His Ph.D. dissertation (from the New York University), The Colonial Staged, on nineteenth-century Bengali Theatre won the Michael Kirby Memorial Prize in 1998 and is scheduled to come out later this year from Berg Publishers (UK) and Seagull (India). His Bengali book of plays, Abhiropan, was published in 2005 from Calcutta. He is currently also finishing his second book, Myths, Masses, & Movements, on Indian popular theatres, forthcoming from Routledge (UK). Besides many articles published in scholarly journals, he has also authored fourteen plays including translations, directed and performed in many plays, and a movie, Free to Sing? (reviewed in Parabaas, 1997). He was the guest editor of the Special Drama Issue of Parabaas.