Stepping in as the co-editor of the International Political Science Association’s newly launched journal “Governance Review”. Announcing the Call for papers soon to welcome innovative, rigorous and empirically grounded scholarship from colleagues around the world.
Latest collaborative research* We show that less than 10% of natural flows now reach the Indus Delta—its active area has shrunk by 92% since 1933. Why? We argue that Colonial-era irrigation systems and post-independence water policies entrenched centralised, technocratic control, sidelining ecology and delta communities. Using historical institutionalism, political ecology, we introduce the Delta Harm Score (DHS) to assess water laws—the results reveal persistent, systemic harm driven by elite control and infrastructural lock-ins.
Full article: How the colonial-era water management paradigm continues to shape the Indus Delta crisis *Open Access Full article* How the colonial-era water management paradigm continues to shape the Indus Delta crisis
Workshop on “What Works?: Understanding Positive Performance and Improvement in Public Sector Organizations in the Global South”, 11th to 13th of June 2024, organised by the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics CIDE and the University of Notre Dame.
Talk on “Shaping Institutions: Do Ideas Matter” and moderated a panel discussion on “Adopting New Channels of Communication: How to be up to date and to preserve traditions”, HSE Partners Week, HSE University at St. Petersburg
Article on Pathways to develop state capacity in a weak state: the sub-national state of Bihar in India published in the Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
New Co-authored chapter on “Integrating Social Equity into Right to Information and Access to Information Laws and Policies” In Open Government and Freedom of Information: Policy and Practice in Asia and the Middle East, Palgrave McMillan 2023
India’s Authoritarian Turn: Understanding the Emergency (1975–1977) and Its Afterlife : Pacific Affairs
Interrogating the Resurgence of Administrative State : International Journal of Public Sector Management
Thematic Book review article The Politics of Welfare and Governance in India , Journal of Asian studies 81 (1)
Article on UP Assembly elections 2022 : Foreign Policy
Developing State Capacity in a weak state . In the latest guest blog with Building State Capability program, Centre for International Development at the Harvard University I explore : What engenders state capacity in a weak state?