Faculty

• History of Policy Making, Law, and City.
• History of Concepts and Intellectual History
• Gender and Sexuality
• Decolonization and Post-Colonial History

• A book chapter “The Conundrum of Trafficking and Statelessness in West Bengal” co-authored by Paula Banerjee and Sangbida Lahiri, published in the book Sites of Statelessness: Law, Cities, Seas, edited by Ayse Cagler, Sabyasachi Basu Roychowdhury, and Ranabir Samaddar, by State University of New York Press, Albany, New York, USA in 2024. Catalogued by LCCN: 2024009209.
• A book chapter, “Struggle of Women as a Key Factor of Solidarity during Pandemic” published in the book Pandemic and Precarity, edited by Rituparna Das, Sampark Publishing House, 2023.
• Making Refugees in India by Ria Kapoor, Oxford historical Monograph Series, is reviewed by me and published by Wiley Online, an International Peer Reviewed renowned journal.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.13156
• A detailed report on the sex workers’ lives after pandemic in Sonagachi area, Kolkata North, West Bengal, India submitted to the Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare, West Bengal and National Human Rights Commission, Government of India in the month of March, 2023. The publication of the report in the government site is pending.

• A monograph in Bengali, Covidkale Bipannota O Sonhati, a Monograph in Bengali published by Progressive Publisher. Funded by Human Science of Vienna and CRG, Kolkata, in 2022.

• A paper presented on Barbonita to Sex Workers: A ‘Dirty’ history of commercial sex-life in Kolkata, in Nineth Annual Conference organised by Mahanirvan Calcutta Research group, in collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung- South Asia, Institute of Human Science (IWM), Vienna, Canadian Institute of Advanced Research (CIFAR), University of Naples Federico II.
• A Paper presented in an international conference on Gender, Geopolitics and Forced Migration at Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand on 7th March 2023. The conference was organized by Centre on Gender and Forced Displacement/ Gender and Developmental Studies/ Department of Development and Sustainability/School of Environment, Resource, and Development in collaboration with International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
• A Paper presented in Ninth INDAM conference hosted by Goa Institute of Management, in Goa in the year 2023, 7-8 January. 
• Attended Youth Conference at Ceder Inn, Darjeeling, organized by Human Science of Vienna and Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 25-26 January 2023.
• Attended ‘Teaching Forced Migration Workshop’ organised by Mahanirvan Calcutta Research Group in November 2022, at Sojourn Hotel.
• Invited speaker for the ‘Fortnightly Seminar Series: Dialogues’, IIT, Gandhinagar, on September 30, 2020.
• Worked as one of the organizers forFirst Radharani Debi National Memorial Lecture organised by the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University.The speaker was Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak. Venue: Gandhi Bhavan, on 15th July, 2019 at 4.00 p.m.
• Organized the event-Issues on Feminist Movements in recent and previous times. The speaker was Maleka Begum, an eminent author, activist and academic in Bangladesh, on 24th May, 2019.
• Worked as an organizer for the fourth Ranjabati Sircar Memorial Lecture. The speaker was Moinak Biswas (29 May 2019).
• Worked as an organizer for the twenty first Shahid Pritilata Waddedar Memorial Lecture. The Speaker was Professor Paula Banerjee, Vice Chancellor, Sanskrit College and University, on 29 March 2019.
• Attended The International Youth Champions Anti-Trafficking Conclave (March 13th-16th 2019), organised by Shakti Vahini and Texas Christian University at the American Center, Kolkata.

• Perspectives of Contemporary Issues
• Critical Thinking and Storytelling
• Understanding and Managing Conflicts in Workplace
• Environmental Studies
• Gender and Communication

• History of Policies and Laws and its Impacts
• History of Cities in the Global South
• Migration Studies
• Gender Studies

• Currently Assistant Professor at JKLU
• Research Associate at a government project (NHRC and Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare department)
• Researcher in CRG funded by IWM (Vienna)
• Researcher in a project with University of Glasgow funded by Carnegie Trust
• Researcher at Jadavpur University
• Journalist at Ei Samay daily, a Bengali newspaper by TOI group
• Journalist at Ananda Bazar Patrika, by ABP private limited

Professional Positions

Research Positions

• Research associate in project on Sonagachi: Social-Medico-legal survey by National Human Rights Commission and the department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare department.
• Government of West Bengal.
• Research In a project with Calcutta research group in collaboration with IWM (Vienna), Germany.
• Researcher in a project with University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
• Researcher in RUSA 2.0 on Bar Dance and Migration of Women in Calcutta in Jadavpur University

Industry Experience

• Journalist at Times of India Group
• Journalist at Ananda Bazar Patrika, ABP Pvt Limited.

• Board Member of Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group since August 2024.