Research
Ongoing work
"Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Understanding OBC Reservations in India" (draft prepared)
"Caste-based Structures of Economic Dominance in Contemporary Village India" (draft prepared)
Cash Transfers and Landholding Inequality (with S Rathi and A S Chakrabarti) (submitting to journals)
Policy Evaluation in the Absence of Survey Data: Customized Border Designs with Satellite Data (with M A Akhoon and V Vemireddy) (RnR, Journal of Agricultural Economics)
"Economic Costs of Political Restrictions" (submitting to journals)
"Conflicts and Consumption" (with A S Chakrabarti and R Gudibande) (draft prepared)
Published Work
"Food supply chains and resilience to shocks: Evidence from India's COVID-19 lockdown," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 11 April 2023 (with N Gupta and V Vemireddy).
“Research as if People Matter: NFSA Survey 2016,” Economic & Political Weekly, 8 October 2016.
“The Puzzle that is India-UAE Trade,” Economic & Political Weekly, 18 January 2014 (with R Krishnaswamy).
“Employment Trends in India: An Overview of NSSO’s 68th Round,” Economic & Political Weekly, 19 October 2013.
“Bajaj Auto Workers' Agitation: Withdrawal and Triumph,” Economic & Political Weekly, 21 September 2013 (with L Mathias).
“'New Landlords': ‘Too Poor to Farm’ or ‘Too Busy to Farm’?” Economic & Political Weekly, 21 September 2013 (with B Reddy).
“Comparing NSSO’s Employment Surveys - A Methodological Note,” Economic & Political Weekly, 27 July 2013.
“Rise of 'New Landlords' - A Rejoinder,” Economic & Political Weekly, 26 May 2012 (with B Reddy).
Presentations
"Economic Costs of Political Restrictions"
Households in Conflict Network as part of Fragile Lives 2024, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, 1-2 October 2024.
17th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development. Indian Statistical Institute Delhi, 19-21 December 2022.
"Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Understanding OBC Reservations in India"
Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society, East & Southeast Asia (2024), 2-4 August 2024, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Advanced Graduate Workshop 2024, Azim Premji University & INET, 8-20 July 2024, Bengaluru.
18th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, Indian Statistical Institute Delhi, 18-20 December 2023
"Rural Labour Relations in India: An exploration of the changing nature of wages" at the workshop on "Wage Politics: Material and Political Transformations", Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Göttingen, Gottingen, Germany, 15-16 September 2023
"Land-holding Inequality and Responses to Government Interventions" (with S Rathi and A S Chakrabarti)
26th Consumer Pyramids Research Seminar (19 January 2023)
“Effects of India's New Agricultural Cash Transfers: Evidence from Rythu Bandhu” (with S Rathi)
16th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, Indian Statistical Institute Delhi, 20-22 December 2021.
Winter School 2021, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics and The Econometric Society, 15-18 December 2021.
Grants
Regional Grants and Young Economist, Econometric Society (Grant to attend AMES 2024, Vietnam)
German Foundation for Peace Research (Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung) (Grant to attend Fragile Lives 2024, Germany)
Book Reviews
Book review of Mrs Moreau’s Warbler: How birds got their names, Indian Birds: Journal of South Asian Ornithology, Vol 15, No 1, 10 May 2019.
“A Nuanced History of Madras' Working Class” Book Review, Economic & Political Weekly, 17 August 2013 (with C Radhakrishnan)
Press Coverage
Working paper-related analysis appeared in Frontline (March 2023).
Mention of paper: "School for Revolution", in The Economic Times (27 September 2013)
New report on paper: "NSSO jobs data inflated by 30%" in Business Standard (23 July 2013)