Media & Outreach
Media Coverage
2026
Caste Bias in Healthcare: Study Finds Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Among Providers
The Telegraph India, October 2026
2024
The Missing Puzzle Piece in India's Child Stunting Crisis
BBC, November 2024
India-Africa 'Paradox': SC-ST 'Hidden Divide' Clue to Stunting Puzzle
The Telegraph India, October 2024
India's Child Stunting Rates Higher Than Sub-Saharan Africa Due to Caste Disparities: Study
The Wire, October 2024
2021
Social Discrimination Key Factor in Stunting Among Children
Business Standard, September 2021
Casteism and Communalism: Why Indian Children Are Shorter Than Even Their Counterparts in Africa
Scroll.in, August 2021
Dalit Children More Likely to Be Stunted, Shows Study
The Times of India, July 2021
The Push for Mother-Tongue Teaching in Africa
Financial Times, June 2021
2019
More Children Around the World Are Being Taught in English, Often Badly
The Economist, February 2019
Opinion & Commentary
2026
Caste Discrimination May Be Driving India's Stunting Gap
The Wire, May 2026
With Ashwini Deshpande. Republication of CEDA article.
How Caste but Also North-South Divide Affect Child Malnutrition in India
Scroll.in, May 2026
With Ashwini Deshpande. Republication of CEDA article.
Discriminatory Social Norms and Early Childhood Development
Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Ashoka University, May 2026
With Ashwini Deshpande. Original article.
Visa Ban by President Donald Trump
Business Today, January 2026
2024
Does Data Justify Subdivision of Quotas?
The Hindu, November 2024
With Ashwini Deshpande
Redesigning Reservations: How Heterogeneous Are the Scheduled Castes?
The India Forum, October 2024
With Ashwini Deshpande
2021
Brahmins at the Top on All Indicators in States with Schemes That Benefit Only Them, Study Says
ThePrint, October 2021
With Ashwini Deshpande
How Caste Discrimination Impacts Child Development and Stunting in India
The Wire, August 2021
With Ashwini Deshpande
2020
Differential Impact of COVID-19 and the Lockdown
The Hindu, August 2020
With Ashwini Deshpande
2017
Deprivation Tales
The Indian Express, February 2017
With Ashwini Deshpande
Policy & Research Outreach
Global Education Monitoring Report — UNESCO (2017)
Contributed background research on language-of-instruction policies and literacy outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa to UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring Report, Accountability in Education: Meeting Our Commitments
Keynote Speaker — 5th REAL Symposium (2024)
Invited keynote speaker at the international symposium Human Capital, Languages, and New Literacies: Theories, Policies, and Impacts, Tarragona, Spain.
World Bank–Bank Negara Malaysia Brown Bag Seminar Series
Initiator and co-organizer of a research seminar series bringing together economists from Monash University Malaysia, the World Bank's East Asia and Pacific research team, and Bank Negara Malaysia.
Institutional Reform Working Group — Santa Fe Institute (2024)
Invited participant in the working group Instrumental Incoherence in Institutional Reform, organized by Jenna Bednar and Jean-Paul Faguet at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico.