Kakatiya University professor invited to ELLTA conference

Warangal: Rajeshwar Mittapalli, the English professor of Kakatiya University has been invited to attend ELLTA 2017 conference on the theme of ‘Perspectives on Leadership, Learning and Social Enterprise in Asia’ in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference is being organised by Exploring Leadership and Learning Theories in Asia (ELLTA) and co-hosted by Asian Institute of Technology during July 25-27.

The professor will present a paper titled ‘Narrating the Nation in Ten Sentences: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things’ The paper discusses how Roy works her commentary into the narrative of the Booker Award winning novel by means of ‘planting’ pithy statements at strategic turns and how unpacking them will enlighten us on Indian history, society, culture, economy, philosophy and way of life.

His published works of criticism include The Novels of Wole Soyinka and Indian women novelists and psychoanalysis. He edited the New Delhi based quarterly the Atlantic Literary Review for six years, apart from co-editing 25 anthologies of critical essays on a variety of literary subjects with European, American and Indian scholars.