MEDIA WRITINGS
"COP28 ambitions must go local. Share the burden of net-zero transition with MSMEs too." The Print, 13 Dec 2023
"Go the full length of women's financial empowerment." The Mint, 25 Oct 2023
"Draw your salary on any day of the month", The Industrial Economist, 12 Oct 2023
"Indian mothers spend 9 hrs a week on their young children, Americans 13. State must step in", The Print, (with Vidya Mahambare and Sarodiya Ghosh), 8 Nov 2022
"Freebie ban versus fiscal rules: Go with what works the best" The Mint, (with Vidya Mahambare), 25 Aug 2022
"Indian men work more but women have less leisure time" The Print, (with Vidya Mahambare and Shambhavi Chandra), 5 Aug 2022
"Young married women are sleeping less and working more in Indian homes, time-use data shows" The Print, (with Vidya Mahambare and Shambhavi Chandra), 4 Aug 2022
“Treading on Fire”, The Financial Express, 21 June 2022, (with Vidya Mahambare)
“A common admission test could worsen higher education access”, The Mint, (with Vidya Mahambare), 16 June 2022
“Modi govt schemes JSY, PMMVY work only if health workers do. See what data reveals”, (with Vidya Mahambare and Vibhu Jain), The Print, 21 Feb 2022
"Setting the tone: Differences of sentiments in budget speeches" (with Vidya Mahambare and Akash Gupta), The Mint, 18 Jan 2022
"Farm loan waivers are announced in election season. Karnataka worst offender", (with Vidya Mahambare and Pragati Mittal), The Print, 6 Jan 2022
“What unites Bihar and Kerala young men? It has to do with jobs”, (with Vidya Mahambare and Sankalp Sharma), The Print, 22 Nov 2021
“Do young Indian women work? Gujarat tops single working women, among lowest in married”, (with Vidya Mahambare and Sankalp Sharma), The Print, 16 Nov 2021
“India’s new employment policy ought to focus on young adults”, (with Vidya Mahambare and Sankalp Sharma), The Mint, 15 Nov 2021
“Has crop insurance helped Indian farmers? Many don’t get payments on time” (with Vidya Mahambare), The Print, 28 Oct 2021
“India’s productivity challenge is especially steep in service sectors” (with Vidya Mahambare), The Mint, 26 Oct 2021
“The difference education makes to what salaried earn in India” (with Vidya Mahambare), The Mint, 21 Sep 2021
“Shifts and stagnancy in the caste profile of our asset rich and poor” (with Vidya Mahamabare), The Mint, 13 Sep 2021
“Caste, income or mother? As primary schools reopen, we need to decide who gets extra support” (with Vidya Mahambare), The Print, 10 Sep 2021
“TN unemployment due to skills mismatch” (with Vidya Mahambare and Sankalp Sharma), The Hindu Business Line, 4 Sep 2021
“False notions of gender roles should be corrected early”, (with Vidya Mahambare), The Mint, 28 Jun 2021
"Kerala's poor is UP's rich - how access to basic services varies in Indian states" (with Vidya Mahambare), The Print, 24 June 2021
“The effect of a state’s prosperity on disparity between groups”, (with Vidya Mahambare), The Mint, 14 Jun 2021
“India’s disadvantaged are better off but not nearly enough” (with Vidya Mahambare), The Mint, 8 Jun 2021
“What owning a bike in Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Bihar tells us about India’s asset poverty” (with Vidya Mahambare), The Print, 31 May 2021
“A gender gap in ideals of weight reveals lack of progress” (with Vidya Mahambare), The Mint, 25 May 20201
"Tamil Nadu left Punjab, Bengal far behind. Here's what it needs to do now" (with Vidya Mahambare), The Print, 31 Mar 2021.
"Workers are moving off Indian farms, but where are they going?" (with Vidya Mahambare and Sankalp Sharma), The Mint, 25 Mar 2021.
"Working women face more domestic violence" (with Vidya Mahambare), The Hindu Business Line, 5 Mar 2021.
"Education levels of SC, ST, OBC rising. A new study looks at caste gap in jobs, income too" (with Vidya Mahambare and Sankalp Sharma), The Print, 9 Feb 2021
"Manufacturing or high-tech? This is what India's most prosperous states focus on" (with Vidya Mahambare and Sankalp Sharma), The Print, 9 Feb 2021
"In ‘progressive’ Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, only 1 in 5 young urban women in paid work” (with Vidya Mahambare and Sankalp Sharma), The Print, 27 Jan 2021
"More young urban Indian men appear to be studying longer, not looking for jobs: New research," (with Vidya Mahambare and Sankalp Sharma), The Print, 20 Jan 2021.
“The gender divide in urban mobility”, (with Vidya Mahambare), The Hindu Business Line, 3rd Nov 2018.
“With better and more accessible childcare, more women will join the workforce”, (with Vidya Mahambare), Hindustan Times, 14 Nov 2017.