Bollywood Baddies: Villains, Vamps, and Henchmen in Hindi Cinema

Tapan Kumar Ghosh is Reader in English at Tarakeswar Degree College, Burdwan University, West Bengal. He has had a distinguished academic career. He obtained Ph.D. for research on the fiction of Arun Joshi in 1993. His first book Arun Joshi’s Fiction: The Labyrinth of Life was published in 1996. A perceptive critic of Indian English literature, he has published scholarly articles on Rabindranath Tagore, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Shashi Tharoor, Mukul Kesavan and other writers. At present he is co-editing a critical volume on Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook.