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Sanam RoohiName: 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:
M.A and Ph.D in International Relations (with South Asia as her specialization) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata.


Current Positions: 

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 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. She was an ICSSR Fellow (2004-06) at Centre for the Studies of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. She also worked as the
Research Fellow in a CSDS (August 2001- April 2004). Her publications include SAARC at Crossroads: The Fate of Regional Cooperation in South Asia (Samskriti, New Delhi, 2006) and Parbotyo Chattogram: Simanter Rajniti o Sangram (Chittagong Hill Tracts: Politics and Struggle of the Frontier) with Debjani Dutta (Calcutta Research Group, Calcutta, 1996). She is the co-author of a Report prepared by the Calcutta Research Group entitled Voices of the Internally Displaced in South Asia (Kolkata, 2006). She has presented papers in many national and international conferences. She is a regular contributor to the reputed journals in India and abroad. She specializes on Regional Cooperation, Energy Politics, Partition Refugees and Women and Conflict Situations in South Asia.

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Sanam Roohi

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: 

Joined Calcutta Research Group in May 2009, as a Research & Programme Associate for the ‘Globalisation and Sustainability of Rights’ programme. She is currently also working as Assistant Editor for Refugee Watch, a half-yearly journal published by CRG on issues specifically pertaining to forced migration. She has attended various seminars and workshops on the development agenda at IDS, University of Sussex. She has worked on the issue of displacement vis-à-vis industrialisation in Singur, West Bengal as well for her Masters dissertation thesis titled - “Fordist Preoccupation: A Saga of the Human Cost of Industrialisation.”  
Her primary academic interests rest on the issues of social justice, displacement and minority-identity politics coupled with that of development economics. She is also a Human Rights Activist and Protest Theatre performer.

 

Sanam RoohiName: Supurna Banerjee

Address: GC 45, Sector III, Salt Lake,  

Kolkata 700106, India

Phone: (033) 2337-0408
Email: supurna@mcrg.ac.in
Web: www.mcrg.ac.in 

Educational Qualifications:
BA in Political Science (Presidency College, Kolkata)

MA in Political Science (University of Calcutta, Kolkata)



Current Positions: 
Joined CRG as junior Research Associate for the project on Women and Borders. Have taken part in the UGC sponsored DRS seminar in University of Calcutta and presented paper on literature of civil society in 2008. Have worked in a project under the UGC sponsered Student Attachment Programme under the ASHISS programme of Jadavpur University, Department of International Relations on the Socio-political Integration of East Bengal Refugees through a case study of  Bijoygarh in 2007.

Research interests  are primarily focused on gender, forced displacement and its various dimensions.

Ishita Dey


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ameIshita 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
 

Ishita Dey


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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