Dr. Paromita Patranobish

Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore

Creative Nonfiction and Longform Essays


In Search of Shitala
The Chakkar, March 2025
Deities like Shitala represent a specific premodern response to disease. Paromita Patranobish explores what Bengal’s pox goddess could teach us about social ethics in Anthropocene times.

Red Circles
The Hooghly Review, 2024


A Short History of Dust
Hakara Bilingual, June 2021

Spectacle of the Stars: A memory of magic from the night sky
The Chakkar, January 2021