1st Bhatter College International Conference on Recent Advances in English Studies Virtual, July 03-04, 2021 Organized by The PG Department of English Bhatter College, Dantan (NAAC Accredited Grade ‘A’ College)

In collaboration with Central University of Haryana & Yonphula Centenary College Royal University of Bhutan

www. english.bhattercollege.ac.in/bcic2021

Main Conference web link ZOOM (other than Channel 2): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87177553469?pwd=K21hU0oxbTV2TDlwMTlIZ1liYXM3Zz09

Web link to Channel 2 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89372299434?pwd=Z1ovaWNCT0dkTWwrbmg5eFBFT215UT09

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

Main Conference web link ZOOM (other than Channel 2): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87177553469?pwd=K21hU0oxbTV2TDlwMTlIZ1liYXM3Zz09

Web link to Channel 2 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89372299434?pwd=Z1ovaWNCT0dkTWwrbmg5eFBFT215UT09

Day 1:03 July, 2021 (Saturday)

Inaugural Session (09.00 A.M. – 9.30 A.M.)

09.00 A.M. – 09.10 A.M Welcome address by the Conference Chair Dr. Pabitra Kumar Mishra Principal, Bhatter College, Dantan

09.10 A.M. – 09.20 A.M Inaugural Speech by the Chief Guest Prof. Bhushan Patwardhan Chairman, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New &Vice Chairman, University Grants Commission

09.20 A.M. – 09.25 A.M Speech by the Chief Advisor Prof. R. C. Kuhad Vice-Chancellor, Central University of Haryana

09.25 A.M. – 09.30 A.M Vote of thanks Dr. S. Chitra Programme Leader, Dept of English, Yonphula Centenary College, Royal University of Bhutan

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Session 1 Day 1: 03 July, 2021 09:30 A.M. –10:00 A.M. Inaugural Address Prof Himadri Lahiri Prof. of English, Netaji Subhas Open University & Formerly Prof. of English, University of Burdwan, West Bengal, Title: The Evolution of English Studies

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Session 2 Day 1: 03 July, 2021 10:00 A.M. –11:20 A.M. Paper presentation: Colonialism/ Postcolonial Chair: Prof Himadri Lahiri Prof. of English, Netaji Subhas Open University & Formerly Prof. of English, University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India. Email: [email protected]

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1 Biswajit Mondal Memory as a Colonial Capital: Memory, Coloniality and Decoloniality in Tsitsi Dangarembga‟s Nervous Conditions Trilogy

2 Ashaq Hussain Parray& Serving Imperial Narrative and Contesting Liberal Dr. Tanu Gupta Humanism: An Analysis of E. M. Forster‟s Travelogue A Passage to India

Abhinaba Chatterjee Dialectics of Visibility/Invisibility of Postcolonial 3 Translator

4 Arnab Das & Dr Globaliztion Posing Challenges to Examine the Madhumita Roy Future Of Postcolonial Studies

5 Dhruvee Sinha & Dr The Spoken and Unspoken of Rushdie's Postcolonial Zeeshan Ali World

6 Deepa Randhawa The Contact Zone, Cultural Hegemony and Linguistic Imperialism in Africa: An Analysis of

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Ngugi‟s Literary World

7 Tridib Khan Children‟s Shakespeare: a study of some Bengali translations of Shakespeare‟s plays in the form of the tale

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Session 3 Day 1: 03 July, 2021 11:25 A.M. –11:55 A.M. Plenary Talk Speaker: Dr. Urvashi Kuhad Assistant Professor, Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi (South Campus), , India Title: “Margins within Margins: Reading Women Novelists from the North East India” Chair: Dr. Jai Singh Assistant Professor, Department of Indian and World Literatures,The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India

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Session 4 Day 1: 03 July, 2021 12:00 P.M. – 01:00 P.M. Paper presentation: Migration Studies Chair: Dr. Urvashi Kuhad Assistant Professor, Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi (South Campus), New Delhi, India. Email: [email protected]

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1 Rhitabrata Chatterjee Salman Rushdie and his philosophy of „third principle‟

