Specialization
- Gender
- Left Wing Extremism
- Social Policy
- Penology
- Ethnography method
Educational Qualifications
- Ph.D. from Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- M. Phil from Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication from Central University of Hyderabad.
Administrative Assignments
- Member of the Advisory Committee in the Ministry of Cooperatives, Government of India, 2021
- Member of UGCF Syllabus Committee, University of Delhi, 2021
- Member of the Advisory Committee, Centre for Research, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi,2022
Thesis
- Gender, Political Participation and Rehabilitation: A Sociological Analysis of the Women Ex-Combatants in the Maoist Movement of Odisha.
Projects
- UNICEF (Odisha). Research Assistant. March 2010 to May 2011. This was my first in the tribal hinterland of Southern Odisha. It was for capacity building of key stakeholders, namely, community volunteers, selected community reporters, local NGOs for design, management and operation of a community radio station. It Covers about 50 villages in Koraput District. My responsibility was to prepare plans and process documentation based on the needs assessment of villagers. I conducted village level meetings and made presentations where their preferred folk programmes were articulated. Convergence with related government departments, narrowing of content, designing feasible programmers for broadcasting, managing participatory learning process etc. was done by me.
- Panchayati Raj Department, Government of Odisha. Research Assistant. May 2011-July 2012. Documentation of implementation and execution of MGNREGS done in Southern Odisha. Analyzed both qualitative and quantitative data after cataloging the findings.
- World Bank, New Delhi. Research Assistant. July-2013 - Dec 2013. The World Bank in engineering education in India (TEQIP II and III) was under preparation when I got this assignment., A large part of this project focused on low income states in India, namely, Rajasthan, Bihar, UP, Odisha, MP, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. Previous findings of the project revealed that a much smaller percent of SC / ST students entered engineering education, compared to their population size and, when they did join, they often dropped out relatively quickly. The project wanted to understand this better, beginning with how aspirations were formed in these categories of students, what they went through to meet these
aspirations and what they did when they did not manage. I documented these aspects so that it would be helpful to design and target the project in upcoming phases.
- Land Conflict Watch, New Delhi. Project Coordinator. Nov 2017 to Dec 2018. LCW is a network of researchers and journalists spread across India. I mapped and collected data on ongoing land conflicts and used them to inform public discourse around land rights and governance in India. I was in-charge of managing the whole network of 30 researchers across India and also engaging them in how to identify the nature of conflict and report on websites. My work
also involved collaboration with a Delhi based core team for sharing informed and nuanced stories on land rights in India.
Journal Publications
- Article, “Analyzing the problem of professionalizing Prostitution: A reading of Svati P. Shah’s Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, Migration in the city of Mumbai” in BRICS International Journal of Educational Research. 2017. pp:39-43. ISSN 2231-5829.
- Book Review, Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence and Subjectivity in India’s Naxalbari Movement in Sage Publication House,New Delhi, 2022.DOI: 10.1177/23491396221143557 pp :43-46.
- Book Review, Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence and Subjectivity in India’s Naxalbari Movement in Vantage:Journal of Thematic Analysis.pp.133-135,ISSN 2582-7391.
Conference/Symposium Paper Presented
- 2022. Presented paper on Gender, Subjectivity and Violence in India’s Naxalite Movement: A Sociological Analysis in an International Conference organized by Indian institute of History, Rotterdam, Netherlands from 22-24 June,2022.
- 2019. Presented paper on “Gender, Political participation and Rehabilitation: A Sociological Analysis of the Women Ex-Combatants in the Maoist Movement of Odisha” in Ph.D. research Scholar Seminar organized by Centre for the Studies of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University on 26 -27 Apr, 2019.
- 2019. Presented paper on How health services improves: Analyzing and defining the issues concerning community mobilization and participation in the tribal districts of Odisha in an International Conference organized by A.N Sinha Institute of Social Studies in collaboration with UNICEF & Tata-Cornell Institute, USA, on 5 -6 Apr, 2019.
- 2018. Presented paper on Nation Building without National Interest: An Outlook of Adivasi Movement under Narmada Dam Project organized by MIRDEC-10th, International Academic Conference: Global and Contemporary Trends in Social science, Barcelona, Spain 6-8 Nov,2018.
- 2018. Presented paper on Gender, Political Participation and Rehabilitation: An inquiry into the Women Ex-Combatants in the Maoist Movement of Eastern India an International
Conference organized by the Communication and Sociology Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, on 26 -27 Oct 2018.
- 2018. Presented paper on Holding up Half the Sky: Women Combatants in the Maoist Movement in India an International Conference organized by Great Transition Collective, McGill University and Historical Materialism in MontrealUniversity, Canada, on 17 - 20 May,2018
- 2018. Presented paper on Universal Immunization Programme: An Analysis of Koraput District Odisha in NIRD, Hyderabad organized by Indian Association for Social Sciences and Health, on 23 -25Sep, 2018
Workshop/Conference/Symposium Attended
- 2021 October. One day webinar on 'Women in Performance' by Dr. Lata Singh organized by Maitreyi College, University of Delhi.
- 2020 May. One day webinar on “Challenges to Peace in COVID-19 period: Solutions from Gandhian Perspective” organized by the Department of Gandhian and Peace Studies, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Bihar.
- 2008 April. Participated in Indian Association of Social Sciences & Health; Health Conference at Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, on Apr, 2008.
Others
- India. 2018, May: Coordinated and organized "Two Days Training and Orientation Workshop" in Raipur on Data Journalism and Consultation on Documenting Land Related Conflicts.
- Italy. 2018, October: Volunteer in International Conference on Recent Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
- India. 2019, April: Rapporteur of session in International Conference on “Maternal and Child Health in Empowered Action Group States”: Sustainable Development Goals Perspective. A.N Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Bihar.
- India. 2021, September. Organized webinar, 'Shifts in Women's Movements Since Independence' by Dr. Sadhna Arya at Maitreyi College, University of Delhi.
