Sanjib Baruah
Sanjib Baruah is an Indian professor of Political Studies at Bard College in New York, and an author and commentator specializing in the politics of Northeast India. His books include "India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality", "Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India", and "In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast". Early life and career. In an interview in 2008 Baruah said he was born in 1951 in Shillong, which was then the capital of Assam. In the interview he explained his father was a provincial government official who was required  to move from time to time, and that they moved to Guwahati when he was about nine or ten years old. He said he finished high school in Nagaon. Baruah obtained his Bachelor of Arts from Cotton College, Guwahati, Assam. At interview he said the political science he studied there was more "academic" orientated. He went on to complete his Master of Arts from the University of Delhi. He has said the experience of New Delhi and the "big city" was very important to him. From 1985 to 1987 Sanjib Baruah worked as an Associate of Committee on Southern Asian  Studies at the University of Chicago, the institution that awarded him his PhD. He said at interview that his research into the Northeast India topic only really began some time after he had completed his PhD. Baruah is serving as a Professor at Bard College in New York State, USA. Since 1989 Sanjib Baruah was a Research Associate at South Asia Center at Syracuse University. Baruah also holds a concurrent position as Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway. Selected works. Interviews and commentaries. Baruah has been sought for commentaries and interviews over a wide range of  publications including: "Time Magazine"; "The New York Times"; "Times of India"; "The Statesman (India)"; "TRT World"; "The Indian Express"; "Scroll.in"; "The Wire (India)"; and "Al Jazeera English".