Writing & Publications

Recent Policy & Public Innovation (2024–2025)

• Coal Dust and Community Health in Newport News (2025)
  Policy white paper on environmental health, community impact, and research-to-action pathways

• CODE Capsule (Center for Open Data Enterprise, 2024)
  Research translation and institutional thought leadership on data, AI, and public policy

• AIF Banyan Impact Fellowship Yearbook (2024)
  Documentation and reflections on Indo–US leadership and social impact work
  
  

Select Policy Research (Johns Hopkins SAIS – 2025)

• An “intelligent” world order in the age of AI

• The political economy of creating an AI-ready healthcare workforce in India 

• Combating mental health crisis among parents of children with Autism, Down Syndrome, and other intellectual disabilities (IDDs) in India

• Combating domestic abuse among women in urban and peri-urban India with agentic AI
  
  

Health, Innovation & Institutional Leadership (2020–2023)

• ISB Health Matters (Indian School of Business, 2020–2023)

• Research Spectra: Collaboration, Innovation, Impact (2022)

• The Journey of Creativity: INSPIRE–MANAK Awards (2020)

• Innovation Scholars-in-Residence Programme (Rashtrapati Bhavan, 2020)

• Academic Advisory Committee and Leadership Conclave reports (IITGN, 2018-2020) 

• IITGN News blog (2018-2020) 

• IITGN Connections (2017-18) 

• Festival of Innovation (2016, 2017)

• GYTI Bio Award and Appreciation Book (2016) 

• A New Approach to Promoting Micro & Small Entrepreneurship in Ex-Servicemen Fraternity (2016) 

• Sustaining Botanical Pesticides through Innovation and Enterprise Development (2016) 

• “Theory of open inclusive innovation for reciprocal, responsive and respectful outcomes: Coping creatively with climatic, institutional and market risks, etc.” (2016) 

• Honey Bee Network Quarterly Magazines (2015–16)
  
  

Government, MSMEs & Public Policy Reports (2016–2019)

• Transform Maharashtra (2017)

• A Clean Slate: Turning the ‘Swachh’ Dream into Reality (2017)

• MSME Accolades: Innovation, Inclusion and Competitiveness (2017)

• Karnali handbooks (2017) 

• EDII Reports (2016–17)

• Global Entrepreneurship Monitor — India Contributions (2016–2017)

• A Study on effectiveness, efficacy and sustainability of incubators in India and benchmarking them with global best practices in the incubation space (2017) 

• Public Service Delivery Innovations (2016)
  
  

Journalism & Early Writing (2013–2016)

• Bylines with Business Standard (2015–16)

• Living in Exile: Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees (Hillpost, 2014)

• Jungle Hike! A Book of Rhymes (2014)

• Book Review: Seven Days Without You (Tamarind Rice, 2013)

Others

• The stunning s(treats) of DC: A Picturebook (American India Foundation, 2024)

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