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Migrant workers distrust a state that does not take them into account Indian Express , 31 March 2020 By Partha Mukhopadhyay and Mukta Naik	How to sustain a long lockdown Hindustan Times, 31 March 2020 By Neelanjan Sircar
The Challenges of Managing a Hunger Crisis Amidst a Public Health Emergency The Wire, 30 March 2020 By Ashwin Parulkar and Mukta Naik	India’s coronavirus fight depends on whether Modi’s strengths overshadow his weaknesses The Print, 30 March 2020 By Asim Ali
Why the Balakot strike was a turning point for India The Citizen, 30 March 2020 By Brahma Chellaney	Can We Forgive China? The Open Magazine, 27 March 2020 By Brahma Chellaney
Pandemic Diets Open Magazine , 27 March 2020 By Shylashri Shankar	Locking down is not enough. Ramp up testing Hindustan Times, 27 March 2020 By Partha Mukhopadhyay
Imagining a different, better future Hindustan Times, 26 March 2020 By Navroz K Dubash	Coronavirus pandemic is ominous news for India’s rabi crops and farm-to-food chain The Print, 25 March 2020 By Mekhala Krishnamurthy

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India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development

Edited by

Navroz K Dubash

Research Handbook on Law, Environment and the Global South

Edited by

Philippe Cullet and Sujith Koonan

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Bureaucracy But Were Afraid to Ask

By

TR Raghunandan

Indian Environmental Law: Key Concepts and Principles

Edited by

Shibani Ghosh

Right to Sanitation in India: Critical Perspectives

Edited by

Philippe Cullet, Sujith Koonan, and Lovleen Bhullar

Groundwater and Climate Change – Multi-Level Law and Policy Perspectives

Edited by

Philippe Cullet and Raya Marina Stephan

Power and Diplomacy

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Zorawar Daulet Singh

Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India

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Rahul Verma and Pradeep K Chhibber

Mapping Power: The Political Economy of Electricity in India's States

Edited by

Navroz K Dubash, Sunila S Kale, and Ranjit Bharvirkar

Staggering Forward: Narendra Modi and India's Global Ambition

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Bharat Karnad

The Right to Food Debates: Social Protection for Food Security in India

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Harsh Mander, Ashwin Parulkar, and Ankita Aggarwal

Why do interstate water disputes emerge and recur?

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Srinivas Chokkakula

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Emissions: world has four times the work or one-third of the time Nature, 5 March 2020 By Niklas Höhne, Michel den Elzen, Joeri Rogelj, Bert Metz, Taryn Fransen, Takeshi Kuramochi, Anne Olhoff, Joseph Alcamo, Harald Winkler, Sha Fu, Michiel Schaeffer, Roberto Schaeffer, Glen P. Peters, Simon Maxwell, and Navroz K Dubash	Litigating Climate Claims in India American Journal of International Law (AJIL) Unbound, 3 February 2020 By Shibani Ghosh
Remaking the idea of who is ‘Indian’ Seminar, 30 January 2020 By Yamini Aiyar	Is India’s democracy in danger? Seminar, 30 January 2020 By Neelanjan Sircar
Understanding and misunderstanding e-NAM Seminar, 30 January 2020 By Mekhala Krishnamurthy and SHOUMITRO CHATTERJEE	The Rise of the Second Dominant Party System in India: BJP’s New Social Coalition in 2019 Sage Journals, 30 December 2019 By Pradeep Chhibber and Rahul Verma
India’s Grand Strategy Needs a Second Act Economic & Political Weekly, 28 December 2019 By Zorawar Daulet Singh	Revisiting climate ambition: The case for prioritizing current action over future intent WIREs Climate Change, 29 October 2019 By Navroz K Dubash
Modi Consolidates Power: Leveraging Welfare Politics Journal of Democracy, 14 October 2019 By Yamini Aiyar	Culture and Sanitation in Small Towns: An Ethnographic Study of Angul and Dhenkanal in Odisha Economic & Political Weekly, 12 October 2019 By Anju Dwivedi and Ranjita Mohanty

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Environment impact assessment in India: contestations over regulating development

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Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli

India’s Evolving Climate Change Debate: From Diplomatic Insulation to Policy Integration

By

Navroz K Dubash

One Long Day in Copenhagen

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Shyam Saran

Understanding the 2015 Paris Agreement

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Lavanya Rajamani

Energy and Climate Change: A Just Transition for Indian Labour

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ASHIM ROY, BENNY KURUVILLA, and Ankit Bhardwaj

National Climate Policies and Institutions

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Navroz K Dubash and Shibani Ghosh

From Margins to Mainstream? State Climate Change Planning in India

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Navroz K Dubash and Anu Jogesh

Urban India and Climate Change

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Radhika Khosla and Ankit Bhardwaj

The Human Right to Water – A Testing Ground for Neoliberal Policies

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Philippe Cullet

The Right to Sanitation – Multiple Dimensions and Challenges

By

Philippe Cullet

Is Conservation Impossible? The Case of Coastal Regulation in India

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Kanchi Kohli and Manju Menon

