Rina Ramdev (editor) - Sentiment, Politics, Censorship: The State of Hurt

Editors

Rina Ramdev is Associate Professor, Department of English, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi and the Secretary of Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS). She has worked on the politics of post-coloniality, the writings of Arundhati Roy and the relationship between literature and social movements. She is also interested and involved in exploring the intersections of academic practice and political resistance within institutional spaces.

Sandhya Devesan Nambiar is Assistant Professor, Department of English, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. She has studied English Literature and Philosophy at Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her doctoral thesis was an exploration of conceptual structures in Continental Philosophy and of Deleuzean modes of philosophical thought in particular. She currently resides in New Delhi.

Debaditya Bhattacharya is Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bhagini Nivedita College, University of Calcutta. His doctoral work engaged with the relationship between literature and death. The other areas of his research interest include continental philosophy, Renaissance studies, popular culture and the philosophy of technology.

Contributors

Tapan Basu is Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi. Prior to this, he taught for 28 years in the Department of English, Hindu College, Delhi, before he joined as Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Delhi. He has a keen interest in the study of the politics of identity-constructions and identity-confrontations, especially along religious and caste lines, in contemporary India. He has edited Translating Caste (2002), an anthology of fictional and non-fictional narratives of caste and caste-consciousness, and is the author of an unpublished monograph on The Writings of B.R. Ambedkar and the Construction of a Dalit Cultural Identity, written under the aegis of a fellowship he received from the Social Science Research Council, New York.

Prasanta Chakravarty is Associate Professor of English at the University of Delhi. He works at the cusp of arts and political philosophy. His principal research interest lies in heterodox and non-conformist political and religious writings/movements of early modern Europe. His publications include Parchment in the Fire: Literature and Radicalism in the English Civil War (2006) and an edited volume, Shrapnel Minima: Writings from Humanities Underground (2014). He is also deeply invested in contemporary debates on humanities studiesglobally and in South Asia.

Giti Chandra is Associate Professor, Department of English, St Stephen's College, University of Delhi. She is the author of three books, including Narratives of Violence and Collective Identities: To Witness These Wrongs Unspeakable (2009).

Vinita Chandra is Associate Professor, Department of English, Ramjas College, University of Delhi. Her PhD from Rutgers University, USA, is titled Constructing Nationalities: Indo-Anglian Fiction. Her area of specialization is Post-colonial Theory and Fiction. She is also deeply invested in the theoretical and practical aspects of the politics of protest.

Radhika Chopra is the author of Militant and Migrant: The Politics and Social History of Punjab (2011), editor of Reframing Masculinities: Narrating the Supportive Practices of Men (2006), and co-editor of South Asian Masculinities: Contexts of Change, Sites of Continuity (2004). Her recent publications include Ziddi Mundeh: Political Asylum, Transnational Movement and the Migrations of Men (2015); A Museum, a Memorial and a Martyr: Politics of Memory in the Sikh Golden Temple (2013), Commemorating Hurt: Memorialising Operation Bluestar (2010), among others.

Soumyabrata Choudhury is Associate Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, till 2012 and a Visiting Fellow at CSDS, Delhi in 20122013 before joining the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. He has authored the book Theatre, Number, Event: Three Studies on the Relationship of Sovereignty, Power and Truth which came out in March 2013.

Anup Dhar is Associate Professor, School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi. A trained medical doctor, he has been a Research Fellow in Women's Studies at The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, and a Fellow in Cultural Studies at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore. His publications include Dislocation and Resettlement in Development: From Third World to World of the Third (2009, co-authored with A. Chakrabarti) and World of the Third and Global Capitalism (2011, co-authored with A. Chakrabarti and S. Cullenberg). He is currently completing a book titled The Secret Politics of Ab-Original Psychoanalysis: Fort-Da between the Windscreen and the Rear-view Mirror.

Karen Gabriel is Associate Professor, Department of English, and Director, Centre for the Study of Gender, Culture and Social Processes, St Stephen's College, University of Delhi. She has written extensively on issues of gender, sexuality, nation, and representation. Her second book Melodrama and the Nation: The Sexual Economies of Bombay Cinema 19702000 was published in 2010. She is currently working on the political economy of terrorism and the media and visual cultures.

Shohini Ghosh is Sajjad Zaheer Professor, AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She is the author of Fire: A Queer Classic (2010) and the director of Tales of the Night Fairies, a documentary on the sex-workers movement for decriminalization. Her current work is titled Violence and the Spectral Muslim: Action, Affect and Bombay Cinema at the Turn of the 21st Century.

Vishwajyoti Ghosh is the author of the graphic novel Delhi Calm (2010), a political graphic novel set in the 1970s and a visual book of postcards Times New Roman & Countrymen. He is the curator of This Side That Side: Restorying Partition (2013), an anthology of graphic narratives from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Ghosh has also been the creator of cartoon columns like Full Toss in Hindustan Times, Acid Test in Down to Earth and Backlog in The Little Magazine. His comics are regularly published in various journals and anthologies, both in India and abroad. Associated with Inverted Commas a communications initiative, he is currently working on a mapping project in the workers clusters of Gurgaon. As a founder member of the Pao Collective, he also remains an active and dynamic participant in graphic/comics artists collective projects and often works with graphic artists from different parts of South Asia.

Mushirul Hasan is a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, New Delhi. He is former Vice Chancellor and Professor of History, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is also former Director General, National Archives of India, New Delhi. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2007. His publications include Nationalism and Communal Politics in India 1885-1930 (1991), The Legacy of a Divided Nation: India's Muslims since Independence (1997), John Company to the Republic: A Story of Modern India (2001), Making Sense of History: Society, Culture and Politics (2003), From Pluralism to Separatism: Qasbas in Colonial Awadh