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Amit Shankar Saha

Dr. Amit Shankar Saha is a faculty member in the Department of English at Seacom Skills University. He is also an academic researcher, a short story writer and a poet. He received a PhD degree in English from Calcutta University in 2010. His thesis is titled "The Indian Diaspora in Transition: Reading Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta, and Jhumpa Lahiri." His website is https://amitshankarsaha.com
Supervisors: Prof. Santanu Majumdar
Phone: 9836291134
Address: 46/27 S N Banerjee Road Kolkata 700014

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Research paper thumbnail of “J.S. Mill’s The Subjection of Women: The Text in History and Society” in De-coding the Silence! Reading John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women

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Research paper thumbnail of "Food in the Culture of India and the Indian Diaspora: An Analysis through the Selected Works of Anita Desai" in DESI: La Revue No. 2 (Diasporas: Etudes Des Singularities Indiennes – Circulations).

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Research paper thumbnail of "The Spiritual Sense of Alienation in Diasporic Life: Reading Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta and Jhumpa Lahiri" in Indian English Fiction: Postmodern Literary Sensibility

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Research paper thumbnail of "The Changing Face of the West and the Indian Diaspora: Reading Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta and Jhumpa Lahiri" in Concepts and Contexts of Diasporic Literature of India

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Research paper thumbnail of "The Economic Aspect in Diasporic Theory and Literature" in Diasporic Consciousness: Literatures from the Postcolonial World.

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Research paper thumbnail of "Emotional and Sexual Wants in Diasporic Life as Depicted by Jhumpa Lahiri", Indo-English Fiction: New Perspectives.

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Research paper thumbnail of Not in My Name: Selected Poems 1978-2017 (Subodh Sarkar)

Le Simplegadi, Nov 19, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of The Indian Diaspora and Reading Desai, Mukherjee, Gupta, and Lahiri

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 2012

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Research paper thumbnail of Existential Alienation and the Indian Diaspora: An Approach to the Writings of Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta, and Jhumpa Lahiri

Contemporary Literary Review India, 2017

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Le Simplegadi

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Research paper thumbnail of PERSPECTIVE Exile Literature and the Diasporic Indian Writer

The essay takes a holistic view of the word “exile ” to encompass a range of displaced existence.... more The essay takes a holistic view of the word “exile ” to encompass a range of displaced existence. It illustrates through John Simpson’s The Oxford Book of Exile the various forms of exiles. The essay then goes on to show that diasporic Indian writing is in some sense also a part of exile literature. By exemplifying writers both from the old Indian diaspora of indentured labourers and the modern Indian diaspora of IT technocrats, it shows that despite peculiarities there is an inherent exilic state in all dislocated lives whether it be voluntary or involuntary migration. More importantly, a broad survey of the contributions of the second generation of the modern Indian diaspora in the field of Indian writing in English depict certain shift in concerns in comparison to the previous generation and thereby it widens the field of exile literature. Displacement, whether forced or self-imposed, is in many ways a calamity. Yet, a peculiar but a potent point to note is that writers in their ...

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Research paper thumbnail of The Memory Criterion in Diasporic Theory and Literature

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Research paper thumbnail of "Defining Selves through Nomenclature: Reading Select Diasporic Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri"

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Research paper thumbnail of PERSPECTIVE Exile Literature and the Diasporic Indian Writer

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