Author - Rami Niranjan Desai
Rami Niranjan Desai is an author, anthropologist and researcher with subject expertise in the north east region of India and India’s neighborhood. She has studied at King’s College, London where she received her degrees in Anthropology of religion and Theology.
Rami has spent over two decades studying insurgency, ethnic armed organisations, religion and identity issues. Her vast repository of work is based on her groundbreaking fieldwork over the years in the northeast region and in India’s neighborhood such as Myanmar.
She is also well known for her research and analysis and is invited regularly by private and government organisations as a subject expert. She has also collaborated and published books on various occasions with organisations and universities such as Manipur University and Indira Gandhi National Tribal University. She regularly writes for various journals and national publications such as India Today, Open Magazine and has a weekly column called “Ramification” in Firstpost. She is also a regular television panelist appearing on all major English and Hindi news channels.
As Distinguished Fellow at India Foundation she focusses on current affairs, the northeast region of India and the neighbourhood. She also curates India Foundation’s flagship event India Ideas Conclave and podcast Insight while leading other significant initiatives.
Mr. Deep Halder is an Indian journalist with an experience spanning over two decades. He has worked on issues of development at the intersection of religion, caste and politics. Deep has held senior positions in many prestigious news outlets including as editor at India Today, Dainik Bhaskar and MiD Day. He is considered an authority of India Bangladesh relations having written three books on the issue namely Blood Island: An Oral History of the Marichjhapi Massacre and Bengal 2021: An Election Diary.
Insight with Rami, Podcasts
#InsightWithRami – Rami N Desai in Conversation with Mr. Walter Russell Mead
Watch Ms. Rami N. Desai, Distinguished Fellow, India Foundation, in Conversation with Mr. Walter Russell Mead, Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute; the Global View Columnist at The Wall Street Journal and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College in New York.
Insight with Rami, Podcasts
Rami N Desai in Conversation with Shri Ravi Capoor, Former Principal Secretary, Government of Assam
Podcasts
Rami Desai in Conversation with Mr Shah Faesal, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Govt of India
Insight with Rami
