Hazarika completes Rockefeller Fellowship

Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee, who was awarded the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Fellowship for April-May 2011,  for writing a part of his latest book on the North-east and its neighbourhood with a focus on margins, borders, State impunity and its impact on women, especially in conflict situations, has completed the fellowship. He made a presentation of his project to resident Fellows, who included scholars from Harvard, Columbia and Oregon Universities and others. Mr. Hazarika is the first person from the North-east to have been awarded the Fellowship, which is located at the Rockefeller Centre in the northern Italian town of Bellagio, above Lake Cumo.