“Translating Novels into Films: The Question of Fidelity”, in Beam 2000.

“Erasing Africa: Myth and Memory in Apocalypse Now” in Conrad at the Millennium: Modernism, Postmodernism, Postcolonialism, vol. 2. Ed. Gail Fincham, New York: U of Columbia Press, 2002

“The Novels of Kiran Nagarkar” in South Asian Novelists in India, ed. Jaina Sanga, Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003

“The Fiction and Drama of Hanif Kureishi” in South Asian Encyclopedia, ed. Jaina Sanga, Westport: Greenwood, 2004

December 2002: SALA/MLA, New York, “After Partition: Communalism and Violence in Indian Fiction and Film”

November 2001: Jai Hind College, Mumbai: “Translating Novels into Films”

December 1999: MLA, Chicago: “The Politics of the Popular: Contemporary Hindi Films in India”.

Delivered a series of lectures on the Language of World Cinema at Wilson College, Mumbai 2002

Elected on the Editorial board of the South Asian Encyclopedia to be published by Greenwood Press in 2004.

Participated in an e-teaching course on “Contemporary World Writing” with Farleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, USA, Spring 2003.

Invited to join the Global Faculty of Farleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, USA in the spring of 2003.