Pregnant women must now submit to facial scans, children to “liveliness detection”. Just to get take home ration. The union govt continues making access to rights more and more complex. It’s committed in making people cross all kinds of hurdles just to get food for survival.

Inequality in food consumption is stark - based on physical activity those poorer would need higher calories - we see the exact opposite. And in general, diet quality is poor & cereal-heavy especially those in lower strata. + some puzzles remain. thewire.in/political-econ…

“Amader Para Amader Samadhan” (APAS) is a unique flagship initiative aimed at institutionalizing participatory governance and re-imagining grassroots service delivery through people-engagement and empowerment. APAS camp is a platform where local people shall deliberate, identify

In booming cities, preserving urban "wind corridors" amid new construction can keep heat and smog at bay bloomberg.com/news/features/…

You understand Bangla well enough yet chose to be ignorant. A huge number of 'Bangladeshi' speakers migrated to India in 1947 and their descendants Indian citizens continue to speak 'Bangladeshi' in India. PS: For eg. The word for Swine in Bangladeshi and Bangla both is Shuor

Universities are training economists who can build models but don't understand the economy. Read my new Global Currents piece on the recent wave of criticism against mainstream economics (link in replies).

📢Dark Store Audit Report in Delhi NCR RAWU conducted an audit of basic amenities and safety standards across 51 dark stores operated by major quick-commerce platforms, including Blinkit, Zepto, Instamart, Big Basket, and Flipkart Minutes.🧵 Report link in last twt

Caste and Climate Change | Aug’ 2025 | Issue 03 Featured Submissions on The Ambedkarian Chronicle. Explore the full set of featured submissions on The Ambedkarian Chronicle: theambedkarianchronicle.in

Does this plant compensate for all the trees that existed here ? Look at my shiny shoes please! , Satellite image from 2017 when this place was Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and now

Measuring whether a household owns physical assets--like a TV, refrigerator, or washing machine--often helps understand the economic situation of the household. The Household Consumption Expenditure Survey by India’s National Statistics Office does exactly that, asking a

The 'gentle' lotus, turns to menacing bulldozer for the informal settlements in Delhi. Abhinandita Dayal Mathur writes. Read and share thequint.com/opinion/delhi-…

Causal inference is all the rage. But good descriptive research is vital. This new article lays out an argument for what makes good descriptive research.

🙌🙌 Data on every district boundary change in India since 1951? Yes please! Link in reply

Relative to linguistic stock, Malayalam, Tamil and Punjabi are the most dispersed languages (above 10%), followed by Gujarati and Telugu and then some other languages.

New paper where we propose the Transit Heat Exposure Index (THEI) to gauge high-fidelity heat exposure for transit riders🥵🚍 We demonstrante THEI using 1m-by-1m microclimate simulations and door-to-door transport network analysis in a case study of Miami doi.org/10.1016/j.jtra…

🚨 Out today! 🚨 My book THE AAM AADMI PARTY: The Untold Story of a Political Uprising and Its Undoing is here. Published by juggernautbooks , it’s shaped by my experience of covering AAP as a journalist and then as a researcher and columnist. For this book, I am deeply grateful

In the latest episode of Ideas of India Mercatus Center I spoke with Yamini Aiyar Yamini Aiyar about challenges in learning and education in Indian schools, Delhi's experiment with education reforms, portability of benefits, agency and control by school administrators and much more.