Name: Priya Singh
Address: GC 45, Sector III, Salt Lake,  
Kolkata 700106, India
Phone: (033) 2337-0408
Email: priya@mcrg.ac.in
Website: www.mcrg.ac.in

Current Position:
 
She is  Research and Programme Associate at the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. She is an area specialist and has been tracking the West Asian region with Israel as an area of special interest. She has been writing consistently on the issue of migration, displacement and refugees be it the Palestinian refugees or as in recent times, the Syrians. She has been Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata.  At MCRG, she is working on a project entitled, “Social and Political Mapping of Popular Movements, Logistical Vision and Infrastructure of India.”
 

Name: Ritam Sengupta
Address: GC 45, Sector III, Salt Lake,  
Kolkata 700106, India
Phone: (033) 2337-0408
Email: ritam@mcrg.ac.in
Website: www.mcrg.ac.in

Current Position:
 
He is a research candidate at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences. His broad area of work is the making of an infrastructural and logistical economy in twentieth century India with a specific focus on the coming of electricity and its significance in planning, industrialization and agricultural development. At MCRG he is working on a project about Data Centres in India in terms of the legality and political economy of emerging regimes of data governance and business.
 

Name: Dr. Somdatta Chakraborty
Address: GC 45, Sector III, Salt Lake,  
Kolkata 700106, India
Phone: (033) 2337-0408
Email: somdatta@mcrg.ac.in
Website: www.mcrg.ac.in

Current Position: 

 
She is currently a Research and Project Associate at the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. Having studied History at Presidency College, Calcutta, she received her M.Phil and Doctoral degree from Centre for Historical Studies, J.N.U, New Delhi. In her M.Phil dissertation, she used the lense of religion to explore the sexuality of the devadasis of Orissa. The ambit of her doctoral thesis is however different, concentrating on the lives, culture, pathos and experiences of the people of the water and the streets, namely fishermen and boatmen, hackney carriage drivers and palanquin bearers of Bengal between late nineteenth and mid twentieth century. Her enduring research interests have been culture and economy, rituals and customs, systems and cities, ideas and mentality to name a few and she takes keen interest in international politico-social and cultural backdrop of painting, photography, music and other forms of expressions. She has taught History at Scottish Church College, Presidency University and Sikkim University, Gangtok apart from co-authoring history text books for West Bengal State Book Board and WBBSE. In MCRG, she is involved with an ICSSR sponsored research project with TISS that attempts to document and analytically map the lived-in experiences of the new middle class that arguably came on its own post 1991, in certain Indian cities.