Published Writings

 

Reportage and Analysis 

• Decoding women’s labour force participation in 2021-22: What the Periodic Labour Force Survey shows, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Mar 20, 2023

• Where do Indian households borrow money from? Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Feb 28, 2023

• What data told us about India in 2022, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Dec 28, 2022

• The challenge of measuring and addressing hunger and malnutrition in India, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Nov 11, 2022

• India’s mixed progress on improving its skewed sex ratio at birth, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Oct 17, 2022

• The burgeoning share of under-trial prisoners in India’s jails, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Sep 27, 2022

• The worrying patterns of tobacco consumption in India, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Sep 13, 2022

• #GenderStats: Women’s representation in India’s police force, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Aug 25, 2022

• How affordable is an institutional delivery in India? Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Jul 29, 2022

• Decoding menstrual hygiene in India: the strides that we have made, and the battles yet to be won, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Jul 04, 2022. 

• Politics has been an unkind place for women with children. It’s time for structural change, Ms. Magazine, May 06, 2022. 

• Women are more likely to get elected to local bodies than to national parliaments, Ms. Magazine, Feb 15, 2022

• Why there have been so few women in India’s administrative services, IndiaSpend, Jan 05, 2022

• What young Indians think of sex, abortions, consent, menstruation and other-things-SRHR, Ipas Development Foundation, Sep 28, 2021

• One step forward, two steps back: The global story of abortion and reproductive rights is a patchwork of progress, Ipas Development Foundation, Sep 15, 2021 

• How to protect, support, help children during Covid19, Newsworthy, May 09, 2021

• In the long shadow of the pandemic, human trafficking might be flourishing, warns a UNODC report, Kalinga Fellowship, Feb 16, 2021

• Why 243 women had to ask a court for permission to abort, IndiaSpend, Sep 01, 2020

• Corporate India is getting better but far from being truly inclusive, The Indian Express, Feb 26, 2018

• So women reach the top of companies. What happens after that? The Indian Express, Jan 08, 2018

• 60+ Is India’s fastest growing demographic. Yet, public policy largely ignores the elderly, IndiaSpend, Oct 07, 2017

 

Opinion

• Congress’s idea of fielding more women candidates must not fade away, Hindustan Times, Mar 15, 2022

• On women’s representation in Parliament, Modi government has nothing to show, The Indian Express, Aug 25, 2021

• What the dismal number of women elected this time tells us, The Indian Express, May 06, 2021

• Remembering Aruna Shanbaug, CounterCurrents, May 29, 2015

 

Interviews

• 'Women Who Lead' Conclave - moderator, session on women as political campaigners, NETRI Foundation, Mar 08, 2022

• #Voices2021: What SRHR looks like for young people from the LGBTQIA+ community in Manipur, Ipas Development Foundation, Oct 25, 2021

• “Rules Matter”: What Mexico’s journey of achieving parity in its politics shows the world, Ms. Magazine, Jul 22, 2021 

• A revolution in local politics, India Development Review, Jan22, 2021

• ‘State Has To Take Responsibility For Elder Care’, IndiaSpend, Oct 08, 2017 

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Research

• A Thousand Battle Cuts, Seminar Issue 752, Apr 2022.  

• Jennifer M. Piscopo & Malliga Och (2021), Protecting public health in adverse circumstances: subnational women leaders and feminist policymaking during COVID-19, Gender & Development, 29:2-3, 547-568, DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2021.1982481

 

Features and Mentions 

• Why do we still distrust women leaders?, BBC, Jan 19, 2021

• Akshi Chawla: Founder of #WomenLead, Rights of Equality, Jun 14, 2021