2 Dr. Ratan Deka Home Away From Home: Ethnic Identity in the context of Migration and Assimilation in Umakanta Sarma‟s Ejak Manuh Ekhon Aranya

Subhadip Mukherjee The Refugee Writes Back: Behrouz Boochani‟s No 3 Friend But The Mountains as a Literary Site of Creative Resistance and Subversion

4 Khushi Yadav Remapping, and Relocating the I: A study of the poetry of Adil Jussawalla and Keki Daruwalla.

5 Sriparna Chakraborty Homing Desire in Roma Tearne‟s Novel Mosquito

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Session 5 Day 1: 03 July, 2021 01:00 P.M. – 01:30 P.M. Plenary Talk Speaker: Dr. Swayam Prabha Satpathy Professor in Communicative English, ITER, Siksha'o'Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, India Title: Issues in Communication in the Pandemic Situation Chair: Dr Anand Mahanand Professor and Head, Dept. of Materials Development, Testing and Evaluation, School of English Language Education, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India Email: [email protected]

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Session 6 Channel 2 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89372299434?pwd=Z1ovaWNCT0dkTWwrbmg5eFBFT215UT09 Day 1: 03 July, 2021 12:30 P.M. – 01:30 P.M. Paper presentation: PG Students Chair: Dr. Samrat Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Sammilani Mahavidyalaya, Kolkata, India Email: [email protected]

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1 P B Vedamalika Shakespeare‟s Othello in regional ethos: Kaliyattam or the Play of God

2 Sibani Dey Application of Plato's Allegory of the Cave to the World of the Social Media

3 Suhail Mohammed Re-reading Select Poems of Kamala Das through the Lens of Post-Colonialism and Feminism

4 Wangdi, M.A Anonymity of Mr. Rochester in Wide Sargasso Sea English, Yonphula Centenery College, Royal University of Bhutan

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Lunch Break (1.30 P.M. – 2 P.M.)

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Session 7 Day 1: 03 July, 2021 02:00 P.M. – 02:40 P.M. Critical Dialogue Session Topic: The „Silent‟ Spaces of the Partition of India: History, Memory, and Trauma of Women Resource Person: Urvashi Butalia, Writer, Publisher, Activist, and Padma Shri Awardee

Conducted by Mir Ahammad Ali, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan, West Bengal, India

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Session 8 Day 1: 03 July, 2021 02:45 P.M. – 03:55 P.M. Paper presentation: Partition Studies Chair: Dr Debjani Sengupta Associate Professor, Indraprastha College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. Email: [email protected]

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1 Jasmeen Kaur & Dr. Partition: Orientalism, Discourse and Power in Kartar Mukuta Borah Singh Duggals‟s Abducted Not and Ranjit Powar‟s Dusk Over the Mustard Fields

2 TakbeerSalati Feminism, Body and Resistance: In Manto‟s Mozelle, Thanda Ghosht, and Das Rupayee

3 Ankita Chakrabarty Divided Past in an Undivided Land: Partition Narratives of the Sylheti Refugees in Assam

4 Moumita Santra Representation Of Female „Body‟ as the Marker of Community „Honour‟ in Select Cinematic Adaptations of Partition : A Comparative Analysis of Deepa Mehta‟s 1947: Earth (1999) and Chandraprakash Dwivedi's Pinjar (2003)

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5 Sakshi Sundaram & Revisiting the Trauma of Partition in Krishna Sobti‟s Dr Purnima Bali Gujarat Pakistan Se Gujarat Hindustan

6 Akasdip Dey Cultural Construction of Individual Ideology: A Study of Amitav Ghosh‟s The Shadow Lines in the Light of Carl Jung‟s „Collective Unconscious‟

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Conducted by Mir Ahammad Ali, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan, West Bengal, India

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Session 10 Day 1: 03 July, 2021 04:40 P.M. – 05:20 P.M. Plenary Talk Speaker: Prof. Mohd. Asaduddin Professor of English, Humanities and Languages, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India Title: Teaching Literature(s) in Translation: Reflections on Classroom Pedagogy

Chair: Dr. Swayam Prabha Satpathy Professor in Communicative English, ITER, Siksha'o'Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, India Email: [email protected]

