Justice, Security, and Vulnerable Populations of South Asia
Research Segment
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Ritam Sengupta is Asst. Professor at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture at the O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. He specializes in the study of infrastructure, energy, the environment and media through the lens of history and anthropology.
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The Subject and Paradoxes of Digital Security
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Saurabh Bhattacharjee is an Associate Professor at National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bengaluru. Saurabh’s academic interest includes Labour Law, Refugee Law, Law and Impoverishment, Sports Law and Nuclear Law. Before joining NLSIU, Saurabh worked at NUJS Kolkata between December 2009 and June 2021. He has also taught at the National Law University (NLU) Jodhpur, Administrative Training Institute, Government of West Bengal, West Bengal Judicial Academy and the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management [IISWBM], Kolkata. Saurabh has also been a Member of the Committee to Review Vagrancy Laws, constituted by the Government of West Bengal Saurabh had also worked with the Delhi-based civil society group, The Other Media on campaigns on issues of conflict and human rights, corporate accountability, refugee rights between 2005 and 2007 before joining academia. |
Operationalising Human Security for Migrants: Social Protection as a Continuum; Understanding Human Security
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Sucharita Sengupta is a Researcher at the Calcutta Research Group. She completed her PhD from the department of Anthropology and Sociology from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva, Switzerland in July 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Alessandro Monsutti, Second Reader- Prof.Graziella Moreas De Silva and External - Prof. Ranabir Samaddar. She was also a Teaching Assistant at the institute between 2019-2021. Before joining the PhD in 2017, she was working on issues related to Migration and Forced Migration Studies in South Asia as part of her work as a Researcher in Calcutta University, Burdwan University and Calcutta Research Group, in India. Under the supervision of scholars like Professor Paula Banerjee, she has worked on Chakma refugees based in Arunachal Pradesh in India and on Rohingya and Bangladeshi women languishing under gross human rights violation in Indian Prisons (mainly West Bengal) under the foreigners Act, among others, as part of her work at CRG between 2014-2017. For her PhD, she has worked on the Statelessness, agentive discourse and conditions of life of Rohingya Refugees in camps of Bangladesh, which was based on ethnographic field work in Bangladesh in 2019. The work explored existing categories within refugee studies that in turn trigger debate on the anthropology of state and how modern governance is conceived in light of that. |
Promises and paradoxes of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Secure Migration | |
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Samir Kumar Das is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata. Previously the Vice-Chancellor of the University of North Bengal, and a Post-Doctoral Fellow (2005) of the Social Science Research Council (South Asia Program), he is the Coordinator of the University Grants Commission-Departmental Research Support (UGC-DRS) Programme (Phase II) on ‘Democratic Governance: Comparative Perspectives’. He served as a Visiting Fellow at the European Academy, Bolzano, Italy (2008), an Adjunct Professor of Government at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (2014) and a Visiting Professor of the North East India Studies Programme at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi in 2015 and at the Universite 13 Sorbonne-Paris-Cite in 2016 among many of his assignments. He specializes in and writes on issues of ethnicity, identity, security, migration, rights and justice and has contributed over 190 research papers to highly esteemed national and international journals and edited volumes. Besides, he has been a regular reviewer of some of the top journals, publishing houses and research bodies including Minority Rights International (London) and European Research Council (Brussels) etc. |
Peace and People’s Security: An Agenda for Neoliberal Times | |
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Sahana Basavapatna is a lawyer based in Bangalore practising in the areas of civil, criminal and commercial litigation. She has formerly worked on forced migration and with refugees/asylum seekers while living in New Delhi and represents asylum seekers before courts in Bangalore. |
State's Plenary Powers and " Refugee Law" (Policy Brief) |
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Rajat Roy A senior journalist with wide experience in both Print and Electronic media. He started his journalistic career under two legendary journalists Gourkishore Ghosh and Hamdi Bey, when Aajkaal, a Bengali daily was launched in 1981. Later on, he joined Anandabazar Patrika. During his 18 years stay in Anandabazar Patrika he shouldered various responsibilities, such as, member of Delhi bureau, Chief of Delhi bureau, Chief Reporter (West Bengal districts), News Coordinator, News Editor and Associate Editor (Editor). |
The Land Question (Policy Brief) |
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Bharat Bhushan Associate Editor, 360info, and South Asia Editor. He has a strategic development role across 360info and is South Asia Editor leading there work across the region. He is a senior Indian journalist and columnist and former television show host on Foreign Affairs for Rajya Sabha TV. Bharat has served as Editor of Catch News, founding Editor of Mail Today, Executive Editor of the Hindustan Times, Editor of The Telegraph in Delhi, Editor of the Express-News Service, Washington Correspondent of the Indian Express and an Assistant Editor with The Times of India. |
Media and Securitisation | |
