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Name DR. ANUPAM RATAN SHANKER NAGAR
Date of Birth 6th August, 1968
Official Address Dr. Virambhai R. Godhaniya College
of Arts, Commerce, Home Science & Information Technology.
Khijadi Plot,
Opp. Income Tax Office,
Porbandar - 360 575.
Phone (O) (+91) (0286) 2247709, FAX (O) (+91) (0286) 2246866
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Residential Address 49, Shreeji Nagar,
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Porbandar - 360 577.
   
Languages Known English, Hindi, Gujarati
Qualifications M.A., Ph.D.
 

  1. Passed Higher Secondary in Humanities in Second Division (56.20%) from Central Board of Secondary Education, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Imphal in 1985.

  2. Passed B.A. with History, Philosophy, and Economics in First Division (75.40%) from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthinilayam in 1988.

  3. Passed M.A. in English Language and Literature in First Division (85%) from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthinilayam in 1990.

  4. Awarded Ph. D. in English from Manipur University in 1993. (Subject of the Thesis : Mysticism in Tagore's Poetry).
 
Administrative / Teaching Experience  Experience - 18 Years (1997 - 2008)

  1. Present Designation :
    Principal, Dr. Virambhai Rajabhai Godhaniya College of Arts, Commerce, Home Sc. & I.T., Porbandar (since 20th April, 2006).

  2. Worked as Principal, Shri Jasani Arts & Commerce College, Rajkot (17/08/2004 to 19/04/2006).

  3. Worked as Reader in English, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat (16/06/1998 to 16/08/2006).

  4. Worked as Lecturer, Department of English, Shri Maldevji Odedra College, Porbandar (30/11/1993 to 18/06/1998).

  5. Worked as Lecturer, Department of English, Baptist College, Nagaland (20/08/1992 to 10/11/1993).

  6. Worked as Lecturer, Department of English, Phek College, Phek, Nagaland (15/06/1991 to 19/08/1992).
 
Visiting Lectures  
 

  1. Delivered a Lecture on "Research, Consultancy & Extension" during the Principals' Training Programme organized by IQAC Saurashtra University, Rajkot (24th February, 2008).

  2. Delivered a lecture on "Decolonization and Contemporary Literary Theory" at the Academic Staff College, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad ( 19th March, 2006 ).

  3. Delivered lectures on Rabindranath Tagore & Sri Aurobindo at the Department of English, Saurashtra University, Rajkot (2004 - 2005).

  4. Delivered Lectures during the Refresher and Orientation Courses Organized in Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan (2000) and Academic Staff College, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad (2000, 2001) on Reader - Response Theory, Theory of Rasa, Comparative Literature, Rabindranath Tagore and Myth: Text and Context.

  5. Delivered Lectures at the Department of English, Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar on John Keats's Selected Poems in December 1999.

  6. Delivered Lectures at the Department of English, Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar on Eugene O'Neill's Morning Becomes Electra and Wallace Steven's selected poems in December 1998.

  7. Delivered lectures at Shri Shardagram Arts and Commerce College, Mangrol on 18th Century English Literature and Modern British Poetry from 1994 - 1997.

  8. Delivered Lectures at Bahauddin Arts College, Junagadh on British Drama, (Christopher Fry), Poetry (Milton, Eliot and Yeats), Novel (Lord of the Flies) and Essay (Bacon, Addison and Steele) from 1994 - 1998.
 
Research Experience 18 Years
Research Guide M.Phil. - 01 Subject : Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women & Kundanika Kapadia's Seven Steps in the Sky : A Comparative Study (2004) by Shri Kaplesh Bhatt.

APPENDIX - I
COURSES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES ATTENDED :

  • The Changing Scenario : A Perspective on Canada and India (Rajkot : 28/01/1994 to 30/01/1994).

  • National Conference on English Language Teaching, Aizwal, Mizoram (31.5.1994 to 2.6.1994).

