List of Articles Published arranged in Chronological Order

List of Articles Published arranged  in Chronological Order

1.         Crime, Gender and Society in India: Insights from homicide data, Population and Development Review, Volume 30, No. 2, 2000. With Jean Drèze.

2.         Poverty of Policy, Scarcity of Will, The Times of India, 17 May, 2001. With Jean Drèze.

3.         Mid-Day Meals in Rajasthan, The Hindu, 13 November, 2002.

4.         Not everybody loves a good drought, The Hindu Magazine, 2 January 2004. With Aruna Roy

5.         Monitoring Disclosures, Seminar, February 2004.

6.         Using your Illusions, Hindustan Times, 18 February, 2004. With Jean Drèze.

7.         Bringing Grassroots Democracy to Life: The MKSS Campaign in the Rajasthan Panchayat Elections, Economic and Political Weekly, 19 February, 2005. Commentary.

8.         Beasts in Uniform, Tehelka, 18 June 2005.

9.         India's Right to Food Campaign, Just Change, October 2005.

10.    Employment Guarantee and Migration, 18 July, The Hindu, 2006

11.    Mid-Day Meals in Primary Schools: Achievements and Challenges, Economic and Political Weekly, 18 November, 2006. Perspectives.

12.    Political Economy of State Response to Drought, Economic and Political Weekly, 16 December, 2006. Special Article.

13.    The State of India’s Children (with Jean Drèze and Sudha Narayanan), Indian Journal of Human Development, Volume 1, No. 2, July-December, 2007.

14.    Corruption in NREGA: Myths and Reality, 22 January, The Hindu, 2008. With Jean Drèze and Siddhartha.

15.    Rajniti ko Badalti Rozgar Garanty, Hindustan, March 2008. With Jean Drèze.

16.    Glucose for the Lok Sabha?, Hindustan Times, April 2008. With Jean Drèze.

17.    The Black Hole of NREGA Records, Yojana, August, 2008.

18.    Empowerment Guarantee Act, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 43 (No. 35), 30 August – 5 September, 2008. Commentary.

19.    Access to the Targeted Public Distribution System: A Case Study in Rajasthan, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 43 (No. 44), 1-7 November, 2008. Special Article.

20.    Self-Targeting on Employment Programmes, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Volume 51, No. 2, 2008.

21.    From accounts to accountability, The Hindu, 6 December, 2008. With Jean Drèze

22.    Starvation Deaths and “Primitive Tribal Groups, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 43 (No. 52), 27 December – 2 January, 2008. Commentary.

23.    Pati Experience, Frontline, Volume 26, No. 1, 2009.

24.    Battle for Employment Guarantee, Frontline, Volume 26, No. 1, 2009. With Jean Drèze.

25.    Rajasthan Way Ahead, Frontline, Volume 26, No. 1, 2009. With Anish Vanaik.

26.    Banned but still there, Frontline, Volume 26, No. 1, 2009. With Jean Drèze

27.    Lok Adalat or Joke Adalat, The Hindu, 22 February, 2009. With Jean Drèze.

28.    Incentives that work, The Hindu, 10 May, 2009. With Meera Samson and Anuradha De.

29.    Right to Food: Beyond Cheap Promises, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 44 (No. 29) 18 July, 2009. Insight.

30.    Women Workers and their Perceptions of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 44 (No. 43), 24 October, 2009. With Nandini Nayak. Special Article.

31.    The BPL Census and A Possible Alternative, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 45 (No. 9), 27 February, 2010. With Jean Drèze. Special Article

32.    Slow but Steady Success, The Hindu, 25 April, 2010. With Karuna Muthiah.

33.    Wages of Delay, Frontline, Volume 27.May 2010

34.    Not all that Unique, Hindustan Times, 30 September, 2010.

35.    Chhattisgarh Shows the Way, The Hindu, 14 November, 2010. With Jean Drèze.

36.    Biscuits, Tehelka, Volume 7, Issue 52, December, 2010.

37.    Going Against the Grain, Hindustan Times, 27 January, 2011.

38.    The UID Project and Social Welfare, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 46, No. 9. 2011. Perspectives.