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Session 11 Day 1: 03 July, 2021 05:25 P.M. – 06:00 P.M Plenary Talk Speaker: Dr. Sathyaraj Venkatesan Associate Professor of English, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli Title: “Whose health matters” Conducted by: Dr Gopika Sankar U (PhD/IIT Madras), Assistant Professor University of Hyderabad Email: [email protected]

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Session 12 Day 1: 03 July, 2021 06:00 P.M. – 06:40 P.M. Paper presentation: Health Humanities Chair: Dr. Sathyaraj Venkatesan Associate Professor of English, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. Email: [email protected]

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1 Snigdha Narrating Malignancy and Reclaiming Identity in Lisa Subhrasmita& Dr Ray‟s Close to the Bone Rashmi Gaur

2 Uddipta Roy Through Positive Eyes: Self-transformation of the somatic individual in urban health(care) discourse on HIV/AIDS in Mumbai

3 Dipak Kumar Mandal Narrative as Cultural memory: Remembering the Irish Famine Trauma through Star of the Sea by Joseph O‟Connor

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4 D. Usha Praveena and Laying Phantoms to Rest: Narratives that Can Heal Prof. Sharada Allamneni

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Session 13 Day 1: 03 July, 2021 06:45 P.M. – 07:25 P.M. Paper presentation: Health Humanities Chair: Dr Gopika Sankar U (PhD/IIT Madras), Assistant Professor University of Hyderabad. Email: [email protected]

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1 Ishani Anwesha Joshi & Touch, COVID-19 and Graphic Medicine Sathyaraj Venkatesan

2 Livine Ancy A & Fallacies of Neoliberalism: Importance of Care and Dr Sathyaraj Venkatesan Graphic Medicine

3 Arya Suresh Reconfiguring Doctor-Patient Relationships: Narrative Humility and Graphic Medicine

4 Jaya Wathare Focussing on Mental Health Concerns in Aminder Dhaliwal′s Cyclopedia Exotica

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Session 14 Day 1: 03 July, 2021 07:30 P.M. – 08:00 P.M Plenary Talk Speaker: Dr. Jeremy De Chavez Assistant Professor of English, University of Macau, China Title: "Positive Affects and the Post-Colonial Condition: Tennyson, Vuong, and the Politics of Canonical Counter-Discourse" Chair: Dr Priyanka Chaudhary Head & Professor of English, Department of Languages School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Manipal University Jaipur. Email: [email protected]

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Session 15 Keynote Address Day 1: 03 July, 2021 08:00 P.M. – 08:30 P.M Dr. Asha Varadharajan Associate Professor, Department of English language and Literature, Queen‟s University, Canada Title: “Crumbling Canons, Resurrected Lives: Waking up English Studies” Conducted by Dr. Jeremy De Chavez

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Day 2:04 July, 2021 (Sunday)

Session 16 Day 2: 04 July, 2021 09:00 A.M. –09:30 A.M Plenary Talk Speaker: Prof. Debashis Bandyopadhyay Professor of English, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India Title: Trauma, as we understand it from Psychoanalytic Perspective Chair: Prof Himadri Lahiri, Professor (Rtd.) of English, University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India

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Session 17 Day 2: 04 July, 2021 09:35 A.M. –10:55 A.M. Paper presentation: Trauma, Memory, and Psychoanalysis Chair: Dr. Asijit Datta Assistant Professor and Head, Department of English, The Heritage College, Kolkata, India Email: [email protected]

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1 Soundharya S. S. & Dr A Psychoanalytical Study of the Characters in the Novel Sumathy K. Swamy The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

2 Md Naimuddin Molla The Rhetoric of Gaze: A Critical Study Of Hitchcock's "Rear Window"

Dr. Rajkumari Ashalata Search for an Alternative and Differentiated Identity in 3 Devi & Tanushree Kazuo Ishiguro‟s A Pale View of Hills Haorungbam

4 Mir Ahammad Ali When Victims turn Perpetrators: Representation of

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Pathological Disorders of Partition in Saadat Hasan Manto‟s “Sharifaan” and Bhisham Sahni‟s “The Train Has Reached Amritsar”