  • The Problems of Teaching English at the Undergraduate Level (Mangrol : 01/07/1995 to 02/07/1995).

  • Orientation Course (Rajkot : 09/05/1996 to 05/06/1996).

  • Contemporary Indian Writing in English (Upleta : 07/12/1997 to 08/12/1997).

  • Post Independence Indian Writing in English. (Mangrol : 18/01/1997 to 19/01/1997).

  • Revamping Examination System (Vallabh Vidhyanagar : 1998).

  • Forum on Contemporary Theory - Workshop (Baroda : 08/10/1998 to 10/10/1998).

  • Criticism in Indian Languages at the Fin-de-Millenium (Rajkot : 28/08/1998 to 29/08/1998).

  • Refresher Course (Rajkot : 07/06/1999 to 26/06/1999).

  • XXXXIV All India English Teacher's Conference (Baneras : 02/12/1999 to 22/12/1999).

  • Decolonizing English Education in India (Patan : 16/01/2001 to 18/01/2001).

  • Shakti Seminar (Ahmedabad : 20/12/2001 to 21/12/2001).

  • UGC Sponsored National Seminar on the Indian Renaissance (Gandhinagar : 09/08/2002 to 30/08/2002).

  • Translation Workshop on Translating Indian Renaissance Short Stories in Gujarati and Hindi into English (Rajkot : 19/12/2005 to 21/12/2005).

  • NAAC Awareness Workshop for Principals of the Colleges of Saurashtra Universty (Rajkot : 23/12/2005).

  • 13th National Conference of the Indian Colleges Forum (Rajkot : 06/01/2006 to 08/01/2006).

  • NAAC Awareness Conference for Principals of the Colleges of Gujarat (Gandhinagar : 20/02/2006).

  • UGC SAP/DRS NATIONAL SEMINAR on "Rethinking India : Voices & Visions during the Indian Renaissance"(Porbandar : 01/03/2007 to 03/03/2007).

  • Attended workshop for Principals as a participant and as a mentor, organized by the Department of Higher Education, Govt. of Gujarat (Gandhinagar : 26 to 28th July, 2008 and Ahmedabad : 10 to 12th, Nov, 2008)

  • Attended a workshop for the District Coordinators on Swarnim Gujarat, organized by the Department of Higher Education, Govt. of Gujarat (Gandhinagar : 17/11/2008)

PAPERS PRESENTED AT SEMINARS :

  • Read a Paper titled as Development of Skills in the three-day National Conference on English Language Teaching, organized by the Directorate of Education, Government of Mizoram, Aizwal, from 31/05/1994 to 02/06/1994.

  • Read a Paper titled as Educational reflections in E.J. Pratt and R.Parthasarathy in the three day National Seminar on Canada and India, organized by the Department of English, Saurashtra University, Rajkot from 28/01/1994 to 30/01/1994.

  • Read a Paper titled as The Status of English in Gujarat : Problems and Remedies in the two day Seminar on The problems of Teaching English at the Under Graduate Level, organised jointly by the British Council, Bombay and the Shakespeare Society, Mangrol from 01/07/1995 to 02/07/1995.

  • Read a Paper titled as The Motif of Journey in Kolatkar's 'Jejuri' and Nissim Ezekiel's 'Enterprise' in the two-day National Seminar on Post-Independence Indian Writing in English, organized by Shardagram College, Mangrol, on 18 & 19 Jan., 1997.

  • Read a Paper titled as Death as a recurring Motif in the Poetry of Mahapatra in the Annual Conference on Contemporary University Indian Writing in English, organised by the Saurastra University English Teachers' Association at R. P. Bhalodia Mahila Arts and Commerce College, Upleta, on 8 & 9 Dec., 1997.

  • Read a Paper titled as Evaluation of Criticism in Poetry in the two-day National Seminar on Criticism in Indian Languages at the Fin de millennium, organized by the Department of English, Saurastra University, Rajkot on 28 & 29 March, 1998.

