Nandi Bhatia
Biographic Data
| ID | 1259537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nandi Bhatia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nandi |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhatia |
| SIGNATURE | BHATIA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Law, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1915-0856 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Trading the Golden Egg: Understanding the Differences between Compensation, Reimbursement and Inducements for Egg Donation in Australia
There is a shortage of donor eggs in Australia, driven (inter alia) by age-related infertility, the family creation needs of same-sex couples, and the emerging needs for donor eggs in the context of mitochondrial donation. We explore the ethical, legal and social implications of different strategies to promote egg donation, focusing particularly on strategies that involve payment. We distinguish between three distinct approaches to offering payme…
Censoring Kuli Pratha in British India
In 1917, the United Provinces government in British India proscribed Lakshman Singh’s play titled Kuli Pratha arthat Biswin Shatbdi ki Gulami (The System of Recruiting Coolies, in other words, Slavery in the Twentieth Century), under the Indian Press Act of 1910. This essay analyzes Kuli Pratha’s proscription when indenture was an important issue on the nationalist agenda and shows that legal control of literature was shaped not only by issues wi…
Regional Perspectives on Indias Partition: Shifting the Vantage Points
Heart Transplantation after Circulatory Death: It Is Time to Redefine Death According to Irreversible Cessation of the Circulation and Reconcile It with Irreversible Cessation of Brain Function
In this article, we examine whether organ procurement of the heart and transplantation contravenes the dead donor rule and Australian legislative definitions of death as an irreversible cessation of the circulation. We contend that this practice upholds a long-held belief that donors of any organs after cessation of the circulation are not actually dead at the time of procurement – principally because of insufficient time lapse between cessation …
White Gold on the Black Market: The Need for Regulation of Banking and Donation of Human Milk in Australia
Human milk is in increasing demand. The health benefits of human milk for infants are well known. A limited number of formal Australian milk banks provide human milk to premature and sick infants. However, growing numbers of adults and parents from non-traditional families of healthy infants are buying and sharing it from the internet and social media sites for consumption. In Australia, human milk is not legally defined as a tissue or a food. It…
Challenging Enactments of Power: Remembering the Komagata Maru Incident in Drama and Performance
In 2017, Canada’s Stratford Festival dramatized The Komagata Maru Incident, Sharon Pollock’s play about Canada’s insistence on returning the ship Komagata Maru (KGM) and its passengers to India after it arrived in Vancouver in 1914. This chapter analyzes Pollock’s and Ajmer Rode’s plays about the KGM to examine, within a comparative framework, their differentiated investments in remembering this landmark moment in Canadian history. While Pollock’…
Emptying the Nest Egg to Fill the Nursery: Early Release of Superannuation to Fund Assisted Reproductive Technology
This article considers the current law in Australia that regulates early release of superannuation on compassionate grounds, for Assisted Reproductive Technology (‘ART’) to alleviate a ‘mental disturbance’. We examine the role of the fertility industry and third-party intermediaries in this pursuit. Current mechanisms for early release may give rise to ethical concerns, especially given the emotional vulnerability of persons accessing ART, whose …
Censorship, “Obscenity” and Courtroom Drama: Reading Ismat Chughtai’s “Lihaaf” and “The ‘Lihaaf’ Trial”
This essay examines the role of literature in exposing the entanglement of law, nationalism, and gender in British India and in shaping discourses about “obscenity” in literature. To this end, it analyzes Ismat Chughtai’s “Lihaaf,” a short story about same-sex female relationships for which she was put on trial in the Lahore High Court in 1944, and Chughtai’s own account of the “obscenity” trial. Chughtai’s description of the court proceedings en…
A human rights-based approach to compulsory treatment of young people experiencing mental disorder
The prevalence and complexity of mental disorder amongst children and young people is increasing, with a younger age of onset. Additionally, in recent decades there has been an international shift in approach to the issue of mental disorder, from that based on a medical model towards a human-rights-based approach. This shift is embodied in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and is purportedly adopted in Australian governmen…
Diasporic Activism and the Mediations of “Home”: South Asian Voices in Canadian Drama
Critical analyses of literatures of the Indian diaspora discuss the “home” of origin as a subtext and a site to which diasporas aspire to return even though it remains an unachievable ideal that is refracted through nostalgic retellings of a space that remains at best “imaginary” (Mishra 2007). Alternatively, some critics, as Roger Waldinger and David Fitzgerald point out, view diasporas’ relationship with the homeland in terms of “loyalty,” obsc…
