Writing

Poverty and Inequality
Income inequality in India: Trends from the World Top Incomes Database Ideas For India

The mystery is solved: why is India’s calorie intake falling even though it is getting richer? Scroll.in (with Deepankar Basu)

What explains declining calorie consumption in India? Ideas For India (with Deepankar Basu)

Is Child Malnutrition Overstated in India? A Response to Arvind Panagariya Sanhati.com (with Deepankar Basu)

Food Budget Squeeze, Market Penetration and the Calorie Consumption Puzzle in India Sanhati.com (with Deepankar Basu)

Indian Economy
The 2015-2016 Budget: Business as Usual?, Sanhati.com

The 2014 Budget in Perspective: Pushing Forward the Anti-People Agenda, Sanhati.com

Knowledge Politics
Geographical Indication: Will It Save Traditional Indian Art?, Policy Wonks, Oct 23, 2015.

The Global University in Crisis-I: Knowledge Struggles in Europe and the USA Sanhati.com

Lokavidya ki Rajniti (A Politics of People’s Knowledge), Samayik Varta, July 2011

Asangathit kshetra mein gyan kaa shoshan (Exploitation of Knowledge in the Informal Sector), Lokavidya Panchayat, March 2010.

Political Economy
Alco, Balco, Nalco, Malco, jaa! Review of “Out of This Earth: East India Adivasis and the Aluminium Cartel, Sanhati.com

Tayyip Istifa, Sanhati.com

Subverting Our Epics: Mani Ratnam’s Retelling of the Ramayan, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 45, No. 29, July 17-23, 2010.

Agrarian Change in North India: Evidence from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh , Sanhati.com

The Almond Workers of Karawal Nagar: A Report, Sanhati.com

Dantewada Dec 14-17, 2009: Three Days in the Cauldron, on the eve of the Padayatra, Sanhati.com

The “People’s Movement Left” and Rammanohar Lohia: an evaluation at a time of crisis Sanhati.com

Other
My Lahore Journey/
Ghalib’s Urdu Poetry
Ghalib’s Persian Poetry
“The Ghalib Project”