Shantanu Chakrabarti
Shantanu Chakrabarti holds the position of Professor in the Department of History, University of Calcutta, India. He also holds the honorary position of the Convenor of the Academic Committee at the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies in the University of Calcutta. He held the position of a Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India (2007-08). He was awarded Bene Merito award from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Poland in 2014. He was selected for the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) India Chair at Dublin City University, Ireland in 2016(declined due to other administrative commitments). He is the honorary president of the Association of European Studies in India (AESI). He is currently the Deputy Editor in Chief in the editorial board of Stosunki Międzynarodowe-International Relations, Journal of the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw and also a Member in the Advisory Board of the UNISCI (Research Unit on International Security and Cooperation), University of Madrid, Spain.
Madhumita Mazumdar
Madhumita Mazumdar is Professor at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. She has a specialized interest in the social history of science and technology and in colonial and post-colonial histories of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Apart from her publications on social and cultural histories of science in Bengal, she has co-authored a book titled, “New Histories of the Andaman Islands-Landscape, Place and Identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790-2012”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2016. She has also has an interest in spatial and environmental histories of regions connecting the Bay of Bengal and the Malayan Peninsula.
Ranjana Saxena
Ranjana Saxena has been engaged with teaching and research at the University of Delhi since 1989. Her doctoral thesis was on ‘Image of Women in Russian and Russian-Soviet Literature’. Russian literature, Russian women’s writing, Russian literature and issues in feminism and gender has been the thrust of her academic pursuit. She conducts Ph.D, Mphil, MA courses at the University of Delhi on contemporary Russian literature. She has served as member of the International Editorial Board of the Journal ‘Russian International Philology’. State University of Perm, Russian Federation and was nominated member, Advisory Board, Gender studies Center at Moscow State University, Russian Federation, 2007. She has supervised a number of MPhil and Ph.D dissertations. She has also been nominated external supervisor by the Abai Kazakh National University, Kazakhastan 2012 and by the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University 2018 for Phd students. She has also been translating Russian literature into Hindi/English. She has been a Laureate of ‘PUSHKIN MEDAL’, the Highest State Award given by the President of the Russian Federation for Excellence in teaching of Russian and promotion of Russian Culture. 2008. Has been awarded the “Bene Merito” award (Republic of Poland) for strengthening the bilateral relationship between Poland and India, 2014. Dr. Saxena was the Laureate (first Round) of the 2nd International Competition ‘Best Teacher of Russian Outside Russia’ organized by the ROSSOTRUDNICHECTVO, Government of the Russian Federation, 2014. She has organized a number of national and international conferences. Edited books include: Window into Russia: Art & Society in the XXI century (jointly ed.); The Russian Discourse in the Contemporary Intercultural Context (ed.) Ranjana Saxena; Revisiting East Central Europe and Russia Society and Culture 20 Years After Edited by Ranjana Saxena She has presented papers in National/International conferences held in India and abroad. Presently, she is heading the Department of Slavonic & Finno-Ugrian Studies at the University of Delhi.
