Entries marked in blue indicate peer reviewed publications.
“Ahalyā, the Human Face of Sacred Infidelity.” Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, ed. Arvind Sharma. Springer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands. (Solicited)
“Women and Ethics in Hindu Thought and Practice.” Gender, Ecology & Justice in Indian Ethics vol II, ed. Purushottam Billimoria: Sophia Studies Series. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. (Solicited)
"Uparupaka and the Evolution of the Performing Arts of India." Proceedings of the Twelfth World Sanskrit Conference, Helsinki. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. In press.
"Poetry in Motion: The Classical Dances of India." Outlines of Art: Architecture, Painting Sculpture, Dance and Drama. Ed. R.N. Mishra. Shimla, India: Indian Institute of Advanced Studies. 2014. (Solicited)
“From Craft to Art: The Aesthetic Ends of Technique in Sanskrit Texts of Classical Indian Dance.” Oxford Journal of Hindu Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 4, no. 1, 2011.
“Staging Abhijnanasakuntalam.” In Revisiting Kalidas’s Abhijnanasakuntalam—Land, Love, Languages: Forms of Exchange in Ancient India , eds. Saswati Sengupta and Sharmila Purakayastha, Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2011. (Solicited)
“New Horizons of Dance and Drama in Rabindranath Tagore‘s Creative Practice.” In Rabindranath Tagore: A Timeless Mind, ed. Amelendu Biswas, Christine Marsh, Kalyan Kundu. London: Tagore Centre, 2011. (Solicited)
“Nrtyanatya, Rabindranath o Bangasamskritir Nutan Diganta” (“Dance-drama, Rabindranath and Fresh Horizons of Bengali Culture”). Article in Bengali. Balaka, a Bengali literary magazine, vol. 19, no. 29, November 2010. (Solicited)
“The Ownership of Indian Classical Dancing and Its Performance on the Global Stage.” In Dance Matters, pp. 73-88, eds. Pallabi Chakravorty and Nilanjana Gupta. New Delhi: Routledge, 2010. (Solicited)
“Indian Modernity and Tagore’s Dance.” In Rabindranath Tagore: Reclaiming A Culutural Icon, pp. 193-203, eds. Joseph O’Connell and Kathleen O’Connell. Kolkata: Visva-Bharati, 2009. First published in a University of Toronto Quarterly special issue, vol. 77, no. 4: Rabindranath Tagore, Facets of A Cultural Icon. Toronto: University of Toronto, 2008. (Solicited)
"Kohala: The Lost Dramaturge of Ancient India." Kalakalpa, vol. 1, no. 2. Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2006, pp. 83-91. (Solicited)
"Reading Dance: a Tale of Texts." PULSE: South Asian Dance in the UK. Bedford, UK: Kadam Asian Dance and Music Ltd., 2005 (Spring), pp. 13-18. (Solicited)
"Aharyabhinaya." PULSE: South Asian Dance in the UK. Bedford, UK: Kadam Asian Dance and Music Ltd., 2005 (Summer), pp. 20-22. (Solicited)
"Uparupaka: A hybrid genre in the Sanskritic Tradition." The International Journal of Hindu Studies (special issue on performance studies). Guest editor, Bruce Sullivan, vol. 4, issue 3, 2003, pp. 289-312. (Solicited)
"Beyond the Body: The Idea and Production of Saundarya in Classical Indian Dancing." Saundarya: The Perception and Practice of Beauty in India. (Proceedings of a conference organized by Carleton University & India International Centre, Delhi). Delhi: Samvad India Foundation, 2003, pp. 54-61. (Solicited)
"Wem gehort der klassische indische Tanz? Die Frage nach den Besitzverhaltnissen und die Auffuhrung auf der globalen Buhne," [German translation of a paper entitled: "The Ownership of Indian Classical Dancing and Its Performance on the Global Stage"]. Singulaitaten-Allianzen. Interventionen 11. Zurich, Wien: Instituts fur Theorie der Gestaltung und Kunst (ith), Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst Zurich (HGKZ), 2002, pp.109-28. (Solicited)
"Dancing to the master's tune: Gender and Performance in the South Asian Tradition." Journal of Women's Studies, vol. 3, nos. 1 & 2. Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 2002. pp. 1-15. (Solicited)
"The Lost Natyavidhi of the Jaina Tradition." In Approaches to Jaina Studies: Philosophy, Logic, Rituals and Symbols, eds. N. K. Wagle and Olle Qvarnstrom. Toronto: Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto. 1999. (Solicited)
"Dance at the Crossroads: An Early Source of Kathak." In Studies in Hindu and Buddhist Art, ed. Dr. P.K. Mishra, Delhi: Abhinav Publications, 1999. (Solicited)
"Defining Dance: A New Approach in Sarngadeva." Proceedings of the Sarngadeva Festival, India (under the auspices of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Delhi). 1998. (Solicited)
"Categories of Dance: Bandha and Anibandha." In The Traditional Indian Theory and Practice of Music and Dance. Vol. 11 of the Panels of the VIIth World Sanskrit Conference, ed. Jonathan Katz. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992.
