51. Presented a paper, "The Interlocking Gaze: Early Travel Writing in Persian, Urdu and English”, in a seminar onTravel Writing in India organised by the Sahitya Akademi & Goa Kala Academy, Panaji, Goa, Dec. 12-14, 2002.52. Panelist on “Writing from the Colony: India, Egypt, Pakistan and Bangladesh,” Downing College, CambridgeU.K.), July 1-3, 200053. Presented a Paper, "Tagore's Gora in Urdu Translation and the Questions of Authority, Legitimacy andAuthenticity" in the seminar, Translating India, organised by Sahitya Akademi in collaboration with the Ministryof Culture, India, Ian 15-17, 200154. Presented a paper, "Contemporary Trends in Urdu Poetry" in Regional Poets' Meet, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi,Dec.15-17, 2000.55. Presented a paper entitled "Literary Historiography and the First Novel in Urdu" in the national seminar EarlyNovels in Indian Languages, Trivandrurn, jointly organised by Sahitya Akademi, Delhi and Centre forComparative Literature, University of Kerala, March 25-26, 2000.56. Presented a paper entitled, "Poetics and Practice of Translation: Urdu Poetry in Bangla and English Translations" inthe national Seminar on Urdu Poetry After Independence, Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, Nov. 19-21, 1999.57. Presented a paper entitled, "Narrating Nation, Narrating Communities: Construction of Muslim Identity inQurratulain Hyder'sAag ka Darya" in the Festival of Letters ( Novel in search of the Nation), Sahitya Akademi,Feb, 26-28, 1999.58. Presented a paper in Department of English, Delhi University, on "Redefining the Canon: A Case for the Study ofManto's 'Tobatek Singh' in Historical Context", Feb 20, 1999.59. Presented a paper on "Poetry in English Translation: The Case Of Urdu, " In the Festival of Letters (SahityaAkademi), March. 1998.60. Discussant in the Seminar on Literatures of Partition, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, March.1996.61. Presented a paper entitled, "Fiction in Translation: A Case-study of the Rendition of Manto ' s Urdu Stories intoEnglish by Khalid Hasan, " in the International Seminar on The Life and Works of S'adat Hasan Manto, IndianInstitute of Advanced Studies, Shimla; May 21-23, 1996.62. Invited to present a paper on "The Ramayana and the Aeneid : Some Salient Features" in the congress of theInternational Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Tokyo, Aug 24-27, 1991.63. Presented a paper on "Theory and Practice of Comparative Literature" in the Congress of ComparativeLiterature, School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Jan 1- 3, 1991.64. Presented a paper entitled "New Trends in Commonwealth Literature" in the Second Annual Conference of Indiansociety for Commonwealth Studies, Department of English and Comparative Literature, S. K. University,Anantpur, March 22-24, 1990.65. Presented a paper in the first annual conference of Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies on "Conrad andNaipaul : A Comparative Study", University of Poona, Pune, Jan. 27-29, 1989.26
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