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Prepaid power is not the silver bullet to solve problem of discom finances The Indian Express, 19 March 2020 By Ashwini K Swain	Save Delhi from sarkari sprawl Economic Times, 19 March 2020 By Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli
A revival of multilateralism, steered by India The Hindu, 18 March 2020 By Shyam Saran	Peace deal with US won’t deter Taliban The Hindu Businessline , 17 March 2020 By G Parthasarathy
A Made-in-China Pandemic Project Syndicate, 13 March 2020 By Brahma Chellaney	The fall into infamy The Tribune, 12 March 2020 By Shyam Saran
Covid-19 is sign of an ecological crisis Business Standard, 9 March 2020 By Shyam Saran	My Cuisine versus Your Cuisine Open Magazine, 6 March 2020 By Shylashri Shankar
Time for a G20 summit on coronavirus Hindustan Times, 6 March 2020 By Shyam Saran	How India is failing its Muslims Hindustan Times, 5 March 2020 By Yamini Aiyar

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1991: How P. V. Narasimha Rao Made History

India and China: Rethinking Borders and Security

By

LHM Ling, Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Payal Banerjee, Nimmi Kurian, Mahendra P Lama, and Li Bo

Business Interests and the Environmental Crisis

Edited by

Kanchi Kohli and Manju Menon

India's War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-1945

By

Srinath Raghavan

The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution

Edited by

Sujit Choudhry, Madhav Khosla, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Modi and his Challenges

By

Rajiv Kumar

The Cunning of Rights: Law, Life, Biocultures

By

Rajshree Chandra

Sanitation Law and Policy in India: An Introduction to Basic Instruments

Edited by

Philippe Cullet and Lovleen Bhullar

Why India is Not a Great Power (Yet)

By

Bharat Karnad

Fixing Electoral Boundaries in India: Laws, Processes, Outcomes, and lmplications for Political Representation

Edited by

Mohd. Sanjeer Alam and K C Sivaramakrishnan

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy

Edited by

David M Malone, C Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan

India-China Borderlands: Conversations beyond the Centre

By

Nimmi Kurian

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Regional roots of India’s national elections Seminar Magazine, 31 May 2019 By Neelanjan Sircar and Rahul Verma	Federalism and social policy Seminar Magazine, 31 May 2019 By Avani Kapur
Decentralizing administration Seminar Magazine, 31 May 2019 By Deepak Sanan	The problem Seminar Magazine, 1 May 2019 By Yamini Aiyar and Louise Tillin
Dealing with Pakistan Needs a Grand Strategy Economic & Political Weekly, 30 March 2019 By Zorawar Daulet Singh	A Sensible Tale of Three Powers Economic & Political Weekly, 23 March 2019 By Zorawar Daulet Singh
Solutions when the ‘solution’ is the problem Seminar Magazine, 31 January 2019 By Yamini Aiyar	The political economy of electricity trade and hydropower development in eastern South Asia International Journal of Water Resources Development, 11 January 2019 By Aditya Valiathan Pillai and Sagar Prasai
Model Groundwater (Sustainable Management) Bill, 2017: A New Paradigm for Groundwater Regulation Indian Law Review , 11 January 2019 By Philippe Cullet	Recasting inequality: residential segregation by caste over time in urban India Environment and Urbanization, 7 January 2019 By Trina Vithayathil, Gayatri Singh, and Kanhu Charan Pradhan

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Protecting Power: The Politics of Partial Reforms in Punjab

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Ashwini K Swain

Common but differentiated responsibilities

By

Lavanya Rajamani

The Evolution and Governance Architecture of the United Nations Climate Change Regime

By

Daniel Bodansky and Lavanya Rajamani

South Asia: Environmental Concerns and Human Rights Violations

By

Shashi Motilal and Prakriti Prajapati

The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities in the international climate change regime

By

Lavanya Rajamani

Human Rights in the Climate Change Regime

By

Lavanya Rajamani

Innovation and Trends in Water Law

By

Philippe Cullet

The Right to Water in Rural India and Drinking Water Policy Reforms

By

Philippe Cullet

An Uneven Flow? Navigating Downstream Concerns Over China’s Water Policy

By

Nimmi Kurian

Central Concepts in the Paris Agreement and How They Evolved

By

Lavanya Rajamani and Emmanuel Guérin

The Supreme Court and India’s Judicial System

By

Madhav Khosla and Ananth Padmanabhan

Guiding Principles and General Obligation (Article 2.2 and Article 3)

By

Lavanya Rajamani

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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	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
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

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From Prior to Post: Legalising environmental violations? 1 July 2017 By Krithika A Dinesh and Kanchi Kohli	Gender and Urban Sanitation Inequalities in Everyday Lives 1 June 2017 By Susan Esme Chaplin
Becoming Homeless, Surviving Homelessness 21 April 2017 By Ashwin Parulkar	Horizontal and Vertical Inequalities Explaining Disparities in Access to Urban Sanitation 18 April 2017 By Aditya Bhol
Out of school children in India: Some insights on what we know and what we don't 27 March 2017 By Kiran Bhatty, Radhika Saraf, and Vrinda Gupta	The Learning Generation: India’s Education Policy and Its Development Over Time International Commission for Financing Education, 20 January 2017 By Kiran Bhatty and Ambrish Dongre
Understanding India’s Urban Frontier: What Is behind the Emergence of Census Towns in India? 25 December 2016 By Partha Mukhopadhyay, Marie-Hélène Zérah, Gopa Samanta, and Augustin Maria	China and the World in the Coming Decade 23 November 2016 By Shyam Saran
Socioeconomic Status And Quality Of Care In Rural India: New Evidence From Provider And Household Surveys Health Affairs, 27 October 2016 By Jishnu Das and Aakash Mohpal	Competition and Choice in Electricity Distribution in India 29 August 2016 By Daljit Singh

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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