Research Articles:
'State Capacity, Ideology and the Management of COVID-19 in South Asia: India and Sri Lanka in Perspective'. Journal of South Asian Development, 17(3), 409-415. Swenden, W., Sengupta, P., Sarvananthan, M., Surendran, A., & Ruwanpura, K. N. (2022).
'Caste Biases in School Textbooks: A Case Study from Odisha, India' (with Shubhadarshee Nayak). Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021.
'Women, Work and Development in Rural India: A Catalogue of Voluntarism in Policy'. Social Change, 50(1), 2020.
'Notes towards a Renewal of Industrial Sociology in India' in Chaudhuri, Maitrayee and Manish Jha (Eds.). Doing Theory: Locations and Practices. 127-148. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2018.
'Voluntary Associations in a Public Sector Industrial Undertaking: Civic or Political Action?' in Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Rana P Behal (Eds), The Vernacularization of Labour Politics. 25-45. New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2016.
'Studying Labour Culture in India: The Missing ‘Everyday’ of Industrial Work'. Südasien-Chronik - South Asia Chronicle, 5/2015, S. 427-450, 2015.
'Workers’ Associations in a Public Sector Undertaking: Civic or Political Action?' Labour and Development, 21(2), 79-101, 2014
Commentary/Research Notes
'Pandemic, Protests and Workers : India and Sri Lanka Considered'. Economic and Political Weekly, 59:17. 2024 (with Kanchana N Ruwanpura and Papia Sengupta)
Book Reviews
'Contested capital: Rural middle classes in India, By Maryam Aslany'. Cambridge University Press. 2020. Pp xxiii+299. $120.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978-1-108-83633-3. J Agrar Change, 23: 652-656. 2023.
'Citizenship and Women's Agency: On the Responsibility of Calibration'. Economic and Political Weekly, 56(17): 27-30, 2021.
'Interrogating Method in Interdisciplinary Times'. Economic and Political Weekly, 54(41): 25-27, 2019.
Other Writing:
“Debate: Why the ‘March for Science’ Was About the Social Sciences as Well” in The Wire, 2017
“The Limits of Female Agency”, Vikalp: People's Perspectives for Change, 2013
“Just a Matter of Belief?”, co-authored with Divya Kannan in The Hindu, (31 January 2013),
Contributed Reports:
‘Incentivisation of Girl Child Education – A Study of Four States in India’, Child Relief and You, 2019.
‘WINGS 2018 – World of India’s Girls - A Study on the Perception of Girls’ Safety in Public Places, Save the Children India, 2018.