.
Amongst other seminars and conferences, Dr. Bose recently did a joint presentation with two of her Hindu College students, Akhil Katyal of B.A (H)English, IIIrd Year and Vaibhav Parel of M.A English, Final Year on “Decolonizing the Classroom? In Search of New Pedagogies for New Literatures” at an International Conference organized by the Department of English, Delhi University, on ‘New Literatures in English’, in December, 2005
Dr. Suroopa Mukherjee, Reader in the Department of English has also been awarded a three year research fellowship by Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi to work on her project “Dancing in the Streets: The Women Survivors of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy”.
Dr. Lalita Subbu, Reader in the Department of English gave a talk on “Modern Novel in England” at a one day seminar on “The Modern Novel” organized at Hindu College jointly by the Departments of English of Hindu College and La Trobe University, Melbourne. She presented a paper on “The Politics of Subversion: The Plays of Manjula Padmanabham” at the international seminar “Past the Post: New Literatures in English” organized by the Department of English, University of Delhi. She further participated in a panel discussion on “Literature and Fantasy” as part of the inauguration of the annual festival of the English Department, Deshbandhu College, New Delhi.
Dr. Tapan Basu, Reader in the Department of English has been awarded the South Asia Research Programme Fellowship by Social Science Research Council, New York, to work on his project “The Writings of B.R.Ambedkar and the Construction of a Dalit Cultural Identity”. He also attended a research workshop on the theme of “The Long 1950s” organized at Negombo, Sri Lanka by the Social Science Research Council, New York and presented a paper entitled “Religion Conversion and the Anxieties of Derationalisation: The Case of Babasaheb Ambedkar” at the IACLALS Annual Conference at Shantiniketan, West Bengal.
Shri Tarun Saint, Lecturer in Reader’s grade in the Department of English, presented the following papers : “The Figure of the Witness in Partition Fiction” at a National Seminar on “Fresh Perspectives on Partition Narratives’ at Jai Hind College, Mumbai in November, 2005, “The Limits to Literary Testimony: Representation of Violence in Bapsi Sidhwa’s ‘Ice Candy Man’ and Anita Desai’s ‘Clear Light of Day’ presented at the international seminar “Past The Post: The New Literatures in English”, organized by the Department of English, Delhi University in Dec. 2005, “Representing Violence in Partition Fiction in English” at the workshop ‘Representing Partition’ at Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia in January 2006.
Dr. Harish Naval of Hindi Department published two books in this academic year – ‘HINDI RANGMANCH SANDARBH’ AND ‘HINDI NATAK:TEEN DASHAK’. Twenty of his articles appeared in journals and newspapers of All India Repute. Dr. Naval was invited as the main speaker in the International Literary meet at Singapore, organized by ‘PEN ASIAN CHAPTER’. He also represented Indian authors in the cultural troupe to Malaysia and Sri Lanka. He was felicitated for his literary services by the SAHITYA SANGAM of Bareilly Uttar Pardesh and was nominated the Convenor of the – PRAVASI LITERARY SYMPOSIUM organized by SAHITYA AKADEMI and AKSHARAM INDIA.
Shri Chandrachur Singh of Political Science department presented a paper at the National Seminar sponsored by University Grants Commission at the Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur on “Contemporary Relevance of Gandhi”. His paper on “Democratic Governance: The Public Private Interface” has been accepted for a conference at City University, Hongkong. Another paper on “Public Institutions and the Civil Society” has been accepted for the International Political Science Association Conference to be held at Fokuyoka, Japan.
Dr. Rajendra Kumar, Lecturer in Sanskrit Department presented a paper entitled “Kavyadosh Ka Kavya Sarjana Main Bhumika” in the three day All India Seminar organized by Sanskrit Department at South campus and another paper on “Adhunik Sanskrit Kavyon Ki Samiksha Ka Adhar” in the All India seminar organized by Kalidas Sanskrit Academy held at St. Stephen’s College.
Dr. Vijay Garg of Sanskrit Department presented a paper on “Dhanpal Ki Tilakmanjari aur Kavya Sarjana” in the three day All India Seminar organized by Kalidas Sanskrit Academy held at St. Stephen’s college.
Dr. Rekha Basu, Reader in the Department of Philosophy published “Draupadi’s Shame Revisited” in Women’s Watch Volume I, Issue 4.
M.A. Devasia of the same department published two papers : one “Subalternity and the Hermeneutics of Religious Language : Some Reflections with Reference to Samkara and Wittgenstein” in Subaltern Perspective: Philosophizing in Context, edited by George Thadathil. The Second