Writing
Writing
Some of this writing is policy argument. Some of it is reporting that had to make a place legible. Village Square taught me that a reader who is not in the room still has to see the room.
Policy and research
- Village Square · June 2025
From ruins to revival: can Chettinad mansions anchor rural futures?
The houses employed carpenters, masons, tile-makers. They funded temples, tanks, schools. Whether they can be saved is a question about a rural economy, not only about heritage.
- Village Square · April 2025
People’s movements to save the forests: a timeline
A stay on 400 acres in Hyderabad sits inside a longer Indian argument about who a forest is for.
- Op-ed in progress, with Prof. Namrata Chindarkar, IIM Ahmedabad · 2026
Why measures of women’s agency are absent from Indian scheme monitoring
The NFHS analysis on this site is the empirical companion to that argument.