Sk Sagir Ali is assistant professor of English literature at Midnapore College in West Bengal, India.Swayamdipta Das is lecturer in the Department of English at Narasinha Dutt College in West Bengal, India.

• Introduction: Sk. Sagir Ali and Swayamdipta DasPart I: Ecological Disasters and the Statist Contours of Conditional EmpathyChapter One: Ecological Crises to Socio-Political Disaster: Revisiting the Politics of Empathy Around Marichjhapi Massacre and the Dalit Question, Madhumita BiswasChapter Two: Ecological Disaster And The River of Stories—Resuscitating Empathy Through Graphic Narratives, Pritha BanerjeeChapter Three: Simulations of the Future: Climate Change and Disaster in Contemporary Indian Science Fiction in English, Swati MoitraChapter Four: Magic Realism and Trauma: A Study of Comingling of Spaces in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island, Nilanjan ChakrabortyPart II: Migration, Displacement, and the Cosmopolitan Gaze: The Monolingualism of the Disaster ImaginationChapter Five: Can Disaster be Known in the Light of the Language? Unity and Possibility of the Future in Shaktipada Rajguru’s Dandak Theke Marichjhapi, Joydip Datta and Samrat SenguptaChapter Six: Fear of Refugee and Disaster: Monstrosity, Risky Body, and Moral Panic in Exit West, Sk. Sagir AliChapter Seven: Systemic Strategies of Identity Constructions and Deliberate Exclusions: Understanding the Socio, Economic and Political Circumstances of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Rajeesh CSPart III: Disasters and Other Heterotopias: Disaster Poetics and the Re-writing of the Postcolonial Nation-StateChapter Eight: Re-imagining Disaster Capitalism through Fecopoetics and the Literature of Waste: Fyatarus and the beyond of the Empathy Machine in the Short Stories of Nabarun Bhattacharya, Swayamdipta DasChapter Nine: War, Religion, and Terror: Syed Shamsul Haq’s Two Novellas Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense, Mohammad Shafiqul IslamChapter Ten: Global Catastrophe, Local Residues: Re-Thinking The ‘Global-Local’ Dynamic In Imagining Catastrophes Through Bishnu Dey’s ‘Cassandra’ Poems’, Subhayu BhattacharjeeChapter Eleven: The Vanishing Dead: Memory, Necropolitics and the Modern State, Debamitra KarPart IV: Pandemics, Public Health Disasters, and Biopolitical Regimes of ControlChapter Twelve: Marked by Disposable Deaths: Mourning and Community in Times of Pandemic, Shinjini BasuChapter Thirteen: Gendered Empathy and its Impact on Efficient Pandemic Management, Sudeshna MukherjeeAbout the Contributors

Sk Sagir Ali is assistant professor of English literature at Midnapore College in West Bengal, India.Swayamdipta Das is lecturer in the Department of English at Narasinha Dutt College in West Bengal, India.