The Ecological Costs of Doing Business: Environment, Energy and Climate Change

By

Navroz K Dubash and Shibani Ghosh

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A Crisis of Hunger: a ground report on the repercussions of COVID-19 related lockdown on Delhi’s vulnerable populations Centre for Policy Research, 27 March 2020 By Ashwin Parulkar, Mukta Naik	A Crisis of Hunger: a ground report on the repercussions of COVID-19 related lockdown on Delhi’s vulnerable populations - One Pager Centre for Policy Research, 27 March 2020 By Ashwin Parulkar, Mukta Naik
Jal Jeevan Mission 3 February 2020 By Avani Kapur, Vastav Irava	Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) 3 February 2020 By Avani Kapur, Meghna Paul
Samagra Shiksha 3 February 2020 By Mridusmita Bordoloi, Avani Kapur	Mid-Day Meal Scheme 3 February 2020 By Sharad Pandey, Avani Kapur
Swachh Bharat Mission – Urban 3 February 2020 By Avani Kapur, Sanjana Malhotra	Child Protection Services 3 February 2020 By Mridusmita Bordoloi, Avani Kapur
Poshan Abhiyaan 3 February 2020 By Meghna Paul, Avani Kapur	National Health Mission 3 February 2020 By Snehal Shah, Avani Kapur, Abhishek Andasu

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What Matters for Urban Women’s Work? 8 January 2020 By Shamindra Nath Roy and Partha Mukhopadhyay	Slipping Through the Cracks: The Demolition of a Government Homeless Shelter in an Informal Settlement: The Case of Amir Khusro Park 12 December 2019 By Ashwin Parulkar, Manish, and Sunil Kumar
Comments on the National Clean Air Programme 25 October 2019 By Shibani Ghosh, Navroz K Dubash, Kanchi Kohli, Manju Menon, Partha Mukhopadhyay, Mukta Naik, Lavanya Rajamani, Arkaja Singh, Manish, Ankit Bhardwaj, Parth Bhatia, and Disha Sharma	Civilian Drones: Privacy Challenges and Potential Resolution 20 September 2019 By Ananth Padmanabhan
New Powers: How India’s Smart Cities are Governing and Transitioning to Low-carbon Energy 28 August 2019 By Ankit Bhardwaj, Federico de Lorenzo, and Marie-Hélène Zérah	School Consolidation in Rajasthan: Implementation and Short Term Effects 13 August 2019 By Mridusmita Bordoloi and Ritwik Shukla
Historical injustice and “Bogus” claims: Large infrastructure, conservation and forest rights in India 7 June 2019 By Kanchi Kohli	Infrastructure development in the Northeast: Hydropower, natural resources, legal and institutional frameworks and compliance 11 May 2019 By Manju Menon
Informality and State ‘Jugaad’: How urban governance works in India 10 May 2019 By Shahana Chattaraj	Comments on the Proposed Amendments to the Electricity Act 2003 29 November 2018 By Ashwini K Swain, Parth Bhatia, and Navroz K Dubash

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Accountability Initiative	Cities and Climate Change	Clearing the Air: Air Quality Regulation and Governance in India
Community of Research and Practice (CORP) Seminar Series	Conflicts Around Water Use in Rainfed Agriculture	Constitutional Right to Property
Coordination in accessing climate finance	CPR-CSH Urban Workshop	CPR-CWC Dialogue Forum (TREAD Talks)
CPR-TCPD Dialogues on Indian Politics	Energy and Climate Change in Buildings	Environment Regulation of urban construction projects
Environmental Justice Program	Epidemiologically-based mosquito elimination strategies for dengue control	Globalisation in Question
Governance and Public Policy Initiative	India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development	India Infrastructures and Ecologies Program
India – Urban Rural Boundaries and Basic Services (IND-URBBS)	Indian Development Cooperation Research	Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment
Interstate river water cooperation in India	JNNURM	Land Acquisition in India
Land Rights in Scheduled Areas	Land Rights Initiative	Mapping Land Legislation in India
Mapping Power	Metamorphoses - Talking Technology	Missing Middle: Census Towns in India
Multiple Objective based Energy and Climate Policy	Planning Commission, Working Group on Water Governance for the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-2017)	Powering Through a Transition: The Political Economy of India’s Electricity Future
Public Accountability and Governance in Education	Right to Sanitation	Roads and the politics of thought: Ethnographic approaches to infrastructure development in South Asia
Role of local communities in forest governance: An online course on Forest Rights and Forest Governance	Scale, institutions and Networks II (SINets II)	Scaling City Institutions for India (SCI-FI)
State Action Plans on Climate Change in India	Strengthen and Harmonise Research and Action on Migration in the Indian Context (SHRAMIC)	Sub Group on "National Water Framework Law" for the Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012-2017)
Sub-group on Legal Issues related to groundwater management and regulation, including the strengthening of the groundwater regulatory authorities at the Centre and States	Subaltern Urbanisation in India (SUBURBIN)	The Jobs Initiative
The role of small cities in shaping youth employment outcomes in India and Indonesia	The Supreme Court and interstate river water disputes	The Tacit Knowledge Urban Research Network (TURN)
The Technology and Society Initiative	Toward a Robust Development Focused INDC for India	TREADS (Transboundary Rivers, Ecologies and Development Studies)
Understanding Metropolitan Homelessness	Water and Federalism	Water Policy, Law, and Conflict