His fields of expertise are Sanskrit linguistics, philosophy of language, the Indian grammatical tradition, literary theory, comparative poetics and aesthetics, Kashmir Śaiva and Buddhist philosophy, among others. He has come to take a specialized interest in various theories of meaning and interpretation, both Indian and Western, in the prism of his broader academic pursuits to locate the interface domain of linguistics, literature and philosophy. He is the author of Buddhist Theory of Meaning and Literary Analysis (Delhi: D. K. Printworld, 1999). His other publications include “Buddhist Theory of Meaning”, in: Signs and Signification, Vol. II (2000), and “Sthitpraj–asya kŒ bhŒ•Œ: What is Liberated/Decolonized Mind?”, in: Decolonization: A Search for Alternative, ed. Adesh Pal et al. (Delhi: Creative Books, 2000)