39.    India's Public Distribution System: Utlization and Impact, Journal of Development Studies, Vol 47, No. 3, pp. 1-23, 2011.

40.    Trends in Diversion of Grain from the Public Distribution System, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 46, No. 26, 21 May, 2011. Special Article.

41.    Signs of Revival, The Hindu, 12 June, 2011.

42.    PDS Leakages: The Plot Thickens , The Hindu, 12 August, 2011

43.    Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 46, No. 44-45, November, 2011. Special Article.

44.    Lessons from Brazil , Frontline, 17-30 December 2011

45.    Ghere Se Bahar, Amar Ujala, 31 December 2011

46.    Food Security Act: One Step Forward, One Step Back?, Seminar, No. 634, 2012.

47.    Adhaar se Kiska Uddhar, Amar Ujala, 28 February 2012

48.    UID: Road to Exclusion?, The New Indian Express, 16 February 2012

49.    Experiments with Aadhaar , The Hindu, 27 June 2012, with Jean Drèze and Bharat Bhatti. | Response to the

50.    Minister's response, The Hindu, 4 July 2012, with Jean Drèze and Bharat Bhatti

51.    Putting Kerala to Work , The Hindu, 1 August. 2012

52.    A Bill that asks too much of the poor , The Hindu, 5 September, 2012. With Jean Drèze.

53.    Tamil Nadu's Striking Progress in Welfare , India Together, 10 September, 2012

54.    खरा नहीं है नकद का सौदा, Amar Ujala, 28 November, 2012.

55.    Long Road to Cash Transfers, Financial Express, 4 December, 2012.

56.    Benefit Transfer or Vote Transfer, Deccan Herald, 16 December, 2012.

57.    Food Security Act: Should the Centre Emulate Chhattisgarh?, Hindu Business Line, 28 December, 2012.

58.    Is UID Linked Cash Transfer a Good Idea, Business Standard, 10 January, 2013.

59.    A Cost-Benefit Analysis of UID, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 48, No. 5, 2 February, 2013. Commentary.

60.    Working Things Out, Hindustan Times, 20 February, 2013.

61.    Sanshay, Hindi translation, published in Rashtriya Sahara, 24 February, 2013

62.    Cash for Vote, Frontline, Volume 30, No. 4, March 2013. | Malayalam translation, published in Mathrubhumi. | DBT par

63.    Lessons from the East Godavari Pilot, The Hindu, 11 April, 2013.

64.    Food Security is Affordable, Hindu Business Line, 14 April, 2013.

65.    Don't crunch this lunch, Times of India, 21 July, 2013. Hindi translation published in Dainik Jagran.

66.    The Devil is in the detail, The Hindu, 6 August. | व्यक्ति नहीं परिवार अहम, Amar Ujala, 3 August, 2013

67.    Five Misconceptions about the Food Security Bill, Reprinted in LiveMint, 8 August, 2013. Ideas for India version

68.    A Welcome Intervention, Deccan Herald, 29 September, 2013.

69.    Rural Poverty and the Public Distribution System, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 48, No 45&46, 16 November, 2013. With Jean Drèze. Special Article.

70.    सामाजिक सुरक्षाः अपने ही क़ानून मरोड़ती सरकार, BBC Hindi, 19 November, 2013.

71.    UID project: Does Evidence matter?, Ideas for India, 5 February, 2014.

72.    मेरे गुजरात की कहानी, Amar Ujala | Growing up in Gujarat, NDTV, 8 April, 2014.

73.    UID project: Does Evidence Matter, Yojana, July 2014. [Full version of I4I article]

74.     हिमाचल को भी देखिए, Amar Ujala, 14 July, 2014.

