Invited Talks & Public Lectures 

Talks, Public Lectures, and Panels 

Delivered a talk as an invited speaker titled “Detention and Dispossession: Stories of Human Rights Infringement from Assam, India” at the University of Edinburgh, UK 


Delivered a talk as an invited speaker titled “Mass Production of Statelessness in India: Helplessness and Resilience” at the University of York, UK 


Delivered a talk as an invited speaker titled “NRC Exercise and Authoritarianism in India” at the University of Warwick, UK (Recorded talk followed by discussion)


Delivered a talk as an invited speaker “Stitching With Words: Citizenship Rights, Poetries of Resistance, and Mental Wellbeing” at the KREA University, India 


Delivered a public lecture as an invited speaker on “Belonging and Citizenship Contestations in Assam'' at O.P. Jindal Global University, India 


Delivered a public lecture as an invited speaker on“Status of Children in Char and Conflict Affected areas of Assam” in Centre for Inclusive Development, Tezpur University, India 


Delivered a talk in a plenary session on ‘Inside Stories of Children in Conflict Hit Areas (Maoist and Insurgency Areas)’ in an International Conference organized by Butterflies, New Delhi  


Delivered a talk as an invited speaker “impact of disaster on children” organized by UNICEF and Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights at Gauhati University, Assam 

Presentations and Participations

Co-presented “Coloniality of Bordering and Belonging: Deconstructing everyday symbolic and structural violence of migrant “illegality” and reimagining belonging in decolonial futures” at Annual Law and Society Conference, Lisbon (Online)


Co-presented “De facto statelessness through Administrative Violence: The coloniality of bordering through the National Registry of Citizens in Assam, India” at Racial Violence Hub, University of California Los Angeles (Online)


Co-presented  “Digital Reconnection: Reuniting homeless people with their Families in India” at the Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development. 


Presented a paper titled “Land, Culture, and Migration in Assam” at People’s Tribunal on Contested Citizenship before an eminent jury including Supreme Court judges and legal luminaries and academics in New Delhi.  


Participated in the Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on minority issues organized by UN Special Rapporteur at Mahidol University, Bangkok.  


Participated as a panelist on a regional summit on forced displacement in South Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia organized by Women’s Regional Network.  


Participated as an external expert on a national level roundtable on “Promoting the well-being of disadvantaged children in conflict situations” organized by UNICEF, New Delhi.  


Participated in an International Workshop and Conference on “The State of the Global Protection System for Refugees and Migrants' organized by Calcutta Research Group and gave an oral presentation.