  • Read a Paper titled as The Two Sides of a Single Coin: Karun Rasa and Tragic Feeling in the XXXXIV All India English Teachers' Conference, organized at the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi from 20/12/1999 to 22/12/1999.

  • Read a Paper titled as Rasa and Self-Image in 'As You Like It' in the two day National Seminar on Decolonizing English Education in India, organised by the Department of English, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan from 16/01/2001 to 18/01/2001.

  • Read a Paper titled as Critiquing Tagore's Views on Women in the two-day Shakti Seminar, organised by the Department of English, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad on 20 & 21 Dec., 2001.

  • Read a Paper titled as Envisioning Tagore's Renaissance: A Study in Thought in the two day U.G.C. sponsored National Seminar on the Indian Renaissance, organised by Uma Arts and Nathiba Commerce Women's College, Gandhinagar from 29/08/2002 to 30/08/2002.

  • Read a Paper titled as Role of Values in Higher Education in the three day 12th National Conference of the ICF on "Role of Higher Education in Development of world View and Values among Youth", organised by Saurashtra University, Rajkot from 06/01/2006 to 08/01/2006.

APPENDIX -II
RESEARCH PROJECTS :

   American Transcendentlism and Indian Thought (UGC Minor Research Project : submitted to Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan on 23rd Jan., 2003).

PUBLISHED PAPERS IN RESEARCH JOURNALS AND ANTHOLOGIES :

  • Development of Skills (ELT at Crossroads, Edited by Gautam Banerjee, 1995).

  • Tagore : Khushvant Singh ki Pratikriya per Pratikriya (Bhasha Setu, Ahmedabad, 1996).

  • Educational Reflections in E.J. Pratt and R. Parthasarathy (The Quest, Ranchi, 1997).

  • Christianity and the Inevitability of Sin in 'The Power and the Glory' (Poetcrit, Maranda, 1997).

  • The Motif of Journey in Kolarkar's 'Jejuri' and Ezekiel's 'Enterprise' (Indian Book Chronicle, Jaipur, 1997).

  • The Religious Quest of Tagore (Indian Book Chronicle, Jaipur, 1997).

  • Gitanjali mein Rahasyavaad (Bhasha Setu, Ahmedabad, 1998).

  • Death as the Recurring Motif in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra (Poetcrit, Maranda, 1998).

  • Evaluation of Criticism in Poetry (Poetcrit, Maranda, 1999).

  • Tagore and Wordsworth : Notes towards a Comparative Study (Indian English Poetry and Fiction, edited by Suman Sachar, 2000).

  • The Motif of 'Silence' in A Silence of Desire and That Long Silence (Indian Women Novelists in English, edited by Amarnath Prasad, 2001).

  • Indian Thought and Whitman's Universal love (Poetcrit, Maranda, Jan. 2001).

  • Indian Thought and Whitman's Universal Love (The Green Lotus Vol. II No.2, Bhubeneshwar, April-June 2000).

  • Rasa and Self-image in As You Like It (Decolonization : A Search for Alternatives edited by Dr. Anupam Nagar and Shri Tapas Chakravarti, 2001).

  • The Two Sides of a Single Coin : 'Karun Rasa' and Tragic Feeling' (Miscelenea : A Journal of English and American Studies: Vol. 26, 2002 & Poetcrit, Maranda, Jan., 2003).

  • Critiquing Tagore's Views on Women (Research article in the book "Shakti - Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Women's Empowerment in India", edited by Dr. Ranjana Harish and Bharati Harishankar, 2003).

  • Problematizing Naipaul's Concept of Civilization (Critical response to V.S. Naipaul & Mulk Raj Anand, edited by Dr. Amarnath Prasad, 2003).

  • Envisoning Tagore's Renaissance : A Study in Thought (Modern Indian Writing : Critical Perceptions, edited by Prof. N. D. R. Chandra, 2004).

