IMPORTANT ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS:

Secured the VIII University rank in B.A , English Literature
Was awarded the best outgoing student in B.A. English Literature

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1998- to the present Jyoti Nivas College, Autonomous, Bangalore
1997-1998 St Anne’s Degree College, Bangalore
Teaching Experience at Post Graduate Level : 23 years

PROFESSIONAL RECORD:
Special Achievements:

1. Completed a UGC sponsored Minor Research Project on “Trauma and Memory in Partition and Eelam Narrative” in 2016.
2. Yagna, a collection of eighteen poems was published in July 2019. It was launched on the 2 nd of October 2019 at Atta Galatta, Koramangala.
3. Was the featured poet at Mehfil, an evening of poetry reading at Lahe Lahe, Indira Nagar, Bangalore, July 2019.
4. The poem “ The Virus” was published in the October 2020 edition of eShe Magazine
5. The short story “Akhila” won a short story contest conducted by eShe Magazine in October 2020. This, along with the other winning entries, is to be published in a book by Emerald publishers in 2021.
6. The short story “Arya, Adi and I” was published in an anthology by Shri Hind Publications.
7. The short story “ Ama” was published in Pratilipi and won the first place in the event “ Summer’s Tale” in May 2021
8. The short story “ Arya, Adi and I” was also published in Pratilipi and came sixth in the event “Tell Me Your Tale”in April 2021
9. The poem”@coffee Shop” was published on Nazmehayath and won the first place in May 2021.
10. The poem “Tea –Ego” was published on Nazmehayath and won the first place in May 2021.
11. The poem “ Amma’s Iftar” was published on Nazmehayath and won the first place in May 2021.
12. “ The Memory” , a flash fiction came first in the annual international short fiction competition conducted by Wordweavers. It is published in their online magazine
13. “ Blood” a microfiction came second in the annual international prose writing competition conducted by Wordweavers. It is published in their online magazine
14. The story “ What’s in a Name?” was published at Penmancy and won the first place for May Harness Writing event
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15. “ A story”, a flash fiction ; “ Choice”, a short story for the June Harness writing event; and “ The Union”, a flash fiction have also been published at Penmancy.
16. The poem “Shivaratri” was shortlisted for the annual poetry writing competition conducted by Wordweavers
17. The short story “ Aditi” won the best idea award and has been published by Tell Me Your Stories in the anthology The Mask August 2021
18. The poem “ Collateral Damage” came first in the monthly picture prompt contest held by Nazmehayath July- August 2021
19. The short Story “ Madri” was published in the October 2021 edition of Women’s Web.
20. The story “ Last Night I dreamt again of Manderley” won the best short story award and has been published by Tell Me Your Stories in the anthology The Homemaker October 2021
21. Two entries “ Navaratri” and “Blood” came second and first in events held by Nazmehayath October 2021
22. The Short story “ The Autumn Muse” was published in the fall journal of Chrysanthemum Chronicles November 2021
23. The short story “ The Lac Palace” won the first place in the 2021 international and national short story
competition conducted by Wordweavers , an online literary journal. It is published on their web page.
24. The short story “Uttara” was published in the TMYS Review anthology association with Oxford University Press in December 2021
25. The story “A Family Tradition” was adjudicated as one of the best entries for Pratilipi’s event titled Christmas Carol January- February 2022
26. The Poem “The Simplicity of paper” came first in the monthly picture prompt contest held by Nazmehayath March 2022
27. The short story “An Act of Will” was published in the anthology Disobedient Girls by Tell Me Your Stories in April 2022
28. The short story “ How to Write a Page Turner” will be published in an anthology themed on Deviance by HydRaw publishers
29. The poem “ Darkness” themed on child abuse will be published by Mukta Foundations
30. The first book in the Mythological Fantasy Series , tentatively titled The Chronicles of the Crimson One has been accepted for publication by Dream Book Bindery .

