Arnab Das
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 353826 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Arnab Das |
| PRENOMES | Arnab |
| SOBRENOME | Das |
| ASSINATURA | DAS A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Calcutta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6092-9514 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Forest as Archive
This article interprets Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Aranyak not just as a poetic forest story but as a vernacular repository of the colonial experience of ecological change. The essay contends that the novel chronicles how power makes the forest legible through measurement, tenancy, administration, and extraction, rendering the forest a historically contingent frontier produced by colonial rule and agrarian expansion. Drawing on James C. Scott…
Cooking Time
This review is an in-depth analysis of the ways food, gender, and intergenerational labor are interconnected in the Tamil film Idli Kadai (Dhanush, 2025). By a thorough reading of the film narrative and mise-en-scène, the paper argues how the modest food outlet transforms into an emotional juncture to strengthen family ties through familiar recipes, skipped‐generation dynamics, embodied skill, and socio-economic resilience. The review, by using c…
From hilsa to hashtag
The media has always been a space to explore human experience with regard to emotions, social relationships, and cultural values. It was a very long time ago that food was only shared through recip
Media, memory, and love
The Hindi-language musical romantic drama Saiyaara (Suri, 2025) emerges at the complex intersection of Bollywood’s evolving narrative forms and the expanding power of media to shape both personal d
Tracing the depths
This review paper explores the emerging field of Blue Humanities, which examines the cultural, historical, and ecological significance of oceans and water bodies in human society. Through a narrative literature review, it synthesizes various sources to analyze the intersection of maritime history, literature, and environmental studies, highlighting both Western and non-Western perspectives. The study emphasizes the crucial role of oceans in shapi…
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…
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…
Studying Macbeth through the lens of Bakhtin w.r.t Bakhtin’s Epic and Novel and The Problem of Speech Genres
The main motive of this paper is to draw a strong analytic study of Shakespeare's phenomenal masterpiece of drama and challenge the preoccupied notions of conventionality regarding the fluidity of drama as a genre in comparison to novel's superiority with reference to Bakhtin's two of the most quintessential modern texts that led to the deeper study of the literary evolution of novel along with the ground-breaking linguistic observations in liter…
Banaras in a Narrative of Nostalgia and Kitsch
An ethnographic study on the Indian city of Banaras, one of the "oldest continuously inhabited cities" of the world, helps us experiencing it as a multivocal, multilayered network of heritage, pilgrimage, and tourism that is either continually engaged with the revivalist construction of space or deconstructed by the postcolonial discourse envisaging a tangible and dynamic order of space. The article intends to make an analytical inquiry into pilg…
Historicizing the Lived Masculinities in a Postpartitioned Metropolis
The autoethnographic narrative seeks to historicize the major political episodes of Calcutta/Kolkata metropolis as the meeting point of personal and public contexts of meaning since India's independence. This juxtaposition has emerged to be even more significant due to the partition of Bengal, India. The middle-class majority framework of everyday life in the city shifted from the closed class hegemony of the bhadralok masculinity to the postpart…
Inescapable Reflexivity for Social Science Research in India for Now
This is a reflexively critical account of the lived practices particularly of anthropology that might stand broadly valid as well for other social science disciplines in most of the Indian Universities except a few elite ones. This is because the ways the dominant discourses of institutional learning in postcolonial India—more particularly of ̳science‘ disciplines—persist as foreign to and outside our everyday lived realities that their disorient…
Human rights and the Third World
Tricks and Truths of Drug Marketing
Historicizing the Lived Masculinities in a Postpartitioned Metropolis
The autoethnographic narrative seeks to historicize the major political episodes of Calcutta/Kolkata metropolis as the meeting point of personal and public contexts of meaning since India's independence. This juxtaposition has emerged to be even more significant due to the partition of Bengal, India. The middle-class majority framework of everyday life in the city shifted from the closed class hegemony of the bhadralok masculinity to the postpart…
Tricks and Truths of Drug Marketing
Human rights and the Third World
Inescapable Reflexivity for Social Science Research in India for Now
This is a reflexively critical account of the lived practices particularly of anthropology that might stand broadly valid as well for other social science disciplines in most of the Indian Universities except a few elite ones. This is because the ways the dominant discourses of institutional learning in postcolonial India—more particularly of ̳science‘ disciplines—persist as foreign to and outside our everyday lived realities that their disorient…
Historicizing the Lived Masculinities in a Postpartitioned Metropolis
The autoethnographic narrative seeks to historicize the major political episodes of Calcutta/Kolkata metropolis as the meeting point of personal and public contexts of meaning since India's independence. This juxtaposition has emerged to be even more significant due to the partition of Bengal, India. The middle-class majority framework of everyday life in the city shifted from the closed class hegemony of the bhadralok masculinity to the postpart…
Banaras in a Narrative of Nostalgia and Kitsch
An ethnographic study on the Indian city of Banaras, one of the "oldest continuously inhabited cities" of the world, helps us experiencing it as a multivocal, multilayered network of heritage, pilgrimage, and tourism that is either continually engaged with the revivalist construction of space or deconstructed by the postcolonial discourse envisaging a tangible and dynamic order of space. The article intends to make an analytical inquiry into pilg…
Studying Macbeth through the lens of Bakhtin w.r.t Bakhtin’s Epic and Novel and The Problem of Speech Genres
The main motive of this paper is to draw a strong analytic study of Shakespeare's phenomenal masterpiece of drama and challenge the preoccupied notions of conventionality regarding the fluidity of drama as a genre in comparison to novel's superiority with reference to Bakhtin's two of the most quintessential modern texts that led to the deeper study of the literary evolution of novel along with the ground-breaking linguistic observations in liter…
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…
Media, memory, and love
The Hindi-language musical romantic drama Saiyaara (Suri, 2025) emerges at the complex intersection of Bollywood’s evolving narrative forms and the expanding power of media to shape both personal d
Tracing the depths
This review paper explores the emerging field of Blue Humanities, which examines the cultural, historical, and ecological significance of oceans and water bodies in human society. Through a narrative literature review, it synthesizes various sources to analyze the intersection of maritime history, literature, and environmental studies, highlighting both Western and non-Western perspectives. The study emphasizes the crucial role of oceans in shapi…
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…
The Forest as Archive
This article interprets Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Aranyak not just as a poetic forest story but as a vernacular repository of the colonial experience of ecological change. The essay contends that the novel chronicles how power makes the forest legible through measurement, tenancy, administration, and extraction, rendering the forest a historically contingent frontier produced by colonial rule and agrarian expansion. Drawing on James C. Scott…
Cooking Time
This review is an in-depth analysis of the ways food, gender, and intergenerational labor are interconnected in the Tamil film Idli Kadai (Dhanush, 2025). By a thorough reading of the film narrative and mise-en-scène, the paper argues how the modest food outlet transforms into an emotional juncture to strengthen family ties through familiar recipes, skipped‐generation dynamics, embodied skill, and socio-economic resilience. The review, by using c…
From hilsa to hashtag
The media has always been a space to explore human experience with regard to emotions, social relationships, and cultural values. It was a very long time ago that food was only shared through recip
Sociology (6 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Aesthetics (3 obras) · Anthropology (3 obras) · Art (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Narrative (3 obras) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (3 obras)