Indranil Mandal recently joined CARE as a Junior Research Officer and is currently undertaking research in West Bengal, India focusing on marginalised people experiencing social inequality, poverty, unemployment, government harassment and lack of education.  In addition, Indranil is co-ordinating community infrastructure building projects by working with local health services to provide safe drinking water and health support to indigenous schools.  His research interests lie in grassroots tribal culture and literature, fake news and political propaganda and climate change.