Policy Blogs
Low-tech and teacher support interventions during school closures, Ideas for India, 2023
Barriers in accessing applications under RTE quota in Gujarat, Ideas for India, 2017
Encountering deprivations in the field, Ideas for India, 2017
Opinion Pieces
(Select articles in popular media on topics of education, gender and disability policy)
Getting the focus back on Early Childhood Education, The Hindu, 2023
The pandemic’s big disruption of schooling calls for close analysis, Live Mint, 2022
Greater Mumbai’s policy parameters for pre-primary education missing from MoUs, study shows, The Print, 2022
Educating The Girl Child: The Way Forward In Reversing Covid Fueled Disadvantages, Feminism in India, 2021
Visually impaired students can’t access more than half of NCERT material on DIKSHA: Study, The Print, 2021
Are Measures of Inequality Gender Blind?, SOAS Feminist Economics Network, 2020
Eating After Boys, Poorer Education: Girls are Disadvantaged Early, The Quint, 2018
5 Challenges Working Women Face to Fight For Jobs After Marriage, The Quint, 2018
Administrative Duties Are Stealing Valuable Time from Government School Teachers, The Wire, 2018
Full list by themes here
Co-hosted and co-conceptualized a 7 episode interview series - "Decoding Exclusion"
The podcast aimed at discussing the complex issues of exclusion in the Indian education system, spanning topics of evidence on exclusion during times of crises (COVID-19), solutions for addressing challenges of the most marginalized children from mainstream education, and strategies for reintegration into schools post COVID-19 lockdowns.
Available on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube
*Episode 1: Addressing Household Vulnerabilities, with Madhuri Dhariwal (Associate Director, Indus Action)
*Episode 2: Short-term Migrants and Access to Education, with Leena Bhattacharya (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Econometrics and Operations Research, Tilburg University, Netherlands)
*Episode 3: State & Central Schemes for Out of School Children, with Mridusmita Bordoloi (Associate Fellow, Centre for Policy Research)
Episode 4:, Reintegrating the most Marginalized - the case of Bihar, with Praveen Kumar (Founder, Law Foundation)
*Episode 5: Early Childhood Education during COVID-19, with Namya Mahajan (Co-founder, Rocket Learning)
Episode 6: Accessibility & Equitability of Ed-tech, with Ankit Vyas (ESRC PhD scholar at University of Leeds)
*Episode 7: Addressing Vulnerability From Cradle to Career, with Madhukar Banuri (Founder, Leadership for Equity)
(*Hosted episodes)
COVID-19, New Sites of Exclusion from Education, and Missing Evidence on the Most Vulnerable, Policy Adda: Expert Talks, BIC, 2023
“Roundtable on Regulation of Non-state Actors in India’s School Education”, Invited as discussant, hosted by Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi, 2022
“Towards Inclusive Education: Insights from India”, invited presentation as part of the lecture series ‘International Perspectives on Inclusive Education’, organised by the University of Winnipeg’s Faculty of Education, 2022
Invited as speaker and moderator on two panel sessions, at Gujarat National Law University’s Right to Education (RTE) Conclave, 2022
“Introductory Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods”, Session conducted for researchers at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, 2022
“Inclusivity in Education: The urban rural divide”, presented at One-Day National Conference on Inclusivity in Law: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Pravin Gandhi College of Law, Mumbai, 2021
“Badalta daur Report on effect on education during pandemic time by Vidhi Centre”, invited as guest, Radio Udaan, 2021
“FreeDem Roundtable III – Online Education and the Digital Divide”, invited as speaker on panel, organized by IdeoSync Media, 2021
“National Webinar on NEP 2020: Prospects and Challenges in Higher Education, Education In Rural India”, invited as presenter, 2021
“Importance of Early Childhood Education (ECE) and Landscape of Provisioning in India”, Session conducted for team at Rocket Learning, 2020
I have worked on creating multiple forms of outputs to bring the research I have co-produced and contributed to, to a variety of stakeholders.
In addition to policy blogs, op-eds, and policy briefs, I have also created short videos, interview series, a podcast, and other forms of communication, intended to make policy reports and academic papers more palatable for a wider and more varied audiences.
Examples can be found here