Research Associates

Name: Nilanjan Dutta

Address: GC 45, Sector III, Salt Lake,

Kolkata 700106, India

Phone: (033) 2337-0408

Email: nilanjan123123@rediffmail.com
Website: www.mcrg.ac.in

Educational Qualifications:
MA in English from Jadavpur University

Current Positions:
He is a journalist, researcher and documentary filmmaker. He has been working on the history of the civil liberties movement in India and has authored and edited a few books and monographs.

Name: Ishita Dey

Address: GC 45, Sector III, Salt Lake,

Kolkata 700106, India

Phone: (033) 2337-0408

Email: ishita@mcrg.ac.in
Website: www.mcrg.ac.in

Educational Qualifications:
B.A. English, Delhi University.
M.A. Sociology, Delhi University

M Phil Sociology, Delhi University

Current Positions:
Joined as Research Associate in CRG May 2007. Her M Phil dissertation was on "Migration and Entrepreneurship: Chinese Community in Kolkata Primary areas of academic research interests are development and its impact on migration, social movements Food practices and consumption culture in 21st C Bengal.”

She has been involved in organizing three consultations on Internal Displacement in India assisted in organising and compiling a report- "Responsibility to Protect" which is available on the report section of the website www.mcrg.ac.in. She was a programme associate of the Fifth and Sixth Winter Course on Forced Migration. As part of CRG’s work on forced migration and refugee rights she has been working on the transition of Cooper’s Camp to Cooper’s Camp Notified Area and Globalization, social conflict and Special Economic Zones in India.
Internship Report of the Junior Fellowship Programme of Fifth Annual Winter Course on Forced Migration Click Here

Name: Geetisha Dasgupta

Address: GC 45, Sector III, Salt Lake,

Kolkata 700106, India

Phone: (033) 2337-0408

Email: geetisha@mcrg.ac.in
Website: www.mcrg.ac.in

Educational Qualifications:
B.A, Political Science, Presidency College, Kolkata

M.A, Political Science, Calcutta University

Current Positions:

Joined CRG as Research Associate for the Right to Food Programme in August 2008. She has taken part in the University seminar, under the UGC DRS Programme in 2006 and presented a paper on Public perceptions of Development, which has been published in 2007. Currently, she is working on a research paper under the Right to Food Project with the working title “Whither Right to Food? Rights Institutions and Hungry Labour in Tea Plantations of North Bengal.”

Her post graduate dissertation, stemming from her special paper Research Methodology was titled “A critique of the BPL Census Methodology.”

Internship Report of the Junior Fellowship Programme of Sixth Annual Winter Course on Forced Migration Click Here

Name: Madhuresh Kumar

Address: GC 45, Sector III, Salt Lake,

Kolkata 700106, India

Phone: (033) 2337-0408

Email: madhuresh@cacim.net; kmadhuresh@gmail.com
Website: www.mcrg.ac.in

Educational Qualifications:

BA Hons. in History from Delhi University

Current Positions:

He is a researcher and social activist based at CACIM (India Institute for Critical Action Centre in Movement), New Delhi and is an Associate of Calcutta Research Group (CRG) Kolkata (India). He has been involved in researching anti- globalisation struggles in India and the World Social Forum process. He has collaborated with Jai Sen and Peter Waterman in editing and compiling of books and Readers on the World Social Forum (World Social Forum : Challenging Empires 2^nd ed (Black Rose Books, Canada, 2008) and A Political Programme for the World Social Forum ? (CACIM & CCS, New Delhi & Durban, 2007). He is currently involved in publication of a series of edited books in Hindi under the title Samrajyon Se Sangharsh (Challenging Empires, English) being published by Prakashan Sansthan, New Delhi. In 2005, he published Globalisation, State Policies, and Sustainability of Rights (Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata).

Name: Sanam Roohi

Address: GC 45, Sector III, Salt Lake,

Kolkata 700106, India

Phone: (033) 2337-0408

Email: sanam@mcrg.ac.in
Website: www.mcrg.ac.in

Educational Qualifications:

MA in Political Science from Calcutta University

Current Positions:

Joined Calcutta Research Group in October 2006 as a Programme Associate for Social Justice programme. She has taken part in the University seminar, under the UGC DRS Programme in 2006 and presented a paper on Women and Development, which has been published recently.
Her primary academic interests are questions of minority rights, issues of gender justice and Development studies.
Sanam under the Guidance of Dr. Samir Das organised and rapporteured for the Bhubaneswar Dialogue on Justice in Divided Societies in October 2006 and also helped in the editing of the final report. She has helped coordinating the fourth annual Winter Course on Forced Migration in 2006 and is responsible for the Second Critical Studies Conference as part of the Social Justice Programme.
Internship Report of the Junior Fellowship Programme of Fifth Annual Winter Course on Forced Migration Click Here

Name: Ksenia Glebova

Address: GC 45, Sector III, Salt Lake,

Kolkata 700106, India

Phone: (033) 2337-0408

Email: forcedmigrationdesk@mcrg.ac.in
Website: www.mcrg.ac.in

Educational Qualifications:

MSc. in Comparative Politics with focus on Asia from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a first-class BA in International Politics from the University of Helsinki,Finland.

Current Positions:

Joined as an Honourary Research Associate in CRG, after completing the Fourth Annual Winter Course in Forced Migration with CRG in 2006.
Her primary academic interests include asylum policy in South Asia and the European Union, media discourse on asylum and immigration, multiculturalism, borders and identity.
Ksenia has worked as a professional journalist for the Finnish Broadcasting Company and the Finnish News Agency and continues to write on forced migration, human rights and South Asia as a freelancer. Prior to joining CRG, Ksenia has also worked with the European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), the Finnish Directorate of Immigration and interned with the media units of the United Nations in New York, Council of Europe in Strasbourg as well as the BBC World Service.