INTERVIEW: Anway Mukhopadhyay and Sangeetha Menon #14

This panel discussion [titled 'Homemaking the World: Exploring A Utopic and Conflict-less Society'] was part of the Homemaker story project, initiated by Tell Me Your Story. I was Project Lead and moderator.

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Dr. Anway Mukhopadhyay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, West Bengal. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and at The University of Burdwan. He was educated at Jadavpur University, Kolkata and BHU, Varanasi (wherefrom he obtained his PhD), and successfully completed the course on Hinduism: Ritual, Caste and Gender (HS 108, Trinity 2016), offered by Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, University of Oxford, in August 2016.

Mukhopadhyay’s recent publications include, among others, The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions: Devi and Womansplaining, The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions: Devi as Corpse, Literary and Cultural Readings of Goddess Spirituality: The Red Shadow of the Mother and Why Fiction Matters, co-edited with Vanashree. He has published two books of creative writing as well (fiction and poetry). His critical and creative writings have been published in noted journals in India, Australia and USA. His works have been cited and discussed by reputed scholars in celebrated international journals published by Sage, Taylor and Francis, Springer and Cambridge University Press.

Sangeetha Menon is Dean of the School of Humanities at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, in the Indian Institute of Science campus, in Bangalore, India. At NIAS she is the Professor and Head of the Consciousness Studies Programme. Her latest books published by Springer-NATURE are: “Brain, Self and Consciousness: Explaining the conspiracy of experience”; and the edited volume “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self”.

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Panel discussion date: 20 September 2021