Bina D’Costa
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Bina D’Costa
@binadcosta.bsky.social
Professor, International Relations, ANU &
Chair, UN Working Group of Experts on people of African descent

Living & working on unceded Ngunnawal & Ngambri lands.

Current research 👇🏾
https://bellschool.anu.edu.au/ir/displacement-violence
August 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If interested, other academic books are here 👇🏾
November 15, 2024 at 7:16 AM
I am still reaping rewards from the research in multiple ways. It gifted me lifelong connections with victim-survivors of SGBV incl the war babies. It helped foster relationships with activists & human rights defenders.

Image from the book-Sylhet mass graves (1971)
by my uncle Purnendu Burmon

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November 15, 2024 at 6:46 AM
Hi!

My first post here is abt research that I am deeply committed to.
Published 13 years ago.
Yes, I would have written it differently now.
No, I didn't have a launch.
Neither did I receive any award.

I won't go into the contours of legitimacy & recognition of deshi academia here.
But-

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November 15, 2024 at 6:46 AM