Volume 2, Issue 2(Jul-Dec)
ISSN : 3048-4693
ISSUE DOI : https://doi.org/10.69627/NOL2024VOL2ISS2
Editors : Dr. Mridula Kashyap
Recho Benjamin Teron
Arjun Raj V
Arjun Raj V is a Doctoral student and a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad. He was awarded his Postgraduate degree from the same university. His doctoral thesis is on “Poetry as Testimony: Testimonial-effects in Witness Poetry.” His areas of interest include Poetry, Human Rights, and Witnessing.
Mridusmita Boro
Mridusmita Boro is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English at Gauhati University. Her research explores the dystopian shift in early science fiction and the emergence of posthumanism, examining how foundational texts reflect social, political, and philosophical anxieties through speculative and posthuman narratives.
Lekshmy MA
Lekshmy M.A. is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad. Her doctoral research focuses on Ethnic American literature. Her broader research interests include modern and postmodern poetry, contemporary fiction, and the intersections of language and identity.
Dr. Manab Medhi
Dr. Manab Medhi has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar since 2012. He completed his MA, MPhil, and PhD from Guwahati University. He has published various research articles in many national and international journals and books. He has been the editor of Transcript: A Journal of Literature and Cultuiral Studies published by the Department of English, Bodoland University in 2013, 2016 and 2023. He is the joint editor of Critical Theory in the Twenty First Century (2013), Representations of Memory: Identity, Politics and Space (Authorspress, 2023), Unmaking Gender (Authorspress, 2022), Voices from the Bodo Heartland: Twelve Women Poets in Translation (Red River, 2025). His research areas include Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, Performance and Theatre, Cinema studies, Comparative Literature, Literature form Assam and North East India. He translates between Assamese and English and published many translated articles, stories and poems in journals and books.
Tanmoya Barman
Tanmoya Barman works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Bongaigaon University and also pursuing her PhD at Gauhati University. Her area of interest is in East Asian Studies, specifically South Korean literature. She has also been involved in various works of translation and been associated with a few Projects for the same.
Kevin Martens Wong Zhi Qiang
Tuan Raja Naga Ultramar Kevin Martens Wong Zhi Qiang is the 13th Kabesa or Indigenous Chief of the Kristang people of Singapore and Southeast Asia, the Merlionsman and Dreamtiger of the Republic of Singapore, and the Makaravedra Hierosa or Dragon Reborn of the Holocene in the Roda Mundansa or Kristang Deep Time/cosmological cycle. He is a National University of Singapore Research Scholar completing his doctoral dissertation on a decolonial grammar of Kristang, and is also a creole/Indigenous science fiction and fantasy novelist, poet, playwright and performance artist in Kristang and English. His first novel, Altered Straits, was longlisted for the inaugural Epigram Books Fiction Prize, and his short story ‘Nus Nubu Sta Prendeh Sunyeskah / We Are Learning to Dreamfish Again’ was one of four top prize winners in the inaugural Unearthodox Regenerative Futures international writing competition.
Souzatya Dutta & Afrin Taj
Souzatya Dutta is currently a Master of Arts (Politics & International Relations) student at the Pondicherry University, India. His area of research extends to postcolonial theory, feminist political theory, intersectionality, subaltern studies, strategic studies and global politics. His most recent research aims to assess how South Asian literary and political practices refigure feminist discourses of global significance, employing interdisciplinary methods and undertaking close textual reading.
Dr. Alankar Kaushik
Dr. Alankar Kaushik, faculty member at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at EFL University, Shillong Campus, has spent more than a decade immersed in the fields of Communication and Social Change. His research passion lies in Participatory and Community Media, with a focus on amplifying the voices of marginalized groups through creative media tools. Between 2012 and 2019, he collaborated with UNICEF on transformative participatory media projects across Assam and Meghalaya, empowering economically disadvantaged children to share their stories and advocate for their rights. One of his notable initiatives, Children in Media Experiments (CHIME), introduced in Meghalaya, encouraged young voices to engage with participatory videos.
In 2023, Alankar concluded an ICSSR-funded major research project examining the vibrant landscape of regional language media in Northeast India and in 2024, he concluded another participatory video project, "Registering People’s Voice through Participatory Video in Assam," which gives a platform to flood-affected communities in Assam, and a research project on “Covid-19 and Internal Migration in Eastern Assam,” commissioned by the IATSS Forum, Japan. His recent publication, a co-edited book Narratives and New Voices from India: Cases of Community Development for Social Change (Springer, 2022), offers an in-depth look at community-driven development in India. In 2025, he co-edited a book with Pallavi Devi titled "The Paradoxes of Free Speech: Challenges and Controversies in Contemporary India" published by Routledge.
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