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January 2023
  • Kumar, S (2023, Jan 19). The Mythical Population Problem and the Actual Worries. The Wire. Available at
September 2022
  • Kumar, S (2022, Sep 16). Why Punitive Population Control Measures are Harmful and Distract from the Real Problem – Inequality. Scroll.in. Available at
Recent Commentaries (July 2021)

  • Indranil, “Securing health should have been a priority this Budget,”  February 20, 2022, [http://Indranil, “Securing health should have been a priority this Budget,” February 20, 2022,

  • Kaveri Haritas, “What does justice mean? The title of Ranjan Gogoi’s memoir begs the question,” December 07, 2021,  

  • Indranil, “Healthcare financing in the post-COVID world,” November 04, 2021, 

  • Vatsalya Srivastava, “Degree-ing is not ‘skilling’: Jobs crisis and education,”
  • Vatsalya Srivastava, “Ukraine crisis: Economic impact of the Russian attack – A preliminary analysis,”
  • Vatsalya Srivastava, “Understanding public finance jargon: Budget 2022 for the non-specialist,”
  • Vatsalya Srivastava, “DNA Money Guide: Financial planning in 2022 for the cautious professional,”
  • Sonal Dua, Aditi Singhal and Divya Gupta, “Our gender gap in contraception needs public policy intervention,”
  • Indranil, “A Deep Dive for Big Money: The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission,”
  • Indranil, “Health account numbers that require closer scrutiny,”
  • Subhasish Ray and Suman Nath, “Violence isn’t new in BJP states. But Lakhimpur Kheri and Darrang mark a new turn,”
  • Indranil, “Healthcare financing in the post-COVID world; Peoples’ Health Dispatch,”
  • Aditi Singhal, Divya Gupta and Sonal Dua, “Our public schooling system requires a rapid expansion,”
  • Subhasish Ray and Suman Nath, “Before CBI probe into West Bengal violence, let’s define the ‘post-poll’ period,”

Recent Publications

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  • Indranil Mukhopadhyay, “Three decades of neo-liberal health reforms in India: Implications on peoples’ health.” In: Saxena K B (edited) Private Sector Participation in Public Services: Health. New Delhi: Akar Books, 2022.
  • Indranil Mukhopadhyay, “What is the Out-of-Pocket Expenditure on Medicines in India? An Empirical Assessment using a Novel Methodology,” with Shankar Prinja, Sumit Kumar, Atul Sharma, Sitanshu Sekhar Kar, Narayan Tripathi, Neha Dumka, Sandeep Sharma, Saroj Kumar Rana, Samir Garg, Atul Kotwal, and Arun Kumar Aggarwal. Health Policy and Planning: July 2022.

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  • Indranil Mukhopadhyay, India health system review, with Anup Karan, Shakthivel Selvaraj, Swati Srivastava, and Nandita Bhan. New Delhi: World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia.

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  • Subhasish Ray, “Voting for Security: Evidence from a Maoist-affected Region in India,” Contemporary South Asia, 2022, 30(3), 346-365.

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  • Subhasish Ray, “Party System Change and Internal Security: Evidence from India, 2005-2021,” Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2022, forthcoming.

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  • Sudip Patra, “Classical Optical Modelling of Social Sciences in a Bohr–Kantian Framework, ” with P. Ghose. In: Sriboonchitta, S., Kreinovich, V., Yamaka, W. (eds) Credible Asset Allocation, Optimal Transport Methods, and Related Topics. TES 2022. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 429. Springer, Cham.

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  • Sudip Patra, “A Testable Theory for the Emergence of the Classical World,” with S. Kauffman. Entropy 2022, 24, 844.

