Year: 2019
- The opium trader who became the Baronet of Bombay (The Hindu’s Sunday Magazine, 4th May 2019)
- Why the Way We Use Statistical Significance Has Created a Crisis in Science (The Wire, 31st March 2019)
- Sita Valles in Angola on 26th May 1977 (3QuarksDaily, 25th March 2019)
- A Tale of Two Continents: Lemuria and Gondwana (Lapham’s Quarterly, 11th March 2019)
- Interview with Santhosh Narayanan (The Hindu, 16th February 2019)
- With All Eyes on Science, Social Science Scholars Flounder With Even Less Money (The Wire, 12th February 2019)
- Review: The DIY Experiment That Captures ‘All the Mystery of Quantum Physics’ (The Wire, 7th Feb 2019)
- A date with the best among storytellers (BLInk, 11th January 2018)
Year: 2018
- Six Reasons 2018 Was a Game-Changer for Indian Speculative Fiction (The Wire, 29th December 2018)
- Bringing back the dead (BLInk, 14th December 2018)
- How the Hindu Right-Wing Factchecks (Fake) News (3QuarksDaily, 3rd December 2018)
- Houtong loves to purr (BLInk, 9th November 2018)
- Construction workers and social wealth funds (3QuarksDaily, 8th October 2018)
- Madhava and the Uninfluential Discovery (3QuarksDaily, 13th August 2018) (Also on The Wire)
- Book Review: Absurdist in limbo (the plays of Makarand Sathe) (BLInk, 27th July 2018)
- Book Review: Do Writers Care for What Psychology Has to Say About the Curse of Knowledge? (The Wire, 27th June 2018)
- Ethiopia and Europe’s Christian Connections (3QuarksDaily, 18th June 2018)
- The Casteless Collective takes gaana mainstream (BLInk, 25th May 2018)
- The Criminal Tribes of the Madras Presidency (3QuarksDaily, 23rd April 2018)
- Impact Factors Fail in Evaluating Scientists. Why Does the UGC Still Use Them? (The Wire, 18th April 2018)
- Indian university rankings inherently inconsistent (Nature Index, 9th April 2018)
- The Great Clomping Foot: Worldbuilding and Art (3QuarksDaily, 26th February 2018) (Archived on this blog here as 3QD link is broken)
- How Scihub Is at the Forefront of the Quest to Frame Scientific Knowledge as Public Good (The Wire, 27th February 2018)
- Politics and Fantasy: A Criticism (3QuarksDaily, 8th January 2018) (Archived on this blog here as 3QD link is broken)
Life of Labour – Weekly newsletter on national and international labour news (co-written with Venkat T and Srividya Tadepalli)
- 06/17/2018 – Number of Manual Scavengers Increases Fourfold Since Last Survey
- 06/09/2018 – Labour Ministry’s Quarterly Jobs Survey Put on Hold
- 06/02/2018 – Farmers Begin 10-Day Strike Demanding Loan Waiver and Increased MSP
- 05/26/2018 – UP Raises Retirement Age for Government Employees
- 05/19/2018 – Kerala’s New Labour Policy, Farmers Protest Against Bullet Train Project
- 05/12/2018 – Maharashtra Farmers Continue Protests
- 05/05/2018 – Manual Scavenging in Lutyens’ Delhi, National Policy for Domestic Workers
- 04/29/2018 – 100 Years of the Madras Labour Union, Another Factory Fire in Delhi
- 04/22/2018 – Win for Striking Nurses in Delhi, Bank Workers to Strike Against Cash Crunch
- 04/15/2018 – 99% of MNREGA Funding Unprocessed, DefExpo Workers Crammed in Tiny Shelters
- 04/08/2018 – Sexism in Job Recruitment in India, Google Workers Against Drone Strikes
- 04/01/2018 – Protest Against Sterlite Copper Plant in TN, Deaths in Surat’s Garment Industry
- 03/25/2018 – Ola, Uber Drivers’ Strike, Protests in Manesar Against Maruti Verdict
- 03/18/2018 – Kerala HC Stalls Minimum Wage Notification
- 03/11/2018 – International Working Women’s Day 2018 Special
- 03/04/2018 – Unrest in Kerala fishing industry, Fixed term contracts
- 02/25/2018 – Labour bureau data shows job slowdown, Nagpur transport strike
- 02/18/2018 – Blast in Cochin shipyard, twelve manual scavenging deaths
- 02/11/2018 – Manual scavenging in Jain festival in Karnataka, SICAL protest
- 02/04/2018 – Budget 2018 special report
- 01/28/2018 – Vulnerable employment, dismal working conditions, modern slavery
- 01/21/2018 – Scheme workers protest across India, 17 killed in firecracker blaze in factory
- 01/14/2018 – TN Transport workers call off strike, MSS banned
- 01/07/2018 – Flash strike by Tamil Nadu transport workers, Struggle at Bathinda thermal power plant
- Full Archive
Year: 2017
My R/Shiny app on crime in India using NCRB data is up on The Wire here.
