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Dr. Pinak Sankar Bhattacharya

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Educational Qualification : M. A. (English), Ph. D.
Institution : Baneswar Sarathibala Mahavidyalaya, Cooch Behar.
(Affiliated to Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University)
Department : English
Mobile No : +918437160299
E-mail : pinaksankar@gmail.com

Publications :

  1. Bhattacharya, Pinak Sankar. “Creating Crossroads: Rituparno Ghosh’s Adaptation of Tagore’s Chokher Bali”. Muse India. 27 (2009). Online. www.museindia.com. ISSN-0975-1815.
  2. Bhattacharya, Pinak Sankar. “Scripting Through Body: A Study of Ratan Thiyam’s Chakravyuha”. Muse India. 33 (2010). Online. www.museindia.com. ISSN-0975-1815.
  3. Bhattacharya, Pinak Sankar. “Re-evaluating Draupadi: A Study of Saoli Mitra’s Nathvati Anathvat”. Muse India. 36 (2011). Online. www.museindia.com. ISSN-0975-1815.
  4. Bhattacharya, Pinak Sankar and Avishek Deb. “Rereading Kunti as the complex mother figure in Tagore’s Karna-Kunti Samvad”. Muse India. 39 (2011). Online. www.museindia.com. ISSN-0975-1815.
  5. Bhattacharya, Pinak Sankar. “Uttamapurusha: A Survey of Contesting Opinions from the Mahabharata”. Impressions of Eternity. 3-4 (2011 – 2012): 101 – 117. ISSN: 2229-4813.
  6. Bhattacharya, Pinak Sankar. “Reality of Violence in the Mahabharata: Reading Bharati’s Andha Yug”. Dialogue. 8.1 (2012): 99 – 108. ISSN: 0974-5556.
  7. Bhattacharya, Pinak Sankar. “The Aesthetics of Coexistence: Reading the Mahabharata in Karnad’s The Fire and The Rain”. Impressions of Eternity. 11(2016): 121 – 131. ISSN: 2229-4813.
  8. Bhattacharya, Pinak Sankar. “India Uday: The Dialectics of Globalization and Indian Literature”. Anusilana. LXXI(2017): 74 – 78. ISSN: 0973-8762.
  9. Bhattacharya, Pinak Sankar and Avishek Deb. “The Dystopian Freedom: An Analysis of Derek Walcott’s ‘The Star Apple Kingdom’”. Muse India. 73 (2017). Online. www.museindia.com. ISSN-0975-1815.
  10. Bhattacharya, Pinak Sankar and Ravi Prakash Dubey. “Teaching outside the Teaching Machine: Analyzing and Adopting Geoffrey Kendal’s Approach towards English Plays”. Journal of English Language Teaching. 60.3(2018): 21 – 28. ISSN: 0973-5208.
  11. Bhattacharya, Pinak Sankar. “Spiritual Preaching in India: English as a Tool for Religious Propagation.” English Studies in India. Eds. Banibrata Mahanta and Rajesh Babu Sharma. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2019, 155 – 163. Print. ISBN No. 978-981-13-1524-4

Content Development

  1. Developed content for Indian Folk Literature of M. A. English (Elective Course), IGNOU, Block – 6, Unit – 1, entitled “Pather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay” in 2017.
  2. Developed content for Indian Folk Literature of M. A. English (Elective Course), IGNOU, Block – 7, Unit – 2, entitled “Folk, Popular and Film” in 2017.
  3. Developed content for E-pathshala, an MHRD Project, on Women Studies/ Gender Studies, Paper – 14, Module – 14, entitled “Case Studies of plays in Bangla Theatre” in 2015.
  4. Developed content for E-pathshala, an MHRD Project, on Women Studies/ Gender Studies, Paper – 14, Module – 15, entitled “Case Study in Marathi Theatre; Critical Analysis of Shanta Gokhale’s Avinash” in 2015.

Invited Lecture

Invited as a Resource Person and delivered a talk on “Contextualizing the Mahabharata in Post-independence India: Reading Rangabharata as an Appropriation of the Epic” in the NEIC-sponsored three-day National Seminar on “ The Epic of the Moment: Exploring the Narrative Cultures of the Mahabharata” jointly organized by North East India Company and Department of Bengali, Presidency University, Kolkata at the A. J. C. Bose Auditorium, Presidency University, Kolkata from April 2 to April 4, 2018.

Workshop Conducted

Conducted first session in the One Day Workshop on “Assessment and Appreciation in English Language Teaching” organized by Mathura Chapter, English Language Teachers’ Association of India on December 20, 2017.

