Bidisha Pal
Biographic Data
| ID | 3856734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bidisha Pal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bidisha |
| FAMILY NAME | Pal |
| SIGNATURE | PAL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9816-3841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Women write about experiences of suffering with an intensity that comes out profoundly”
This interview with the Bengali Dalit poet, novelist, and short-story writer Manju Bala discusses Bala’s literary journey and her reflections on the socio-historical and political landscape of Bengal. Bala sheds light on the persistent discrimination that Bengali Dalits encounter, especially women, and also highlights their resilience and self-determination for recognition within Bengal’s caste-ridden mainstream society. She traces her formative …
Transcending the Trouble, Trauma, and Pain of Failed Marriage and Closeted Sexuality in Indian Web Series Made in Heaven
Memories of arrival
From Transregional to Global Space
The study analyzes two Bengali Dalit autobiographies in both original and translated versions. One is Itibritte Chandal Jiban (2012) by Manoranjan Byapari (trans. Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit in 2018), and the other is Amar Bhubane Ami Benche Thaki (2013) by Manohar Mouli Biswas (trans. Surviving in My World: Growing Up Dalit in Bengal in 2015). The present research brings forward some standpoints. First, the transla…
Delving into a translator’s journey of translating marginalised voices of Bengal
This interview discussion is the outcome of a virtual meeting partially along with email correspondence. In this interview discussion with Bidisha Pal and Md. Mojibur Rahman, translator V. Ramaswamy focuses on the journey of his translation and tryst with the marginalised Dalit voice(s) in Bengal. He speaks about the writings that propel him to choose translating and to carry voice(s) beyond the Bengal arena, thus dissolving language barriers. Th…
‘The problem of gender violence in India… was not a legal problem, but a cultural problem’
Presented below is a conversation between Ram Devineni and Comics-cum-Gender Studies scholars from India. Leveraging upon these two dimensions, the scholars involved in this interview problematise gender violence in the context of India and explore the possibilities of comics as a genre to sensitise society towards violence against women. In this conversation, Priyanka Tripathi and Bidisha Pal, both scholars of gender studies, lay the basic premi…
The Interfacing History and Narrative Representation of Bengali Dalit Refugeehood in Jatin Bala’s Stories of Social Awakening
Bengali Dalit refugees and refugeehood fall under the less discussed chapter in the streamlined flow of history and narratives. Often within the hegemonic macro-narratives of partition, the ‘common minimal narratives’ (Kaur, 2008, Narrative absence: An ‘Untouchable’ account of partition migration. Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 42, p. 286) of the Bengali Dalit refugees get suppressed and subsided. The Dalit refugee accounts contribute a …
Dalit Lekhika
Dalit Lekhika: Women’s writings from Bengal." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Acculturation, cultural resistance, or cultural rigging
While, popular culture like films has more generalized mass appeal and flexibility of evolution with spatiotemporal changing dimensions of reality; folk cultures are mainly indigenous, relatively inflexible and slowly resistant to change. Popular films like Agantuk (1991) by Satyajit Ray, Barfi! (2012) by Anurag Basu and Jagga Jasoos (2017) by Anurag Basu make citations of three different tribal folk performances of Eastern India namely ‘Santhali…
Interrogating My Chandal Life
Dalit autobiographies in India are the oppositional resistant 'micro-narratives' that retrieve "the small voices of history" (Guha, 1996, p. 1-12). The narrative often takes the form of 'witness' or 'testimonial literature'; the narrator simultaneously witnesses and takes part in the events of witnessing. Unlike the Dalits of Maharashtra, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Gujrat, and Punjab, Dalits in Bengal are the victims of the politics of exclusion in th…
The Rose – its Beauty and its Science
The rose, which first appeared on Earth millions of years ago, was proclaimed by the early Greek poets to be the Queen of the Flowers. Even today it is regarded as the world's favourite flower. The reasons why the rose captivated man, influencing literature, art and many other of his activities, are discussed. Reference is made to its remarkable sweet fragrance, the extraordinary diversity of forms now available, providing varieties suitable for …
