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Publications

Dey, Shrishti and Aratrika Das. “Caregiver Burnout in Namita Gokhale’s The Blind Matriarch (2021)". The Polyphony, 11 Mar. 2025. Read More

Saraswat, Anandita and Aratrika Das. “Graphic narratives as pedagogical tools: Diversifying the curriculum of science in schools.” Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching, vol. 8, no.1, 14 Jan. 2025. Read More

M S, Sree Lekshmi. “Mental Illness and Substance Use in Indian Mental Health Memoirs.” The Polyphony, 06 Dec. 2024. Read More

Chatterjee, Ananya, and Aratrika Das. “The Evolving Rhetorics of Contagion.” Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), vol. 59, no. 44-45, 02 Nov. 2024. Read More

Saraswat, Anandita, and Aratrika Das. “Decolonizing Forest: The Myth of Panjurli and Guliga in Kantara (2022).” Religions, vol. 15, no. 11, 1307, 25 Oct. 2024. Read More

Chatterjee, Ananya, and Aratrika Das. “Revisiting the Violence of the Third Plague Pandemic in India.” The Polyphony, 03 Oct. 2024. Read More

M S, Sree Lekshmi, and Aratrika Das. "Mental healthcare spaces, ambivalence of caregiving, and Indian memoirs of psychiatric patients." Literature Compass, e12765, vol. 21, no. 7-9, Jul. 2024. Read More

M S, Sree Lekshmi, and Aratrika Das. “Navigating the Burden of Care.” Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), vol. 59, no. 10, Mar. 2024. Read More

M S, Sree Lekshmi, and Aratrika Das. “Mental Health Memoirs in the Indian Medical Humanities Classroom.” The Polyphony, 29 Feb. 2024. Read More

Tiwari, Nimisha, and Aratrika Das. “Patient’s Consent and Autonomy in Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom.” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, vol. 15, no. 4, Dec. 2023. Read More

Dey, Shrishti, et al. “Munnabhai MBBS (2003) and the Germination of Medical Humanities in India.” The Polyphony, 31 Oct. 2023. Read More

Conferences and Workshops

The Critical Thinking and Writing Lab, under the aegis of the J P Narayan Centre of Excellence in Humanities, IIT Indore organised a seminar talk by Dr Goutam Karmakar titled "Decolonial Hope and Planetary Solidarity" on March 20, 2025.

Ananya Chatterjee presented a paper at the "Vulnerable Bodies in Literature and Culture" organised by the Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Hyderabad and ICSSR from February 28-March 01, 2025.

SHSS IIT Indore Seminar titled "Blurring Narrative Boundaries: From Fact to Fiction and Fiction to Fact" was convened on February 24-25, 2025, graced by acclaimed pediatric surgeons and novelists- Dr Kalpana Swaminathan and Dr Ishrat Syed (Kalpish Ratna). This event also received support from Critical Thinking and Writing Lab, under the aegis of the J P Narayan Centre of Excellence in Humanities, IIT Indore.

Ananya Chatterjee received the second best research paper award at the Annual Research Symposium (HSS-ARS) 2025 held on February 6-7, 2025.

Anandita Saraswat received the SALA Conference Graduate Student Paper Prize for her paper "Graphic Narratives by Tribal Artists: Decolonizing the Techno-scientific Narratives on Climate Change" presented at 2025 SALA Annual conference theme- Rethinking South Asia: Postcoloniality & Decolonial Frames and Praxis on January 18-19, 2025.

SHSS IIT Indore Seminar titled "Trajectories of Higher Education: Establishment of colleges in directly and indirectly administered colonial India" was convened on November 29, 2024, graced by eminent speaker- Dr Abhishek Pandey.

Anandita Saraswat presented a paper at the Fourth Young Graduate Meet- “Interdisciplinary Approaches to South-Asian Ecology”, organised by School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) IIT Mandi from October 23-25, 2024.

SHSS IIT Indore Seminar titled "History of Science: Culture, Society and Technology" was convened on September 13, 2024, graced by eminent speakers- Professor Projit Bihari Mukharji and Dr Suvobrata Sarkar.

