Published Writings

 

Newsletter Editions

1. #WomenLead: A hundred and sixty editions (and counting) since May 2020, tracking and covering all things at the intersection of women and politics from around the world. All available here: https://womenlead.substack.com/

2. Women & Work: Twenty eight monthly editions between January 2023 and March 2025, covering the latest data, news, research and policy updates about women's participation in paid work in India. Available here: https://womenandwork.substack.com/

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Reportage and Analysis 

• A summer of discontent for India’s soybean farmers, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Sep 13, 2024

• Strengthening the implementation of the POSH Act – The critical role of data, Isaac Centre for Public Policy (ICPP), Aug 22, 2024

• A decade of the POSH Act: What the data tells us about how India Inc. has fared, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), May 16, 2024

• How labour force participation rates in India vary across age groups, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Apr 08, 2024

• Assembly Elections 2023: Access to basic housing infrastructure in the five states, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Nov 22, 2023

• Assembly Elections 2023: Unravelling patterns of labour force participation in the five states, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Nov 15, 2023

• Tur-nomics: Prices of India’s favourite dal heat up, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Aug 07, 2023

• The Elephant is set to overtake the Dragon, or is it?, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Jun 16, 2023

• How much do Indian households spend on healthcare every month?, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis, May 31, 2023

• 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. 

• A Thousand Battle Cuts, Seminar Issue 752, Apr 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

• Lok Sabha elections 2024: On women’s representation, a step backwards, The Indian Express, June 10, 2024 (With the headline 'Only 13.6 percent' in the print edition)

• Why Mexico and Nepal are ahead of India on gender parity in Parliament, The Indian Express, Sep 27, 2023 (With the headline 'Quota is not enough' in the print edition). 

• Why applying a gender lens to data is critical, Samvad by Ashoka University, May 2023 

• 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

 

Quoted in

• Women voters lead the fight against misogyny, Hindustan Times, May 10, 2024

• Do welfare schemes really change the way women vote? What exit poll data shows, The Quint, Dec 01, 2023

• Telangana Assembly Elections: Political parties are going all out to attract female voters who outnumber men, The Economic Times, Nov 26, 2023

• History made? Well, yes, it will be at some future date, Mind The Gap by Hindustan Times, Sep 24, 2023

• If women were paid for unpaid domestic work, how much would they actually earn?, The Quint, Apr 04, 2023

• For loans, most Indians bank on local shops, shows study, The Times of India, Mar 09, 2023

• 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

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

 

Interviews​

• “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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