5 Shweta Chauhan Behavior Alteration vis-à-vis Female Parasite in Arthur Conan Doyle‟s The Parasite

6 Asish Charan Sublime of horrific Passion in Emily Bronte‟s Wuthering Heights

7 Sindhura Dutta The Ecologics of Being a Woman: Studying Yeong- hye‟s Trauma, Abjection and Eating Disorder in The Vegetarian by Han Kang

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Session 18 Channel: 2 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89372299434?pwd=Z1ovaWNCT0dkTWwrbmg5eFBFT215UT09 Day 2: 04 July, 2021 09:45 A.M. –10:55 A.M. Paper presentation: Trauma and Literature Chair: Dr Avishek Parui Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Email: [email protected]

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1 Dr. Ruchi Tomar Revisiting „Trauma Studies‟: A Literary Analysis

2 Dibyokamal Mitra A Hole at the Centre of Things: Lacan‟s Topological Models

N. Rema Traumatised Self and the Healing Nature of Memory 3 Explored through the Narrative Faculty of David Chariandy

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4 Dr Chetna The Buried Giant: Forgetting the Past to Survive

5 Krishnapriya K. & Dr. Return of the Imaginary Friend and the Aftermath in Sumathy K Swamy Katherine Applegate‟s Crenshaw

6 Abhirami S and Dr The Traumatized Matriarch of the Kurus in Smrutisikta Mishra Mahabharata: A Study and Analysis of Life Journey of Queen Satyavati.

7 Kumara Sethupathi R Traumatic Legacy: Resistance and Resilience Vortex in & Dr. G. Vinothkumar Yaa Gyasi‟s Homegoing

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Session 19 Day 2: 04 July, 2021 11:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M Plenary Talk Speaker: Dr. Priyanka Tripathi Associate Professor of English, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India Title: Gender Stereotyping in Select Indian Web Series Chair: Dr. Tanu Gupta Professor of English, University Institute of Liberal Arts and Humanities, Chandigarh University, Mohali-Punjab. Email: [email protected]

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Session 20 Day 2: 04 July, 2021 11:35 A.M. –12:35 P.M. Paper presentation: Feminist Reading of Literary Texts Chair: Dr. Priyanka Tripathi Associate Professor of English, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India. Email: [email protected]

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1 Dr. Keshav Nath Shashi Deshpande‟s The Binding Vine: moving beyond Victimhood towards Agency

2 Ankita Ananyaa Gaya The Pink Protest: A Vigilante‟s Narrative against Sexualised Violence

3 Sheetal Yadav Gender, Sexuality, and Consent in Indian Culture: Reading The Devourers Alongside Rethinking Rape

4 Chingalembi Devi A Feminist Reading of Temsula Ao‟s Aosenla‟s Story

5 Mahi S Appropriating the African Female Suffering: Rape, Violence and the Female Body in Edna O‟brien‟s Girl (2019)

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Session 21 Channel: 2 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89372299434?pwd=Z1ovaWNCT0dkTWwrbmg5eFBFT215UT09 Day 2: 04 July, 2021 11:35 A.M. –01:00 P.M. Paper presentation: Gender Studies and Literature Chair: Dr Divya A Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. Email: [email protected]

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1 V. Kezia Anna Exploring Sexuality and Gender in the Paintings of Contemporary Indian Women Artists

2 Dr Dharmendra K. Resisting Amnesia, Re-thinking Past: Reading Temsula Baruah Ao‟s Stories as Collective Memory

3 Inderjot Kaur& Dr.Tanu Ma‟s horrifying captivity and impact of isolation in Gupta Emma Donoghue‟s Room

4 Alipsa Sarkar Marriage and Madness: A reading of Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea

5 Priya Chakraborty Naga Women and Gender Roles: Reading Easterine Kire’s “A Respectable Woman” through the lens of Feminism

6 Neha Kumari TransLife Narratives: In The Era of Digitalization

7 Purusattam Rajak Hegemony of Hetero-norm and Homophobia: Voice of Sexual Dissidents in R.Raj Rao‟s The Boyfriend

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Session 22 Day 2: 04 July, 2021 12:40P.M. – 1.40: P.M. Paper presentation: Eco Studies, Green Studies, and Animal Studies Chair: Dr Nilanjana Deb Associate Professor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Email: [email protected]

