Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay
Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay, is the CHIEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (ACADEMICS) of SWAMI VIVEKANANDA UNIVERSITY (Bara Kanthalia, Barrackpore, West Bengal, India). Previously he served as the VICE-CHANCELLOR of BANKURA UNIVERSITY (Bankura, West Bengal), and taught at the UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN as a PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH. He is the present SECRETARY of the INDIAN ASSIOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AUSTRALIA (EASTERN REGION). A theatre-enthusiast and critic, BANDYOPADHYAY’S(edited and solo-authored) publications include LANDSCAPE, PLACE AND CULTURE: LINKAGES BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND INDIA(Cambridge Scholars, 2011), BORDERS AND BORDER CROSSINGS: READING PARTITION, READING DIASPORA (University of Burdwan Press, 2016), ‘THE ASIAN CENTURY’: AUSTRALIA AND THE TRANS-ASIAN CULTURAL AND STRATEGIC DIPLOMACY(Aadi, 2016),TRANSNATIONAL SPACES OF INDIA AND AUSTRALIA (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and LAKSHMI’S FOOTPRINTS AND PAISLEY PATTERNS: PERSPECTIVES ON SCOTO-INDIAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL INTERRELATIONS (Routledge, 2023).