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Dr Sriparna Pathak 

Associate Professor, Founding Director, Centre for Northeast Asian Studies

While India believes in ‘vasudhaiva kutumbakam’ or the world as one family, the lack of academic skills on countries of Northeast Asia stands out. While countries of the region have myriad types of relationships with India, all of which impinge on India’s emergence as an important player in international relations, the focus of academics in India with regards to international relations has largely been Western. There is an urgent need for the creation of an active Indian discourse on the countries of the Northeast region through lenses of history, language, culture, diplomacy, society, and people to people contacts. Through knowledge and expertise, let us build India’s narrative and move closer to actually creating vasudhaiva kutumbakam’ where we know all members of the family equally well. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Manoj Kumar Panigrahi

Assistant Professor, Director, Centre for Northeast Asian Studies 

Dr Manoj Kumar Panigrahi is an Assistant Professor and Director, of the Centre for Northeast Asian Studies at the Jindal School of International Affairs. Dr Panigrahi holds a bachelor’s in political science from Berhampur University, Master’s degree in Diplomacy, Law, and Business from O.P. Jindal Global University (India). He was a recipient of Taiwan’s Ministry of Education Scholarship to pursue doctoral studies. He completed his PhD at National Chengchi University (Taiwan). He was a Research Fellow and currently serves as a Non-resident Fellow at Taiwan NextGen Foundation, Taipei.

His research interests include ethnic conflicts, foreign policy, and the culture of Indo-Pacific countries. His PhD dissertation examined the role of mediators in separatist movements in a comparative context. His research also focused on exploring the causation behind the formation of factions in armed ethnic groups and how they impact the peacemaking process.

Dr Panigrahi regularly writes for several of Taiwan’s print media. He contributes to a bilingual blog column where he writes and promotes Indian culture in Taiwan.

He has been invited to more than 101 schools and universities across Taiwan, amounting to more than 300 lectures so far. He has received the Best Scholarship Recipient Student award from Taiwan’s Ministry of Education Scholarship (2016-2020) for his work on sharing Indian culture at the grassroots level in Taiwan.

 

He offers courses on Conflict Management, Cross-Strait Relations, East Asian Politics and, Taiwanese History, Culture and Politics.