The Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize
The Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize was instituted in 2011 in the memory of the second Chairperson of the IACLALS, Prof. Meenakshi Mukherjee (1993-2005). She taught English literature and Critical theory at a number of colleges in Patna, Pune, Delhi and the University of Hyderabad. Her last and longest spell was as Professor of English in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was a visiting professor in several universities outside India, including the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Chicago, the University of California at Berkeley, Macquarie University (Sydney), the University of Canberra and Flinders University (Adelaide).
The MMM Prize is awarded for the Best Paper published by a member(s) of the IACLALS during the block of previous two years. The prize now carries a certificate with citations, and a sum of Rs. 10,000. At the time of its institution, the prize carried the sum of Rs. 5000 with a certificate. IACLALS provides single return airfare (Domestic) to the awardee, to join the annual conference at the time of the award. In case of joint awardees, all the privileges, extended to the awardee [prize money, single return airfare (domestic)] shall to be shared equally between the authors.
Guidelines for The Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize
1. An article published in a journal or a chapter included in a published book may be entered for the prize. Both online and print publications shall be acceptable. Whole books by an author(s) will not be eligible.
2. Along with the submission, candidates will need to submit the title page and contents page, and complete publication data in the case of online journals.
3. All Published papers being submitted for the MMM Prize, in addition to the scanned document from the parent print publication, should be accompanied by their pdf/word file to facilitate plagiarism check and other processes. Both PDF and Word files of the paper need to be submitted along with a self-declaration by the authors regarding both files being identical papers, and plagiarism-free.
4. Candidates competing for the prize must have been members: both at the time of publication of their work, and at the time of submitting their entry for the prize.
5. Co-authored papers: In case of co-authored papers, all the authors should jointly apply for nomination through a signed application. They should have been members at the time of publication of papers and at the time of the award. All privileges extended to the awardee [prize money, single return airfare (domestic)] will be shared equally between the authors.
6. The submission should make some original/fresh contribution to the existing corpus of knowledge -- theoretical, textual or interpretive.
7. IACLALS will conduct an independent plagiarism check before sending the papers for review.
8. Minimum word limit for a submitted article is 3500 words, excluding citations.
9. One member can submit only one nomination. In the covering mail, members will need to clearly declare their membership status. There is no (other) entry fee.
10. Earlier awardees will be able to apply for the nomination only after a gap of 3 years from the year of the award.
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The MMM Prize is awarded for the Best Paper published by a member(s) of the IACLALS during the block of previous two years. The prize now carries a certificate with citations, and a sum of Rs. 10,000. At the time of its institution, the prize carried the sum of Rs. 5000 with a certificate. IACLALS provides single return airfare (Domestic) to the awardee, to join the annual conference at the time of the award. In case of joint awardees, all the privileges, extended to the awardee [prize money, single return airfare (domestic)] shall to be shared equally between the authors.
Guidelines for The Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize
1. An article published in a journal or a chapter included in a published book may be entered for the prize. Both online and print publications shall be acceptable. Whole books by an author(s) will not be eligible.
2. Along with the submission, candidates will need to submit the title page and contents page, and complete publication data in the case of online journals.
3. All Published papers being submitted for the MMM Prize, in addition to the scanned document from the parent print publication, should be accompanied by their pdf/word file to facilitate plagiarism check and other processes. Both PDF and Word files of the paper need to be submitted along with a self-declaration by the authors regarding both files being identical papers, and plagiarism-free.
4. Candidates competing for the prize must have been members: both at the time of publication of their work, and at the time of submitting their entry for the prize.
5. Co-authored papers: In case of co-authored papers, all the authors should jointly apply for nomination through a signed application. They should have been members at the time of publication of papers and at the time of the award. All privileges extended to the awardee [prize money, single return airfare (domestic)] will be shared equally between the authors.
6. The submission should make some original/fresh contribution to the existing corpus of knowledge -- theoretical, textual or interpretive.
7. IACLALS will conduct an independent plagiarism check before sending the papers for review.
8. Minimum word limit for a submitted article is 3500 words, excluding citations.
9. One member can submit only one nomination. In the covering mail, members will need to clearly declare their membership status. There is no (other) entry fee.
