I am an experienced researcher with a key interest and work in the areas of the formulation of refugee law in India, reterritorialization of refugees and approaches to inter-community conflict. My other areas of interest are refugee studies, citizenship, and political theory. Over the last couple of years, I have studied the Tibetan refugee community residing in Himachal Pradesh using interpretative phenomenological analysis and documentary method.
I had also received the Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship to study the reterritorialization of Tibetan refugees-turned-immigrants in Greater Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. During my time in USA, I was associated with Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. I finished my work under the supervision of Prof. Galya Ben Arieh.
I have received my academic degrees from Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University. I have had also worked with renowned personalities and held positions as an Editor at Raza Foundation, and Assistant Professor at Graphic Era University, Dehradun and Amity University, Noida.
I have finished my Ph.D. thesis from JNU that deals with the conflict between the Indian community and Tibetan community in Himachal Pradesh. Through my thesis, I assess different approaches to conflict and their applicability to study refugee-host community conflict. I present an alternative approach to study such conflicts and argue for the refugee law formulation which considers refugee-host conflict as a special case and incorporates the resolution of such issue during the formulation of refugee law.