Program focus: Improve knowledge and expertise on international rural development and work on market linkages of agricultural commodities such as rice in developing countries.

Assistant Professor of English, Santal Parganas College, Dumka, India: "Founding Mothers of the Indian Republic in an International Frame"

Department of English, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka: "Many Phases of Ravana: Transcreations and Rewritings of Ravana in a Post-Colonial Sri Lankan Context"

Anna Golovkova completed her PhD in Asian Studies at Cornell in 2017 and was most recently an A. W. Mellon Fellow in Religion at Bowdoin College. She is a historian of religion working on tradition formation and intersections of religion and gender in Hindu Tantric traditions.

Delon Madavan completed his PhD in Geography at Paris-Sorbonne University (France) in 2013.

Independent photographer and architect, New Delhi, India: "Portrait of Nepal through its Doors"

Biswajit Sarmah is a PhD candidate in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, and a Fulbright India Doctoral Research fellow at Binghamton University, working with Prof. Arnab Dey.

T G Suresh is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He works in the field of comparative political economy focusing on India and China.