Members
Debayan Das
Debayan has completed his Bachelors in History from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and an MSc in Social Anthropology as a DAC Scholar at the University of Oxford. Debayan is a social worker dedicated to fostering community engagement, combining independent research and culture and heritage documentation, to amplify unheard voices and inspire positive change. When not in the field, he enjoys reading poetry and non-fiction, and treks through lesser-known trails chasing streams and sunsets somewhere in the Himalayas.
Email: work.debayan@gmail.com
Suchintan Das
Suchintan is a Doctoral Candidate in Global and Imperial History at the University of Oxford where he is also a Rhodes and Beit Scholar. He is interested in war and empire in the twentieth century with particular reference to the history of encampment and internment in late- and post-colonial India. He writes occasional political commentaries, plays chess and enjoys music imbued with urban melancholia. His work can be accessed here.
Email: suchintandas13@gmail.com
Ananyo Chakraborty
Ananyo is a Doctoral Candidate in History at the Australian National University, supported by the Australian Government Research Training Programme (RTP) Scholarship. Having pursued his undergraduate and postgraduate education in History at the St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and the University of Delhi respectively, he is currently working on an Environmental History of the Partition of India, focusing on transboundary rivers, shifting landmasses, and issues of territorial sovereignty. He is also the founder of Protorko, the first socio-political newsletter in Bengali. He regularly writes opinion pieces in English and Bengali for leading news platforms, practises music, and is most passionate about having unwashed addas with friends old and new.
Email: acananyochakraborty@gmail.com
Satyam Jha (2002-2021)
Student of History at St. Stephen’s College. Answers I have few; questions I am benevolent with.
Satyam passed away due to COVID-19 on 25th May, 2021. A gifted and generous human being, Satyam enriched the Study Circle in the short time that he was associated with it.
Ritabrata Chakraborty
A graduate of Political Science from Hindu College, Delhi, Ritabrata Chakraborty is a student of management in IIM Lucknow who retains a personal interest in questions of Indian politics, political economy and the evolving education-industry dynamics in India. Besides writing occasional commentaries, he loves reading non-fiction in general and sampling various cuisines in particular.
Email: ritabrata101@gmail.com
Srestha Majumder
Hailing from Tripura in Northeast India, Srestha works as a freelance social media manager and designer, blending creativity with purpose. Beyond the digital realm, she is a steadfast supporter of human rights, committed to challenging oppression in all its forms. With a keen eye for design and a deep sense of social conscience, she brings both skill and conviction to her work.
Email ID: sres001majumder@gmail.com
Yanis Iqbal
Yanis Iqbal is studying Political Science at Aligarh Muslim University, India. He has published more than 300 articles on social, political, economic and cultural issues. He is the author of the forthcoming book “Education in the Age of Neoliberal Dystopia”.
Email ID: yanisiqbal@gmail.com
Rayan Chakrabarti
Rayan Chakrabarti is an academic and poet working at the intersections of memory studies, critical heritage and medical anthropology. He is pursuing a Master’s degree in Arts and Aeshtetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and holds an undergraduate degree in Literature from St Stephen’s College, New Delhi. He co-founded the Pandemic Archives which records visual and oral testimonies of people who survived COVID. He is a trained pianist and loves writing and translating different genres of performative and ekphrastic poetry. He is a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford.
Email ID: rayanchakra21@gmail.com
Contributors (Blog Posts and Artworks/Illustrations)
- Nabila Ansari (Former Member)
- Vighnesh Tekriwal (Former Member)
- Monjima Kar (Former Member)
- Riya Lohia (Former Member)
- Arnaaz Zaman (Former Member)
- Bisakh Sarkar
- Suchetana Das
- Sujato Datta
- Asmita Sarkar
- Krishna Priya (Former Member)
- Diya Maria Abraham (Former Member)
- Rajarshi Adhikary (Former Member)
- Shashi Singh (Former Member)
- Gopika Babu
- Avishi Gupta (Former Member)
- Tushar Srivastava (Former Member)
- Pritha Banerjee (Former Member)
- Kadambari
- Saukarya Samad
- Adrija Ghosh
- Hira (Former Member)
- Supratik Sinha
- Arkaprava Sengupta
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