Joined IDSA

August 1999

Expertise

India’s neighbourhood policy; Bangladesh: Domestic and Foreign Policy; India’s Northeast Complexities; India and Myanmar’s bilateral relations;

Education

PhD, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Current Project

India's Neighbourhood policy

Background

Prior to IDSA, she was Coordinator (Research) with South Asian Centre for Strategic Studies, New Delhi (1996-99) also the Editor, South Asia Watch (1997-1999). She has been recipient of the Kodikara Fellowship (1997); She was selected for International Visitors Leadership Programme, USA (2006); She is a regular participant in Indo-Bangladesh track II dialogues and also has been working on climate change and water security issues in South Asia.

Select Publications

• Caretaking Democracy: Political Process in Bangladesh 2006-08 ( New Delhi: IDSA, 2009)
• Changing Security Dynamics in Southeast Asia (Co-edited)(New Delhi: Magnum, 2008)
• Bangladesh: A Fragile Democracy (New Delhi: Shipra, 2004).
• The Northeast Complexities and its Determinants (New Delhi: IDSA/Shipra, 2003).
• Islamic militancy in Bangladesh : The treat from within, in South Asia : Spectre of terrorism Ed. P R Kumaraswamy, Ian Copland (New Delhi) Routledge, 2008

Other publications