75.    Cash vs. In-kind Transfers: Indian Data Meets Theory, Food Policy, 46, pp. 116-128 , 2014.

76.    The Hills Aim Higher, Outlook, 24 August, 2014. |

77.    Bitter Pill to Swallow, Indian Express, 2 September, 2014.

78.    माई-बाप सरकार' की वापसी, Amar Ujala, 15 October. | Mai-Baap Sarkar Returns, scroll.in

79.    Do Government Schemes Ever work?, Yahoo News 22 October, 2014

80.    The Whys and Whats of NREGA, Indiaspend.org, 4 November, 2014

81.    'विकास मॉडलों' के बीच ओडिशा से सबक, BBC Hindi, 17 November, 2014. With Jean Dreze and Rajkishor Mishra.

82.    | मनरेगा से क्या है मोदी को दिक्कत?, BBC Hindi, 25 November.

83.    Social Welfare: India is trailing among the BRICS , The BRICS Post, 1 December, 2014.

84.    Understanding Leakages in the Public Distribution System, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50, No., February 2015. With Jean Dreze. Insight.

85.    Kaise Pahuche Garibon Tak Anaaj, Amar Ujala, February 2015.

86.    Fiscal Attention Deficit, HuffPost, February, 2015.

87.    The Meaning of Vikas , Outlook, February 2015.

88.    Ending the APL Scam , LiveMint, 3 March, 2015. With Jean Dreze.

89.    Whose Bharat is it?, Outlook, March 2015.

90.    नकद हस्तांतरण से क्या हो पाएगी खाद्य सुरक्षा, Amar Ujala, 26 April 2015.

91.    And the Unique Identification juggernaut keeps rolling, The Wire, 3 June, 2015.

92.    Eggs and Prejudice, Indian Express, 6 June, 2015.

93.    Seven reasons why India needs eggs, Scroll.in, 10 June, 2015.

94.    Nurture Mission, Frontline, 24 July, 2015. With Rajkishor Mishra.

95.    गरीबी से जंग के भोथरे हथियार, Amar Ujala, 31 July, 2015.

96.    UID: From Inclusion to Exclusion  Seminar, August 2015

97.    आधार: ज़िंदगी में तांकझांक का तर्क कितना सही?, BBC Hindi, 17 August, 2015.

98.    Clarification on PDS Leakages, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 50, No. 39. With Jean Dreze, Himanshu and Abhijit Sen. Discussion.

99.    Thought for Food , खाद्य सुरक्षा: सुधर सकते हैं फिसड्डी राज्यों के भी हालात Outlook, 21 August, 2015. With Jean Dreze.

100.                Five Myths About Aadhaar, Outlook, 18 September, 2015.

101.                गरीबी के बारे में डीटन ने बढ़ाई है अर्थशास्त्र की समझ, Outlook Hindi, 15 October, 2015.

102.                A Nobel for the idea of well-being, The Hindu, 17 October, 2015. Against the tide: Deaton's economics" Ideas for India.

103.                PDS in Bihar, The Road Ahead Live Mint, 3 November, 2015.

104.                Child Development: Kerala tops, Gujarat flops, Bihar hops, NDTV 24x7 | बाल विकास - केरल टॉप, गुजरात फ्लॉप, बिहार हिट NDTV India, 18 November 2015. With Jean Drèze.Child Development: How are Indian states faring?" Ideas for India

105.                Food Security: Bihar on the Move, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50, No. 34. With Jean Dreze and Jessica Pudussery. Special Article.

106.                The Right(s) Perspective on Populism, Business Today, 17 January, 2016.

107.                Community kitchens: An idea whose time has come, Scroll.in, 22 January 2016.

108.                For NREGA, Tamil Nadu is the only hope", NDTV.com, 2 February, 2016.

109.                Digging holes, filling them up, Indian Express, 3 February, 2016.

110.                मजदूरों के हक में मनरेगा, Amar Ujala, 4 February, 2016.

