Madhuchanda graduated in Political Science from St. Xavier’s college, Kolkata and completed post graduation in International Relations from Jadavpur University. At the Masters level she did a dissertation on India-Japan relations.

In 2002 Madhuchanda represented the Department of International Relations of Jadavpur University at the Youth Forum held in Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kyoto and Osaka, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. At the Forum she made a presentation on: Regional Security in South Asia.

In 2004 Madhuchanda was awarded the Ph.D fellowship of Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF). Her doctoral research under the JU-SYLFF research programme was in the area of India-Japan relations. Under the SYLFF- Fellows Mobility Programme (FMP) she visited the Waseda University, Tokyo, for doctoral field research in 2006. She also presented a paper at the Graduate School of Political Science at Waseda University.

She has served as the Principal Organiser of JU-SYLFF Association. Madhuchanda has a flair for learning foreign languages. She has studied French language during her post graduation years in Jadavpur University and Japanese language for three years in the premier Japanese language school of IJLSS, Kolkata

 

Between 2007 -2008 she has participated in  international conferences in Japan, China and Cambodia. In May 2009, she participated in the Gwangju World Peace Forum on Human Rights. Currently she is working as UGC Research Fellow of the Center of Advanced Studies at the Department of International Relations of Jadavpur University.

New Publications:
Co-edited Book :  India’s Look East Policy : The Emerging Trends, published by ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, India,  2008.

Co-edited Book : India’s Foreign Policy : The Changing Dynamics, published by ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, India, 2009

 Chapters contributed in Books:
 

Revisiting Japan’s Policy in Globalisation in D.Mitra (ed.) Globalisation and its Interface: Developed World and the Growing Economies, ICFAI University Press, 2009.

Nationalism and the Paradoxes of Globalisation in Arnab Bhattacharya (ed.), Nationalism :Theory Formations and Future, ICFAI University Press, January 2009.
 

Indian Foreign Policy and Japan : Emerging Trends in Mitra and Ghosh (eds.) India’s Foreign Policy : The Changing Dynamics,  ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, India, 2009.

 India and Japan : Redefining Relations in the New Millennium in Mitra and Ghosh (eds.)  India’s Look East Policy : The Emerging Trends,  ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, India, 2008.

 

E-mail: ghosh.madhuchanda@gmail.com