Prof. Chandan Nandy
August 29, 2024 2024-08-29 8:56Prof. Chandan Nandy
In a career spanning 27 years, Chandan Nandy has mostly been a journalist and a communications professional. He previously worked for The Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Telegraph, Deccan Herald, The Quint and The New Indian Express as a reporter but also developed specialisation as an Op-ed writer as well as a news editor. As a reporter, Chandan covered key regulatory central government ministries and departments such as home, defence, personnel and India’s security agencies as also Bangladesh politics.
After switching to the world of communications more recently, he worked as a deputy general manager with Larsen & Toubro’s Corporate Brand Management and Communications division in Mumbai. Previously, he headed communications at Bachpan Bachao Andolan (New Delhi) which is Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s flagship organisation. Before moving to JSGPP, Chandan was a partner at ThinkQue Consulting, a public relations and communications firm in New Delhi.
As a student of comparative politics, international relations and government, Chandan’s academic interests are in conflict transformation and resolution, violent ethnic conflicts, international migration, especially in the context of Bangladesh and India, policy as politics, the co-relationship between domestic and global politics and India’s near-abroad.
Chandan is the author of The Night it Rained Guns: Unravelling the Purulia Arms Drop Conspiracy, published by Rupa Publications in 2013.