• Introduction: Sk. Sagir Ali and Swayamdipta DasPart I: Ecological Disasters and the Statist Contours of Conditional EmpathyChapter One: Ecological Crises to Socio-Political Disaster: Revisiting the Politics of Empathy Around Marichjhapi Massacre and the Dalit Question, Madhumita BiswasChapter Two: Ecological Disaster And The River of Stories—Resuscitating Empathy Through Graphic Narratives, Pritha BanerjeeChapter Three: Simulations of the Future: Climate Change and Disaster in Contemporary Indian Science Fiction in English, Swati MoitraChapter Four: Magic Realism and Trauma: A Study of Comingling of Spaces in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island, Nilanjan ChakrabortyPart II: Migration, Displacement, and the Cosmopolitan Gaze: The Monolingualism of the Disaster ImaginationChapter Five: Can Disaster be Known in the Light of the Language? Unity and Possibility of the Future in Shaktipada Rajguru’s Dandak Theke Marichjhapi, Joydip Datta and Samrat SenguptaChapter Six: Fear of Refugee and Disaster: Monstrosity, Risky Body, and Moral Panic in Exit West, Sk. Sagir AliChapter Seven: Systemic Strategies of Identity Constructions and Deliberate Exclusions: Understanding the Socio, Economic and Political Circumstances of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Rajeesh CSPart III: Disasters and Other Heterotopias: Disaster Poetics and the Re-writing of the Postcolonial Nation-StateChapter Eight: Re-imagining Disaster Capitalism through Fecopoetics and the Literature of Waste: Fyatarus and the beyond of the Empathy Machine in the Short Stories of Nabarun Bhattacharya, Swayamdipta DasChapter Nine: War, Religion, and Terror: Syed Shamsul Haq’s Two Novellas Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense, Mohammad Shafiqul IslamChapter Ten: Global Catastrophe, Local Residues: Re-Thinking The ‘Global-Local’ Dynamic In Imagining Catastrophes Through Bishnu Dey’s ‘Cassandra’ Poems’, Subhayu BhattacharjeeChapter Eleven: The Vanishing Dead: Memory, Necropolitics and the Modern State, Debamitra KarPart IV: Pandemics, Public Health Disasters, and Biopolitical Regimes of ControlChapter Twelve: Marked by Disposable Deaths: Mourning and Community in Times of Pandemic, Shinjini BasuChapter Thirteen: Gendered Empathy and its Impact on Efficient Pandemic Management, Sudeshna MukherjeeAbout the Contributors

Sk Sagir Ali is assistant professor of English literature at Midnapore College in West Bengal, India.Swayamdipta Das is lecturer in the Department of English at Narasinha Dutt College in West Bengal, India.

• Introduction: Sk. Sagir Ali and Swayamdipta DasPart I: Ecological Disasters and the Statist Contours of Conditional EmpathyChapter One: Ecological Crises to Socio-Political Disaster: Revisiting the Politics of Empathy Around Marichjhapi Massacre and the Dalit Question, Madhumita BiswasChapter Two: Ecological Disaster And The River of Stories—Resuscitating Empathy Through Graphic Narratives, Pritha BanerjeeChapter Three: Simulations of the Future: Climate Change and Disaster in Contemporary Indian Science Fiction in English, Swati MoitraChapter Four: Magic Realism and Trauma: A Study of Comingling of Spaces in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island, Nilanjan ChakrabortyPart II: Migration, Displacement, and the Cosmopolitan Gaze: The Monolingualism of the Disaster ImaginationChapter Five: Can Disaster be Known in the Light of the Language? Unity and Possibility of the Future in Shaktipada Rajguru’s Dandak Theke Marichjhapi, Joydip Datta and Samrat SenguptaChapter Six: Fear of Refugee and Disaster: Monstrosity, Risky Body, and Moral Panic in Exit West, Sk. Sagir AliChapter Seven: Systemic Strategies of Identity Constructions and Deliberate Exclusions: Understanding the Socio, Economic and Political Circumstances of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Rajeesh CSPart III: Disasters and Other Heterotopias: Disaster Poetics and the Re-writing of the Postcolonial Nation-StateChapter Eight: Re-imagining Disaster Capitalism through Fecopoetics and the Literature of Waste: Fyatarus and the beyond of the Empathy Machine in the Short Stories of Nabarun Bhattacharya, Swayamdipta DasChapter Nine: War, Religion, and Terror: Syed Shamsul Haq’s Two Novellas Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense, Mohammad Shafiqul IslamChapter Ten: Global Catastrophe, Local Residues: Re-Thinking The ‘Global-Local’ Dynamic In Imagining Catastrophes Through Bishnu Dey’s ‘Cassandra’ Poems’, Subhayu BhattacharjeeChapter Eleven: The Vanishing Dead: Memory, Necropolitics and the Modern State, Debamitra KarPart IV: Pandemics, Public Health Disasters, and Biopolitical Regimes of ControlChapter Twelve: Marked by Disposable Deaths: Mourning and Community in Times of Pandemic, Shinjini BasuChapter Thirteen: Gendered Empathy and its Impact on Efficient Pandemic Management, Sudeshna MukherjeeAbout the Contributors