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Assam and the CAB: Go beyond damage control, listen to the people CNBC TV18, 13 December 2019 By Sanjoy Hazarika	China versus Chinese The Tribune, 12 December 2019 By G Parthasarathy
Two yrs before 1971 war, RAW’s RN Kao told Indira Gandhi to be ready for Pakistan partition Southasian Monitor, 11 December 2019 By Zorawar Daulet Singh	Could CAB Trauma Have Been Avoided Through Sustained Dialogue? The Quint, 11 December 2019 By Sanjoy Hazarika
Assam, Northeast India and the “unfinished business” of Partition Frontline , 11 December 2019 By Sanjib Baruah	The legitimisation of vengeance Business Standard, 11 December 2019 By Shyam Saran
Close Encounters of Fatal Kind: Killing of 4 Rape-and-murder Accused in Hyde Raises Troubling Questions News 18, 10 December 2019 By Sanjoy Hazarika	China’s totalitarianism tested at its borders The Hindu Business Line, 9 December 2019 By G Parthasarathy
Why India-Japan ties matter more than ever Hindustan Times, 5 December 2019 By Brahma Chellaney	Remembering Inder Kumar Gujral – and his elevated vision for India’s South Asian neighbourhood The Times of India, 4 December 2019 By Shyam Saran

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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

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

Edited by

Philippe Cullet and Raya Marina Stephan

Right to Sanitation in India: Critical Perspectives

Edited by

Philippe Cullet, Sujith Koonan, and Lovleen Bhullar

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

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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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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	The problem Seminar Magazine, 1 August 2019 By Rahul Verma

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Environment impact assessment in India: contestations over regulating development

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Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli

One Long Day in Copenhagen

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Shyam Saran

Urban India and Climate Change

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Radhika Khosla and Ankit Bhardwaj

Reaching Agreement in Paris: A Negotiator’s Perspective

By

ASHOK LAVASA

Climate Change and India’s Forests

By

Sharachchandra Lele and JAGDISH KRISHNASWAMY

India in International Climate Negotiations: Chequered Trajectory

By

D Raghunandan

Climate Adaptation in the Water Sector in India

By

VEENA SRINIVASAN

Understanding the 2015 Paris Agreement

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Lavanya Rajamani

Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation: Agriculture

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K S KAVI KUMAR and BRINDA VISWANATHAN

India and Paris: A Pragmatic Way Forward

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Ajay Mathur

Shoring up: Climate Change and the Indian Coasts and Islands

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ROHAN ARTHUR

Making Sense on its Own Terms: India in the HFC and Aviation Negotiations

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Arunabha Ghosh

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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	Swachh Bharat Mission – Urban (SBM-U) 12 July 2019 By Avani Kapur, Sanjana Malhotra
National Health Mission (NHM) 12 July 2019 By Snehal Shah, Ruchi Junnarkar, Avani Kapur	Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana & Janani Suraksha Yojana (PMMVY & JSY) 12 July 2019 By Ritwik Shukla, Avani Kapur
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) 12 July 2019 By Avani Kapur, Meghna Paul	Samagra Shiksha 12 July 2019 By Mridusmita Bordoloi, Avani Kapur
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

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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	The Election in Karnataka: Caste, Class, and Regional Complexity 14 May 2018 By Pranav Kuttaiah and Neelanjan Sircar

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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