Post-Millennial Indian Speculative Fiction in English: Desi Dystopias and Ideas of Belonging

Forthcoming March 2025

Bloomsbury

Routledge Companion to Post-millennial Indian Fiction in English

Forthcoming (2025)

Routledge

Gulf-Kerala Literary Publics

2023 Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil E. Dawson Varughese

Journal of Commonwealth Literature. doi: 10.1177/00219894221145211

Rhizomatic Readings: insights into the post-millennial Indian graphic narrative scene

Forthcoming (2023)

in A. Chakraborty, R. Konar, S. A. Bhowmik (eds) Postcolonial Popular Culture: Texts, Artefacts and Affects Hyderabad: Orient Blackswann

“Christ The Guru”: artistic representations of Jesus Christ in South India and their mediated notions of Indianness and guru-ness’

Forthcoming (2023)

in J. Copeman, A. Longkumer, K. Duggal (eds), Religious Gurus and Media: Film, image, art, sound and beyond. London: UCL Press

‘Automatic guns singing death verses and Swachh Bharat rainbows’: layered messaging and public wall art on Maharshi Karve Road, Mumbai

Summer, Issue 2, 2021

South Asian Popular Culture Routledge

Precarity and (im)Purity in Prayaag Akbar’s Leila

2021

South Asia: journal of South Asian studies

Public Wall Art on Tulsi Pipe Road, Mumbai: The Indian post-millennial contemporary, sexual violence and ‘femaleness’

2021-06-01

Postcolonial Interventions Vol. VI, Issue 2, Open Issue

The “in-betweens” and the “hatadaiva”: oscillating, fantastic realities

2020-06-01

in Tashan Mehta’s The Liar’s Weave Journal of Commonwealth Literature

Traumatic moments: retrospective “seeing” of violation, rupture and injury in three post-millennial Indian graphic narratives

2020-06-01

in D. Davies and C. Rifkind (eds), Documenting Trauma: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories & Graphic Reportage in Comics (Basingstoke: Palgrave)

The craft of (queer) feminism: a conversation with Neelima P. Aryan, Indian illustrator and queer feminist woman

2020-04-01

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics Special Issue, ‘Feminist Comics/Graphic novels in a Global Frame’

‘Drawing Thoughts Together’: Indian artists’ reflections on the post-millennial Indian graphic narratives scene

2019-11-01

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

Material Memory and the Partition of India: a narrative interview with Aanchal Malhotra

2019-10-01

in R. Maxey and P. McGarr (eds) India at 70 (Routledge)

Indian fiction in English Post-millennial Indian Anglophone writing

2019

in R. Eaglestone and D. O’Gorman (eds), The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Fiction (Abingdon and New York: Routledge)

Seeing Shiva, Seeing Ram: Visual representations of deities in the genre of mythology-inspired fiction, an analysis of the book covers of Amish Tripathi’s novels

2018-11-09

South Asian Popular Culture

Reading New India: Post-Millennial Indian Fiction in English

2018-10-12

Bloomsbury

Neelima P. Aryan’s ‘the prey’ from Drawing the Line: a graphic narrative response to the Delhi gang rape

2018-23-04

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

Post-millennial “mythology-inspired fiction”: the market, the genre and the (global) reader

2018

in B. Chattopadhyay, A. Maity and A. Mandhwani (eds), Indian Genre Fiction: pasts and future histories (Chicago: Chicago University Press)

Consuming post-millennial Indian Chick Lit: visual representations of Chauhan’s females

2018-07-01

in K. Houlden and N. Atia (eds) Popular Postcolonialisms: Popular Cultural Forms and the Postcolonial Paradigm (Abingdon and New York: Routledge)

(Social) Memory, Movements and Messaging on Tulsi Pipe Road: ‘Seeing’ Public Wall Art in Mumbai

2017-21-11

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies

Visuality and Identity in Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives

2017-16-11

palgrave macmillan

Post-millennial “Indian Fantasy” fiction in English and the question of mythology: Writing beyond the “usual suspects”

2017-07-12

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

Genre Fiction of New India: post-millennial configurations of Crick Lit, Chick Lit and crime writing

2016-06-01

in A. Tickell (ed) South-Asian fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)

“The cracks of post-liberalized India”: Storying the “New Society” through Banerjee’s The Harappa Files (2011)

2016-12-10

Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Genre Fiction of New India: Post-millennial Configurations of Crick Lit, Chick Lit and Crime Writing

2016-12-04

South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations

Indian Writing in English and Issues of Visual Representation: Judging More than a Book by its Cover

2015-27-05

Palgrave Macmillan

'Style in World Literature in English(es)’

2015-19-11

The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics, Bloomsbury

Style in World (Indian) Literature in English(es): Battle for Bittora by Anuja Chauhan

2015-07-01

in V. Sotirova (ed) Companion to Stylistics, (London, New York: Continuum/Bloomsbury)

New India/n Woman’: decision-making and identity in post-millennial Chick Lit

2015-07-01

in U. Anjaria (ed) The Cambridge History of the Indian Novel in English (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, July 2015)

Celebrate at home: post-millennial Indian fiction in English and the reception of ‘Bharati Fantasy’ in global and domestic literary markets

2014-07-10

Contemporary South Asia

New ways of seeing in New India: interview with Manta Ray Graphic Novels

2014-22-07

South Asian Popular Culture

Beyond The Postcolonial: World Englishes Literature

2012-21-08

Palgrave Macmillan

Emerging writing from four African countries: genres and Englishes, beyond the postcolonial

2012-03-01

African Identities

‘New Departures, New Worlds: World Englishes Literature’

2012-03-01

English Today, Cambridge University Press

‘Beyond The Postcolonial: A Project in World Englishes Literature’

2011-01-03

Journal of Transnational Literature, Vol 3, Issue 2

Daughters of Eve and other new short stories from Nigeria

2010-01-04

Seattle: New Ventures. Edited with critical introduction

Butterfly Dreams and other new short stories from Uganda

2010-01-07

Seattle: New Ventures. Edited with critical introduction

Attitudes to Language in Literary Sources: Beyond Post-Colonialism in Nigerian Literature

2010-02-12 Pierre Larrivée

English Studies

‘The Spirit Machine’ and Other New Short Stories From Cameroon

2009-01-07

Seattle: New Ventures. Edited with critical introduction

‘Re-visioning the National Curriculum at KS 3 and 4 and its stipulation to teach literature ‘from different cultures and traditions’

2009-01-04

Changing English. Vol 16, Issue 2

‘Emotion Tracking Pedagogy: towards better teaching of the national curriculum for English’

2008-30-09

The State Of Stylistics, PALA papers 5, Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Read Yourself Around The Globe: ‘The ‘Rough Guide’ to World Englishes Literature’

2007-01-05

Anglofiles: Journal of English Teaching May (144): 52-57.