Nora Babalova
Nora Babalova joined SADF as a Program Assistant in October 2016. She holds a Master’s degree in European Studies: Europe-Asia interactions from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, and two Bachelor of Arts degrees, one in Indology with a specialisation in modern Indian languages (Bengali and Hindi) and one in Liberal Arts from the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Her research field focuses on EU-India strategic partnership and water management in South Asia. In May 2018, Nora presented a paper on the politics of water management in the Brahmaputra basin at the 12th Congress of the Regional Science Association International, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Goa, India.
Latest TSA
The Taliban’s Gender Politics: Repression at Home, Performance on the World Stage – C275
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In this episode of the South Asia Democratic Forum (SADF) Podcast, host Tapas Kanti Baul speaks with Dr. Pramod Jaiswal, Research Director at NIICE, to unpack the dramatic political and constitutional crisis unfolding in Nepal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a2Z075VcUs&t=9s
From the resignation of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to the Gen Z-led uprising and...