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• I teach under-graduation and post-graduation students from rural as well as urban background. I have been on the job for 10 years now and remain young at heart and eager to learn I belong to a conventional middle class Bengalee family, but have u...More

  I teach under-graduation and post-graduation students from rural as well as urban background. I have been on the job for 10 years now and remain young at heart and eager to learn. I belong to a conventional middle class Bengalee family, but have unconventional parents with whom I have travelled across this multi-cultural melting pot of a nation called India. While on the move, my status as an outsider has taught me to appreciate difference and respect all those who have to struggle in order to express themselves. I went to schools in Kolkata, Shillong, Delhi and Ahmedabad which gave me a chance to travel between locations and educational ideologies. I went to a Jesuit college in Ahmedabad and completed my post-graduation from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. I worked on my doctoral project at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad and received my degree in 2001 for my dissertation entitled ‘Winner Take Nothing’: Subversive Power Relationships in Poe’s Short Stories. I have chosen to become a teacher. It has given me the space to be unconventional without having to transgress the boundaries of the conventional – third world; middle class; woman – which is no doubt a challenging proposition. I am interested in culture studies and the new literatures and harbour a desire to visit the sites of the ancient cultures of the world. I live and work in Kolkata, am married, and have a three year old son. Less

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