Deboshruti Roychowdhury
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Academician/ Journalist |
| Introduction | A Gender Studies Doctorate from SOAS(The School of Oriental and African Studies),University of London,and a relentness Researcher of gender and religious studies. Also a part-time journalist during the time of academic despair... |
| Interests | Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Subaltern Studies, Social Hierarchy, South Asian History, Post colonialism, Postmodernism, and most importantly Nineteenth Century Bengal |
| Favorite Movies | Truffaut's The 400 Blows; Kieslowski’s Decalogue and Three Colors; Charles Chaplin’s Limelight, Modern Times, City Lights; Vittorio De Sica’s Bycycle thieves; Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso; Satyajit Ray’s Aporajito, Kanchenjungha, Apur Sansar, Pather Panchali, Sadgati, Kapurush; Sam Mendes’ American Beauty; Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Steven Spieberg’s Schindler’s List; William Wyler’s Roman Holiday; Robert Mulligan’s To Kill a Mockingbird; Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, Rebecca, Psycho; Robert Wise’s The Sound of Music; Shaym Benegal’s Bhumika; Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine…the list is endless! |
| Favorite Music | Hariprasad Chaurasia’s flute; Nikhil Banerjee’s Sitar; Debrabata Biswas’s Rabindrasangeet; R.D Burman and Gulzar Combo; Joan Baez; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Ludwig van Beethoven; some songs of Kabir Suman...and I am very choosy about my music! |
| Favorite Books | Madness and Civilization By Michel Foucault; The History of Sexuality By Michel Foucault; Roles and Rituals for Hindu Women By Julia Leslie; The Perfect Wife: The Orthodox Hindu Women According to the Strīdharmapaddhati of Tryambakayajvan By Julia Leslie, Tryambakayajvan Translated by Julia Leslie; Caste, Culture, and Hegemony By Sekhar Bandyopadhyay; Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation By Tanika Sarkar; Orientalism and Religion By Richard King; Writing Social History By Sumit Sarkar; The Partha Chatterjee Omnibus By Partha Chatterjee; Ways of Seeing By John Berger; On Ugliness By Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen Translated by Alastair McEwen; and innumerable memoirs written by unknown Bengali women of nineteenth century whose work I discovered during my PhD field-work. |