"Failure", co-written with Arjun Appadurai

Raiot.com, 2020

http://www.raiot.in/how-to-make-and-unmake-india-and-its-northeast/ Nandini Ramachandran on Two Key books on India & its Northeast

The Routledge International Handbook of Failure, 2023

This chapter is an introduction to The Routledge International Handbook of Failure (2023) and its Open Access content has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CCBY-NC-ND) license (see links at the end of the abstract). These are some of the questions that have troubled us during the editing of the Handbook.One way or the other, they all boil down to failure, and the major themes of inequality, invisibility, power, the future, the reimagining of neoliberal logics of success, and failure alternatives.These processes are most frequently associated with contemporary crises.They converge recurrently in public narrative and routine talk surrounding present-day unexpected events, and future emergencies in the making, appearing in scholarly discourse and sociopolitical journalism around phenomena such as migration, climate change, political depression, progress in technology, and access to healthcare. Link to the book: https://www.routledge.com/9780367404048 Link to the chapter: https://tandfbis.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780429355950_10.4324_9780429355950-2.pdf

Frontline, 2020

https://frontline.thehindu.com/books/indias-lost-chance/article33085196.ece "India's Lost Chance," by Pallavi Deka, Frontline (Chennai), December 4, 2020

Central Bank Review, 2013

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson attempt to explain why significant income disparity exists in today's world among nations in their recent book called Why Nations Fail. Acemoglu and Robinson's main argument is that political and economic institutions are the fundamental cause of the income inequality in today's world. They make a distinction between inclusive and extractive institutions in terms of their impact on a nation's development. While inclusive political and economic institutions spur economic prosperity, extractive ones explain why some nations are poor. This book intensely discusses how institutions play a significant role for a nation's development. Application of their institutional analysis at the global and regional levels would give further insights in terms of the impacts of institutions on development.

National Democratic Alliance(NDA)'s loss in 2004 General Elections was unpredicted. But United Progressive Alliance(UPA)'s loss in 2014 was not. People had become frustrated with a decade long rule which they saw as corrupt, spineless and dynastic....Modi set his eyes on having governments in states that had never been ever in the Hindu party's fold. And he did succeed, mostly.

A narrative account of politics in India after independence. Written in 2009

Book Review

Presentation in Department of History in Discussion on the Book, 2025

A Book Review of Surinder Singh (2024),Hir Damodar: Context, Translation and Analysis, Manohar, New Delhi