Dipankar Sinha , Honorary Adjunct Fellow
Dipankar Sinha, Reader in Political Science, teaches at Calcutta University. Earlier he held faculty positions in Scottish Church College and Kalyani University. He was also a member of the Visiting Faculty in Burdwan University and Guest Lecturer in Rabindra Bharati University. Dr. Sinha is a Nominated Member of the Association of Third World Studies, USA, since 1990. He is also on the editorial board of Ekak Matra, a Bengali thematic journal.
Sinha's writings focus on the development-communication linkage, in both global and local contexts, in post-colonial societies, including India. His first book Communicating Development in the New World Order (Kanishka, New Delhi) was published in 1999. His latest book (in Bengali) Media Culture (Dey's Publishing, Calcutta) was published in 2003. His writings have been published in edited volumes from India and abroad, and in journals including Asian Survey, Economic and Political Weekly, Seminar, Indian Journal of Social Science, The Indian Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Third World Studies, Himal South Asian. Dr. Sinha's essay on "The Construction of a New Information Society in Brazil and India" was given the best essay award by an international jury in 2002.
Along with the Director of the IDSK, Professor Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Professor Prabhat Datta, Sinha directed IDSK's recently concluded project on "Literacy and Primary Education in West Bengal". He has also been part of the Research Team engaged in evaluation of co-financing programmes of the Dutch Government, sponsored by Aracadis BMB and coordinated by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. His monographs relate to such themes as the modes of people's participation in development in remote areas of West Bengal, such as the Sunderbans and Naxalbari, and IT-enabled governance and citizen participation. Sinha's current research explores the politics of communication in the globalization process.
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