I enjoyed reading and reviewing Pinky Hota’s “The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India”. The book presents a layered critique of ethnonationalist expansion in the Adivasi region. The prose of the book is gripping: read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-asi…

Twenty years to the MNREGA this August, introduced by UPA-1 in 2005. It raises wages, builds infrastructure, helps the most oppressed (socially too), boosts consumer demand and ensures dignity (as uplift happens through work). Must-read by Prof Himanshu

🙌🙌 Data on every district boundary change in India since 1951? Yes please! Link in reply

The RTI has been successfully used by common citizens to access resources, unearth misuse of funds and demand accountability. The amendments through the DPDP Act dilutes this Act and denies citizens a very empowering tool #RollBackRTIAmendments

What does it mean to be Indian today? This article explains how, for many, no number of documents can prove belonging, because identity is decided not by law but by power. A must-read piece by two brilliant scholars- Nayanika Mathur & Tarangini Sriraman. scroll.in/article/108568…

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.Nayanika Mathur and I present rare historical narratives to argue against the SIR: We dig into 1940s/50s archives on election process, letters around the original NRC, but also recent radical EC proposals including remote migrant voting! theindiaforum.in/politics/when-…

NEW POST: Another brilliant piece by Farwa Sial assessing the New World Order against Tariffs. She especially analyses to what extent the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Development Bank may be an anti-sanctions tool. developingeconomics.org/2025/09/05/new…

I don't think people realise how big of a deal this achievement is: IMR doesn't just reflect on perinatal care, hospital services, newborn care, etc. 1/2

I report for Article 14 on how a legally contentious backwater level revision of the Sardar Sarovar dam excluded thousands of families from rehabilitation. I stayed in Katnera, an affected village, to record how its mostly tribal & land-poor families continue to suffer.

By terminating Snehashish, SAU has not only done gross injustice but it has deprived its students of an exceptionally talented professor. I have had the privilege of working with him in the initial years of SAU. I salute his courage, conviction, and compassion! In solidarity!

🚨 We're hiring! 2 PDRA positions available for the Wellcome-funded project I am leading on Covid-driven digital health work at King's College London. 📅 Deadline: Sept 29 - apply soon! Details in the thread below

Really enjoyed this conversation with Srini Iyer on the workings and prospects for industrial policy in promoting structural transformation in India.

I'll be giving an online lecture drawing on the surplus approach of the classical political economists next Thursday. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

This is such an important work. Do check this out. OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias: technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/112…

3 days of exciting talks on history of economic thought coming up in Delhi @ JNU & IIT-Delhi later this week. 🪻 Close to 100 papers will be presented at #ISHET2025 on Indian Economic Thought, Teaching HET, Macroeconomics, Sraffa, Ambedkar, Smith, Khaldun & many more. Drop by,

Despite awareness there is little support for mental health conditions. Most of us are afraid to talk about loneliness, depression, and therapy. Many of us don’t know how to respond when needed, as friends, family, colleagues etc. We need safe spaces and we need to build these!

Tirkey (bird), Lakda (tiger), Khalko (fish), the ghost in the forest that lost its way when a road cut thru the forest: a peep into Hindi Professor and Sahitya Akademi award winner Parvati Tirkey's world and Kurukh language youtu.be/HIOSR3D_SQc?si…

Apply, if you are interested in HET & wish to work with me. Last date of application: 31 October 2025 azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/jobs/research-…