About me
Ph.D on "Information Society and Changing Gender Relations: A Comparative Study of Delhi and Chennai" at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
M.Phil in 2000 on "Globalisation and Women Entrepreneurship: A Sociological Survey" from JNU, New Delhi, India.
M.A in Sociology in 1998, JNU, New Delhi.
B.A in Philosophy in 1996, Madras Christian College, Chennai, India.
School: K.K.Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India.
Winner of President of India gold medal for the best university student in 2000.
Jitendar Rodricks Gold Medal for topping in B.A Philosophy.
CERN Fellow (2003 December)
UNESCO Fellow (2003 August)
ICCSR Fellow (2001 - 2003)
Queen's Fellow (2000)
Presented papers on
'Law Unabiding Empire', University of British Columbia, Vancover, Canada, 26 June 2005.
'Human Machine Interface' university of Cambridge, U.K, 21 May 2005.
"Mapping the Indian Digital Society", IIT Kanpur, 24 August 2005
"Technological Solutions to Traditional Problems in India", 8 December 2003, Geneva, Switzerland.
"Cyberpreneurs", August 11, 2003, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
"Digitial Divide: The Neo Indian Stratification" at Karlstad University, Sweden.
"Marketisation of Higher Education" at University of Western Cape Town", South Africa, March 2001.
Impact of Offshore Education on Onshore Education", University of Canberra, Australia, November 2000.
"Net, Self and Society", University of Freiburg, German Democratic Republic, June 2000.
"Gender Relations: The Post Liberalisation Script", All India Sociological Conference, 15 May 2003.
"Lawmakers as Lawbreakers", Guru Gobind University Delhi, August 2003.
"Campus Violence: A Student Perspective", India International Centre, 13 August 2003.
"Cold Feet Federalism to Warm Heart Federalism", Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, March 2003.
"Corruption and Nation-Building: Reading fromthe movie: Hindustani", December 2002, Lady Shriram college, New Delhi.
Gender Developement: A Post liberalisation script, paper presented in all india sociological conference at Mysore.
Digital divide: the Neo Indian stratification, paper presented at the University of Karlstad, Sweden, August 2003.
Science and Society Interface paper presented in CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003 December.
Digital Indian Democracy; A quest, paper presented in JNU, February 2004.
Dowry culture among civil service officers and other professionals, paper presented in Lucknow, March 2004.
Community information centres in north east india, paper presented in AMIC, Bangkok, Thailand.
Work Experience
Student Co-ordinator, M.A. Global Studies Program, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, December 2002 - May 2003.
Research Co-ordinator for a project on "Evaluation of Swarna Jayanti Swarojgar Sampoorna Yojana" for Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, Agency: BISD, Varnasi, 2002.
Research Co-ordinator for a project on "Enhancing Educational Status of Mewat in Haryana" for Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India, August 2003.
Research Co-ordinator for a project on "Evaluation of Child Adoption" for Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment" under Prof.J.S.Gandhi, 2000 - 2001.
Research Co-ordinator for a project on "Assement of Work Done by NGOs" for Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India under Prof.J.S.Gandhi.
Research Co-ordinator for a project on "Tripura Educational Status" for Government of Tripura and Ministry of HRD, May 2001.
Ph.D on "Information Society and Changing Gender Relations: A Comparative Study of Delhi and Chennai" at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
M.Phil in 2000 on "Globalisation and Women Entrepreneurship: A Sociological Survey" from JNU,...
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