Postcolonial Theatres
Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance: Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. of Authority/Acts of Resistance seeks to address that absence, as it uniquely views drama and performance as central to the practice of nationalism and anti-colonial resistance. Nandi Bhatia argues that Indian theater was a significant force in the struggle against oppressive colonia…
Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance: Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance seeks to address that absence, as it uniquely views drama and performance as central to the practice of nationalism and anti-colonial resistance. Nandi Bhatia argues that Indian theater was a significant force in the struggle against oppressive co…
Fashioning Women in Colonial India
"Are There Places Anymore?" Performing the Indian Subcontinent in Britain
In an age when deterritorialization is seen as the dominant condition of a globally interconnected world, the complex cultural relationships of post-colonial migrants to their homelands — both those they left behind and the ones they currently inhabit — remain a matter of much critical discussion
Imperialistic Representations and Spectatorial Reception in Shakespeare Wallah
Recent scholarship has sought to revise critical claims regarding the universal and transcendental status accorded to Shakespeare in India through an examination of three important aspects pertaining to the construction and representation of the bard: first, situating the history of Shakespeare in the context of colonial power relations, scholars have shown us the reasons for the literary and cultural authority attached to Shakespeare. Alternativ…
Conversations
"Staging the 1857 Mutiny as "The Great Rebellion: Colonial History and Post-Colonial Interventions in Utpal Dutt's Mahavidroh
"Shakespeare" and the Codes of Empire in India
ناندي باتيا, "Shakespeare" and the Codes of Empire in India / شكسبير" و شفرات الإمبراطورية في الهند", Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, No. 18, Post-Colonial Discourse in South Asia / خطاب ما بعد الكولونيالية في جنوب آسيا (1998), pp. 96-126
Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance: Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. of Authority/Acts of Resistance seeks to address that absence, as it uniquely views drama and performance as central to the practice of nationalism and anti-colonial resistance. Nandi Bhatia argues that Indian theater was a significant force in the struggle against oppressive colonia…
Fashioning Women in Colonial India
Diasporic Activism and the Mediations of “Home”: South Asian Voices in Canadian Drama
Critical analyses of literatures of the Indian diaspora discuss the “home” of origin as a subtext and a site to which diasporas aspire to return even though it remains an unachievable ideal that is refracted through nostalgic retellings of a space that remains at best “imaginary” (Mishra 2007). Alternatively, some critics, as Roger Waldinger and David Fitzgerald point out, view diasporas’ relationship with the homeland in terms of “loyalty,” obsc…
"Staging the 1857 Mutiny as "The Great Rebellion: Colonial History and Post-Colonial Interventions in Utpal Dutt's Mahavidroh
"Shakespeare" and the Codes of Empire in India
ناندي باتيا, "Shakespeare" and the Codes of Empire in India / شكسبير" و شفرات الإمبراطورية في الهند", Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, No. 18, Post-Colonial Discourse in South Asia / خطاب ما بعد الكولونيالية في جنوب آسيا (1998), pp. 96-126
"Shakespeare" and the Codes of Empire in India
ناندي باتيا, "Shakespeare" and the Codes of Empire in India / شكسبير" و شفرات الإمبراطورية في الهند", Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, No. 18, Post-Colonial Discourse in South Asia / خطاب ما بعد الكولونيالية في جنوب آسيا (1998), pp. 96-126
"Staging the 1857 Mutiny as "The Great Rebellion: Colonial History and Post-Colonial Interventions in Utpal Dutt's Mahavidroh
Conversations
Imperialistic Representations and Spectatorial Reception in Shakespeare Wallah
Recent scholarship has sought to revise critical claims regarding the universal and transcendental status accorded to Shakespeare in India through an examination of three important aspects pertaining to the construction and representation of the bard: first, situating the history of Shakespeare in the context of colonial power relations, scholars have shown us the reasons for the literary and cultural authority attached to Shakespeare. Alternativ…
Fashioning Women in Colonial India
"Are There Places Anymore?" Performing the Indian Subcontinent in Britain
In an age when deterritorialization is seen as the dominant condition of a globally interconnected world, the complex cultural relationships of post-colonial migrants to their homelands — both those they left behind and the ones they currently inhabit — remain a matter of much critical discussion
Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance: Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance seeks to address that absence, as it uniquely views drama and performance as central to the practice of nationalism and anti-colonial resistance. Nandi Bhatia argues that Indian theater was a significant force in the struggle against oppressive co…
Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance: Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. of Authority/Acts of Resistance seeks to address that absence, as it uniquely views drama and performance as central to the practice of nationalism and anti-colonial resistance. Nandi Bhatia argues that Indian theater was a significant force in the struggle against oppressive colonia…
Postcolonial Theatres
Diasporic Activism and the Mediations of “Home”: South Asian Voices in Canadian Drama
Critical analyses of literatures of the Indian diaspora discuss the “home” of origin as a subtext and a site to which diasporas aspire to return even though it remains an unachievable ideal that is refracted through nostalgic retellings of a space that remains at best “imaginary” (Mishra 2007). Alternatively, some critics, as Roger Waldinger and David Fitzgerald point out, view diasporas’ relationship with the homeland in terms of “loyalty,” obsc…
A human rights-based approach to compulsory treatment of young people experiencing mental disorder
The prevalence and complexity of mental disorder amongst children and young people is increasing, with a younger age of onset. Additionally, in recent decades there has been an international shift in approach to the issue of mental disorder, from that based on a medical model towards a human-rights-based approach. This shift is embodied in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and is purportedly adopted in Australian governmen…
Censorship, “Obscenity” and Courtroom Drama: Reading Ismat Chughtai’s “Lihaaf” and “The ‘Lihaaf’ Trial”
This essay examines the role of literature in exposing the entanglement of law, nationalism, and gender in British India and in shaping discourses about “obscenity” in literature. To this end, it analyzes Ismat Chughtai’s “Lihaaf,” a short story about same-sex female relationships for which she was put on trial in the Lahore High Court in 1944, and Chughtai’s own account of the “obscenity” trial. Chughtai’s description of the court proceedings en…
Challenging Enactments of Power: Remembering the Komagata Maru Incident in Drama and Performance
In 2017, Canada’s Stratford Festival dramatized The Komagata Maru Incident, Sharon Pollock’s play about Canada’s insistence on returning the ship Komagata Maru (KGM) and its passengers to India after it arrived in Vancouver in 1914. This chapter analyzes Pollock’s and Ajmer Rode’s plays about the KGM to examine, within a comparative framework, their differentiated investments in remembering this landmark moment in Canadian history. While Pollock’…
Emptying the Nest Egg to Fill the Nursery: Early Release of Superannuation to Fund Assisted Reproductive Technology
This article considers the current law in Australia that regulates early release of superannuation on compassionate grounds, for Assisted Reproductive Technology (‘ART’) to alleviate a ‘mental disturbance’. We examine the role of the fertility industry and third-party intermediaries in this pursuit. Current mechanisms for early release may give rise to ethical concerns, especially given the emotional vulnerability of persons accessing ART, whose …
Heart Transplantation after Circulatory Death: It Is Time to Redefine Death According to Irreversible Cessation of the Circulation and Reconcile It with Irreversible Cessation of Brain Function
In this article, we examine whether organ procurement of the heart and transplantation contravenes the dead donor rule and Australian legislative definitions of death as an irreversible cessation of the circulation. We contend that this practice upholds a long-held belief that donors of any organs after cessation of the circulation are not actually dead at the time of procurement – principally because of insufficient time lapse between cessation …
White Gold on the Black Market: The Need for Regulation of Banking and Donation of Human Milk in Australia
Human milk is in increasing demand. The health benefits of human milk for infants are well known. A limited number of formal Australian milk banks provide human milk to premature and sick infants. However, growing numbers of adults and parents from non-traditional families of healthy infants are buying and sharing it from the internet and social media sites for consumption. In Australia, human milk is not legally defined as a tissue or a food. It…
Regional Perspectives on Indias Partition: Shifting the Vantage Points
Censoring Kuli Pratha in British India
In 1917, the United Provinces government in British India proscribed Lakshman Singh’s play titled Kuli Pratha arthat Biswin Shatbdi ki Gulami (The System of Recruiting Coolies, in other words, Slavery in the Twentieth Century), under the Indian Press Act of 1910. This essay analyzes Kuli Pratha’s proscription when indenture was an important issue on the nationalist agenda and shows that legal control of literature was shaped not only by issues wi…
Trading the Golden Egg: Understanding the Differences between Compensation, Reimbursement and Inducements for Egg Donation in Australia
There is a shortage of donor eggs in Australia, driven (inter alia) by age-related infertility, the family creation needs of same-sex couples, and the emerging needs for donor eggs in the context of mitochondrial donation. We explore the ethical, legal and social implications of different strategies to promote egg donation, focusing particularly on strategies that involve payment. We distinguish between three distinct approaches to offering payme…
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