Dr. Ranjana Bajpai is Professor in the Department of Applied Geography, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha. Basically, a social and political geographer, she did her graduation from University of Delhi and obtained M.A. from Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), JNU and M.Phil., & Ph.D. from Centre of International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD) from School of International Studies, JNU. Prior to joining Ravenshaw in 2010, she joined DBS College, Kanpur through UP Higher Education Commission in 2003.  With more than 19 years of teaching and research experience, her research interests are socio-cultural issues in geography like education, gender & tribes and environmental politics.  Teaching is her passion as she delves upon various papers like Political Geography, Social Geography, Geomorphology, Human Ecology  and Biogeography, among others.