Soumyadeep Chowdhury

Soumyadeep is a post-graduate candidate in Political Science aspiring for doctoral research in the United States. Apart from bagging the Gold Medal in Political Science Honours from St Xavier's College (Autonomous), Calcutta under the University of Calcutta, he has also been a CBSE state topper holding several student leadership positions to his credit while he was in school and college. Soumyadeep intends to specialise in Indian Politics, Comparative Government and Public Policy spatially concentrated in South Asia. Describing himself as an 'election nerd' keenly observing and tracking election results in Democracies around the world, decoding the 'qualitative in the quantitative', he regularly publishes on Indian Politics, an area which he considers his forte in national and international journals, prominent blogs, national dailies like the Telegraph and books his latest being 'The Crescent Has Its Own Stories' (ISBN : with Ukiyoto Publishing. He has also presented his papers at several international conferences hosted by premier institutions and had a brush with political consultancy besides remaining an avid public speaker on issues of contemporary socio-political importance for, he believes, words are incredibly powerful to change the world.