Om Prakash Dwivedi is Professor of English and Founding Director, Institute of Liberal Arts and Humanities at Chandigarh University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Alma Mater Europaea, Slovenia. 

His recent publications include, Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis: Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability (Routledge 2024), Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature (Palgrave 2023), and a special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing (with Andreas Wansbrough) on “Living in Dystopia: Fractured Identities and COVID-19” (2022). He is a member of the Publication Advisory Board of Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). 

He can be reached at om_dwivedi2003@yahoo.com

Recent Publications 

Journalism

  1. “Harvard and global universities caught in the crossfire of populism and public good”, Australia Today. April 20, 2025. Link: https://www.theaustraliatoday.com.au/harvard-and-global-universities-caught-in-the-crossfire-of-populism-and-public-good/
  2. “Why Neoliberal Universities Debunk Critical Thinking,” Naked Punch Review. April 13, 2025. Link: https://nakedpunch.com/why-the-neoliberal-universities-debunk-critical-thinking/
  3. “A Life Without Rights is Difficult,” Lokmat Times. April 11, 2025. Link: https://epaper.lokmat.com/articlepage.php?articleid=LOKTIME_NALT_20250411_6_5
  4. “The Modus Operandi of Brutalism: Anti Empathy of Musk and the Financialization of Nations,” Naked Punch Review. March 30, 2025. Link: https://nakedpunch.com/the-modus-operandi-of-brutalism-anti-empathy-of-musk-and-the-financialization-of-nations/
  5. “Globalism and Entrepreneurs: The Incubators for Brutalism,” Naked Punch Review. March 20, 2025. Link: https://nakedpunch.com/globalism-and-entrepreneurs-the-incubators-for-brutalism/
  6. “Reading and Critique in Critical Humanities,” Australia Today. March 16, 2025. Link: https://www.theaustraliatoday.com.au/reading-and-critique-in-critical-humanities/
  7. “Brutalism the Next Liberal Order of the 21st Century,” Naked Punch Review. March 12, 2025. Link: https://nakedpunch.com/brutalism-the-next-liberal-order-of-the-21st-century/
  8. “Why We Need to Read More,” Lokmat Times. February 27, 2025. Link: https://epaper.lokmat.com/articlepage.php?articleid=LOKTIME_NALT_20250227_6_5
  9. “DeepSeek: A Wake-up Call for India,” Lokmat Times. February 9, 2025. Link: https://epaper.lokmat.com/articlepage.php?articleid=LOKTIME_NALT_20250209_6_3
  10. “We Need Humanities More Than Ever,” Lokmat Times. January 24, 2025. https://epaper.lokmat.com/articlepage.php?articleid=LOKTIME_NALT_20250124_6_5
  11. “Are we a ‘raga’averse Society?,” Lokmat Times. January 10, 2025. Link: https://epaper.lokmat.com/articlepage.php?articleid=LOKTIME_NALT_20250110_6_5
  12. How to Lose the Planet (https://www.news18.com/opinion/opinion-how-to-lose-the-planet-9193825.html) CNNNews18
  13. Creative Social Sciences as a Blueprint for Viksit Bharat (https://www.news18.com/opinion/opinion-creative-social-sciences-as-a-blueprint-for-viksit-bharat-9148506.html)
  14. Youth Migration and Vulnerable Civic Infrastructure: Can India Carve out the Vision of Viksit Bharat? (https://www.theaustraliatoday.com.au/youth-migration-and-vulnerable-civic-infrastructure-can-india-carve-out-the-vision-of-viksit-bharat/) 
  15. ‘The Satanic Verses’ Returns to India: 36 Years on, creative Freedom still battles cancel culture (https://www.theaustraliatoday.com.au/the-satanic-verses-returns-to-india-36-years-on-creative-freedom-still-battles-cancel-culture/)
  16. WaPo’s Maldive expose and deep state narratives countering India’s rise (https://www.theaustraliatoday.com.au/wapos-maldives-expose-and-deep-state-narratives-countering-indias-rise/)
  17. Delhi’s pollution emergency and India’s aspiration to become a leading economy( https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/delhis-pollution-emergency-and-indias-aspiration-to-become-a-leading-economy-13839301.html)

Book Chapter:

“COVID-19: Lessons in Ethics for Social Assets,” in The Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics: Women, Justice, Bioethics, and Ecology. Ed. By Purushottama Bilimoria and Amy Rayner. Routledge: London & New Delhi: 2024. 54 – 62.