Published Writings

Currently, I write data-driven narratives on key socio-economic subjects for CEDA. I also write data-backed opinion pieces on women's representation in politics. Previously, I have reported for news outlets focusing on issues of inclusion, representation and social justice.

Reportage and Analysis

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

'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