Resource Person/ Plenary Speaker at:

1. UGC sponsored National Conference on Conflict Studies: Spaces, Writings and Representations”. Topic of paper presented: Changing Conflict Zones and their Composite Literary Representations, Jyoti Nivas College , Autonomous , August 2016.
2. 61 st All India English Teachers’ Conference on “Emerging Trends in English Language and Literature”, Nagpur, January 2017 Topic: A review of the Transforming Cartography of Literary Studies and its Multidisciplinary Contours.
3. Mahabharatha Musings” Organised at Atta Galatta in October 2018 and January 2019
4. “ Mahabharatha Musings” Organised at Lahe Lahe, December 2018
5. National Seminar “Literatures of Resistance: Voices of the Marginalised” National college , Basavangudi April 2019
6. Chief Guest and Resource Person at Christ College, Sarjapur for the inaugural of their literary Association, August 2019.
7. Research Scholars webinar organized by Jain University June 2020
8. Plenary Speaker for a webinar conducted by Fatima Mata National College , Kollam, 24 th March 2021; spoke on “ Remembering Partition”.
9. Was the chief guest at Budget Free Poetry May 2021.
10. Plenary Speaker and Resource Person at The New Indian School,Umm Al Quwain,UAE ,November 2021; spoke on “Relevance of Gandhian Values”
11. Will be one of the Indian poets reading my poem “ Collateral Damage “ at the Bankura University Poetry Festival titled Thresholds: Transnational Poets Speak.

Resource Person on

1. “Afghanistan conflict and its fall-outs”, for Department of M.A.English , Jain University, March 2015
2. “Exilic Consciousness in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient” Department of M.A.English, Jain University March 2016
3. “Diasporic Perspective in Mohsin Hamid ‘s The Reluctant Fundamentalist” Department of M.A.English, Jain University March 2017

Research Papers Published in International Journals

1. “ TheMarginalised in BapsiSidhwa’sIce-candy Man and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird”Published in International Scholastic Research Journal vol1. Issue 1 (Jan,2010)
2. Orientalising the Western Woman : Subversive strategies in Anita Desai’s Bye-bye –Blackbird and Journey to Ithaca” Published in International Scholastic Research Journal . Vol1. Issue4 ( Jan,2013)
3. “The Pleasures and Pains of Exile: Diasporic Cultural Memory of the Indo-Malaysian in Selected Short Stories of K.S. Maniyam” Published in International Scholastic Research Journal .Vol1. Issue5( Jan,2014)
4. Trajectories of Tibetan Exilic Consciousness in the Select Works of Tenzin TsundueResearch Journal of English Language and Literature Vol.3.S1.2015 ISSN No 2321-31086
5. ”Memorizing Partition and Transmission of Trauma in Reema Moudgil’s Perfect Eight published in IRA – International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary StudiesISSN 2445- 2526 Vol 05, Issue 02 , September 2016
6. Cultural Memory and the Sri Lankan Civil War in Shobaskthi’s short story, “The MGR Murder Trial” IRA-International Journal of Education & Multidisciplinary Studies ISSN 2455–2526; Vol.07, Issue 03 (2017) Pg. no. 261-269 Institute of Research Advances
7. “The Changing Contours And Trajectories Of Literary Studies” GALAXY International Interdisciplinary Research Journal ISSN 2347-6915 GIIRJ, Vol.6 (1), JANUARY (2018),
8. Illness And Healing In Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air” co –authored with Renuka Shyamsunder Belamkar International Journal of Development ResearchVol. 08, Issue, 08, pp.xxx-xxx, August,2018 ISSN: 2230-9926 . 2018
9. “Understanding Disability: A Study of Sharon M Draper’s Out Of My Mind” coauthored with Ann Mariya Jose International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies (ISSN 2455-2526), 11(2), 43-48.doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v11.n2 2018
10. “ Memory and Identity in Alan Machado’s Shades within Shadows “ co-authored with Alitha D’ Souza IJELLH Volume 6, Issue 7 July 2018
11. “Exilic Perspective of The 1980s Phase Of Burmese Civil War: A Study of Select Poems By Tin Moe” c0-authored with Ms Parvathy Rajeev , International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT)Volume 8, Issue 8 August 2020 | ISSN: 2320-288212)
12. “Representation of Partition Trauma in Anirudh Kala’s The Unsafe Asylum: Stories of Partition and Madness” co-authored with Ms Varsha Pillai , UGC and ISSN Approved - International Peer Reviewed Journal, Refereed Journal, Indexed Journal, Impact Factor: 5.75, E- ISSN 2348-1269, P- ISSN 2349-5138 Volume 7 | Issue 3 | August 2020
13. “ Remembering Cuisines: A Study of the Culinary Memory in Madhur Jaffrey’s Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India and Asma Khan’s Asma’s Indian Kitchen” Co-authored with Ms Diya Nissy Rajan, IRA International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies (ISSN 2455-2526), 16(3), 137-142. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v16.n3.p2.
14. “Narration of Trauma in Yuvraj Singh’s Autopathography, The Test of My Life” , co- authored with Ms Renuka Belamkar, Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal Vol. 9, Issue-IV, September 2020 ISSN:2278-9529