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  • Manini Ojha, “Fertility targets: Linkages between desire for sons and sterilization in India,” with Mehreen Mookerjee and Sanket Roy, Applied Economics, 2022,

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  • Indranil Mukhopadhyay, “Untangling the Labyrinth of Health Inequities in India”; Book Review: Jesani Amar and Prashad P (2019) “Equity and Access: Health Care Studies in India”, OUP, India; published in the Economic and Political Weekly; Vol. 57, Issue No. 18, 30 Apr, 2022; ISSN (Print) – 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online) – 2349-8846;

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  • Rajni and Sudip Patra. “Time series analysis of rainfall for the state of Odisha,” AIP Conference Proceedings 2435, 020051 (2022),

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  • Suman Nath and Subhasish Ray, “Political campaigning in West Bengal: violence,
    professionalisation, and communalisation,” South Asian History and Culture, in Special Issue on political communications in India, 2022,

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  • Dhritiman Gupta. “Prize sharing rules in collective contests: when do social norms matter?” Review of Economic Design, 2021,

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  • Dhritiman Gupta and Soumendu Sarkar. “Assembly Problems,” in Surajit Borkotokey et al eds. Game Theory and Networks New Perspectives and Directions, Springer, 2021.
  • Killemsetty, N., Johnson, M.P. and A. Patel. “Using Community Based Operations Research to Understand the Housing Preferences of Slum Dwellers in India.” European Journal of Operational Research, April 2022,

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  • Bajaj, A., & Damodaran, N. “Consumer payment choice and the heterogeneous impact of India’s demonetization.” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, April 2022, 104329.

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  • Manini Ojha, “Hunger and Health: Reexamining the Impact of Household Food Insecurity on Child Malnutrition in India,” with Gaurav Dhamija and Punarjit Roychowdhury, Journal of Development Studies, March 2022,

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  • Manini Ojha, “Gender gap in schooling: Is there a role for health insurance?” Journal of International Development, January 2022, 34:29-54,

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  • Subaran Roy, “Role of Debt in Emerging Economies: A Re-examination of the Debt-Growth Nexus,” with Chitrakalpa Sen, Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies. January 2022.

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  • Sudip Patra, “Measurement, Luders and von Neumann Projections and Nonlocality,” with Partha Ghose, Pramana: Journal of Physics, January 2022,

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  • Vidya Subramanian, “Book Review: Examining Teach for All: International Perspectives on a Growing Global Network,” Policy Futures in Education, January 2022.

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  • Bolazzi, Floriane, Isabelle Guérin, and Kaveri Haritas (2021). “Pas par hobby, mais par survie!.” Multitudes 3 (2021): 19-28.

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  • Ghatak, S., & Jha, D. (2021). Role of economic reforms on dismantling barriers to inter-state migration in India. Migration Letters, 18(3), 297–304.

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  • Subhasish Ray, “Economic Voting in Multi-level Contexts: Evidence from Kerala and West Bengal in India,” with Anil Varughese, Electoral Studies, October 2021, 73, 102378.

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  • Manini Ojha, “Who’s your neighbour? Social influences on domestic violence,” with Mehreen Mookerjee and Sanket Roy, Journal of Development Studies, September 2021,

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  • Thara, Kaveri, “Alternative Market Systems: Mutual Dependence for Collective Welfare in a Fish Market in Udupi,” in Christine Verschuur, Isabelle Guérin, and Isabelle Hillenkamp eds. Social Reproduction, Solidarity Economy, Feminisms and Democracy: Latin America and India. Springer Nature, September 2021.

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  • Subhasish Ray, “Dominant Party Rule, Development, and the Rise of Hindu Nationalism in West Bengal.” In Theory, Policy, Practice: Development and Discontents in India, Eds. Suman Nath and Debraj Bhattacharya, Routledge, September 2021.

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  • Sunaina Dhingra, “Transitioning to an Obese India: Demographic and Structural determinants of the rapid rise in obesity,” with Anaka Aiyar and Prabhu Pingali, Economics & Human Biology, August 2021,

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  • Mhaskar, Sumeet. “Crisis of Dominance: Understanding the Rural-Urban Roots of Maratha Caste Mobilisation for Reservation.” Urbanisation, August 2021, 6(1): 64-81.

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  • Haritas, K. In Search of Home: Citizenship, Law and the Politics of the Poor (South Asia in the Social Sciences). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. July 2021.

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