Arpita Basu Roy is a Fellow at theMaulanaAbulKalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Kolkata and an expert in International Relations. She is a PhD in International relations from Jadavpur University and has been the Pavate Wrangler Fellow at Cambridge University in 2010. She works on issues related to security, gender, population movements and political transition in the South Asian region. Her research areasare Afghanistan, Indian foreign policy and discourses on security, including human security.
Subhadeep Bhattacharya is a Fellow at the MaulanaAbulKalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Kolkata and a PhD. candidate at the Department of History, University of Calcutta. He has been working on India's relations with Southeast Asia, geopolitics, defence and security inSoutheast Asia.The Asia Pacific region is his field of interest.