Research Papers Published in National Journals

1. “Cartographic Erasures or Vasudeiva Kutumbakam in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines”National Journal of Jyoti Research Academyvol 6, Iss2, July-December 2012
2. “Locating Sites of Trauma and Memory in Mahesh Dattani’sFinal Solutions”pulished in the special edition Humanities and Literature :Pariprashna (Sep,2015)
3. “A Study of the Trauma of Sri Lankan Tamil in Select Short Stories from Shobasakthi’s M.G.R. Murder Trials and Other Short Stories, co-authored with Ms. Akhila. S.Prakash Academic Studies National Journal of Jyoti Research Academy vol 14, Iss2, July-December 2021
4. “Representation of the 1980s Phase of the Burmese Civil War: An Analysis of Pascal Koo Thwe’s Memoir as Alternate Historiography”, co-authored with Ms Parvathy Rajeev Academic Studies National Journal of Jyoti Research Academy vol 15 Iss 1, January -June 2022

Research Papers Presented at International level :

1. “ The Marginalised in BapsiSidhwa’s Ice-candy Man and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird” Presented at the International conference held at Ethiraj College Chennai, organized by the American Counsellate and Ethiraj college, Feb,2009
2. “Gastrological Dislocation in JhumpaLahiri’s The Unaccustomed Earth and Ambai’s A Kitchen in the Corner of the House” presented at the International Conference held at MurgaonEducationSociety’s College of Arts & Commerce Goa, from 25 th to 27 th February 2016

Research Papers Presented at National level :

1. “Cartographic Erasures or VasudeivaKutumbakam in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient andAmitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines” presented at the National Conference on Contemporary Fiction held at Ethiraj College Chennai, February, 2012
2. “Locating the Glocal in Girish Karnad’s The Fire and the Rain : an Interdisciplinary Study” presented at “ Vibhavat” conference organized by Reddy Gana Sangha ,2014 External Examiner/Question paper setter for: MA English, St. Joseph’s College of Arts and Commerce (since 2015) MA English and Mphil, Jain University (Since 2015) M.A. English NMKRV college , Bangalore University ( since2018) M.Phil and PhD Christ University ( since 2018)
3. “Narration of Trauma in Yuvraj Singh’s Autopathography, The Test of My Life” , co-authored with Ms Renuka Belamkar, Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal Vol. 9, Issue-IV, September 2020 ISSN:2278-9529

Certificate Course completed:

Was awarded the best outgoing student at the advertising course conducted by Adcampus, 2003.

Conferences/Seminar/FDP

1. An International Conference on “Emerging Trends in Higher Education “ on 12,13,14 of August 2008 conducted by JyotiNivas College Autonomous
2. A state Level Conference on “Euthanasia titled “Kill the pain, Not the patient” on January 23,2015 jointly organized by JyotiNivas College Autonomous and Archdiocesan Communications Centre.
3. A workshop sponsored by UGC on Staff Training and enhancement on 9 th June 2015 organized by JyotiNivas College Autonomous

External Examiner/Question paper setter for:

1. M.Phil and PhD Christ University ( since 2018)
2. MA English, St. Joseph’s College of Arts and Commerce (since 2015)
3. MA English and Mphil, Jain University (Since 2015)
4. M.A. English NMKRV college , Bangalore University ( since2018)