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Ominous signs for India as China regains pole position in Myanmar Economic Times, 24 January 2020 By Shyam Saran	The cauldron that is Gulf The Tribune, 23 January 2020 By G Parthasarathy
America’s Debilitating Middle-East Obsession Project Syndicate, 23 January 2020 By Brahma Chellaney	CAA-led narrative on religious persecution ignores political specificity, nuance in neighbourhood The Indian Express, 22 January 2020 By Sanjib Baruah
Notes from the Winter Garden Open Magazine, 17 January 2020 By Shylashri Shankar	CAA protests will affect India's standing in the world Rediff, 17 January 2020 By Shyam Saran
Indians are reclaiming, and redefining, the idea of secularism Hindustan Times, 17 January 2020 By Yamini Aiyar	The Soleimani twist to US-Iran tensions The Hindu Business Line, 14 January 2020 By G Parthasarathy
Should look Indian, too The Tribune, 14 January 2020 By Shyam Saran	The cost of the protests — for the BJP, and the State\| Opinion Hindustan Times, 12 January 2020 By Neelanjan Sircar

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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

By

Zorawar Daulet Singh

Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India

By

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

By

Bharat Karnad

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

By

Harsh Mander, Ashwin Parulkar, and Ankita Aggarwal

Why do interstate water disputes emerge and recur?

By

Srinivas Chokkakula

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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
Medical Patents and the Right to Health – From Monopoly Control to Open Access Innovation and Provision of Medicines 61 German Yearbook of International Law 2018 (2019), 1 October 2019 By Philippe Cullet and H. Yuanquiong	India’s Civilisational Identity and the World Order Economic & Political Weekly, 28 September 2019 By Zorawar Daulet Singh
Negotiation, mediation and subjectivities: how migrant renters experience informal rentals in Gurgaon’s urban villages Radical Housing Journal, 10 September 2019 By Mukta Naik	The future of the Congress party 22 August 2019 By Rahul Verma, Zoya Hasan, and Yamini Aiyar
Making sense of the 2019 election 22 August 2019 By Yamini Aiyar, Yogendra Yadav, G Sampath, Vandita Mishra, Shekhar Gupta, and Tariq Thachil	Winning back the rural heartland Seminar Magazine, 20 August 2019 By Neelanjan Sircar and Roshan Kishore

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Environment impact assessment in India: contestations over regulating development

By

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

By

Shyam Saran

Understanding the 2015 Paris Agreement

By

Lavanya Rajamani

Energy and Climate Change: A Just Transition for Indian Labour

By

ASHIM ROY, BENNY KURUVILLA, and Ankit Bhardwaj

National Climate Policies and Institutions

By

Navroz K Dubash and Shibani Ghosh

From Margins to Mainstream? State Climate Change Planning in India

By

Navroz K Dubash and Anu Jogesh

Urban India and Climate Change

By

Radhika Khosla and Ankit Bhardwaj

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

By

Philippe Cullet

The Right to Sanitation – Multiple Dimensions and Challenges

By

Philippe Cullet

Is Conservation Impossible? The Case of Coastal Regulation in India

By

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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Perceptions: Understanding On-Site Sanitation System Choices in Large Dense Villages in India 7 January 2020 By Aditya Bhol, Shubhagato Dasgupta, Anindita Mukherjee	Mapping Power: A Collection of Insights on the Political Economy of Electricity in India's States 30 September 2019 By Navroz K Dubash, Sunita S Kale, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Ashwini K Swain, Elizabeth Chatterjee, Hema Ramakrishnan, Jonathan Balls, Kalpana Dixit, Meera Sudhakar, Megha Kaladharan, Rohit Chandra, Siddharth Sareen
Ujjwala 2.0: From Access to Sustained Usage 6 August 2019 By Santosh Harish, Kirk R Smith	Indian Development Cooperation Regains Momentum: 7 Main Takeaways from India’s 2019-20 Union Budget 31 July 2019 By Rani Mullen
National Rural Drinking Water Mission (NRDWM) 12 July 2019 By Vastav Irava, Avani Kapur	Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) 12 July 2019 By Avani Kapur, Ruchi Junnarkar
Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin (SBM-G) 12 July 2019 By Avani Kapur, Sanjana Malhotra	Ayushman Bharat 12 July 2019 By Ritwik Shukla, Avani Kapur
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) 12 July 2019 By Avani Kapur, Ritwik Shukla	Swachh Bharat Mission – Urban (SBM-U) 12 July 2019 By Avani Kapur, Sanjana Malhotra

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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
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	Demystifying the Indian smart city: An Empirical reading of the smart cities mission 10 August 2018 By Persis Taraporevala

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Accountability Initiative	Cities and Climate Change	Clearing the Air? Seminar Series on Delhi's Air Pollution
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	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 – 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	Namati Environmental Justice Program	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	Scale, institutions and Networks II (SINets II)	Scaling City Institutions For India: Sanitation
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