| From Date | To Date | Designation | Organization | Organization Address |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15th October 2015 | 14th December 2015 | reporter | free press journal | No. 215, 1st Floor, Fress Press House, Free Press Journal Marg, Nariman Point, Mumbai, Maharashtra- 400021 |
| Date | Title | Type | Level | Academic Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-09 | from margins to mainstream: deliberating ambedkars notions of nationalism | proceedings | national | 2015-2016 |
| 2021-05-01 | Sambh- An Open Access Peer-reviewed Interdisciplinary Journal | journal | international | 2020-2021 |
| 2021-06-01 | Fragmented Identities and Hegemonic Projects: The RSS and the Subaltern Politics in Contemporary India | chapters in edited volume | national | 2021-2022 |
| Date | Title | Presented/Published | Level | Academic Year | Organizer / Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-15 | multiculturalism in disarray: deliberating indian and western ex | presented | international | 2015-2016 | sophia college, mumbai |
| Abstract of the paper attached below. | |||||
| 2016-04-09 | from margins to mainstream: deliberating ambedkars notions of nationalism | presented | national | 2015-2016 | adarsh college of arts & commerce badlapur, thane |
| this work was duly published by the organisers in a compilation of research papers presented during the national seminar, dr.babasaheb ambedkars thoughts: a contemporary relevance. (isbn 978-81-931060-1-3) | |||||
| 2017-01-06 | Factoring Cultural and Civilizational ties in Indian Foreign policy discourse in its extended neighbourhood | presented | international | 2016-2017 | Janseva Shikshan Mandals College of Arts & Science, Shivle in association with the Maharashtra Political Science & Public Administration Council Shivle, Murbad |
| ABSTRACT of the paper: In order to sustain bilateral relations, realist concerns have to be strongly backed by underlying aspects of commonality and shared-ness. Hence, policy makers, in recent times, have focused on cultural and civilizational aspects in forging and strengthening bilateral relations between nation-states. Cultural diplomacy, today, has emerged as one of the most critical component of foreign policy. Cultural diplomacy adds a dimension of sociality to the traditional state-to-state relations making social groups and communities an important instrument of conducting foreign policy. The paper focuses on the role of religion, culture, traditions, civilizational ties, shared histories and diasporic communities in constructing the Indian foreign policy discourse towards its extended neighbourhood policy doctrine. The paper seeks to analyse the use of religion as a soft power foreign policy tool in promoting and fortifying Indias regional interest. | |||||
| 2017-01-28 | Dynamic Website Designed for Improving Customer Satisfaction Index | presented | national | 2016-2017 | National Centre For Quality Management Mumbai Vikhroli, Mumbai |
| Presented a project on the development of the college website with collegues from the Computer Science Department | |||||
| 2020-01-11 | Fragmented Identities and Hegemonic Projects: Assessing Subaltern Politics in Contemporary India | presented | national | 2019-2020 | Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR) sponsored National Conference on Subaltern Movements in India: Issues & Challenges organized by Department of History, Ramnarain Ruia College (Autonomous) Ramnarain Ruia Autonomous College, Mumbai |
| ABSTRACT The term subalternity refers to a condition of subordination facilitated by structures of economic, social, racial, linguistic or cultural dominance (Beverley, 1999). This paper will broadly explore the discourse on caste and specifically deal with lower caste mobilizations in India. When viewed with an instrumentalist perspective, caste consciousness and subalternity can be positive resources and can act as an agency in a democratic polity where rights and entitlements can be constantly demanded against the state. Through various social movements and mobilizations, the subalterns have spoken and they were also heard. However, in the political sphere, the subaltern faces several limitations and challenges. There are attempts where the majoritarian politics is challenged by assertion of alternative and autonomous lower-caste identities. But such assertions do not necessarily attain political success due to internal schisms. This is when the idea of different degrees or levels of subalternity comes into play. Moreover, the heterogeneity and stratifications, often of a hierarchical nature, among subalterns has given rise to or strengthened historically held symbols which become rallying points for the formation of political identities. The political projects undertaken to link the histories and heroism of lower caste groups to majoritarian narratives is a case in point. These fragmented identities may discourage, limit or even dismantle contestations and mobilizations against the dominant narratives. This happens in a political space where hegemonic discourses are built to subsume the subaltern given to the divisions. | |||||
| 2019-12-15 | Consensus and Contestation: Reflections on Identity Formation and Disintegration of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain | presented | international | 2019-2020 | International Seminar on Mapping Indian Diaspora: Issues & Perspectives organized by SIES College of Arts, Science & Commerce (Autonomous), Mumbai SIES College of Arts, Science & Commerce (Autonomous), Mumbai |
| ABSTRACT Identity formation among the diaspora is primarily based on territorial affiliations, ethnic, cultural or racial determinants and class orientations. Internal fissures and differences are often subsumed or underplayed as a part of consensus or convenience which is based on shared identities and common interests among the diaspora communities. However, this consensus is constantly under pressure due to challenges emerging from religious identities, diaspora nationalism, politics in the country of origin and contestations in political, social and cultural terrains of the host country. Different migrations and settlement patterns of diasporas, diverse social and economic contexts along with transnationalism play an important role in facilitating this process. Moreover, the host countrys attempts to accommodate, integrate and assimilate immigrant populations may have divergent outcomes. It may lead to a heightened identity consciousness, hardening of external and internal boundaries or exemplification of hybridity among the diaspora. Drawing upon the conception of diaspora identities as those constantly producing and reproducing themselves anew, through transformation and difference (Hall, 1990, p.235), this paper explores the formation, evolution and eventual disintegration of the South Asian diasporic identity in Britain. | |||||
