Pakistani/Bangladeshi/Sri Lankan Anglophone literatures 

Places of unrest: Kashmir, The North-East, landscapes of displacement, Border fiction

Naxalite, Dalit, Tribal voices

Ecological emergencies, environmentalism and eco-critical perspectives

Terror and religious violence, ethnic and situated conflicts, the registration of fear, affective landscapes and traumascapes, reconciliation

Globalization, neo-liberalism, consumerism: social turmoil and global cities

Urban fiction, Slum chronicles, Diaporic voices

Women fiction, Gender and trans-gender stories, Queer representations

21st century, shaping and reshaping narration in the post-millennial novel, the short story, the diary, the autobiography, genre and commercial fiction, crime and detective stories, crick lit., chick lit., graphic novels,  comics

Fanfictions, collaborative efforts, peer and grassroots literacy

New readers, new publishers

History, secular and 'sacred', which narrations for the nation in the third millennium?

English /Bhashas: canons in translation