Research Interns

Swapneel Thakur is currently pursuing his Masters in International Relations from the OP Jindal Global University, India.

Siddharth Tiwari is a Research Intern at the Institute of Chinese Studies. He is currently pursuing his M.A. in International Studies from Christ University, Bangalore.

Shreha Gupta is a Research Intern at the Institute of Chinese Studies. She is pursuing masters in Chinese language, literature and culture from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. At ICS, she is doing research work on the future of Nepal-China bilateral relationship amid political crisis in Nepal. She would examine the effect of Nepal's political turmoil on the Nepal-China relationship amid the geopolitical shifts and also examine how the unstable government in Nepal have undermined public trust in democracy.

Raj Gupta has completed B.A (Hons) in Chinese & M.A in Chinese from the Centre for Chinese and South-East Asian Studies, JNU, New Delhi. He pursued advanced Chinese at BLCU, Beijing in 2019-2020 upon the nomination for a full scholarship by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, GOI.

Arpita Victor is a research intern at ICS. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in East Asian Studies from the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi. Her interests lie broadly in East Asian geopolitics and how the rest of East Asia is cultivating a political identity in opposition to Communist China, as seen in the rise of the Indo-Pacific.

Wonchibeni Patton is a Research Intern at the Institute of Chinese Studies. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in International Studies from Christ University, Bengaluru. She completed her B.A. with triple majors in Economics, Political Science and Sociology from Christ University, Bengaluru.

I am currently a Research Intern at the Institute for Chinese Studies, New Delhi. I have completed my BA (Research) in International Relations from Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida. As part of my Bachelor's degree, I completed my Undergraduate Thesis titled "Civil-Military Relations in the XI Jinping Era: Building Professionalism of the PLA with Chinese Characteristics" in 2021

I am Hima Mishra, the new virtual research intern at ICS. I joined on 15th July 2021. I will also be assisting with the social media handles of the institute.