Name: Suha Priyadarshini Chakravorty

Address: GC 45, Sector III, Salt Lake,  

Kolkata 700106, India

Phone: (033) 2337-0408

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

Educational Qualifications:
BA in Sociology (Honours) from Presidency College,
University of Calcutta

MA in Science, Society & Development from Institute Of
Development Studies (IDS, University of Sussex)

Current Positions: 

She is currently working as the Research & Programme Associate for CRG (Jan 2012) after having had worked at the institution in the past (2009) for the Globalisation and Sustainability of Rights programme. She has previously worked on issues of common property resource management, livelihood anxieties vis-a-vis health concerns, development induced displacement, forced migration and minority-identity politics. Her recent publication is on the issue of ‘Commons’ and is entitled ‘How Equal is Common?: Common Property Resources & Local Institutions’ in Ishita Dey & Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury (Ed.) Sustanability of Rights after Globalisation(Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2011). Her primary academic interests rest on issues of social justice and the politics of distribution/aid and international development. She is also a Human Rights Activist and Protest Theatre performer.

Name: Atig Ghosh

Address: GC 45, Sector III, Salt Lake,  

Kolkata 700106, India

Phone: (033) 2337-0408

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

Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D El Colegio de México, Mexico City

Current Positions: 
He is presently a Research and Programme Associate with the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. He also teaches history on a part-time basis at the West Bengal State University (Barasat). Having studied history at the then Presidency College, Calcutta, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he received his doctoral degree from El Colegio de México, Mexico City. His doctoral research was lodged around conjoint concerns of political economy and cultural anthropology in the context of small-town (mofussil) Bengal in the nineteenth-century. Presently, he is researching statelessness and its socio-ontological textures and tangles in the intractable fastnesses of the Indo-Bangladeshi enclaves.

Name: Mithilesh Kumar

Address: GC 45, Sector III, Salt Lake,  

Kolkata 700106, India

Phone: (033) 2337-0408

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

Educational Qualifications:
M.phil in English, Jadavpur University.

Current Positions: 
He is a Research and Programme Associate at Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group.  His research interests lie in the issues of identity, migration, land relations and history of popular struggles in the Northeast and Bihar.

Name: Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury
Address: GC 45, Sector III, Salt Lake,  
Kolkata 700106, India
Phone: (033) 2337-0408
Email: anasua@mcrg.ac.in
Website: www.mcrg.ac.in

Educational Qualifications:

Ph.D in International Relations (with South Asia as her specialization) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Current Position: 
She is currently the Research and Programme Associate of CRG. She was the Research Associate at the Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta (2006-08) and also an ICSSR Post-doctoral Fellow (2004-06) at Centre for the Studies of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. She has received the Kodikara Award from the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Colombo in 1998-99 and worked on The Energy Crisis and Sub-regional Cooperation in South Asia (subsequently published as the Policy Studies 13 by the RCSS in 2000). She is the recipient of the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) Senior Media Fellowship 2007 for which she worked on Vernacular Dailies and the Ethnic and/or Religious Stereotypes in the Time of Violence. Her recent publications include Women and Borders (co-edited with Paula Banerjee), Sage Publications, New Delhi, July 2011; SAARC at Crossroads: The Fate of Regional Cooperation in South Asia (Samskriti, New Delhi, 2006). She specializes on Regional Cooperation, Energy Politics, Partition Refugees and Women and Conflict Situations in South Asia.