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Books

Bijon Bhattacharya Nabanna: Of Famine and Resilience (translated an introduced by Arjun Ghosh) New Delhi: Rupa Pubications, 2018.

Freedom from Profit: Eschewing Copyright in Resistance Art Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2014.

A History of the Jana Natya Manch: Plays for the People New Delhi: Sage India, 2012.

Journal Articles

Censorship through Copyright: From print to digital media” in Social Scientist vol. 41. nos. 1-2 January-February 2013

Challenges, Innovations and Commitment: Cultural Intervention and Cultural Resistance” in Economic and Political Weekly VOL 46 No. 24 June 11 - June 17, 2011.

“Performing Change/ Changing Performance: An Exploration of the Life of a Street Play by the Jana Natya Manch” in Asian Theatre Journal vol. 27, no. 1 (2010).

Theatre for the Ballot: The Use of Street Theatre for Campaigning in the Indian Elections”, The Drama Review Winter 2005, Vol. 49, No. 4 (T188).

“‘Meanings’ of the Revolution: Language in the Street Plays of the Jana Natya Manch” in Language Forum (Jul-Dec 2004).
[Republished in Sudhanva Deshpande ed. Theatre of the Streets New Delhi, Jana Natya Manch, 2007.]

How Far Radical?: Middle Class Politics, Youth and Women in the Literature of Bengal during National Liberation” in the Journal of the School of Languages (Spring 2005).

Book Chapter



"In a Fresh Hue: An Adaptation of Chaturanga" in Maryrose Casey ed. Embodying Transformation: Transcultural Performance. Sydney, Monash University Press, 2015.

"The Politics and Methods of Epic Theatre" in Swati Pal ed. Modern European Drama: Ibsen to Beckett. New Delhi, Pencraft, 2012.

Study Material:

Online Course material on Vijay Tendulkar's Ghashiram Kotwal, for the Institute of Life Long Learning, University of Delhi.

Book Review:

Neela Dabir and From Street to Hope: Faith Based and Secular Programs in Los Angeles, Mumbai and Nairobi for Street Living Children published in The Book Review Vol. 36 No. 7. Jul 2012.

Lata Singh ed. Theatre in Colonial India: Play-House of Power. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2009, in History and Sociology of South Asia Vol. 5 No. 1, January 2011.

Rajeev S. Patke Postcolonial Poetry in English (Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures in English). New York, Oxford University Press, 2006, published in Postcolonial Text Vol. 3 No. 3 (2007).

Pradeep Trikha. Multiple Celebrations, Celebrating Multiplicity: Girish Karnad. Ajmer, A.R.A.W.LII. Publications, 2009, published in Summer Hill: IIAS Review, Vol. XV No. 1 Summer 2009.

Other

'Information cannot be leashed' in Down to Earth. 4 Jun 2012.

'Theatre in the Underground in Nepal's war for democracy' in e-Rang No. 30, 15 Sep 2011, published by the India Theatre Forum.

'Unique Identification Number Project: Cautious Optimism' in Pragoti.org. 13 November 2009.

'Street Theatre in India' in One India, One People. September 2008.

Plays for the people’ was published in Frontline. 28 January, 2005.

Presentations

Socialisation in the 21st Century: Possibility of Democracy in a Digitised Society” at the conference on 'Socialism for the Twenty-first Century' at the University of Havana, 19-21 November 2014.

Digital Relations: A Study of Media Wiki” at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi on 11 November 2014.

Continuing Counterfactual from Orientalist Narratives to the Wikipedia” at Annual Conference of Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies at Panjab University, Chandigarh in February 2014.

2014: Digital Reproduction: A Case of Missed Opportunity” at Interrogating English Studies in India, Bharati College, University of Delhi 5-7 February 2014.

Cute Cats and Talking Mice: Theatre, Social Media and Intellectual Property: Thinking of property in theatre and the internetat 'Theater and Civil Society: Politics, Public Space, and Performance' at the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA between 9-23 June 2012.

In a different hue: An adaptation of Chaturangaat the Australasian Association for Theatre Drama and Performance Studies Conference at Monash University, Clayton Campus, Victoria, Australia between 29 June – 1 July 2011.

"Theatre, Sharing, Change' at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla 15 July, 2010.

"'Not in My Name’: Who Benefits from Copyright?" at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. 5 November, 2009.

“Making Space for Change: The Spectator’s view of Proletarian Theatre” the Ninth  CLAI (Comparative Literature Association of India)  Biennial International Conference held at Hyderabad between 28-31 January 2009.

" Political Theater of India- History, contemporary characteristics, and challenges in the Globalised era" at the first International Theater Festival of Kerala, (ITFoK) Asian chapter, 2008, held at Thrissur, Kerala from 22 to31 December 2008, convened by Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy with the support of various Kerala government departments and organisations.

Comparative Perspectives on Politico-Cultural Performances in Contemporary India” (coauthored with Dr. Dibyesh Anand) at the 20th European Conference for Modern South Asian Studies at University of Manchester between 8-11 July, 2008.

“Theatre for Development/ Theatre of Resistance: Augusto Boal and Safdar Hashmi in Theory and Practice” at the International Seminar on “Development Paradigms and Cultures of Resistance: A Comparative Perspective on India and Latin America” jointly organized by the Centre for European and Latin American Studies and the Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia at New Delhi between 14-16 February, 2008.

“The Legacy of Nabanna” at the Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) at Udaipur in January 2008.

“The ‘Liberal’ Babu, the ‘Good’ Peasant and the ‘Bad’ Sahibs: Violence and Political Strategy in Dinabandhu Mitra’s Neeldarpan” at the Annual Conference of the IACLALS held at the Banaras Hindu University in January, 2007.

“Challenges Before Cultural Resistance: Methods of Intervention” at the International Young Scholar’s Seminar organized by the Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia and Leftword Books, in April 2006.

“Part(y)cipation in Culture” at a Conference on ‘Politics of Culture in Contemporary China and India’, organized by the Institute of Chinese Studies, Centre for Studies in Developing Societies (CSDS) in October 2005.

“Revolutionary Terrorism and Non-Violent Nationalism in Bengal of the Early 20th Century” at the 13th Triennial Conference of the Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) at Hyderabad in August 2004.

Valiant Self and Pernicious Foreigner: The Use of History for Nation Making in the Literature of 19th Century Bengal” at the Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) held at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in January, 2003.