Author: Subir Rana

Subir has submitted his Doctoral thesis in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and awaiting its defense. He was a Charles Wallace Fellow (2012) at the School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was also a Visiting Fellow (2011-2012) at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Subir has represented India in the 2nd Edition of the Fellowship programme titled ‘International Course on Applied Anthropology to Developmental Processes in La Sapienza, Universita di Roma, 2009-2010. He was also a recipient of the Sir Ratan Tata Trust Library Visiting Fellow at the School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Subir has presented his papers in international symposiums and seminars in Korea, Rome and Belfast and received grants for doing fieldwork and archival work from Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) India and Charles Wallace Trust (CWT) in London. He has received travel grants from the National Research Foundation of Korea and Reset DoC for attending the Summer Schools in Korea and Istanbul respectively. Apart from this he has worked as a Consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd, Care India and Action Aid and interned with the Planning Commission of India. His first love is art and aesthetics and dabbles in charcoals and oil pastels and has exhibited his works on few occasions. He also writes poetry and prose both in Hindi and in English few of which have been published in journals. Subir has an itchy foot and is bit of a voyeur and that explains his romance with travelling and ambulatory existence.