Publications

Articles

“A Rose by another Name: Definitions, Sanitized Terms and Imagery of Torture in 24.” Law, Culture and Humanities, Forthcoming. (Peer Reviewed)

“Torture in Postcolonial India: A Liberal Paradox?” In Evil, Law and the State: Issues in State Power and Violence, ebook edited by Francesca Dominello, Oxford, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Forthcoming.

 “Revenge and the Spectacular Execution: The Timothy McVeigh Case,” in Studies in Law, Politics and Society 33, edited by Austin Sarat & Patricia Ewick, Oxford: Elsevier Ltd, 2004: 201-221. (Peer Reviewed)

“Hundred Fifty Years of Communist Manifesto: Alexandra Kollontai and Marxist Feminism”, Economic and Political Weekly 36, no. 17, April 2001: 1413-1424.
“Liberalization and Its Impact on Women,” in Feminist Politics: Struggles and Issues, edited by Jinee Lokaneeta, Nivedita Menon and Sadhna Arya, Delhi: Hindi Medium Directorate, 2001: 222-234.

Edited Book

Jinee Lokaneeta, Nivedita Menon and Sadhna Arya, eds, Feminist Politics: Struggles and Issues. Delhi: Hindi Medium Directorate, 2001, a book in Hindi language for teaching a new undergraduate course on Women and Political Process.

Book Reviews & Other Publications

Encyclopaedia Entry on “Torture” for Multi Volume Encyclopaedia of Global Religion, Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, and Wade Clark Roof, Sage Publications. (In Process)

Entry on “Torture and the Constitution.” in Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution, 2 volumes. Edited by David Schultz, New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2009.
Book Review of Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire. By Mrinalini Sinha. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. & The Making of Neo liberal India: Nationalism, Gender, and the Paradoxes of Globalization. By Rupal Oza. New York, London: Routledge, 2006 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 33(4) 2008: 1000-1003.
Book Review of Justice, Gender and the Politics of Multiculturalism. By Sarah Song. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, Law and Politics Book Review, 18 (1) (January, 2008): 91-94.

Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics, by Sonia Kruks, New Political Science 26 (1) (March 2004): 125-129.

De-eroticizing Assault: Essays on Modesty, Honor and Power, by Kalpana Kannabiran and Vasanth Kannabiran, Book Review 26 (10) (October 2002): 32-33.

With Pratiksha Baxi. ‘“Numa”, Malati Debi Choudhury: Some Memories.’ Mainstream, April 11, 1998.

Works in Progress

Book Manuscript Titled: Unraveling the Exception: Torture in Liberal Democracies.

Torture Debates in the post-9/11 United States: Law and Violence and Governmentality. Theory and Event, Revise and Resubmit.