Network members

Saugata Bhaduri
Baidik Bhattacharya
Udaya Kumar
Malashri Lal
Dilip Menon
Francesca Orsini
GJV Prasad
Neelam Srivastava

Saugata Bhaduri

Saugata Bhaduri is Associate Professor at the Centre for English Studies and the Co-ordinator of the Language Laboratories & Multimedia Complex at Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research interests include Classical Indian and Western philosophy, contemporary literary and cultural theory, and popular culture studies. He has also worked in the area of translation studies. Dr Bhaduri has supervised 44 research dissertations (22 PhD and 22 MPhil), has undertaken 3 sponsored research projects, and has more than 80 publications to his credit. Those relevant to translation include: Project:

Director, Katha Translation Equity Network, September 2008 till date.

Publications:

(a) Books/Edited Volumes:

(ed.) Translating Power, New Delhi: Katha, 2008.
and Simi Malhotra (eds.), Indian Literatures in Translation, special issue of Creative Forum: Journal of Literary and Critical Writings, Vol. 17, No. 1, Jan-Jun 2004.
(trans.) Yogasūtra of Patañjali (from Sanskrit to English), New Delhi: DK Printworld, 2000.

(b) Articles in books/journals

'Introduction: Translating Power -- Approaching the Dyad', in Saugata Bhaduri (ed.) Translating Power, New Delhi: Katha, 2008 [ISBN: 81-87649-] (in press)
'Non-Translation as Translation: Translating Yogasūtra for an Indian Classroom', in Saugata Bhaduri (ed.) Negotiating 'Glocalization': Views from Language Literature and Culture Studies, London: Anthem Press, 2008, pp. 61-73 [ISBN: 978-81-905835-10]
'Translating Power: Repression Hegemony Resistance', in Anisur Rahman and Ameena Kazi Ansari (eds.) Translation/Representation, New Delhi: Creative Books, 2007, pp. 42-49 [ISBN: 8043-046-4]
(trans.) 'Michhil' (from Hindi to Bengali of the short story 'Juloos' by Anvita Abbi), Pratham Aalo (a leading periodical published from Dhaka), March 19, 1999, pp. 14-15.

Baidik Bhattacharya

Baidik Bhattacharya is a lecturer in English at the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University. His research interests include postcolonial theory and literature; critical theory; 19th and 20th century European philosophy; English novel; Indian literatures. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/staff/profile/baidik.bhattacharya

Udaya Kumar

Udaya Kumar is Professor of English at Delhi University and has been awarded a Visiting Professorship by the Leverhulme Trust to work with Dr Baidik Bhattacharya and Dr Neelam Srivastava at Newcastle University. He is a world-renowned expert in postcolonial studies, with particular reference to Indian literature and culture. His publications include The Joycean Labyrinth: Repetition, Time and Tradition in Ulysses (Oxford: Clarendon, 1991), and several papers on Indian literature, life writing, and literary theory. He is at present completing his new book, Styles of the Self: The Subject and the Act of Self-Articulation in Modern Malayalam Writing. Areas of his current research include: a cultural history of the body and questions of modernity; postcolonial fiction; modern subjectivities in India, with special reference to Indian autobiographies; and the formation of a literary public sphere in Kerala, South India.

Malashri Lal

Malashri Lal teaches in the Department of English, University of Delhi, and is the current Joint Director of the University of Delhi, South Campus. She has also served as the Director of the Women's Studies & Development Centre of the same University, and guided teaching and research, documentation, gender sensitization, and faculty enrichment programmes. With a specialisation in literary studies, Malashri Lal has written and lectured extensively on women's socio-cultural positioning and women's writing. As a recipient of several fellowships from the Fulbright, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Shastri-Indo Canadian Institute and the British Council, she has conducted research in prestigious institutions including Harvard University, USA, and Bellagio, Italy.

Malashri Lal has authored The Law of the Threshold: Women Writers in Indian English (1995, reprinted 2000), edited a collection of essays titled Feminist Spaces: Cultural Readings from Canada and India (1997), and co-authored Female Empowerment (1995). Other co-edited publications are The Home and the World: A Window on Contemporary Indian Literature (2002), Women's Studies in India: Contours of Change (2002) Signifying the Self: Women and Literature (2004), Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literature (2007), and the latest is Indian Families in Transition (Sage 2007). She is a former Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. Malashri Lal has served on international juries for literary prizes such as The Commonwealth Writers Prize, London. A popular speaker on women's issues in India, Malashri Lal continues to address conferences and colloquia on gender issues in several universities in U.K, Canada, USA, Japan and Greece. She is a programme advisor to six universities in India.