Radio

Canada Broadcasting Corporation, on the National Food Security Bill, 2013.

Voice of America, on Mid-day meals, 18 July, 2013.

Television

The Republic of Hunger, 101 East, Al Jazeera, May 2012.

Is the Government prepared for drought?, Big Picture, RSTV, July 2012.

Direct Cash Transfer and beneficiaries of subsidies, Sarokaar, RSTV, October 2012.

Paying out or paying off India’s poor, Inside Story, Al Jazeera, 2 Jan, 2013.

Cash transfer: Direct benefit or mere tokenism?, NDTV Profit, Jan 2013.

Is the food security bill a fiscal nightmare?, We Mean Business, NDTV Profit.

The Hunger Project, Truth vs. Hype, NDTV 24x7.

Garibi kam karne ko kitne gambhir neta, Muqabala, NDTV India.

Garibi rekha ko lekar ghamasan, Prime Time, NDTV India.

Kya hai garibi ki hakikat, Badi Khabar, NDTV India.

Is Malnutrition a Bigger Problem than Hunger?, State of the Nation, CNN-IBN, 14 August, 2013.

Food Bill: Game Changer?, Left, Right and Centre, NDTV 24x7, 26 Aug, 2013.

Whose afraid of the Food Security Bill?, Truth vs. Hype, NDTV 24x7, 2014.

Badi Khabar, Sarkar nayi par mehengayi ki samasya vahi, July 2014.

Newspoint, Kya Rs. 500 crore se ruk sakegi mehengayi, July 2014.

Should Modi Government Keep UPA Welfare Schemes, Left, Right, Centre, 14 October 2014.

War on Poverty, The Big Picture, RSTV, October 2014.

Reforming NREGA, Charcha Mein, DD News, November 2014.

Sentiment over science , The Buck Stops Here, NDTV 24x7, June 2015.

ICDS and Mid-Day Meals: Who decides the menu?, The Big Picture, RSTV, June 2015.

Books

De, Anuradha, Khera, Reetika, Kumar, AK Shiva, Samson Meera (2011), PROBE Revisited (New Delhi: Oxford University Press).

Battle for Employment Guarantee (2011), (New Delhi: Oxford University Press). Edited.

Reviews: Gayatri Sahgal, The Book Review;

Rob Jenkins, Realizing the Right to Work, Economic and Political Weekly;

Pradeep Baisakh, "Ground Zero Realities", Governance Now.

Citizen's Initiative for Right of Children Under Six (2006), Focus On Children Under Six, Abridged Report (New Delhi: Right to Food Campaign). Contributor.

Dey, Nikhil, Drèze, Jean and Khera, Reetika (2006), Employment Guarantee: A Primer (New Delhi: National Book Trust).

Chapters in Books

Democratic Politics and Legal Rights, in Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Mihika Tiwari (ed), Oxford University Press. Under review.

India’s Food Security Act: Five Misconceptions, in Rajat Kathuria and Neetika Kaushal Nagpal (ed), Governance and Development: Views from G20 Countries (Springer Verlag). Forthcoming.

Mid-Day Meals in Primary Schools, in (Ed.) (2009), Elementary Education in India: Issues and Challenges (Mussoorie: Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy of Public Administration). With Jean Drèze.

Mid-Day Meals in Primary Schools: Achievements and Challenges, in Baru, Rama (Ed.) (2008), “School Health in India” (New Delhi: Sage Publications).

Not everybody loves a good drought, with Aruna Roy, in Nirmala Lakshman (2007) Writing A Nation: An Anthology of Indian Journalism (Ed.), (New Delhi: Rupa Publications).

Student Publications

Prankur Gupta, Estimating Kerosene Leakages from the Public Distribution System, Ideas for India, 24 September, 2014.

Rhythm Gupta, Yasoob Haider and Payoj Jain, Chhattisgarh’s Food ATMs: Portable Benefits Minus Biometrics, India Together, 15 September, 2014.