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The Rose – its Beauty and its Science
The rose, which first appeared on Earth millions of years ago, was proclaimed by the early Greek poets to be the Queen of the Flowers. Even today it is regarded as the world's favourite flower. The reasons why the rose captivated man, influencing literature, art and many other of his activities, are discussed. Reference is made to its remarkable sweet fragrance, the extraordinary diversity of forms now available, providing varieties suitable for …
Interrogating My Chandal Life
Dalit autobiographies in India are the oppositional resistant 'micro-narratives' that retrieve "the small voices of history" (Guha, 1996, p. 1-12). The narrative often takes the form of 'witness' or 'testimonial literature'; the narrator simultaneously witnesses and takes part in the events of witnessing. Unlike the Dalits of Maharashtra, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Gujrat, and Punjab, Dalits in Bengal are the victims of the politics of exclusion in th…
Acculturation, cultural resistance, or cultural rigging
While, popular culture like films has more generalized mass appeal and flexibility of evolution with spatiotemporal changing dimensions of reality; folk cultures are mainly indigenous, relatively inflexible and slowly resistant to change. Popular films like Agantuk (1991) by Satyajit Ray, Barfi! (2012) by Anurag Basu and Jagga Jasoos (2017) by Anurag Basu make citations of three different tribal folk performances of Eastern India namely ‘Santhali…
Dalit Lekhika
Dalit Lekhika: Women’s writings from Bengal." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
‘The problem of gender violence in India… was not a legal problem, but a cultural problem’
Presented below is a conversation between Ram Devineni and Comics-cum-Gender Studies scholars from India. Leveraging upon these two dimensions, the scholars involved in this interview problematise gender violence in the context of India and explore the possibilities of comics as a genre to sensitise society towards violence against women. In this conversation, Priyanka Tripathi and Bidisha Pal, both scholars of gender studies, lay the basic premi…
The Interfacing History and Narrative Representation of Bengali Dalit Refugeehood in Jatin Bala’s Stories of Social Awakening
Bengali Dalit refugees and refugeehood fall under the less discussed chapter in the streamlined flow of history and narratives. Often within the hegemonic macro-narratives of partition, the ‘common minimal narratives’ (Kaur, 2008, Narrative absence: An ‘Untouchable’ account of partition migration. Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 42, p. 286) of the Bengali Dalit refugees get suppressed and subsided. The Dalit refugee accounts contribute a …
From Transregional to Global Space
The study analyzes two Bengali Dalit autobiographies in both original and translated versions. One is Itibritte Chandal Jiban (2012) by Manoranjan Byapari (trans. Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit in 2018), and the other is Amar Bhubane Ami Benche Thaki (2013) by Manohar Mouli Biswas (trans. Surviving in My World: Growing Up Dalit in Bengal in 2015). The present research brings forward some standpoints. First, the transla…
Delving into a translator’s journey of translating marginalised voices of Bengal
This interview discussion is the outcome of a virtual meeting partially along with email correspondence. In this interview discussion with Bidisha Pal and Md. Mojibur Rahman, translator V. Ramaswamy focuses on the journey of his translation and tryst with the marginalised Dalit voice(s) in Bengal. He speaks about the writings that propel him to choose translating and to carry voice(s) beyond the Bengal arena, thus dissolving language barriers. Th…
Memories of arrival
“Women write about experiences of suffering with an intensity that comes out profoundly”
This interview with the Bengali Dalit poet, novelist, and short-story writer Manju Bala discusses Bala’s literary journey and her reflections on the socio-historical and political landscape of Bengal. Bala sheds light on the persistent discrimination that Bengali Dalits encounter, especially women, and also highlights their resilience and self-determination for recognition within Bengal’s caste-ridden mainstream society. She traces her formative …
Transcending the Trouble, Trauma, and Pain of Failed Marriage and Closeted Sexuality in Indian Web Series Made in Heaven
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