Managing Editor, Down To Earth. He has been associated with the fortnightly since 1997 and has written extensively on rural affairs and development matters
GDP obsession
If the growth rate is so great, why are the poor not getting a taste of it?
What would happen now?
A normal monsoon will be useful only if we learn lessons from the current drought
Government tries to harvest success with farmer-friendly Budget
The 2016 Budget has the right intent for the rural sector, but lacks clarity
Whither freedom
Post independence, governments expanded squeezing village republics out of existence
The flame of forest rages on
A bureaucrat-turned-activist who saw governance through the eyes of the tribals
Power of the local
Panchayat elections almost contested with the Bihar poll. Is this desirable?
Rules of engagement
Thirty years on, what does the Narmada Bachao Andolan teach us?
Why we should worry about 8% deficit rainfall in July
Historically, a deficit monsoon in July invariably leads to drought
Trajectory of opinion
The social media is the winner as well as the biggest polariser of development news
How Nepal ignored threat of imminent earthquake
Unplanned growth despite the region being quake-prone led to massive destruction
RIP Panchayati Raj ministry
The new-found `cooperative federalism' will kill the third tier of government in India
Findings of Economic Survey 2015 are cause for worry
Survey hints at what we can expect from Union Budget 2015-16
Will the budget create a bang?
The 2015-16 Union budget will declare Modi government's development agenda
More government, less governance
Environment versus development: 2014 sets the stage for bitter polarisation
In defence of capitalism
Diluting MGNREGA does not make market sense
Time to redraw the global poverty line
It must reflect new realities of food inflation, climate change impacts
My experience with Emergency
What links a contemporary generation to the Emergency period
Environment Day: Green agenda for new government
Get the focus on environment and health, Mr Prime Minister
How natural resources doomed UPA
Management of natural resources will be the toughest job for the new government
Feeble Rights
Rights-based governance has not been accompanied by effective delivery mechanism
New Nepal
The country struggles with ways to use its diverse ecology in finalising new states