Aratrika Das
Biographic Data
| ID | 1091272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aratrika Das |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aratrika |
| FAMILY NAME | Das |
| SIGNATURE | DAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Indore |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-9297-6534 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Representational Violence of Colonial River Mapping
A renewed attention on water in postcolonial studies questions the anthropocentric reduction of rivers into inert exploitable entities. Expanding the engagement of postcolonial literatures with water, this article focuses on the representational violence of colonial river mapping in the graphic novels River of Stories and All Quiet in Vikaspuri. Graphic novels’ unique semiotic registers and visual techniques unravel the ongoing influence of colon…
A Swing from Plenitude to Isolation”
The oscillating moods of bipolar disorder, swinging from the plenitude of mania to the isolation of depression, impact a large section of the Indian population. Recent times have witnessed the rise of autopathographies of people with bipolar disorder as powerful narratives of these unspoken experiences. This paper examines four such autopathographies: Swadesh Deepak’s मैंने मांडू नहीं देखा [I Have Not Seen Mandu] (its English translation by Jerr…
Mental healthcare spaces, ambivalence of caregiving, and Indian memoirs of psychiatric patients
Mental healthcare facilities in hospitals and rehabilitation centres are crucial for providing medical treatment and care. These therapeutic environments manifest as both fulfilled, empathetic spaces of care and as sites tainted by denial of care and exploitation. This article utilises illness memoirs or ‘pathographies’ as an entry point to understand the intricacies of experiential facets of caregiving within mental healthcare spaces. Set agains…
Decolonizing Forest
Colonial ideologies reduce nature to a repository of extractable resources and portray the Indigenous communities' religious understanding of nature as primitive and unscientific. Decolonization foregrounds the silenced Indigenous epistemes that critique exceptional human paradigms of colonial modernity. This paper examines how traditional religious rituals function as a method of decolonization and discusses their exclusion from Western academia…
Patient’s Consent and Autonomy in Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom
This paper addresses the idea of patient consent in the Indian mental health care system. Mental hospitals tend to treat patients as machines. The personhood of the sufferer is treated as invalid. The paper argues that the conventional clinical practice dehumanizes patients, neglecting their autonomy and perpetuating the stigma associated with a psychiatric diagnosis. In contrast, through the narrative voice of Imelda’s son, Jerry Pinto’s novel E…
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Patient’s Consent and Autonomy in Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom
This paper addresses the idea of patient consent in the Indian mental health care system. Mental hospitals tend to treat patients as machines. The personhood of the sufferer is treated as invalid. The paper argues that the conventional clinical practice dehumanizes patients, neglecting their autonomy and perpetuating the stigma associated with a psychiatric diagnosis. In contrast, through the narrative voice of Imelda’s son, Jerry Pinto’s novel E…
Mental healthcare spaces, ambivalence of caregiving, and Indian memoirs of psychiatric patients
Mental healthcare facilities in hospitals and rehabilitation centres are crucial for providing medical treatment and care. These therapeutic environments manifest as both fulfilled, empathetic spaces of care and as sites tainted by denial of care and exploitation. This article utilises illness memoirs or ‘pathographies’ as an entry point to understand the intricacies of experiential facets of caregiving within mental healthcare spaces. Set agains…
Decolonizing Forest
Colonial ideologies reduce nature to a repository of extractable resources and portray the Indigenous communities' religious understanding of nature as primitive and unscientific. Decolonization foregrounds the silenced Indigenous epistemes that critique exceptional human paradigms of colonial modernity. This paper examines how traditional religious rituals function as a method of decolonization and discusses their exclusion from Western academia…
Representational Violence of Colonial River Mapping
A renewed attention on water in postcolonial studies questions the anthropocentric reduction of rivers into inert exploitable entities. Expanding the engagement of postcolonial literatures with water, this article focuses on the representational violence of colonial river mapping in the graphic novels River of Stories and All Quiet in Vikaspuri. Graphic novels’ unique semiotic registers and visual techniques unravel the ongoing influence of colon…
A Swing from Plenitude to Isolation”
The oscillating moods of bipolar disorder, swinging from the plenitude of mania to the isolation of depression, impact a large section of the Indian population. Recent times have witnessed the rise of autopathographies of people with bipolar disorder as powerful narratives of these unspoken experiences. This paper examines four such autopathographies: Swadesh Deepak’s मैंने मांडू नहीं देखा [I Have Not Seen Mandu] (its English translation by Jerr…
Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Health care (2 works) · Mental health (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Alternative medicine (1 work) · Ambivalence (1 work)