IIM AHMEDABAD PODCASTS
RECENT WRITING CONTRIBUTIONS
On Institutions, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
It’s time to ratchet up India’s intellectual property stance January 2015, Hindustan Times.
Is the new 'Mann der Tats' changing Indian society? September 2015, Hindustan Times.
Is India Ready to Reset its Innovation Mojo? November 2015, LiveMint.
India will have to decide whether it wants to get serious about R&D by taking IPR seriously. April 2016, The Economic Times.
What India Must Do to Create Its own World-Class Academic Journals July 2016, The Wire.
State-championed or private low-end disruption! Who will win this horse race in steady state? December 2016, The Economic Times
Is the ban on BS-III vehicles really bad? (with Pavel Chakraborty) April 2017, LiveMint.
Breathtaking or Out of Breath? September 2017, The Economic Times.
Setting the table by reharmonizing innovation, industrial and competition policy in India, (with Rajendra Srivastava) February 2018, LiveMint.
A #MeToo Oktoberfest for Women Around The World, October 2018, DNA India.
On North India's Air Pollution Problem, (with Anirban Gongopadhyay), October 2018, DNA India.
Of RCEP, Eastern IPR Wars and access versus innovation debate in the world of medicine, November 2018, DNA India.
On Asian Innovation Linked Patriotism, December 2018, DNA India.
On the Global Labor Market of PhDs, December, 2018, DNA India.
Science in the Time of Durga, Lulu and Nana, December 2018, The Telegraph, India.
From Ramanujan to Sasaram - On India's Quest for Geniuses, December 2018, DNA India.
On Employer-Employee Data and the Great Indian Unemployment Debate, February 2019, DNA India.
On a Business Model Innovation for Facebook Encouraging them to Price Posts (with Haifeng Huang), February 2019, The Economic Times, India.
Are India's New E-commerce Regulations Welfare Enhancing and relatedly on US-India Trade Relations. February 2019, The Economic Times, India.
All that happens in God's Name - On the New Economics of Religion in India and the World. March 2019, DNA India.
On the Need for National Political Entrepreneurialism in India, April 2019, DNA India.
Resume Inflation and its Contribution to Labor Productivity in India, April 2019, Deccan Herald.
Leadership & Economic Growth, May 2019, The Hindu.
On Regulating Mobile Phones to Curb Misinformation Around the World, June, 2019, The Hill.
Spurring Reverse-Migration in Indian Education ala China, June, 2019, DNA India.
Towards a Right to Quality Education in India, (with Eric Hanushek), July 2019, Indian Express.
Navarros on the ascendant, August 2019, The Hindu.
Is India Becoming an Informational Autocracy?, November 2019, The Hindu.
Dear parents: Don't let superstar syndrome set kids up to fail, September 2021, The Hill.
The Infosys Naming and Shaming and India's Moral Abyss, September 2021, The Deccan Herald.
Afghanistan Women: where have the voices gone?, October 2021, The Telegraph.
On Pharmaceutical Economics & Indian Healthcare Markets
Pharma industry has a deep culture of corruption December 2013 Hindu Business Line.
Hard Questions about Indian Healthcare (with B.S. Ajaikumar ) April 2017 LiveMint.
From Labs to Markets – The Emerging Market for Biological Drugs in India December 2013, India Abroad.
Spin-offs in the Indian Bio-Pharmaceutical Industry (with Arun Sathyaseelan) March 2014, Biospectrum.
Ensuring India’s healthcare - Ayushman Bharat is a good idea but concerns have to be addressed. Sept 2018. DNA India.
Pandemics are a growing threat to global health. (with Arzi Adbi and Anant Mishra), October 2018. Hindustan Times, India.
A China-India twist to price-capping medical devices (with Himasagar Molakapuri), November 2018, DNA India.
On India's Quest for Mental Wellness, December 2018, DNA India.
India's Healthy Billion - a 2019 Wish list for Indian Healthcare, January 2019, DNA India.
Can Drug Re-purposing with Statins Solve India's Swine-Flu Vaccine Shortage Crisis?, February 2019, DNA India.
On Repealing the Ban on Sex Detection Pre-Birth in India, May 2019, DNA India.
What do White Coats Mean in Today's India - on Rising Violence Against Doctors, June 2019, The Telegraph, India.
Can an Indian version of the 1921 American Sheppard-Towner Act Solve India's Infant Mortality Crisis? June 2019, DNA India
Bad Medicine: The Value of Monitoring Banned Drugs, August 2019, The Hill.
Price Regulation Creates Distortions in the Indian Medical Stents Market: Coverage of Research, January 2020, Times of India.
CMHS Panel Discussion on How To Deal With Covid-19, March 2020, Times of India.
On Importance of Testing to Deal with Covid-19, April 2020, Times of India Interview.
COVID-19 and Beyond: The Necessity of Creating a Global Health Policy Trifecta, April 2020, The Wire Science.
COVID-19: Can We Push Pharma Innovation Without Giving Away Pricey Patents?, April 2020, The Wire Science.
Preparing for a Syndemic, May 2020, The Hindu.
Campus Opening Can Result in Super spreader Covid-19 Events: Coverage of Research, July 2020,
Coverage on IIMA's Covid-19 Dashboard, first of its kind in India, October 2020, Indian Express.
Opening up the Vaccine Market, February 2021, The Hindu.
Do Disempowered Women Consume More Fairness Creams?: Coverage of Research, July 2021, New Indian Express.
Intellectual Property Rights & Wage Inequality, September 2021, Vox-EU.
Intellectual Property Rights & Wage Inequality, October 2021, IdeasforIndia.in
Is the world under-celebrating approval of malaria vaccine Mosquirix? October 2021, Deccan Herald.
OLDER & OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS
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The Future of Sports and Politics in a Populist World, DNA India, July 2019.
Is India becoming Another China and if So, Should The Americans Take Note?, Hindu Business Line, August 2019.
[Note: Turkistan Times carried the unedited version which HBL edited subsequently, the unedited version here]
The 2019 Nobel Prizes send out mixed messages on a global morality conundrum, The Telegraph India, October 2019.