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1 Dr. P. Prayer Elmo Raj The Anthropocene in Margaret Atwood‟s Oryx and Crake

2 Heba Farheen Impact of Culture on Nature Conservation: Cultural Ecocriticism in Amitav Ghosh‟s The Hungry Tide& Jungle Nama

3 Ayanita Banerjee Green Therapy: Tagore‟s Quest for Symbiotic Paradigm

4 Sonalika Chaturvedi Voices from the Periphery: Bearing Witness to Disaster &RenuBhadolaDangwal in Sonali Deraniyagala‟s Wave and Krupa Ge‟s Rivers Remember

5 Satabhisa Nayak Embodiment and Intersubjectivity in Selected Poems of Mary Oliver: A Zoopoetic Reading

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Lunch Break (1.40 P.M. – 2 P.M.)

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Session 23 Day 2: 04 July, 2021 02:00 P.M. – 02:30 P.M Plenary Talk Speaker: Dr Subhajit Sen Gupta Associate Professor, Department of English and Culture Studies, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India. Title: Come like shadows, so depart: Shakespeare on Silent Film Chair: Dr Ravikant Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India Email: [email protected]

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*** Session 24 Day 2: 04 July, 2021 02:35 P.M. – 03.55: P.M. Paper presentation: Literature and Film and Media Studies Chair: Dr Subhajit Sen Gupta Associate Professor, Department of English and Culture Studies, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India. Email: [email protected]

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1 Aisha Qadry Food, Gender and Identity: A critical study of the representation of culinary practises in select popular Indian cinema

2 Swagata Chatterjee Colliding Spaces: Studying the Relation between Masculinity and Disability in Indian Cinema.

3 Pallabi Maji & Dr A Journey from Innocence to Experience: Feminist Arindam Modak Approach to Nagesh Kukunoor‟s Film Lakshmi (2014)

4 Shinjini Ghoshal Sherlock and Holmes: Hero-Worship in the Canon and BBC Afterlife

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5 Amar Chakrabortty “Lust, light, love, life all tumbled into grief”: A Cinematic Study of Body, Violence and Neofeminism in Margarita with a Straw and Parched

6 Divyasree J S Intercultural Adaptation and Identity in Tahir Shah‟s The Caliph’s House and in Arabian Nights

7 Aditya Misra The Hero and the Superhero: A Transcultural Dialogue

8 Isha Sharma & Dr The Evolution and Regulations of OTT Platform in India Swayamprabha Satpathy

Q-A session *** Session 24 B Channel: 2 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89372299434?pwd=Z1ovaWNCT0dkTWwrbmg5eFBFT215UT09 Day 2: 04 July, 2021 02:35 P.M. – 03.25: P.M. Paper presentation: Open Session Chair: Dr Sayantan Mondal, Assistant Professor, Department of English, GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences, GITAM (Deemed to be University), Hyderabad, India Email: [email protected]

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1 Dr. Seema Sinha Shurpanakhayana: Indian Feminism and the Lingo of Protest

2 Dr Arfan Hussain “A Stranger in a Stranger Land”: Articulating Identity and Alienation in Zadie Smith‟s White Teeth

3 Ishleen Ahuja The Samurai Gourmet

4 Chinmayee Nanda Bodily Autonomy: Scrutinizing Gender Politics in The Great Indian Kitchen

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Session 25 Day 2: 04 July, 2021 04:00 P.M. – 04:30 P.M Plenary Talk Speaker: Dr Ravikant Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India Title: “Undoing Partition: Flight of Filmy Fantasies” Chair: Dr. Gauri Mishra Associate Professor, College of Vocational Studies (CVS), University of Delhi, New Delhi, India Email: [email protected]

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Session 26 Day 2: 04 July, 2021 04:35 P.M. – 05:15 P.M. Round Table Session Topic: “Field Survey and Documentation of Dalit and Tribal Cultural Texts” Moderator: Prof Indranil Acharya, Professor of English, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India

Resource Persons: Prof. Debashis Bandyopadhyay, Prof. Joyjit Ghosh, Dr Jolly Das, Tarun Tapas Mukherjee, Mir Ahammad Ali

