As countries shore up existing safeguards to address the social and economic impacts of the
COVID-19 pandemic, India faces a humanitarian disaster of unprecedented proportions …

We present a modelling and analysis of the COVID-19 outbreak in India with an emphasis
on the socio-economic composition, based on the progress of the pandemic (during its first …

Citizenship is essentially about membership in society which enables citizens to participate
in the affairs of their community on roughly equal terms and culturally enjoins upon them to …

Human Development (HD) requires that development must accompany fundamental human
concerns that make life worth living. It is surprising that despite being a democracy, India …

The thesis focuses on certain characteristics of the state and of state formation in Malawi,
with particular emphasis on the effects of development aid. The methodological and …

The state has historically played favourites—by incentivizing conventional families and
clamping down on alternative families like ascetic maths, it ensured that the heteronormative …

This PhD project studies energy poverty in rural India in order to understand its underlying
social constructs and effect on people's well-being. A core inspiration for undertaking this …

Poverty is an important problem in all countries, especially in underdeveloped countries,
and is generally associated with income. Individuals are considered poor when their income …

This paper tries to explore the question as to whether subjective well-being (SWB) could
enhance or complement the current practice of well-being measurement practice in India …

This article explores a series of events in the global discourse on development and
governance: the emergence of 'the poor'as a class of identifiable individuals rather than an …