Author: Debottam Saha

I completed my BA program in Sociology from St. Xaviers’ College, Kolkata. Following my bachelors’ program, I completed my MA program in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. My areas of interests are food and agriculture, science and technology studies and gender and sexuality. Before joining IIT Delhi, Humanities and Social Sciences department, I was working as a research associate at Indian Statistical Institute, Giridih, Jharkhand for the project on contract farming in potato and corn at West Bengal and Jharkhand. While working in that project, my interest shifted towards understanding the alternative agricultural practices in India. After joining the IIT, I began to work on the same topic for my PhD Project as well. I just completed my first round of fieldwork in two districts like Purulia, Burdawan and South-24-Parganas in West Bengal. I am presently working in the domain of labour practices and knowledge systems, part of the larger project on alternative agricultural practices in West Bengal. In the meantime, I did a one-month certificate course on Agroecology at Calcutta University, where I got to meet different stakeholders involved in different alternative agricultural practices across India.