SELECTED Stories/Articles

'An Indian Abroad,' monthly newspaper column in The Sunday Guardian, New Delhi (2014 – 17) Read 'Diaspora literature is changing' https://sundayguardianlive.com/news/541-diaspora-literature-changing 

and 'An Indian Summer' https://sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/5791-indian-summer-2

'She Thinks.' Column/Blog in The Times of India

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/author/dr-debotri-dhar/

Read 'Her Story Needs to Be Told' https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/she-thinks/her-story-needs-to-be-told/

 Series of articles on gender issues. Outlook Magazine.https://www.outlookindia.com/author/debotri-dhar

(In Memoriam.) 'A sense of Belonging.' For Bharati Mukherjee. Open Magazine. Read essay: http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/books/bharati-mukherjee-a-sense-of-belonging 

(In Memoriam.) 'My Grandmother gave me her love of rivers.' For Anuradha Gupta. The Michigan Daily. 

'A Flute Called Radha' by Debotri Dhar. In Malashri Lal and Namita Gokhale eds. Finding Radha: A Quest for Love (New Delhi: Penguin Random House). This is herstory, a literary and creative re-engagement with mythic imagination.

Other contributions are by Devdutt Patnaik, Jawhar Sircar, Meghnad Desai, Kapila Vatsayan, Indira Goswami, Mandakranta Bose, Tarashankar Bandhopadhyay, Dharamvir Bharti, and others.

'Calcutta, By Foot,' in StepAway Magazine (UK), an award-winning British literary magazine on flânerie for the twenty-first century.

 
'Snakes,' Very Short Fiction Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train (USA)

‘Single Women, Self-Love, and the Gender of Waiting,’ an essay combining analyses of literary and cultural texts with auto-ethnography. Exploring the emblematic figure of the waiting woman in literature and culture, including a literary instance of inter-species love from Ohbreht's acclaimed novel 'The Tiger's Wife,' it asks if there are as many literary instances of men who wait for love. Read an extract in The Blue Lotus Magazine  https://issuu.com/martinabradley/docs/the_20blue_20lotus_20magazine_20special_203/s/11294406

'Trains,' in Cerebration, a literary journal http://www.cerebration.org/debotridhar.html

 
'Two Ways to Get Over the Death of a Loved One,' in Mapping Me: A Landscape of Women's Stories (New Zealand) https://www.amazon.com/Mapping-Me-Landscape-Womens-Stories-ebook/dp/B00L5X98MC

• ‘Teaching Culture in a Globalized Era: Strategies from a Postcolonial Feminist Classroom.’ Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy (Volume 29, Issue 2) eds. Jason Martinek and Jacqueline Ellis, Penn State University Press, 2019.

•‘Teaching Virginia Woolf’s 'A Room of One’s Own' in a Feminist Classroom: An Intersectional, Transnational Perspective.’ Feminist Formations (Special Issue: Teaching the Classics) Guest-edited Jennifer Nash and Samantha Pinto.

• ‘Feminism, Faith, and Intimate Violence’ (Ann Arbor: Center for the Education of Women). 

•‘“India’s Daughters”: Women’s Issues since Independence,’in the German Journal of World History, guest issue on India ed. Dr. Gita Dharampal-Frick. (Trans. German.) 

•‘Teaching for the Future: Feminist Pedagogy and Humanitarian Education,’ in Debotri Dhar, ed. Education and Gender (London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic), 157-174. 

•‘Women, Homes, Histories: Main Trends in Modern Indian Literary Fiction,’ in Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee eds. India: Histories of the Present, Istor 59. (Trans. Spanish.) 

•‘Radha’s Revenge: Feminist Agency, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Desire in Anita Nair’s Novel Mistress,’ Postcolonial Text, Vol 7, No. 4.