My research deals with the Economics of Religion, Political Economy, Law and Economics, Indian History, and Sociolinguistics. "Khusro dariyaa prem kaa, jo ulti waa ki dhaar| Jo ubaraa so doob gayaa, jo doobaa so paar||"
Articles
Lokpal Bill: Lessons from the Karnataka Lokayukta’s Performance (with Narayana A. and Sudhir Krishnaswamy), Economic & Political Weekly (2012)
The debate on the design of the Lokpal has been premised on the questionable assumption...
Does Monotheism Cause Conflict?, Homo Oeconomicus (2012)
Most of the studies that examine the role of religion in conflicts rely on empirical...
Books
Contributions to Books
A Correlation Between Stress Rupture Test Results and Normalized Oxide Scale Thickness for Reheater Tubes of 210 MW Fossil Boilers, Creep & Fracture in High Temperature Components: Design & Life Assessment Issues (2005)
Working Papers
The Internal Political Geography of States and Intra-State Conflicts, German Working Papers in Law and Economics (2009)
The internal political geography of a state represents the trade-off between the efficiency of rent-seeking...
A Critical Review of Economic Analyses of Religion, IGIDR Working Paper Series 2008-023 (2008)
Recent years have seen increasing interest in economic analyses of religion. We carry out a...
Negotiating Constitution for Political Unions, IGIDR Working Paper Series 2008-026 (2008)
This paper provides a cradle-to-grave model for political union between two unequally endowed states. We...
Opinion pieces
Why democracy will foster ethnic reconciliation in Myanmar, East Asia Forum (2012)
Recent developments in Myanmar have generated considerable optimism about the country’s long-impending democratisation. But will...
2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election and the Future of UPA, South Asia Masala (2012)
The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has been paralyzed among other things due to...
Understanding China’s South and Northeast Asia policies, East Asia Forum (2011)
China’s aggressive posturing in recent boundary disputes is causing widespread concern in the Asia Pacific....
Lessons for Lokpal, from Lokayukta, Indian Express (2011)
Parliament will consider the Lokpal Bill this week. The debate on policy choices and the...
Articles (Unpublished)
Anomaly in ‘Greater Nagaland’ Demand Along the Assam Border – Part I (with Kunal Ghosh), Unpublished (2006)
Other
The Kite-maker, the Politician, and the Satyr (2009)
Long ago there was a town called Ethikos, where lived a kite-maker and a politician....
My biases: A note on my articles in Mainstream (2003-05), Manuscript (2009)
Over the last few years I have realized that the treatment of the relationship between...
Syaat (2007)
The 'thinking' class of our country, India, can be divided into four broad categories: the...