"Nartananirnaya: A Landmark in the Literature of Dance." Berliner Indologische Studien, Berlin, vol. 6, 1991. (Solicited)
"Lasya: Dance or Drama?" In Sanskrit and Related Studies, ed. B. K. Matilal and P. Bilimoria. Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 1990. (Solicited)
“Designing Women: Felicitous Malice in A Bengali Ramayana." In The Other Ramayana Women: Regional Rejection and Response. Eds. John and Mary Brockington, Associate ed., Mandakranta Bose. London: Routledge, 2016.
"Afterword." In The Other Ramayana Women: Regional Rejection and Response. Eds. John and Mary Brockington, Associate ed., Mandakranta Bose. London: Routledge. 2016.
“The Ramayana in the Hindu Tradition.” Oxford Bibliography on Hinduism. Online publication. (Solicited), 2016.
“Sanskrit Ramayanas, Puranas and Rama Kavyas: A Study in Evolution and Impact.” In Ramayana in Focus, pp. 18-27, ed. Gauri Parimoo Krishnan. Singapore: Asian Civilisations Museum, 2010. (Solicited)
"The Portrayal of Sita in Two Bengali Ramayanas." In In Search of Sita, Revisiting Mythology, pp. 141-46, eds. Malashri Lal and Namita Gokhale. New Delhi: Penguin, 2009. (Solicited)
"Re-forming the Ramayana: The Source-text and its Cultural Transformation." Translation Today, vol. 2, no. 2, October 2005, pp. 1-11. (Solicited)
"Beginnings: Legends of Origin in the Krittivasi Ramayana." In Devotional Literature in South Asia: Current Research 1997-2000, eds. Winand Calewart and Dieter Taillieu. Leuven & Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2002, pp. 23-28.
“Theme and Form in the Vaiṣṇava Idiom in Rabindranath.” in Rabindranath Tagore, A Mind Staring into Infinity. Edited by Cchanda Chatterjee. Delhi: Primus Books, 2016. (Solicited)
“The Killing of Sindhu in the Painted Scrolls of Bengal” in Ramkatha in Narrative, Performance and Pictorial Traditions, eds. Molly Kaushal & Alok Bhalla, Delhi: Aryan International Books, 2015. (Solicited)
"'Where he lies, I lie": Tagore meets Kabir." Oxford Journal of Hindu Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 4, no. 2, 2011.
“The Political Aesthetic of Nation and Gender in Rituparno Ghosh’s Chokher Bali.” Recasting Classics: Indian Literature and Popular Cinema, ed. Heidi R. M. Pauwels. London & New York: Routledge, 2007. (Solicited)
"Rabindranath and the Poetic Heritage of Bhakti." Studies in Early Modern Indo-Aryan Languages, Literature and Culture, eds. Alan W. Entwistle and Carol Salomon. Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 1999. (Solicited)
"Sastra and Prayoga: The Use of Abhinayadarpana." Festschrift in honour of Dr. S.S. Janaki. Madras: Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute, 1998. (Solicited)
"The Rhetoric of Seduction in Damodaragupta's Kuttanimata" (a comparative study of the Sanskrit work with Ovid's Ars Amatoria). Journal of the Institut für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets, Hamburg, 1997. (Solicited)
"Taslima Nasrin: Tales of Shame." Hecate, vol. 21, no. 2. 1995. (Solicited)
"The Gupta Dynasty." Chapter co-authored with Tirthankar Bose. In World Civilizations. Toronto: Gage Educational Publishing, 1993 Commissioned
“Gender and the Spiritual Quest in Tagore’s Poetry.” In Tagore and Woman, ed. Chandrava Chakravarty. Kolkata: Stree Samya. 2016. (Solicited)
“Theology, Sexuality and Gender in the Hindu Tradition.” Oxford Handbook of Theology, Gender and Sexuality, ed. Adrian Thatcher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. (Solicited)
"Miraculous Maternity: A Gender Paradox in the Ramayana." Traditional South Asian Medicine, vol 8. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden, Germany. 2008. (Solicited)
"In Sita's footsteps: Growing up Female in the Asian Diaspora." Journal of the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, Calcutta University. 2004, pp. 37-44. (Solicited)
"Confrontation, Transgression and Submission: Ideals of Womanhood in the Manasamangala." Playing for Real: Hindu Role Models, Religion and Gender, eds. Jacqueline Suthren Hirst and Lynn Thomas. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp.102-16. (Solicited)
"Traditional Life Writing/Life Story Forms: India." [On women's writing in India] Encyclopedia of Life Writing. London: Fitzroy Publishers, 2001. (Solicited)
"Textual Confrontations with Female Transgression in the Behula Legend." In The Banyan Tree, ed. Mariola Offredi. Venice & Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2000.
"Gender and Performance: Classical Indian Dancing." In the Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance, eds. L. Goodman and S. J. de Gay. London: Routledge, 1998. (Solicited)
"Identity through Rebellion: A Study of Women in Balzac, Dickens, and Saratchandra." In Modern Studies and Other Essays in Honour of Dr. R. K. Sinha, eds. R. C. Prasad and A. K. Sharma. New Delhi: Vikas, 1987. (Solicited)