10. Earlier awardees will be able to apply for the nomination only after a gap of 3 years from the year of the award.
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MMM Prize: Roll of Honour
YEAR WINNER
2012 Makarand R. Paranjape
2013 Meena T. Pillai
2014 Somdatta Mandal
2015 Nilanjana Mukherjee
2016 Nishat Haider
2017 Shailendra Kumar Singh
2018 Fatima Rizvi
2019 Avishek Parui
2020 Ritwick Bhattacharjee
2021 Sagar Taranga Mandal
2022 Sreenath V S
2012 Makarand R. Paranjape
2013 Meena T. Pillai
2014 Somdatta Mandal
2015 Nilanjana Mukherjee
2016 Nishat Haider
2017 Shailendra Kumar Singh
2018 Fatima Rizvi
2019 Avishek Parui
2020 Ritwick Bhattacharjee
2021 Sagar Taranga Mandal
2022 Sreenath V S
2022 ANNOUNCEMENT
PRESS RELEASE
THE MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE MEMORIAL PRIZE, 2022
IACLALS is delighted to announce that the prestigious Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial prize, 2022 edition has gone to Sreenath VS for his article What to do with the Past? Sanskrit Literary Theories in the Post Colonial Space (Journal of Indian Philosophy, Springer, 2021). Heartiest Congratulations to Sreenath!
The prize was keenly contested between the seventeen contenders considered eligible for the prize. While the difference of marks awarded between the winner and the rest was considerable, the difference of marks between Natasa Thoudam for her article Divisive Politics of the Inner Line Permit (ILP) in Three Stories from Manipur in India’s North East ( South Asia : Journal of South Asian Studies, Taylor & Francis online, 2021) and Sutapa Dutta for Packing a Punch at the Bengali Babu ( South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies , Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2021), the second and third highest scorers, was 4 marks. Similarly, there was a difference of 4 marks between Sutapa Dutta and the fourth highest scorer, Shailendra Singh for his article Premchand’s Shifting Portrayals of Womanhood in Colonial North India: Between Conformity and resistance (Contributions to India Sociology, Sage Publications, 2020). Congratulations to all of them! They all deserve great appreciation.
Despite the continuing pandemic, the IACLALS Executive received a large number of entries out of which seventeen were considered eligible for the contest. The distinguished jury comprised Prof Robert JC Young, Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University, Prof Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Global Distinguished Professor of English, New York University and Prof Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Professor Emerita at Humanities and Social Sciences Department, IIT, Delhi. The IACLALS Executive thanks the jury members for their painstaking and thorough evaluation of each entry. The moderator for the prize was Prof Swati Pal, Vice Chair, IACLALS.
The Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize is awarded for the Best Paper published by a member of the IACLALS during a block of the previous two years. The prize carries a certificate with citations and a cheque for Rs. Ten thousand.
M Asaduddin
Chair
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Dr M Asaduddin, Professor of English, JMI, New Delhi - 110025
Chair*, Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature & Language
studies (IACLALS)
Advisor to the Vice Chancellor
Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Languages*
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, Rutgers University, USA
Awardee: Crossword Book, Sahitya Akademi, Katha, A.K. Ramanujan
https://www.iaclals.com/mmm-prize.html
THE MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE MEMORIAL PRIZE, 2022
IACLALS is delighted to announce that the prestigious Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial prize, 2022 edition has gone to Sreenath VS for his article What to do with the Past? Sanskrit Literary Theories in the Post Colonial Space (Journal of Indian Philosophy, Springer, 2021). Heartiest Congratulations to Sreenath!
The prize was keenly contested between the seventeen contenders considered eligible for the prize. While the difference of marks awarded between the winner and the rest was considerable, the difference of marks between Natasa Thoudam for her article Divisive Politics of the Inner Line Permit (ILP) in Three Stories from Manipur in India’s North East ( South Asia : Journal of South Asian Studies, Taylor & Francis online, 2021) and Sutapa Dutta for Packing a Punch at the Bengali Babu ( South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies , Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2021), the second and third highest scorers, was 4 marks. Similarly, there was a difference of 4 marks between Sutapa Dutta and the fourth highest scorer, Shailendra Singh for his article Premchand’s Shifting Portrayals of Womanhood in Colonial North India: Between Conformity and resistance (Contributions to India Sociology, Sage Publications, 2020). Congratulations to all of them! They all deserve great appreciation.
Despite the continuing pandemic, the IACLALS Executive received a large number of entries out of which seventeen were considered eligible for the contest. The distinguished jury comprised Prof Robert JC Young, Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University, Prof Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Global Distinguished Professor of English, New York University and Prof Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Professor Emerita at Humanities and Social Sciences Department, IIT, Delhi. The IACLALS Executive thanks the jury members for their painstaking and thorough evaluation of each entry. The moderator for the prize was Prof Swati Pal, Vice Chair, IACLALS.
The Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize is awarded for the Best Paper published by a member of the IACLALS during a block of the previous two years. The prize carries a certificate with citations and a cheque for Rs. Ten thousand.
M Asaduddin
Chair
--
Dr M Asaduddin, Professor of English, JMI, New Delhi - 110025
Chair*, Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature & Language
studies (IACLALS)
Advisor to the Vice Chancellor
Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Languages*
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, Rutgers University, USA
Awardee: Crossword Book, Sahitya Akademi, Katha, A.K. Ramanujan
https://www.iaclals.com/mmm-prize.html
2021 ANNOUNCEMENT
𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘
THE MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE MEMORIAL PRIZE, 2021
The IACLALS is thrilled to announce that the coveted Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial prize 2021 edition has gone to 𝐒𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐫 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥, 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐢, for his article ‘Pulsing Cities and Seething Interstices: Poetics of Mediation in Graphic Science fiction’ published in the book, New Forms of Space and Spatiality in Science Fiction (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019). Heartiest Congratulations to Sagar!
The prize was so keenly contested this year that the difference between the winner and the runner-up (Nishat Haider) was of just 2 marks out of 300 marks, and the difference between the 3rd position (Shaweta Nanda) and the fourth (a tie between Anubhav Pradhan and Srinjoyee Dutta) was just 1 mark. Congratulations to all of them! They all deserve the best of accolades.
In 2020-21, despite the pandemic, the IACLALS Executive received a large number of entries out of which sixteen were considered eligible for the contest. The distinguished jury comprised Prof Malashri Lal, Delhi University, Prof Suman Gupta, Open University (U.K.) and Professor Sukrita Paul Kumar, Delhi University. The IACLALS Executive thanks the jury members for their painstaking and thorough evaluation of each entry. The moderator for the prize was Professor Swati Pal, Vice Chair, IACLALS.
The Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize is awarded for the Best Paper published by a member of the IACLALS during a block of the previous two years. The prize carries a certificate with citations, and a cheque for Rs 10,000.
M Asaduddin
Chair
--
Dr M Asaduddin, Professor of English, JMI, New Delhi - 110025
Chair*, Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature & Language
studies (IACLALS)
Advisor to the Vice Chancellor
Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Languages*
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, Rutgers University, USA
Awardee: Crossword Book, Sahitya Akademi, Katha, A.K. Ramanujan
https://www.iaclals.com/mmm-prize.html
THE MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE MEMORIAL PRIZE, 2021
The IACLALS is thrilled to announce that the coveted Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial prize 2021 edition has gone to 𝐒𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐫 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥, 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐢, for his article ‘Pulsing Cities and Seething Interstices: Poetics of Mediation in Graphic Science fiction’ published in the book, New Forms of Space and Spatiality in Science Fiction (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019). Heartiest Congratulations to Sagar!
The prize was so keenly contested this year that the difference between the winner and the runner-up (Nishat Haider) was of just 2 marks out of 300 marks, and the difference between the 3rd position (Shaweta Nanda) and the fourth (a tie between Anubhav Pradhan and Srinjoyee Dutta) was just 1 mark. Congratulations to all of them! They all deserve the best of accolades.
In 2020-21, despite the pandemic, the IACLALS Executive received a large number of entries out of which sixteen were considered eligible for the contest. The distinguished jury comprised Prof Malashri Lal, Delhi University, Prof Suman Gupta, Open University (U.K.) and Professor Sukrita Paul Kumar, Delhi University. The IACLALS Executive thanks the jury members for their painstaking and thorough evaluation of each entry. The moderator for the prize was Professor Swati Pal, Vice Chair, IACLALS.
The Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize is awarded for the Best Paper published by a member of the IACLALS during a block of the previous two years. The prize carries a certificate with citations, and a cheque for Rs 10,000.
M Asaduddin
Chair
--
Dr M Asaduddin, Professor of English, JMI, New Delhi - 110025
Chair*, Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature & Language
studies (IACLALS)
Advisor to the Vice Chancellor
Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Languages*
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, Rutgers University, USA
Awardee: Crossword Book, Sahitya Akademi, Katha, A.K. Ramanujan
https://www.iaclals.com/mmm-prize.html
