Angomcha Bimol Akoijam, a graduate from Poona University, did his MA and Ph.D. from the Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, where he taught during the academic sessions of 1996-97 to 2000-2001. Presently he is Visiting Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, where he has been working since May 2001.

His specialization during his Master’s programme was in clinical psychology but he gradually moved to social and political psychology during his doctoral programme. In terms of specific researches, he works on issues of culture in psychological enterprise, both in its theorization and praxis, and psycho-social aspects of contemporary experiences of identity politics, ethnic conflict, violence and gender relations. At the Centre, he is presently working on questions of identity politics vis-à-vis the pre-to-post-colonial transformations in South Asia particularly with reference to Manipur and India’s Northeast.

Akoijam has scripted and directed a short film ‘Paradise under Siege’, and also written and directed a play ‘Azaadi ki Khamoshiyan’ based on Manto’s work at the National School of Drama (2001). Presently, he is working on another play ‘Draupadi, I and the Mirror’ on the issue of sexual politics, and a film Defending Gandhi on the state and violence in postcolonial Indian republic. He is an executive editor of the Eastern Quarterly, Delhi.