Madhumita Roy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4000136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Madhumita Roy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Madhumita |
| FAMILY NAME | Roy |
| SIGNATURE | ROY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8013-9058 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kolkata as a Postcolonial “Global City”
This paper aims to critically explore Kolkata as a postcolonial “global city” through the interpretation of Satyajit Ray’s film Mahanagar (1963), Amitav Ghosh’s two novels The Shadow Lines (1988) and The Calcutta Chromosome (1996), and Sujoy Ghosh’s film Kahaani (2012) as the pivotal texts that relinquish the tangled process of Kolkata’s postcolonial reinvention and its emplacement in the global urban array. Representation of Kolkata from the per…
Insurgency and eco-bio-politics
Indigenous struggles in postcolonial India are frequently framed through militarised security discourses that portray insurgency as a threat, obscuring how environmental governance itself produces rebellion. State control over land, forests, and food systems, legitimated as development or management, generates dispossession, hunger, and enforced mobility, conditions that give rise to insurgent survival strategies. Reading Mahasweta Devi’s fiction…
Impact of Urban Developments on the Historic Character of Temple Towns
The world is becoming increasingly urbanized. Today, more than half of the global population lives in urban areas, up from around one-third in the 1950s and projected to increase up to about two-third in 2050. Following the trend, urbanization is happening in the developing countries like India at an unprecedented rate. Undeniably, this poses a threat to many historical settlements of immense cultural significance. They are part of the heritage k…
Challenging the Postcolonial Quasi-liberal Paradigms of Globalization and Neo-imperialism
This paper offers a critical examination of how postcolonialism and globalization—two influential intellectual and socio-economic forces—shape contemporary life in an increasingly interconnected world. It foregrounds the complex and often conflictual relationship between these frameworks, arguing that while they intersect in their analyses of power, culture, and mobility, they diverge sharply in their ideological foundations and socio-political i…
Biodiversity prospecting for phytoremediation programs intended for utilizing polluted lands and obtaining bioeconomy
Land degradation and soil contamination have become global problem due to irresponsible anthropogenic activities and the overutilization of natural resources by humans. Land degradation and contamination due to toxic heavy metals have adversely impacted not only crop productivity but also the overall environmental health of our planet. Mitigation and management of polluted land are urgently required to achieve the goal of sustainable development …
The Silenced "Other" Talks Back from Jungle
The idea of "nature" as something pure, pristine, untouched by humans, a pastoral piece of land, creates an exclusivist version of nature preservation. Likewise, performance is also thought to be exclusive, executed only on stage, removed from ordinary life, but in reality, the human body is continuously in a state of performance; we are continuously acting according to or "performing" our cultural beliefs, functions, gender roles, politics, etc.…
Home As a Mobile and Flexible Domestic Space in Amitav Ghosh's Alternative Ideas of Cosmopolitanism
In this globalized cosmopolitan world, the concept of home has become one of the most crucial socio-cultural perceptions, playing a significant role in establishing community and transnational relationships both at the local and the global level. Amitav Ghosh's alternative ideas of cosmopolitanism are committed to criticizing the neo-imperial characteristic of the contemporary capitalist cosmopolitan world. This paper argues that Amitav Ghosh thr…
Observations on the future trajectories of postcolonial literary geography
In this commentary, I chart the future trajectories of postcolonial literary geography that would enable it to become an inquiry of literary and geographical knowledge of 21st century globalization replete with neo-imperial agendas and controls. In this context, I focus on three overlapping moments in critical thought – the spatial turn, affective turn, and environmental turn – that can revitalize postcolonial literary geography to analyze and co…
The Postcolonial Nature of the Post-Soviet Space
Postcolonialism has always concerned itself with the conditions in former colonies of European maritime empires. However, based on current frameworks defining imperialism and the post-colonial condition, the erstwhile Soviet Union could be classified as a colonial power. Its aggressive annexation of nations and paranoid control of information and education systems are reflective of colonial practices. Nevertheless, the Eurocentrism inherent in th…
The Production of Alternative Global Spaces
de Certeau explicitly posits walking as a mode of resistance, which has been updated in theories of affect and posthumanism that advocate a return to the concept of the body and the human, respectively. These new theories propose a modified walker who blurs the subject–object/human–nonhuman distinction, reinforcing both a contested embodiment and an inclusive approach to the “other” in self-fashioning. Salman Rushdie, too, uses the trope of walki…
Bombay in Salman Rushdie’s novels
Bombay, the city where Salman Rushdie spent his childhood, features prominently in four of his novels, namely Midnight’s Children (1981), The Satanic Verses (1988), The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995) and The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999). However, in traditional literary approaches, the built environment and the materiality of Bombay evident in Rushdie’s fiction are largely lost disallowing Rushdie’s portrayal of the city to be explained as the real-im…
Haroun and Luka
Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) and Luka and the Fire of Life (2010) are telling instances of his hybridization of Eastern and Western narrative and aesthetic traditions. Particularly, the Islamic storytelling tradition of the dastan has been completely overlooked. While acknowledging that many narrative traditions of the West and the East, such as fairy tales, fantasies, boys’ adventure stories, as well as One Thousand and …
Haroun and Luka
Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) and Luka and the Fire of Life (2010) are telling instances of his hybridization of Eastern and Western narrative and aesthetic traditions. Particularly, the Islamic storytelling tradition of the dastan has been completely overlooked. While acknowledging that many narrative traditions of the West and the East, such as fairy tales, fantasies, boys’ adventure stories, as well as One Thousand and …
The Production of Alternative Global Spaces
