He obtained a PhD for his research on the fiction of Arun Joshi and his publications include Arun Joshi's Fiction: The Labyrinth of Life, Salmon Rushdie's Midnight's Children: A Reader's Companion, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook: A Critical Study and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Critical Study, as also scholarly articles on Rabindranath Tagore, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Shashi Tharoor, Mukul Kesavan, and other writers.