S Deepika

S Deepika is Assistant Professor of English at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. She has a specialisation in American Literature and has recently completed her doctoral dissertation on the Language Memoir and cross-cultural encounters. She has co-edited the volume The Unbilled Hour: Essays on Literature, Culture and Theory (2018).

A novel of thresholds

‘Basanti’ and writing the New Woman in Odia literary culture

May 22, 2019

Latest Articles

How Southasia and Oman intertwined

In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, the histories of Omani sultans in the age of empire speak to the interconnectedness of Southasia, West Asia and East Africa

Crisis in India’s bread basket

How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity

Images of the two Punjabs, partitioned yet forever alike

A photographer’s journey through the Punjab in India and Pakistan shows a land and a people still tied together, despite Partition and the militarised border in between