Published Works
Spanning memoir, short fiction, and rigorous academic scholarship — a body of work united by a lifelong love of literature and the human story.
Stories rooted in lived experience — navigating identity, belonging, love, and the resilience of the human spirit across the landscape of modern India.

Dr. Vandana Sharma's most intimate work — a deeply personal memoir navigating identity, belonging, and the quiet revolutions that transform a life from within. Written with lyrical precision and the analytical depth of a seasoned scholar, Veiled Horizons charts a journey through memory, displacement, and self-discovery that resonates far beyond its personal origins.

Five powerful short stories inspired by the real lives of late 20th-century India — a tapestry of love, longing, betrayal, and endurance. Each story illuminates the hidden interior lives of people navigating extraordinary circumstances with quiet dignity. Together they form a portrait of an India rarely seen in literary fiction, rendered with scholarly precision and deep human empathy.
Rigorous scholarly scholarship at the intersection of postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, and Anglo-Indian literature.
The Cultural Cross Currents TrilogyA three-volume psychoanalytical study examining the impact of cultural cross-currents on individuals through the lens of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Esmond in India. Drawing on decades of research in Victorian literature, postcolonial theory, and Indian writing in English.
The opening volume of the trilogy establishes the psychoanalytical framework for examining how cultural cross-currents generate dysfunction in the characters of Jhabvala's seminal novel. A landmark study in Anglo-Indian literary criticism.
The second volume traces how cultural dysfunctions are recognised and resolved — examining the psychological mechanisms that allow characters to navigate competing cultural imperatives toward resolution.
The concluding volume synthesises the trilogy's findings — examining how creative tension ultimately resolves across cultural boundaries and what this reveals about identity, belonging, and the colonial literary imagination.