de Certeau explicitly posits walking as a mode of resistance, which has been updated in theories of affect and posthumanism that advocate a return to the concept of the body and the human, respectively. These new theories propose a modified walker who blurs the subject–object/human–nonhuman distinction, reinforcing both a contested embodiment and an inclusive approach to the “other” in self-fashioning. Salman Rushdie, too, uses the trope of walki…
Bombay in Salman Rushdie’s novels
Bombay, the city where Salman Rushdie spent his childhood, features prominently in four of his novels, namely Midnight’s Children (1981), The Satanic Verses (1988), The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995) and The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999). However, in traditional literary approaches, the built environment and the materiality of Bombay evident in Rushdie’s fiction are largely lost disallowing Rushdie’s portrayal of the city to be explained as the real-im…
Bombay in Salman Rushdie’s novels
Bombay, the city where Salman Rushdie spent his childhood, features prominently in four of his novels, namely Midnight’s Children (1981), The Satanic Verses (1988), The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995) and The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999). However, in traditional literary approaches, the built environment and the materiality of Bombay evident in Rushdie’s fiction are largely lost disallowing Rushdie’s portrayal of the city to be explained as the real-im…
Haroun and Luka
Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) and Luka and the Fire of Life (2010) are telling instances of his hybridization of Eastern and Western narrative and aesthetic traditions. Particularly, the Islamic storytelling tradition of the dastan has been completely overlooked. While acknowledging that many narrative traditions of the West and the East, such as fairy tales, fantasies, boys’ adventure stories, as well as One Thousand and …
The Production of Alternative Global Spaces
de Certeau explicitly posits walking as a mode of resistance, which has been updated in theories of affect and posthumanism that advocate a return to the concept of the body and the human, respectively. These new theories propose a modified walker who blurs the subject–object/human–nonhuman distinction, reinforcing both a contested embodiment and an inclusive approach to the “other” in self-fashioning. Salman Rushdie, too, uses the trope of walki…
The Postcolonial Nature of the Post-Soviet Space
Postcolonialism has always concerned itself with the conditions in former colonies of European maritime empires. However, based on current frameworks defining imperialism and the post-colonial condition, the erstwhile Soviet Union could be classified as a colonial power. Its aggressive annexation of nations and paranoid control of information and education systems are reflective of colonial practices. Nevertheless, the Eurocentrism inherent in th…
Observations on the future trajectories of postcolonial literary geography
In this commentary, I chart the future trajectories of postcolonial literary geography that would enable it to become an inquiry of literary and geographical knowledge of 21st century globalization replete with neo-imperial agendas and controls. In this context, I focus on three overlapping moments in critical thought – the spatial turn, affective turn, and environmental turn – that can revitalize postcolonial literary geography to analyze and co…
Biodiversity prospecting for phytoremediation programs intended for utilizing polluted lands and obtaining bioeconomy
Land degradation and soil contamination have become global problem due to irresponsible anthropogenic activities and the overutilization of natural resources by humans. Land degradation and contamination due to toxic heavy metals have adversely impacted not only crop productivity but also the overall environmental health of our planet. Mitigation and management of polluted land are urgently required to achieve the goal of sustainable development …
The Silenced "Other" Talks Back from Jungle
The idea of "nature" as something pure, pristine, untouched by humans, a pastoral piece of land, creates an exclusivist version of nature preservation. Likewise, performance is also thought to be exclusive, executed only on stage, removed from ordinary life, but in reality, the human body is continuously in a state of performance; we are continuously acting according to or "performing" our cultural beliefs, functions, gender roles, politics, etc.…
Home As a Mobile and Flexible Domestic Space in Amitav Ghosh's Alternative Ideas of Cosmopolitanism
In this globalized cosmopolitan world, the concept of home has become one of the most crucial socio-cultural perceptions, playing a significant role in establishing community and transnational relationships both at the local and the global level. Amitav Ghosh's alternative ideas of cosmopolitanism are committed to criticizing the neo-imperial characteristic of the contemporary capitalist cosmopolitan world. This paper argues that Amitav Ghosh thr…
Impact of Urban Developments on the Historic Character of Temple Towns
The world is becoming increasingly urbanized. Today, more than half of the global population lives in urban areas, up from around one-third in the 1950s and projected to increase up to about two-third in 2050. Following the trend, urbanization is happening in the developing countries like India at an unprecedented rate. Undeniably, this poses a threat to many historical settlements of immense cultural significance. They are part of the heritage k…
Challenging the Postcolonial Quasi-liberal Paradigms of Globalization and Neo-imperialism
This paper offers a critical examination of how postcolonialism and globalization—two influential intellectual and socio-economic forces—shape contemporary life in an increasingly interconnected world. It foregrounds the complex and often conflictual relationship between these frameworks, arguing that while they intersect in their analyses of power, culture, and mobility, they diverge sharply in their ideological foundations and socio-political i…
Kolkata as a Postcolonial “Global City”
This paper aims to critically explore Kolkata as a postcolonial “global city” through the interpretation of Satyajit Ray’s film Mahanagar (1963), Amitav Ghosh’s two novels The Shadow Lines (1988) and The Calcutta Chromosome (1996), and Sujoy Ghosh’s film Kahaani (2012) as the pivotal texts that relinquish the tangled process of Kolkata’s postcolonial reinvention and its emplacement in the global urban array. Representation of Kolkata from the per…
Insurgency and eco-bio-politics
Indigenous struggles in postcolonial India are frequently framed through militarised security discourses that portray insurgency as a threat, obscuring how environmental governance itself produces rebellion. State control over land, forests, and food systems, legitimated as development or management, generates dispossession, hunger, and enforced mobility, conditions that give rise to insurgent survival strategies. Reading Mahasweta Devi’s fiction…
Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · Postcolonialism (international relations (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works)