Dr Aratrika Das convened an open house discussion with India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) Programme Officers- Harshita Bathwal, Ritwika Misra, Radhika Bharadwaj and Dr Mridupankhi Rajkumari on the challenges of grant applications on September 12, 2024. The open house was a collaboration of Critical Thinking and Writing Lab, under the aegis of the J P Narayan Centre of Excellence in Humanities and IFA.

Ananya Chatterjee presented a paper at “Rewriting The History: Changing The Reading of The Past”, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Conference, organised by Department of Historical Studies of the Faculty of Humanities, held at Charles University Prague, Czechia from June 13-15, 2024.

Ananya Chatterjee attended an online workshop titled “Modern Health and the State”, organised by The National Archives, U.K, on May 02, 2024.

Abhay Bangari’s application has been accepted for the Summer Institute of the School of Materialist Research in Olympiada, Greece, September 15-22, 2024.

Sree Lekshmi M S’s application has been accepted for the Medical Humanities International Summer School in Vadstena, Sweden, September 9-11, 2024, Bursaries are provided by the Wellcome-funded Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities (DRP-MH) at Durham University and are administered by the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University.

Sree Lekshmi M S’s abstract “Remembering as Violence and Repair: Trauma, Memory, and Imagination in Indian Memoirs of Psychiatric Patients” has been accepted for presentation in the twelfth Mnemonics summer school hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and its Working Group in Memory Studies from July 9-11, 2024.

Sree Lekshmi M S presented a paper titled “Story-ing of Bipolar Disorder: Metaphors of socio- emotional Health in Indian Memoirs of Psychiatric Patients.” at the 2024 International Health Humanities Consortium Conference, held at Creighton University Health Sciences Campus from April 10 - 13, 2024.

Shrishti Dey presented a paper titled “Spaces as Breeding Ground of Human Connection” at the 2024 International Health Humanities Consortium Conference, held at Creighton University Health Sciences Campus from April 10 - 13, 2024.

Ananya Chatterjee presented a paper at the First International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science, held at the University of Birmingham, U.K. organised by British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS), the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSAeu) and the Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit), on April 10, 2024.

Anandita Saraswat presented a paper at the inaugural "Leakage" conference organized by stsing e.V., Tu Dresden, Germany, on March 20, 2024.

Ananya Chatterjee presented a paper at the Fifth "Postmemory and the Contemporary World", International Interdisciplinary Conference, held in Gdansk, Poland, on February 23, 2024.

Anandita Saraswat presented a paper at the "Navigating Sustainable Futures: Literary Reflections on Precarious Lives and the Anthropocene", organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Patna, and School of Liberal Arts, Bennett University with University of Toronto, University of Northampton, Aarhus University and University of York on February 25, 2024.

Anandita Saraswat presented a paper at the second international conference titled "Backwash: Voices on Environmental Colonialism and the Post-colonials from the Global South",organized by the Centre of Australian Studies, Bankura University and sponsored by ICSSR on February 07, 2024.

Shrishti Dey, Sree Lekshmi MS, Ananya Chatterjee and Anandita Saraswat attended a One Week Online Training Programme titled “Reading and Researching the Literature of Crisis”, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT Trichy, in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies, University of Hyderabad from January 22-28, 2024.

Shrishti Dey, Sree Lekshmi M S, Ananya Chatterjee and Anandita Saraswat attended a One Week intensive, in-person workshop on “Research Methodology and Publication”, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Kharagpur on December 04-10, 2023.

Nimisha Tiwari presented a paper, “Mental Illness and Dislocation of Geographical Spaces in Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom.” (which is now accepted to be published as a book chapter) at the ICSSR-sponsored National Conference, Third Young Graduate Meet at IIT Mandi from October 10-12, 2023.

Sree Lekshmi M S presented a paper titled “Spaces of care and caregiving: Insights from Indian memoirs of psychiatric patients” at the ICSSR-sponsored National Conference organized by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Mandi from October 10-12, 2023.

Dr Aratrika Das organised a series of five lectures by eminent speakers under the Critical Thinking and Writing Lab IIT Indore, with the support of JP Narayan Center of Excellence in the Humanities between September- November, 2023.