Members
Debayan Das
Debayan has completed his Bachelors in History from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. He is presently pursuing 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 Scholar in residence. 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
Monjima Kar
Postgraduate student of History at Jamia Millia Islamia. Interested in cultural histories and the politics of aesthetics.
Email: kar.monjima.tffs@gmail.com
Vighnesh Tekriwal
Vighnesh recently finished his M.A. in English at Ashoka University, Sonepat, where he wrote a dissertation on the portrayal of the courtesan in Premchand’s Sevasadan and M.H. Ruswa’s Umrao Jan Ada. He is currently engaged in independent research and is interested in questions of readership, the public sphere, and the educational value of literature. He enjoys taking long walks, exploring cityscapes, and listening to Indian classical music.
Email: vtekriwal1999@gmail.com
Riya Lohia
Riya is pursuing her Masters in English literature at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR. She is interested in understanding the language of pain and how it narrates selves, especially in relation to women’s experiences. She is captivated by the fleetingness of the ordinary and would like to use oral history to explore some of its facets.
Email: riyalohia20@gmail.com
Ananyo Chakraborty
A postgraduate student of History at the University of Delhi, Ananyo is a young scholar and activist interested in questions related to environment, imperialism, and progressive politics. Apart from publishing Protorko, possibly the first socio-political newsletter in Bengali, he likes to contribute occasional opinion pieces in English and Bengali, write poems, and practise music.
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 interested in questions of development, political economy and climate change. He occasionally ruminates on these through commentaries. Besides, he loves reading in general, and sampling Mughlai cuisine in particular.
Email: ritabrata101@gmail.com
Tushar Srivastava
Primarily trained at St Stephen’s College, Tushar is a doctoral candidate at the Department of History, University of Delhi, reading at the borders of history, literature and metaphysics. He can be found trying to find solace in the world of poetry when encountered with the miseries of this world, or otherwise.
Email: gorakhpuri.tushar@gmail.com
Pritha Banerjee
Pritha has completed her Masters in English Language and Literature from the University of Delhi. She aims to begin research on Modern Essay and Discourse, Posthumanism and Children’s Literature, with special emphasis on regional and transcultural literary history. Believing in the transformative power of education, she aims to contribute to the field in some measure, encouraging an interface between the aesthetic and the political.
Email: prithabanerjee2000@gmail.com
Hira
Hira is a second year History and Political Science undergraduate student at Ashoka University, interested primarily in understanding the conception of modern identities and cultural analysis.
Email ID: sumedha.sharma_ug25@ashoka.edu.in
Shirshendu Lahiri
Shirshendu is a student activist pursuing bachelor’s in History at Rajdhani College, Delhi University. His primary interests include people’s struggles around the world, subsistence stories of marginal communities and intends to work in formulating people’s histories. Besides, he is a passionate musician, plays football, loves motorcycling, enjoys food, and reading in general.
Email ID: shirshendulahiri777@gmail.com
Srestha Majumder
Srestha is a B.Tech graduate who wants to go beyond the 1s & 0s and look for infinite possibilities, and likes to add a bit of creativity to things.
Email ID: sres001majumder@gmail.com
Yanis Iqbal
Yanis Iqbal is studying 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
Contributors (Blog Posts and Artworks/Illustrations)
- Nabila Ansari (Former Member)
- Arnaaz Zaman (Former Member)
- Bisakh Sarkar
- Suchetana Das
- Sujato Datta
- Asmita Sarkar
- Rayan Chakrabarti (Former Member)
- Krishna Priya (Former Member)
- Diya Maria Abraham (Former Member)
- Rajarshi Adhikary (Former Member)
- Shashi Singh (Former Member)
- Gopika Babu
- Avishi Gupta (Former Member)
- Kadambari
- Saukarya Samad
- Adrija Ghosh
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