| 2020-02-10 | Negotiating Political Space in the Host Nation: The Case of South Asian Diaspora in Britain | presented | international | 2019-2020 | International Conference on Diaspora Governance organized by the Centre for Diaspora Studies, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar |
| ABSTRACT Diaspora politics is a form of transnational political engagement which is structured around a particularistic identity category (such as a national, ethnic, religious, or sectarian identity) and a real or mythical homeland (Adamson 2012). Drawing the basic frame of reference from this definition, this paper seeks to analyse the political activism and institutionalism of the South Asian diaspora in Britain. A liberal-democratic polity provides diaspora communities with adequate opportunities for participation and competition for public resources. However, multiple locations, internal diversities and contexts of migration may act as hindrances to their consolidation as political communities. Hence, to negotiate the political spaces in the host societies, religious identity emerges as a significant consolidating factor. This happens amidst tensions and pressures that emerge from assimilation, integration and transnationalism. Today, diaspora identities are considerably shaped by political happenings and socio-cultural transformations and movements in the homeland. Here, South Asias peculiar political history facilitates the religious narrative among diasporas in host societies. Lastly, the paper will assess the evolution of Britain from a difference-blind liberal polity that has historically been avoiding political religiosity to a polity where faith groups are important civil society participants in areas of governance. In recent times, political frameworks of the host society tend to identify faith-based communities as important stakeholders which further rationalizes and reinforces defining ethnic minorities and diaspora groups in religious terms. Meanwhile, the native majority communities are also actively engaged in constructing and subtly propagating specific narratives regarding the diaspora thus giving rise to the discourse on model communities. | |||||
| 2022-09-17 | Black Lives, Caste and South Asian Diaspora in USA and UK | presented | national | 2022-2023 | 15th Mani Kamerkar National Seminar organised by Khalsa College, Mumbai GN Khalsa College, Mumbai |
| Abstract: The emergence of faith as an important identification in matters of politics and governance has rationalised and reinforced ethnic and religious identities among the diaspora groups in the West. Consequently, the racial ties and solidarities weakened to accommodate ethnic, religious or even nationalistic connections. In the case of the South Asian diaspora, there has been a paradigm shift from being comrades in the anti-racist struggles in a decolonised world to those split between narratives of colour discrimination and liberal notions of classical equality. The paper primarily discusses two intertwined issues with regard to the racism that prevails within the South Asian diaspora based in the UK and US. The first part discusses the responses of the South Asian diaspora to the Black Lives Matter protests which erupted in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. These responses brought to the fore the anti-blackness notions among the South Asian diaspora in the West. The second part forms a corollary which discusses the subjugation of anti-race and anti-caste narratives among the diaspora groups with reference to the South Asian diaspora institutions opposing the demands to expand the legal jurisdiction to include caste-based discrimination. The paper attempts to draw a connection between anti-racism and anti-casteism alongside a reflection on the complicity of the South Asian diaspora rationalising the supremacist arguments in a period which is witnessing a marked resurgence of racial reckoning and calls for racial equality. | |||||
| Date | Title | Type | Level | Role | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-27 | Participated in one day workshop becoming an effective teacher organized by SIES Education Societys Central Training Department. | workshop | local | delegate | sies college of management studies |
| 2016-04-14 | Department of Social Justice and Special Assistance, Government of Maharashtra organized a two day International Conference on Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkars Thoughts at the University of Mumbai (Fort Campus), 14th-15th April 2016. | conference | international | delegate | University of Mumbai (Fort Campus) |
| 2020-01-08 | Research Workshop on Indian Conceptions of Multiculturalism. Various international and national scholars working in the fields of multiculturalism and identity politics. It was held at IIT Tirupati on 8th and 9th January 2020. | workshop | international | delegate | IIT Tirupati |
| 2020-02-17 | National Symposium on Indian Diaspora Studies organised by Indian Diaspora Centre (University of Mumbai) in association with ICSSR (Western Region) | seminar | national | delegate | University of Mumbai |
| Academic Year | Type | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-2017 | co-curricular | Conducted a field visit for the students of TYBA (Politics) to the Samyukta Maharashtra Museum, Dadar as part of thier course in Political Process in Maharashtra (Paper IV) on 5th July 2016. |
| 2017-2018 | personal | Member, Committee for Civics & Politics, Maharashtra State Bureau for Textbook Production & Curriculum Research, Balbharti, Pune |
| 2019-2020 | personal | Served as a Board of Studies Member and Author for the Committee of Civics & Politics at the Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production & Curriculum Research (Balbharti), Pune. Std. XII Textbook (in press) |
| 2019-2020 | personal | Opinion/Column Writer for Marathi Daily Divya Marathi |
| 2019-2020 | personal | Contributing Writer for TheWires Marathi portal |
| 2019-2020 | co-curricular | Organized a visit to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for students of FY, SY and TY classes of Politics on 26th February 2020. |