- Book Review: The Lottery of Birth: On Inherited Social Inequalities by Namit Arora (3QuarksDaily, 30th October 2017)
- Chennai and rest of India cries out over murder of Gauri Lankesh (Thozhilalar Koodam, 14th October 2017)
- PCSS and Contract Labour (Thozhilalar Koodam, 21st August 2017)
- How India’s Gig Economy Is Trapping its Workers in the Cycle of Poverty (The Nib, 17th July 2017)
- Standing Up For Justice For Sooraj and Other Victims of Cow Nationalism (The Wire, 2nd June 2017)
- Damning report on conditions of leather workers (Thozhilalar Koodam, 23rd May 2017)
- Asbestos Profit Triumphs over Workers Health at Geneva (Thozhilalar Koodam, 10th May 2017)
- Three Charts Show What’s Wrong With the NIRF University Rankings (The Wire, 6th April 2017)
- Seven Charts That Show the Gap Between Old and New IITs (The Wire, 24th March 2017)
- Book Review: Navigating the Labyrinth: Perspectives on Higher Education (The Wire, 16th March 2017)
- The Bidi Industry in India (Thozhilalar Koodam, 21st March 2017)
- More than a century later, women workers still fight for their political and economic freedom! (Thozhilalar Koodam, 8th March 2017)
- Women farmers and agrarian distress (Thozhilalar Koodam, 28th February 2017) (Also on India Environment Portal, Sanhati)
- Ace Statistician and Trendalyzer Rockstar Hans Rosling Passes Away (The Wire, 8th February 2017)
- Book Review: Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem (The Hindu’s Sunday Magazine, 4th February 2017)
- IITs and NITs Gobble Up 87% of Hike in Higher Education Budget (The Wire, 2nd February 2017)
- Wrongly Convicted, Six of the ‘Pricol 8’ Walk Free (The Wire, 27th January 2017)
- At Least 35 in UGC’s List of ‘Preferred’ Journals Can Be Classified As ‘Predatory’ (The Wire, 25th January 2017)
Life of Labour – Weekly newsletter on national and international labour news (co-written with Venkat T and Srividya Tadepalli)
- 12/31/2017 – ‘Free the Pricol Two’ Campaign Launched, 2018 Likely To Be Worse For IT Workers
- 12/24/2017 – Nationwide Strike of ‘Scheme Workers’, Bridgestone Takes Back Suspended Workers
- 12/17/2017 – BSNL Employees Strike Against ‘Deceptive Privatisation’, 500 Health Workers Sacked in Haryana
- 12/10/2017 – 80,000 Bihar Health Workers Sacked, Fisherpeople Affected By Cyclone Ockhi
- 12/03/2017 – Nurses strike in Chennai broken after judicial threat, 48000 annual workplace fatalities
- 11/26/2017 – How long can farmers subsidize the nation?, Bangalore prisoners on protest
- 11/19/2017 – West Bengal’s ration scheme feeds the estate owners, Suzlon unit locked down overnight
- 11/12/2017 – Remembering the Russian Revolution, Delhi HC says pay minimum wage or don’t exist
- 11/06/2017 – NTPC Explosion, Sexual Harassment in the Informal Sector
- 10/29/2017 – Public Transport as Class Warfare, All India Kisan Sabha Joins the BDS Movement
- 10/22/2017 – 8 Transport Workers Killed in TN, National Policy For India’s Home-Based Workers
- 10/15/2017 – Coal India Hikes Wages; Tayo Rolls Workers Face Police Brutality
- 10/08/2017 – 65% of Indian IT workers ‘Not Trainable’, Sustained Unemployment Threatens Economy
- 10/01/2017 – How NAFTA Affects Ordinary Workers, Unions in Space
- 09/24/2017 – Why Trade Unions Oppose the New Wage Code Bill
- 09/17/2017 – Protesting Farmers Force Government to Announce Loan Waiver in Rajasthan
- 09/10/2017 – Feminism and Class Struggle, IT Employees at Wipro Refuse to Resign
- 09/03/2017 – India Inc. Clamours For Labour Law Reforms, Kollywood Cine Workers Strike
