Meet The Team

Dr N. Manoharan

Senior Research Affiliates

Abirami A V

Discipline: English Literature
Research Interest: To identify and explore musical aspect in diverse culture and to trace back roots.
Current Research: Songs of Resistance: The Parai Tradition of Tamil Nadu.

Rakesh Mochahary

Discipline: History
Research Interest: Northeast India -Japan relationship: Economic development and Cultural Partnership; Northeast India studies on History and Culture
Current Research: History, Identity and Culture: A Study of Bodo Community in the 19th and 20th Century.

Dr Madhumati Deshpande

Discipline: International Studies
Research Interest: Indian Ocean; Indo - Pacific; Non traditional Security Threats.
Current Research: India's role in combating Maritime Piracy in Indian Ocean: A study.

Kriti Chopra

Discipline: International Studies
Research Interest: Chinese history and nationalism with emphasis on human rights
Current Research: Zhonghua Minzu and Chinese Nationalism: Implications and Responses of Mongols in Inner Mongolia.

Keshav Varma

Discipline: International Studies
Research Interest: Indo-Pacific; Maritime Security; India's Foreign Policy; Regionalism; BIMSTEC; and Global Commons.
Current Research: The Global Commons Governance: A Study on India's role in 21st Century.

Ashwin Immanuel Dhanabalan

Discipline:International Economics
Research Interest: Politics of Semiconductors, artificial intelligence and conflicts, Geopolitics of East Asia

Humsika Srikanth

Discipline:International Studies and Global Security
Research Interest: Russia; Former Soviet Republics; Middle East.
Current Research: Russian interests and prospects in East Asia.

Research Affiliates

Vaishnavi Joshi

Discipline: Clinical Psychology
Research Interest: South Asian Philosophies; Traditional Healing Practices; Integrative healing practices; Mental Health and well-being; Indian classical dance forms.
Current Research: Traditional Healing Practices in East Asia

Neenu Stanly

Discipline: International Studies
Research Interest: Security Studies and Geopolitics of West Asia, Indo-Pacific, and East Asia.
Current Research: Expanding Chinese footprints in West Asia

Chaitali Das

Discipline: English and Cultural Studies
Research Interest: Cultural similarities between East Asian Nations and India and the influence of the East Asian countries on Indian pop culture.

Akshaye Mavinkurve

Discipline: Public Policy
Research Interest: Welfare studies; Geopolitical studies; critical theory; and cultural theory.
Current Research: Evaluating the effects of liberalisation on income inequality in China and South-East Asia.

Tanvi Kaur

Discipline: International Studies
Research Interest: Asia-Pacific region; South China Sea Maritime Issue; Cyber and Social Media Influence; and Globalisation

Nidhi Gururaj

Discipline:Public Policy
Research Interest: A comparative study of India and Southeast Asia's tech policies.

B S Varshaa

Discipline: International Studies
Research Interest: Conflict studies and resolution; Geopolitics.
Current Research: Conflicts in East Asia.

Hari Yadav G

Discipline: Political Science
Research Interest: Geopolitics, the Indian Ocean region, Indo-Pacific, and Sino-Indian relations.
Current Research:China’s Geo-economic initiatives, Maritime Strategy and Cybersecurity.

Guillermo Moya Barba

Discipline: Diplomacy and International Relations
Research Interest: Land grabbing in Southeast Asia and its human rights implications.
Current Research:The International Regime of International Criminal Justice and the Rohingya case, Peace, truth or justice? A new challenge for contemporary Public International Law.

Jashanpreet Randhawa

Discipline: International Relations
Research Interest: Indo-Pacific, Geopolitics, Regional Organisations, Terrorism and Security.
Current Research:Threat of non-state actors with emerging Technology in the Indo-Pacific region.

Ayushi Attri

Discipline: International Relations
Research Interest: Japan's foreign policy and its evolution; Japan-China relations; Diplomatic history of Japan shaped by different personalities.
Current research interest: Japan's foreign policy.

Drorima Chatterjee

Discipline: International Studies
Research Interest: Global water governance, the role of education in international conflicts, and the geopolitics of South Asia.
Current Research: Contemporary challenges in the Bay of Bengal region.

Josna Mathew

Discipline: International Studies
Research Interest: Ancient Japanese cultural influence in the 21st century.

Oindrila Mukherjee

Discipline: International Studies
Research Interest: Japanese politics; Gender gap in Japanese politics; Japan's foriegn policy.

Renee Vincent

Discipline: International Studies
Research Interest: Japan, Singapore, and Peace and Conflict Studies.
Current Research:Analysing the role of Macau in global politics.

Patricia Cherlyn

Discipline: International Studies
Research Interest: China's economic, political, and social relations. Impact of contemporary fiction on global politics

Sejal Sharma

Discipline: South Asian Studies
Research Interest: Borderlands and the structural anthropology that influence the politics in the regions.
Current Research:Perception of Borders and Role of the Indian State in the Formation of the Identity of Northeast India

Alithia Clemency Paul

Discipline: International Relations
Research Interest: Border issues, security & its management; Crisis in Myanmar and its relations with neighbouring countries; Intersectionality in IR; Evolution of India’s foreign policy and its current status.
Current Working Paper: Where the Blood Bleeds Blue in the Land of Red: An Account of the Uyghur Muslims in PRC.

Shrestha Medhi

Discipline: International Studies
Research Interest: Northeast India and East Asian countries.
Current Working Paper: India’s Act East Policy and Regional Security Dynamics in the Indo-Pacific: A Comparative Analysis.

Praveen Krishna

Discipline: East Asian Studies & Economics
Research Interest: Economic development in East Asia and India’s economic transformation and lessons from the East Asian miracle.
Current Working Paper: Comparative trade analysis of India’s Look East, Look West, and Look North policies.

Junior Research Affiliates

Kartik Aggarwal

Discipline: Business Analytics
Research Interest: Global Analytics, Global Visualization, Data Analytics, Foreign policy Analytics.
Current Research: Predictive Analytics of e-commerce websites.

Divyansh Singhal

Discipline: History
Research Interest:International business, Analytics, Sports. Northeast India studies on History and Culture
Current Research: Job satisfaction of employees in IT companies.

Goutham Sankar P

Discipline:Economics, Political Science and Sociology
Research Interest: Political Philosophy of the East, Comparative Politics, Indo-China relations, Political Economy.
Current Research: Understanding the Dimensions of Tamil Nadu- Taiwan Relations: Possibilities for an empowered State for the 21st Century.

Parvathy K C

Discipline: History, Economics and Political Science
Research Interest: Behavioral economics; Indo-Srilankan relations and Tibetan history
Current Research:Tibetan medicine in the modern world.

Aishwarya Jain

Discipline: Journalism Studies
Research Interest: Asian Geopolitics; Comparative Sociohistory; Cultural and Religious History in the Indo-China Region.
Current Research: Sociohistorical and Political relationship between the Indo-Pacific and East Asia.

Meenakshi V

Discipline:Economics, Political Science and Sociology
Research Interest: Political Economies of East Asia, Financial system, Geopolitics, and Security Studies

Shreyas Vijay Nair

Discipline:Political Economy
Research Interest: Marxism.
Current Research: Contemporary Expressions of Marxism in South East Asia.

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