Paper Presentation

  1. Presented a paper entitled “Translation: A Necessity in Indian Context” in “The International Conference on Translation and Multilingualism” organized by the Dept. of English, BHU, Varanasi from 6th to 7th March, 2009.
  2. Presented a paper entitled “Sri Sarada Devi in Kaleidoscope: Another View of Feminism” in “The National Seminar on Many Faces of Feminism in India” organized by Centre for Women’s Studies and Development, Faculty of Social Science, BHU, Varanasi from 27th to 28th March, 2009.
  3. Presented a paper entitled “‘Bharata’s within The Mahabharata: Nature of Indian Nationalism in Ratan Thiyam’s Chakravyuha” in “The International Seminar on Imagining India: Discourse of the Nation” organized by the Dept. of English, BHU, Varanasi from 18th to 19th December, 2009.
  4. Presented a paper entitled “Scripting a Movement through Body: A Study of Ratan Thiyam’s Chakravyuha” in “The International Seminar on Body Space and Technology in Performance” organized by Centre for Performance Research & Cultural Study in South Asia (CPRACSIS), Thrissur from 15th to 16th January 2010.
  5. Presented a paper entitled “‘Ahimsha Paramo Dharma’: Relocating the Mahabharata’s Theory of Non-violence in Bharati’s Andha Yug” in the “Research without Boundaries: National Seminar on Interdisciplinary Research and Studies in Humanities” organized by Faculty of Arts, BHU, Varanasi from 9th to 10th September, 2010.
  6. Presented a paper entitled “Contesting Voices: On the Nature of Carnival in the Mahabharata” in the “International Seminar on Theory at Work: Text, History and Culture” organized by the Dept. of English, BHU, Varanasi from 9th to 11th November, 2010.
  7. Presented a paper entitled “The Gold-Yielding Land: Possibilities of Alternative Modernism in Ramprasad Sen’s Shakta Padavali” in the “International Seminar on Alternative Modernities: Views from Pre-Colonial India” organized by the Faculty of Arts, BHU, Varanasi from 11th to 12th December, 2010.
  8. Presented a paper entitled “Symbiotic Transaction between the Great and the Little Tradition: A Case Study of Ratan Thiyam’s Chakravyuha” in the “International Conference on Decolonising the Stage: Paradigm, Practice and Politics” organized by Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi from 15th to 17th November, 2011.
  9. Presented a paper entitled “Transmutation of Shakespearean Plays in India: The Indian Chapter of Geoffrey Kendal and ‘Shakespeareana’” in the “7th Biennial World Shakespeare Conference on Shakespeare Across Cultures” organized by Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and Shakespeare Society of Eastern India, Kolkata from 3rd to 5th December, 2012.
  1. Presented a paper entitled “Translating Text into Celluloid: A Study of Rituparno Ghosh’s Three Films” in “International Conference on Literature to Cinema: Appropriation, Adaptation, Adulteration” organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, West Bengal from 1st to 3rd June, 2013.
  2. Presented a paper entitled “Reconstructing to Deconstruct?: Analyzing Amish Tripathi’s The Shiva Trilogy” in “International Seminar on Reading/Understanding Fiction in Contemporary Times” organized by Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi from 5th to 6th March, 2014.
  3. Presented a paper entitled “India Uday: The Dialectics of Globalization and Indian Literature” in “International Conference MAGIC 2016 on Methods, Aesthetics and Genres in English Communication” organized by College of Engineering Studies, UPES, Dehradun from 10th to 11th November, 2016.
  4. Presented a paper entitled “From Sermon to Propaganda: A Study of Religious Speeches in English” in the “National Seminar on English Studies in India: Changes and Challenges”
    organized by Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi from 17th to 18th
    November, 2016.
  5. Presented a paper entitled “Teaching outside the Teaching Machine: Analyzing Geoffrey Kendal’s Approach towards English Plays” in the “International Conference on English in Multicultural Classrooms: Perspectives, Prospects, Possibilities” organized by ELT@I,Jaipur Chapter from 30th to 31st October, 2017.
  6. Presented a paper entitled “Unheroed: Subversion of ‘Hero’ in Satyajit Ray’s Calcutta Trilogy” in the “International Conference on In Search of the Hero(es) within the Genre and Beyond” organized by Mahila Mahavidyalaya, BHU from 23rd to 24th February, 2018.
  7. Presented a paper entitled “What is not here is nowhere else: Reading Adya Rangacharya’s Rangabharata through the Mahabharata” in the “National Seminar on History, Myth and Orality: Cultural and Literary Traditions in India” organized by Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi from 14th to 15th November, 2018.

Workshop Attended

  1. Attended Spring School on the ‘Mahabharata Today’ organized by Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla from April 14 to April 28, 2010.
  2. Attended Summer School on the ‘Conceptual Universe of the Mahabharata’ organized by Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla from June 12 to June 26, 2011.
  3. Participated in the Workshop on ‘Phonetics and Phonology of English’ organized by Department of English, GLA University, Mathura from July 7 to July 9, 2015.
  4. Participated in the Workshop on “English Language: Testing and Evaluation” organized by ELT@I, Mathura Chapter and Department of English, GLA University, Mathura from November 23 to November 24, 2018.

Organized Seminar :

Co-convener of the National Seminar on “Contextualizing and Reorienting Violence and its Spaces in a Postmodern, Globalized World Order” held on 7 December, 2013, organized by Lovely School of Arts and Languages, Lovely Professional University, Punjab.

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