Talk:Deepika Tandon

By Anirudha Patel

Deepika Tandon is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Miranda House, Delhi University, as of March 2023. According to her university, her research interests are English & Indian literature.

She 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 as of March 2023.

In 2021, she 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 Indian Literature

Ancient India

1. Tandon, Deepika, and Saswati Sengupta, eds. Revisiting Abhijnanasakuntalam: Love, Lineage and Language. Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2011.
2. Tandon, Deepika. The Many Mothers of Abhijnanasakuntalam: Constructing, Celebrating and Confining Motherhood in Revisiting Abhijanansakuntalam: Love, Lineage and Language in Kalidasa’s Nataka. Eds. Saswati Sengupta and Deepika Tandon, Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2011.

Cultural Studies & Social Issues

1. Tandon, Deepika. The Politics of Sanitization/Sanskritization: The Court-Dancers and Classical Pasts (Rajnartaki, 1941; Chitralekha, 1964; Amrapali, 1966) in ‘Bad’ Women of Bombay Films: Studies in Desire and Anxiety. Eds. Saswati Sengupta, Shampa Roy, Sharmila Purkayastha, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
2. Tandon, Deepika. "Short Introduction and translation of extracts from Premchand’s Prema, and Jainendra Kumar’s Parakh in Shadow Lives: Writings on Widowhood. Eds. Uma Chakravarti and Preeti Gill, New Delhi: Kali for Women, 2001.