Research Awards / Grants/Collaborations

  • Awarded Grant under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government ofIndia sponsored ‘Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaborations’(SPARC) to carry out a Project as Principal Investigator on “Debating and Calibratingthe Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asian Literature and Culture” in collaboration with South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg, 2019 – 2021.
  • Awarded Grant under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of Indiasponsored ‘Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaborations’ (SPARC)to carry out a Project as Principal Investigator on “Cosmopolitan Cultures and OceanicThought: Thinking through history across the waters” in collaboration with Universityof Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2019 – 2021.
  • Awarded Grant under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India sponsored ‘Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaborations’ (SPARC)to carry out a Project as Principal Investigator on “Digital Apprehensions of Poetics” incollaboration with Michigan State University, USA, 2019 – 2021.
  • Awarded Grant under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India sponsored ‘Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaborations’ (SPARC)to carry out a Project as Co- Principal Investigator on “New Terrains of Consciousness: Globalization, Sensory Environments and Local Cultures of Knowledge” in collaboration with Julius Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany, 2019 – 2021.
  • Online course collaboration for a course on Bollywood Cinema (UNC Course: ASIA231), with Dr Afroz Taj, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, College ofArts & Sciences, University of North Carolina on Chape Hill, earned him curriculumdevelopment award for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)https://global.unc.edu/news-story/delivering-global-through-curriculum-developmentawards-for-coil/
  • Awarded University Grants Commission-Junior Research Fellowship in 1994 by theUniversity Grants Commission.
  • Awarded Teachers’ Study Grant by American Studies Research Centre, Hyderabad in1996 and 1998.
  • Awarded UGC-Merit Scholarship in MA [1991-1993].
  • Awarded Bharat Sewa Trust Merit Scholarship in BA [1988-1991]