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Reeja Nair is a Research Associate at the Institute of Chinese Studies. Her research broadly centres on issues related to labour and urbanisation in post-Mao China to present. She is particularly interested in understanding how workers navigate the city spaces in a rapidly urbanizing China, and a comparative assessment of these issues in the Indian context.
Reeja recently submitted her PhD thesis titled, 'Workers and Urban Spaces in Post-Socialist China: A Study of Community, Leisure and Resistance, 1994-2008', at the Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She completed her MPhil from the same centre. Her MPhil dissertation examined the making of China's labour laws in the post- Mao period. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in History from Miranda House, University of Delhi (specializing in Modern Indian History). In the past, she has worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Chinese Studies, on an ICSSR Project titled, “State Responses to Social Welfare in China and India: A Comparative Study of Workers in Small and Medium Enterprises”.
KK Venkatraman was commissioned in The Garhwal Rifles in 1997. An alumni of
the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, the officer has extensive operational
experience and has served in J&K, Assam and along the Line of Actual Control in
the Eastern Sector. In addition, the officer has served in General Staff appointments
at Northern, Eastern and Central theatres.
The officer is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, New
Delhi and is pursuing his MPhil in Defence and Strategic Studies from Punjabi
University, Patiala.
His interest areas are Security Studies and Emerging Technologies.
His email ID is kk.venkatraman@gmail.com
Rangoli Mitra is a Research Assistant at the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi. She has completed her M.A. in Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding from Jamia Millia Islamia. Her master's dissertation was titled, 'The Women, Peace and Security Agenda: A Theoretical Analysis of the Absence of a Gender Perspective in Peacebuilding'. She has completed her B.A. from Miranda House in Political Science Honours. Rangoli has previously worked with the Women's Regional Network and interned with the Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement and the National Maritime Foundation.
Her research interests include India's foreign policy, Indo-China relations, Security issues in South Asia, analyzing China's engagements in the maritime domain, particularly the Indo- Pacific and assessing the growth of the PLA.
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Preksha Shree Chhetri is a Research Associate at ICS. She has recently submitted her Ph.D. Thesis to the Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her PhD thesis is titled “The EU-China Strategic Partnership, 2003-2017” and her M.Phil. dissertation was on “Germany-China Economic Relations”. Her research interests include EU-China relations, China’s role in the global climate change negotiations, EU-China in Central Asia and EU-China in Africa. In the past, she has worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Chinese Studies. She has received the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (2021-2022). Her recent publication includes a chapter in a co-edited volume titled “Tailspin: The Politics of India-China Economic Relations” published by Routledge.
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Shruti Jargad is a graduate in Chinese Studies from the Yenching Academy of Peking University. She also has a masters in political science from Jawaharlal University. Her research interests include state theory, Chinese domestic politics and the CCP.
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