Talk:Arnab Chakladar

By Anirudha Patel

Arnab Chakladar is an Associate Professor of English at Carleton College as of October 2022. He is also the founder of AnotherSubcontinent.com, an online journal and forum on South Asian society and culture. According to his university profile, his research concerns contemporary South Asian literature and culture, especially the issues of translation and multilingualism in the production, consumption, study, and teaching of South Asian literature.

As per his bio, he has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India or the Indian Government in the context of B.J.P. Government.

In 2021, he along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications related to India

Journals

1. Chakladar, Arnab. Garbo and Kuchela at the Palace Talkies in Malgudi: Women and Modernity in R.K Narayan’s The Dark Room. South Asian Review, vol. 33, no. 1, 2012.
2. Chakladar, Arnab. Language, Nation and the Question of Indian Literature. Postcolonial Text, vol. 6, no. 4, 2011.
3. Chakladar, Arnab. Meeting Online: Translation and Transmission on the Web. In Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in Indian Literature, edited by Nalini Iyer and Bonnie Zare. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009.
4. Chakladar, Arnab. Of Houses and Canons: Reading the Novels of Shashi Deshpande. ARIEL, vol. 37, no. 1, 2006.
5. Chakladar, Arnab. The Postcolonial Bazaar: Teaching/Marketing Indian Literature. ARIEL, vol. 31, nos. 1-2, 2000.

Presentations

1. Chakladar, Arnab. Against Indian Standard Time. Social Life of Time Conference, Edinburgh, June 6, 2018.
2. Chakladar, Arnab. From the Country to the City: Relocating National Identity in Three Bombay Films of the 1950s. Annual SCMS Conference, Montreal, March 26, 2015.
3. Chakladar, Arnab. A Country for Pregnant Women? Narrative and Detection in Two Films by the Coen Brothers. Annual SCMS Conference, Los Angeles, March 20, 2010.
4. Chakladar, Arnab. Language/Perversion: The Novels of Upamanyu Chatterjee. Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Minneapolis, November 14, 2008.
5. Chakladar, Arnab. The Bombay Aesthetic on a Global Screen. Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota, November 3, 2006.
6. Chakladar, Arnab. Decoding Song and Dance Sequences in Bombay Cinema. South Asia Speaker Series, University of Colorado, Boulder, April 17, 2006.
7. Chakladar, Arnab. Outside the Nation: Shashi Deshpande's Critique of Tradition. Annual South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2005.
8. Chakladar, Arnab. The Elephant in the Living Room: Translation and the Question of Indian Literature. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, Boulder, 2004.
9. Chakladar, Arnab. I Don’t Want To Be Postcolonial Anymore! - Indian Literature in the Academic Marketplace. Making and Unmaking History Conference, USC, Los Angeles, 1998.
10. Chakladar, Arnab. Is There An Indian-American in This Film? Being Indian in Mississippi Masala. MELUS Conference, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 1997.
11. Chakladar, Arnab. "Whose Story is it Anyway? The Subaltern in Some Novels of Indian Independence. Alternative Discourses Conference, USC Los Angeles, 1996.