The Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) was invited by the Post Graduate Department of Development Management at Madras School of Social Work (MSSW, Chennai) to participate in an online student interaction programme. This programme is part of ‘Development Practicum I Organization Visit’ of first year students in the Post Graduate department of MSSW’s Development Management. The objective of this virtual visit is to familiarise the students with organisations working in different areas of development.

The programme was scheduled on September 07, 2021, 1100 to 1300 Hrs.

It began with Sandipan Baksi, providing a broad overview on the different research problems, and other activities that FAS is engaged in, and their relevance to the idea of development. He also spoke about the opportunities for young students and scholars to work with FAS. Arindam Das, shared a few insights from the Project on Agrarian Relations in India, the village studies programme of FAS, He discussed the different ways in which the data for village studies can complement secondary data collected through large scale official surveys. Arindam also highlighted the scope for further research, and encouraged the students to consider some of these as in future. There was also a brief discussion on the recently established Pandemic Studies Unit of FAS.

The event concluded with a lively Q&A session.