Dilip Menon

Dilip Menon teaches Modern Indian History at Delhi University. Educated at Delhi, Oxford and Cambridge, he has taught at Cambridge, Yale, Hyderabad and Delhi. His doctoral dissertation was on the social history of communism in south India which was published by Cambridge in 1994. Since then he has been in retreat from the colonial archive preferring instead to work with Indian language sources, particularly Malayalam. He translated the first ever novel by a lower caste in any Indian language Saraswativijayam [1893] from Malayalam into English in 2002 and has subsequently written essays exploring the idea of the subaltern novel and its relation to nationalism. His current work has looked at issues of caste and the modern imaginaire of Kerala, looking in particular at the novels and films of MT Vasudevan Nair in the 1960's and 70s. Currently, he is engaged in work on a monograph to be titled The uses of History which looks at works of history written in Malayalam by religious mystics, novelists and literary critics between 1850 and 1960. Through these works there is an exploration of a vernacular historical imagination that both incorporates and challenges the emerging canons of the historical discipline. The most recent essay to emerge from this work, “A local cosmopolitan: Kesari Balakrishna Pillai and the invention of Europe for a modern Kerala” (2009), looks critically at ideas of region, territory, nationalism and cosmopolitanism.

Francesca Orsini

Francesca Orsini is Lecturer in Hindi. She took her undergraduate degree in Hindi at the University of Venice, followed by a long spell in Delhi. Her PhD research at SOAS was on the Hindi public sphere of the 1920s and '30s. She taught at the University of Cambridge for 11 years and joined SOAS in 2007. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Hindi literature.

Dr Orsini's main area of research is modern Hindi literature, where she has published on Hindi literary life during the nationalist period; commercial genres such as detective fiction and "social romances"; women writers and women's journals; nineteenth-century commercial publishing in Hindi and Urdu. She has organized several workshops and conferences, including one on Love in South Asia.

Her publications include Print and Pleasure: the genres of commercial publishing in nineteenth-century north India and the edited collection Hindi and Urdu Before the Divide (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2007). http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31564.php

GJV Prasad

GJV Prasad discusses life and literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he is Professor of English. His major research interests are Contemporary Theatre, Indian English Literature, Dalit Writings, Australian Literature, and Translation Theory. He has published widely in his areas of research interest. His academic publications include three books: Continuities in Indian English Poetry: nation language form, and two edited volumes of critical essays, Vikram Seth: An Anthology of Recent Criticism, and The Lost Temper: Essays on Look Back in Anger. He has edited the Penguin Study Edition of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot as well as that of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. Prasad has also written book-length study materials for the Indira Gandhi National Open University on Mahesh Dattani's Tara, and David Williamson's The Removalist. His continuing research interest over many years has been on the language of Indian English literature. His most recent work has been on the history of the impact of colonialism on the Tamil language. Prasad is the Secretary of IACLALS, the Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature & Language Studies. He is the editor of JSL, the journal of the School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, JNU. Prasad is also a poet and novelist. His novel A Clean Breast (Rupa and Co. 1993) was short-listed for the regional Commonwealth Prize in 1994. He has published a book of poems, In Delhi Without a Visa (Har Anand, 1996), which has been received very well. He has been included in very many influential histories and encyclopedias as a writer of note. His interest in translation has resulted in a book of short stories from various Indian languages, Imaging the Other (Katha, 1999), which he co-edited with Sara Rai. GJV Prasad is also a recipient of the Katha Award for Translation from Tamil to English.

Neelam Srivastava

Neelam Srivastava is Principal Investigator of this network and teaches Postcolonial Literature at Newcastle University, UK. Her research interests include literary translation in South Asia from the colonial to the postcolonial period; the history of anti-colonial movements 1935-1970; Italian colonialism and postcolonialism; postcolonial visual culture; secularism and the Indian novel in English. Her publications include the monograph Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English (Routledge, 2007), as well as articles on the Italian film director Gillo Pontecorvo, violence in postcolonial literature and theory, on colonial Italy, and on Indian English fiction. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/staff/profile/neelam.srivastava