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List of Publications (updated till October 2009)

Amit Shankar Saha

 

I. Book Reviews

 

1. "So Good in Black by Sunetra Gupta: Bespoke Ethics", MuseIndia: A Literary e-Journal, Issue 27, September-October 2009, ISSN 0975-1815, <http://www.museindia.com/showcurrent16.asp?id=1417>

2. "More Light ... by Sanjukta Dasgupta: A Review", Boloji, 24 May 2009, <http://boloji.com/bookreviews/177.htm>

3. “Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri: A tour de force”, MuseIndia: A Literary e-Journal, Issue 23, January-February 2009, ISSN 0975-1815, <http://www.museindia.com/showcurrent12.asp?id=1182>

4. “The Namesake: The Book and the Film”, DesiLit Magazine, Issue 3, October 2007, <http://desilit.org/magazine/issues/2007/Winter/reviews/Namesake.php>

5. "Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri", Shvoong, November 2004, <http://www.shvoong.com/books/400559-interpreter-maladies/>

 

II. Research Articles

 

1. “Exile Literature and the Diasporic Indian Writer”, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities: An Online Open Access E-Journal, Volume 1, Number 2, Autumn 2009, ISSN 0975 – 2935, Ed.Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay, <http://rupkatha.com/journalvol1no2.php>

2. "The Problem of Personal Identity: A Philosophical Survey through the Selected Fictions of Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta, and Jhumpa Lahiri in the Context of the Indian Diaspora", Humanicus: Academic journal of humanities, social sciences and philosophy, Issue 3, Summer 2009, ISSN 1803-7836, Ed. Srdjan Jovanovic, Czech Republic, Pp. 60-74, <http://www.humanicus.org/global/issues/humanicus-3-2009.pdf>

3. "The Psychological Sense of Exile and Alienation: A Selection from Anita Desai’s Fictional Characters", Boloji, 3 May 2009, <http://boloji.com/literature/00141.htm>

4. “Parent-Child Relationship in Diasporic Life: Engagement with the issue by Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta, and Jhumpa Lahiri”, Families: A Journal of Representations, Vol 5 No 2 & Vol 6 No 1, December 2008 – January 2009, Ed. Sanjukta Dasgupta, Pp. 30-44.

5. “Loneliness in Diasporic Life as Depicted by Anita Desai”, Cerebration, Issue II, May 2005, The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University, USA, <http://www.cerebration.org/issueaprilmayjune.html>  

 

III. Autobiographical Stories, Historical Essays, and Other Articles

 

1. “Remembering a Room and an Age”, Chicken Soup for the Indian Teenage Soul, New Delhi: Westland Publishers, 2009. Unedited version can be read at <http://amitss6.sulekha.com/blog/post/2009/09/remembering-a-room-and-an-age.htm>

 

2. "The Stratagem", Sulekha, August 9 2009, <http://amitss6.sulekha.com/blog/post/2009/08/the-stratagem.htm>

 

3. "Re-visiting Amartya Sen’s Lecture on 'Justice – and India'", Sulekha, August 17 2009, <http://amitss6.sulekha.com/blog/post/2009/08/re-visiting-amartya-sen-s-lecture-on-justice-and.htm>

 

4. "Revisiting Deoghar after Twenty Years", Sulekha, May 26 2008, <http://amitss6.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/05/revisiting-deoghar-after-twenty-years.htm>

 

5. "My Three Guineas: Reflections on a Seminar", Blogspot, January 19 2009, <http://amitss6.blogspot.com/2009/01/reflections.html>

 

6. "How a Conference Made Me Ponder . . . (about the appropriateness/inappropriateness of the title of my thesis)", Blogspot, January 15 2006, <http://amitss6.blogspot.com/2006/01/report.html>

 

7. "The Great Debate", Authors Den, June 2008, <http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=69733&id=36347>

 

8. “NRI Writers’ Depiction of NRI Characters in Fiction”, Authors Den, January 2005, <http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=69733&id=36346>

 

9. "Ancient Indian History: The Most Mysterious Period", Authors Den, August 2008, <http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=69733&id=36348>

 

10. "Origin and Identity of Kesarwani / Kasarwani / Kasrwani: An Outline in History", Gateway of Kesarwani Web World, September 2007, <http://www.kesarwani.net/about/KesarwaniHistory.aspx>

 

IV. Short Stories

(These stories have been variously published at LSS: Long Story Short, Many Midnights, Clockwisecat, Palki, AuthorsDen.com, Short-story.net, Storymania.com, and Ourecho.com)

 

Stories collected at Sulekha <http://amitss6.sulekha.com/blog/Short%20Story/posts.htm>

 

V. Poems

(These poems have been variously published at Muse India, The Calcutta Sky Magazine, Palki, Pens on Fire, Echoes of My Soul, PoetryMagazine.com, AhaPoetry.com, Poetry.com, AparnaOnline.com, Boloji.com, AuthorsDen.com, and WritersCafe.org)

 

Poems collected at Sulekha <http://amitss6.sulekha.com/blog/Poetry/posts.htm>

 

Poems collected at Creative Poems <http://www.creative-poems.com/member.php?id=15059>