I am an experienced researcher with a key interest and work in the areas of the formulation of refugee law in India, reterritorialisation 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 the documentary method.
I had also received the Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship to study the reterritorialisation of Tibetan refugees-turned-immigrants in Greater Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. During my time in the USA, I was associated with the 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 also worked with renowned personalities and held positions as an editor at the Raza Foundation and an assistant professor at Graphic Era University, Dehradun, and Amity University, Noida.
My forthcoming book is titled “India’s Tibetan Refugees: Navigating Exile, State Policies and Host Community Conflicts” (2026). It will be published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book has few main contributions, among others: (1) It makes the case for the adoption of national refugee law in India, taking account of conflict between the refugee community and the host community. (2) It reconceptualises the relationship between human rights and refugee agency. (3) It situates the conflict between refugee community and host community using conflict theories. (4) It presents an approach called State Society Dialogical Approach, which can be used as a framework for the formulation of a refugee law.