  • The Mind Paradigm in John Keats's Odes (Recrtiquing John Keats, edited by Dr. Anupam Nagar & Amarnath Prasad, 2005).

  • Tagore's Mysticism: Resisting the Myth of Finality (Poetcrit : Jan. 2007).

  • Rethinking Gandhiji and Tagore's Ideology (Rethinking Gandhian Thought and Literature, edited by Dr. Anupam Nagar, 2008).

ARTICLES :

  • The Concept of education : A Great Constructive Force for Mankind (Manipur Mail, Imphal, 1988).

  • Education in Human Values (Manipur Mail, Imphal, 1988).

  • The Descent of Super-Consciousness (Manipur Mail, Imphal, 1989).

  • True Education (Phek College Magazine, Phek, 1991).

  • Science and Spirituality (Phek College Magazinw, Phek, 1991).

  • Jivan Ko Madhur Banana Hai (Tattva Darshan, Porbandar, 1996).

  • Whither Patriotism? (Indian Book Chronicle, Jaipur, 1999).

  • Freedom : Ideas and Issues : Some Reflections (Aanarta - The Journal of North Gujarat University, Vol. 7, 1996-2001).

  • Towards Understanding Commonwealth Literature (Aanarta - The Journal of North Gujarat University, Vol. 9, 2002).

  • Gilda Thebaud Mansour's Glimpse: A Critique (Gilda Thebaud Mansour: Poet and Painter of Body, Mind and Soul, Skylark Publications, Aligarh, 2003).

  • An appreciation of a few select poems of Giovanni Campisi (Meteore Meteores, Edizioni Universum, Italia, 2003).

  • Ode on a Grecian urn : An Indian Reader's Response (Aanarta - The Journal of North Gujarat University, 2004).
APPENDIX -III
BOOKS :

  • Stray Birds : A Collection of Poems (Writers' Forum, Ranchi, 1995).

  • Mysticism in Tagore's Poetry (Prakash Book Depot, Bareilly, 1995).

  • Pain and Pleasure : A Collection of Poems (Writer's forum, Ranchi, 1997).

  • Decolonisation : A Search for Alternatives (Creative Books, New Delhi, 2001).

  • American Transcendentalism and Indian Thought : A Comparative Study (Indian Institute of Language Studies, New Delhi, 2003).

  • Recritiquing John Keats (Sarup & Sons, New Delhi, 2005).

  • Re-thinking Gandhiji and Tagore's Idealogy (Creative Books, New Delhi, 2008).

  • Gandhivichar ane Sahitya par punah Chintan (Dr. V. R. Godhaniya College, Porbandar, 2008).

POEMS : (1989 TO 2003)

  • Zamin Yeh Mari, Meri Fariyad (Campus magazine of Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Learning:Prasanthinilayam, 1989).

  • The Storm (The Quest : Ranchi 1996).

  • Resolve (Poems 96 : Ranchi).

  • The Morning Calm (Poet : Chennai, Feb., 1997).

  • The Morning Calm (Poems 97 : Ranchi).

  • A Poet's song (Bridge-in-Making : Calcutta 1997).

  • Dis-satisfaction (Bridge-in-Making : Calcutta 1997).

  • The Divine She (Bridge-in-Making : Calcutta 1997).

  • The Divine She (Poet : Chennai 1997).

  • I (Revaluations : Bhubaneswer 1997).

  • Indecision, Death (Canopy : Bareilly 1997).

  • Solitude, Consciousness, Renunciation (Asparagus : Hyderabad 1997).

  • Rain and Man (Poet : Chennai, Jan., 1998).

  • Rain and Man (Bridge-in-Making : Calcutta, April 1998).

  • Renunciation (Samvedana : Mangalore, Feb. 1998)

  • Horizons (Poet : Chennai, June 1998).

  • You 2 (Canopy : Bareilly, July 1998).

  • You (The Brain-Wave : Chennai 1998).