- 08/27/2017 – Workers in The IT Age, Manual Scavenging as Culpable Homicide
- 08/20/2017 – 3 More Die in Delhi’s Sewers, Israeli Workers Can No Longer Strike
- 08/13/2017 – Compensation For Odisha’s Village of Widows, The Politics of Migration
- 08/06/2017 – Software Firms Might Cut Jobs Drastically, Noida’s Domestic Workers’ Take on The ‘Madams’
- 07/30/2017 – Violence at VIVO Factory, Ragpickers Hit Hard By GST
- 07/23/2017 – Victory for Striking Nurses in Kerala, Manual Scavenging Claims 4 More Lives
- 07/16/2017 – Zohra Bibi Rescued, TCS Commits Not to Fire 2000 Employees
- 07/09/2017 – Failures of MGNREGA, Manual Scavenging in Delhi, Fisheries Sector Hit By GST
- 07/02/2017 – 7th Pay Commission Recommendations Approved, EDMC Workers Strike
- 06/25/2017 – India in ‘Five Worst Countries’ Category
- 06/18/2017 – All Worked Up And Nowhere To Go
- 06/11/2017 – Government Abandons ‘Skill India’ Goal, Working Women Within ‘Modern’ Patriarchy
- 06/04/2017 – The Chinese Factory Workers Who Write Poetry on Their Phones
- 05/28/2017 – Defence Employees Protest Privatisation, Kochi Port Workers on ‘Satyagraha
- 05/21/2017 – A Successful Strike in TN Yields Mediocre Results, Draft Labour Code
- 05/14/2017 – IT Layoff Crisis Continues, Indefinite Strike by Chennai Transport Workers
- 05/07/2017 – Occupational Health and Safety – A Special Report
- 05/01/2017 – May Day Special Issue
- 04/23/2017 – Caste, Women and Work
- 04/16/2017 – Police Firing Injures 24 Workers in Motihari, Haryana Transport Workers’ Strike
- 04/09/2017 – Slavery in Modern India, How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks
- 04/02/2017 – Modern-day slavery, Tata’s new wage agreements
- 03/26/2017 – Death and Manual Scavenging
- 03/19/2017 – Maruti Manesar: A Retrospective
- 03/12/2017 – International Working Women’s Day Edition
- 03/05/2017 – Bank Strikes, Sec 144 at Tata Nano plant
- 02/26/2017 – Sanitation Struggles, Adivasi Minors, Ola / Uber
- 02/19/2017 – MGNREGA and Technology, Labour reforms
- 02/12/2017 – Union Budget 2017 Edition
- 02/05/2017 – Women and Work, Occupational Safety
- 01/29/2017 – Pricol workers released, Chennai unrest
- 01/22/2017 – Land and Telegana, UN on unemployment
- 01/15/2017 – Garment Workers Fight, Defining Industry, a Bad Year for Miners
Year: 2016
- Infinite in All Directions as Guest Editor (The Wire, 19th December 2016)
- Book Review: Gayathri Prabhu’s The Untitled (The Hindu’s Sunday Magazine, 15th October 2016)
- The Labour Story that Big Media is Not Telling You (The Wire, 2nd September 2016)
- How India’s Sixteen Occupational Safety Laws Couldn’t Prevent Two Deaths (The Wire, 28th August 2016)
- Why the Web Needs the Little Miracle of 3QuarksDaily (The Wire, 10th July 2016)
- How Did India End Up With Over 36,000 Colleges? (The Wire, 20th June 2016)
- The Seven Sisters get a Rotary Medical Mission (Rotary News, 25th April 2016)
- Capitation is Corruption, and We Need to Talk About it (The Wire, 19th Jan 2016)
Year: 2015
- Science in Fiction: Makarand Sathe’s Fantasies of Space and Time (Jaipur Literature Festival Blog, 18th December 2015)
- It’s Not Wise to Trade in Higher Education (The Wire, 14th December 2015)
- India’s Engineering Education Story, With an Eye on Tamil Nadu’s Colleges (The Wire, 22nd October 2015)
- India Produces 50,000 Doctors a Year. If Only Medical Education Were Better Regulated. (The Wire, 28th August 2015)
- So Who Decides What an Institute of National Importance is? (The Wire, 22nd July 2015)
- Demystifying Higher Education in India – First of a Series (The Wire, 8th July 2015)