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What does the Data from the Household Consumer Expenditure Survey 2022-23 tell us? (The India Forum, 2024)

Consumption data exposes the depths of India’s caste divide (Live Mint, 2024)

Mind the wealth gap, bridge it with wealth tax (Deccan Herald, 2023)

India’s Employment Challenges: An Overview (South Asia Issue Paper, 2022)

Growing distress and a falling unemployment rate: What is going on in the labour market? (The India Forum, 2022)

Do PLFS numbers underestimate the pain of lockdown? (Hindustan Times, 2021)

A disconcerting picture behind the headline numbers (The Hindu, 2021)

India’s children are not getting the nutrition they need. Here is a measure that could help (Scroll, 2020)

Diluting Laws Will Mean More Casual Labour – and That’s Not a Good Thing (The Wire, 2020)

Less than a third of Indians go to public hospitals for treatment (Live Mint, 2020)

Locking out the working poor: India’s inadequate response to Covid-19’s economic crisis (The India Forum, 2020)

Protecting India’s most vulnerable may be key to lockdown exit (Live Mint, 2020)

Affordable education still out of reach for Indians (Hindustan Times, 2020)

Will Congress’s NYAY Really Mean Justice for the Poor? (The Wire, 2019)

Who is Bearing the Burden of India’s Rising Unemployment? (The Wire, 2019)

Most Regular Jobs in India Don’t Pay Well, PLFS (Live Mint, 2019)

Stark reality of the self-employed (Live Mint, 2019)

33% of India’s skilled youth jobless: official survey (Live Mint, 2019)

Union Budget 2017-18: Urgent Need for an Improved Farm Debt Waiver Scheme (The Wire, 2019)

Economics, not religion, drives ownership of cattle in India (Live Mint, 2018)

Modi Government’s ‘Historic’ MSP Hike Is Nothing More Than a Band-Aid for Farmers (The Wire, 2018)

Before Universal Basic Income, We Must First Get Social Spending Basics Right (The Wire, 2017)

India’s non-MBBS healers (Live Mint, 2016)

Why PhDs want to be peons (Live Mint, 2016)

Who are the beef eaters in India? (Live Mint, 2016)