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Session 27 Day 2: 04 July, 2021 05:20 P.M. – 06.10 P.M. Paper presentation: Field Survey and Documentation of Dalit and Tribal Cultural Texts Chair: Prof Indranil Acharya Professor of English, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. Email: [email protected]

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1 Bidhan Mondal The Elements of Folklore & Folk-Performing Arts in the Dramaturgy of Birbhum District: A Case Study

2 Dr. Rudrashis Datta The Indian vernacular as „performance‟ and the global- digital question

3 Pragati Das and Multimediality in the Art of Patachitra of Naya: Animation Thakurdas Jana and Musicality

4 Riya Das Mahapatra Dukhushyam Chitrakar: Documenting the Tradition of Patachitra through the Eyes of the Oldest Chitrakar

5 Chidananda Maity Cultural hegemony and digitalization: extinction of indigenous art form – “Lalita Sabar Pala”

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Session 28 Channel 2 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89372299434?pwd=Z1ovaWNCT0dkTWwrbmg5eFBFT215UT09 Day 2: 04 July, 2021 05:20 P.M. – 06.20 P.M. Paper presentation: Dalit Literature Chair: Dr. Mahitosh Mandal Assistant Professor and Head, Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata, India Email: [email protected]

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1 Dr. BarnaliSaha The Mouth as a Metaphor: Problematizing the Dalit Voice in Selected Poems

2 Nidhi Verma The Subaltern Does Speak: A Study of the Portrayal of Domestic Servants in Basanti and The Diary of a Maidservant

3 Mousumi De Spatial Casteism : A Study of Baby Kamble‟s The Prison We Broke

4 Ms. Haritha Resistance through Rap: An Analysis of the Anti-Caste Pavithran Rap Songs of Vedan

5 Chettupally Anvesh Dalit Identity in Indian Diaspora: A Study on Yashica And Sivatejaa Dutt's Coming Out As Dalit

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Session 29 Day 2: 04 July, 2021 06:15 P.M. – 06:45 P.M Plenary Talk: Speaker: Dr. Jai Singh Assistant Professor, Department of Indian and World Literatures, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India Title: Text as Installation: A Journey from Traditional Literature to Cyber Poetics Chair: Dr. Deepanjali Mishra, Associate Professor, School of Humanities KIIT University Bhubaneswar Email:[email protected]

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Session 30 Day 2: 04 July, 2021 06:50 P.M. – 07.50 P.M. Paper presentation: Posthumanism and Postmodernism Chair: Dr. P. Prayer Elmo Raj, Assistant Professor, PG & Research Department of English, Pachaiyappa's College, Chennai, India Email: [email protected]

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1 Ipsita Chakrabarty The Powerpuff Girls and Small Wonder as Antithesis to Haraway‟s Idea of the Cyborg

2 Al Muthassir Camera as an Eye: Emergence of Consciousness as Farhana M reflected in George Orwell‟s 1924 and Robert J Sawyer‟s WWW: Trilogy- Wake, Watch and Wonder

3 Indrani Das Gupta Toward an „Other‟ Dimension: Examining Vandana Singh‟s Short Story “Tetrahedron”

4 Mir Mahammad Ali Metafiction as a Device of Postmodern Rewriting: Comparative Study of Charles Dickens‟s Great Expectations and Peter Carey‟s Jack Maggs

5 Tushara Vincent A Postmodern Study of Representation of Urbanspace in Aatish Taseer's novel 'The Temple Goers'

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Session 31 07:55 P.M. – 08:25 P.M. Plenary Talk Speaker: Dr. S. Chitra Department of English, Yonphula Centenary College, Bhutan Title: 'Is Karma, a common name or Buddhist philosophy?' - A Probe into Bhutanese Writing Chair: Dr. Priyanka Tripathi Associate Professor of English, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India. Email: [email protected]

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Valedictory Session 32 08:30 P.M. – 09:00 P.M. Speaker: Dr. Maria Ana Tupan Professor of English & Author, Romania Title: “Legacy of Otherness, Auguries of Communion” Chair: Conference Chair

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