*This article is written for a digital news platform.. The published link shall be accessible from here For those wondering, if there are any sub-regional or national lessons for South Asian nations to be drawn out from Afghanistan’s own condition- after the US military pulled out and the Taliban took…

*This is written for The Wire and the published link is accessible from here.. There was something striking in a recent televised address made by US President Joe Biden to his nation -and the world, responding to the chaotic situation and unrest in Afghanistan after the United States announced a…

*This is written for The Wire and the published link is accessible from here.. The electoral success of Mamata Banerjee’s TMC in West Bengal and Pinarayi Vijayan’s LDF in Kerala mark a critical junction in the state of Indian politics today. Not only have both of these grassroot leaders, belonging…

*This article is written for The Wire and the published link is accessible from here… In a column written during the fall of 2019, I discussed some of the key political economy lessons learnt from five years of Narendra Modi led BJP Government. The piece argued, amongst many other reasons…

*This article is written for Scroll and the published link is uploaded here Few scholars have left more of a mark in the field of development economics than Amartya Sen. Awarded the 1998 Nobel prize in economic science, Sen’s work reoriented mainstream economic thought-and diagnosis, on issues such as collective…

*This is exclusively written for a digital news platform. Link to the published post shall be accessible from here Recent events at one of India’s elite-private universities, Ashoka University, following the involuntary resignations of Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Arvind Subramanian, brought forth a renewed discussion on the subject of a…

*This reflective submission is exclusively written for The Wire.. A link to the published post is accessible from here… “The ignorance, prejudices, and groupthink of an educated elite are still ignorance, prejudice, and groupthink — and for those with one percent of the knowledge in a society to be guiding…

This field-essay is penned down exclusively for an independent media platform and is scheduled for release this week. An updated link to the published post shall be updated here. Akriti Bhatia, Deepanshu Mohan, Jignesh Mistry, Shivani Agarwal, Advaita Singh, Shrrijiet Roychowdhary[i] “It is against the natural order for the many…

This essay is written exclusively for an independent media platform and an edited (shorter) version is due to be published soon .. For any inputs/comments on the essay (and its content), please write to the research team at cnes@jgu.edu.in “Ghar banwaye, kiraya de ya khana khayein? Ya toh ek mar…