Sanjoy Hazarika Author and Senior Journalist

Sanjoy Hazarika, human rights activist, scholar, author, journalist and filmmaker, is currently International Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), New Delhi. Author of several books including most recently Strangers no More, New Narratives from the North East, a successor to his acclaimed Strangers of the Mist, he is columnist and commentator on rights issues, conflict, migration and development-related issues in the North East and its neighborhood.

He is currently working on two new books, including a travelogue. Earlier, he was Founder- Director of the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research at Jamia Millia Islamia and has launched C-NES which pioneered the boat clinics on the Brahmaputra (www.c-nes.org). Hazarika's documentaries include river journeys, films on the endangered Gangetic Dolphin and the impact of conflict on women in the region.