  • You (Poet : Chennai, 1998).

  • The World (The Brain Wave, Chennai, Aug, 1998).

  • Search (Poet : Chennai, Aug. 1998).

  • Indecision, You (The Brain Wave : Chennai 1998).

  • Divinity (Poetcrit : Himachal Pradesh 1998).

  • She Walks in Beauty-Tr., (Bhasa Setu : Ahmedabad 1998).

  • Home (Bridge-inMaking : Calcutta, Dec. 1998).

  • The Morning Calm, World and Spirit, Revel, You (The Scoria : Chandigarh, Mar. 1998).

  • You 2 (Poems 98 : Ranchi).

  • Dis-satisfaction (World Poetry : Chennai 1999).

  • Remembrance (Metverse Muse : Chennai 1999).

  • Evening Song-Tr. (Bhasha Setu : Ahmedabad 1999).

  • Whither Tradition?, (Bridge-in-Making : Calcutta 1999).

  • Whither Tradition?, (Poet : Chennai, Aug. 1999).

  • A River (Bridge-in-Making : Calcutta 2000).

  • The Soul's Last Sigh (The Brain Wave : Chennai, Dec. 2000).

  • Colonialism-Tr. (Bhasha Setu : Ahmedabad 2000).

  • Colonialism (Samvedana : Mangalore, December 2000).

  • Earthquake (Bridge-in-Making, Calcuta 2001).

  • Terrorism (Poetcrit, Maranda Dec. 2001).

  • Prospice-Tr. (Bhasha Setu : Ahmedabad 2000 & 2001).

  • A River (Metverse Muse : Chennai 2001).

  • A River (Canopy : Bareilly, Jan. 2001).

  • The Open Sky (Canopy : Bareilly, July 2001).

  • Believe in Accidents (Indian Book Chronicle : Jaipur, June 2002).

  • My Heart Leaps Up (Trans. Bhasha Setu : Ahmedabad September 2002).

  • From the Immortality Ode (Trans. Bhasha Setu : Ahmedabad September 2002).

  • Farewell (Poets International, Bangalore, March 2003).

  • Lobbying and Propaganda (Poets International, Bangalore, May 2003).


OTHER ACTIVITIES :

  • Had been a regular member of the University (Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthinilayam) team (Cricket & Football) from 1985-1990.

  • Had taken active part in atheletics in the Campus games of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthiniyam from 1985-1990.

  • Had prepared and coordinated a Remedial course in English at the Shri Maldevji Odedara Mahila College, Porbandar(1994).

  • Had organised a seminar on the 'Problems of Teaching English at U.G. Level in the Department of English, Shri Maldevji Odedra Mahila College, Porbandar(1995).

  • Had edited the Departmental English Newsletter 'The Graffiti' at the Shri Maldevji Odedara Mahila College, Porbandar(1996-98).

  • Had assisted as Assistant Co-ordinator of the Refresher Course (2-21 Nov. 2000) organized by the Department of English, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan.

  • Had assisted as assistant Co-ordinator during the National Seminar of "Decolonizing English Education in India" (16-18 Jan. 2001) organized by the Department of English, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan.

  • Had supervised the activities of the Vivekananda Literary Club in the Department of English, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan (2002-04).

  • Had edited the English Newsletter 'The Graffiti' of the Department of English, Hemchadracharya North Gujarat University, Patan (2003-04).

  • Had conducted Saurashtra University Examinations as the Principal of Shri Jasani Arts & Commerce College, Rajkot in the most efficient and lawful fashion in the year 2004-05.

  • Am a member of the Senate, Saurashtra University, Rajkot (2004 till date).

  • Introduced the theme & delivered the welcome address during the two-day National Seminar on "Rethinking Gandhian Thought & Literature" on 30th and 31th Jan, 2007.

  • Am appointed as the District Coordinator of Porbandar District by the Department of Higher Education, Gandhinagar. (Since August, 2008)
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