Mayuri Banerjee is a Research Analyst with the East Asia Centre at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. Her research focus is on India-China relations. She primarily looks at the role of memory and trust in India-China relations after the 1962 war and Indian media perception of China.
Ms. Banerjee completed her M.Phil. from Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and her dissertation was on “The Politics of Perception: Exploring Memory In India-China Relations in Post-1962 Periodâ€. Currently, she is pursuing PhD at the Department of International Relations at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her doctoral thesis deals with “Remembering 1962 war: War Memory and Trust-Deficit in India-China Relations.
Her prior professional experience include working as a Research Assistant at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Kolkata. At ORF, she worked on Indian Regional Media’s Perception of China. She has also worked as a Guest Lecturer in Basanti Devi College, Kolkata, and also at the Lincoln University College, Malaysia, virtually.
She received the Indu Bhushan Putatunda and Shanti Shudha Putatunda Memorial Award in 2013 from Jadavpur Alumni Association and Certificate of Merit in Political Science in 2014 from Jadavpur University. She was also a recipient of the prestigious Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) Masters’ Fellowship in 2015.
Some of her writings have been published as web commentaries in ORF Expert Speak, South Asian Voices (Stimson Centre, USA) and web portals like The Kootneeti.
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