Articles in Newspapers and Magazines

IV. Articles in Newspapers and Magazines

1.     'Starving the Poor', The Hindu, 26 and 27 February 2001.

2.     ‘Wake Up and Take Charge’, Hindustan Times, 29 April 2001.

3.     ‘Poverty of Policy, Scarcity of Will’ (with Reetika Khera), Times of India, 18 May 2001.

4.     ‘From Food-for-Work to Fight-for-Work’, The Hindu, 14 June 2001.

5.     ‘Upholding the Right to Food’, The Hindu, 27 June 2001.

6.     ‘No More Lifelines: Political Economy of Hunger in Orissa’, Times of India, 17 September 2001.

7.     ‘Right to Food and Public Accountability’, The Hindu, 5 December 2001.

8.     ‘School-meal Politics’, The Hindu, May 2002; also published in Hindi in Hindustan.

9.     ‘The Warped Logic of Nuclear Gambles’, The Hindu, 27 May 2002.

10.  ‘From the Streets to the Courts: India’s Right to Food Campaign’, FIAN Magazine, January 2002.

11.  ‘Right to Food and Right to Work: Insights from India’, FIAN Magazine (German edition), No.2, 2002.

12.  ‘Jeevan ki Gunvatta ko Aazadiyon ke Sandarbh mein Dekhen’, Kathan, No. 35, July-September 2002; reprinted in Upadhyay, R., and Upadhyay, S. (eds.) (2004), Jeevan ki Gunvatta, (New Delhi: Shabsadhan).

13.  ‘Hunger in the Classroom’ (with Vivek S.), Food and Nutrition World, sample issue (2002); also published in abridged form in Hindustan Times, 15 October 2002.

14.  ‘Ending Destitution’, The Hindu, 29 July 2002; also published (in Hindi) in Hindustan, 6 August 2002; reprinted in also published in Grassroots.

15.  ‘Yuddh, Vikas aur Loktantra’, Rashtriya Sahara, 15 June.

16.  ‘Still Starving in Jharkhand (with Bela Bhatia), Frontline, 16 August 2002.

17.  ‘Right to Food: From the Courts to the Streets’, Combat Law, August-September 2002.

18.  ‘Social Sciences and Social Action’, Sakshi, 7(3), July-September 2002.  (Partly reprinted in Hindi in Itihas Bodh, 2006.)

19.   ‘Information, Democracy and the Military Establishment, Vidura, 39(4) (Oct.-Dec. 2002).

20.  ‘May Day with a Difference’, The Hindu, 3 May 2003.

21.  ‘Harsh Treatment’ (with Aruna Roy and others), The Hindu, 10 May 2003.

22.  ‘Children First: The Welfare State in Tamil Nadu’, Times of India, 21 May 2003 (published as ‘Where Welfare Works: Plus Points of the TN Model’).

23.  ‘The Dark Well of Hunger’, published as ‘On the Hunger Trail’ in Hindustan Times, 21 May 2003.

24.  ‘Adivasis Demand the Right to Work’, The Hindu, 1 June 2003.

25.  ‘Food for Equality’, published as ‘Digesting Inequality’ in Hindustan Times, July 2003.

26.  ‘The Future of Mid-day Meals’ (with Aparajita Goyal), Frontline, 15 August 2003.

27.  ‘Beyond Ghoogri’, Hindustan Times (Jaipur), 29 August 2003.

28.  ‘Response to Surjit Bhalla’ (with Angus Deaton), Business Standard, September/October 2003.

29.  ‘Praying for Food Security’, The Hindu, 27 October 2003; also published in Hindi in Hindustan, 1 November 2003.

30.  ‘Journalism with a Social Conscience’, Prabhat Khabar (in Hindi), 2 November 2003.

31.  ‘Limitations of Democracy’, Grassroots, November 2003.

32.  ‘Lies, Damned Lies and Politics’ (with Reetika Khera), published in Hindustan Times (as ‘Use your Illusions’) on 19 February 2004; also published in Hindi in Hindustan (as ‘Ek Muhim Jhooth Ki’) on 5 March 2004.

33.  ‘Food Security: A slogan, nothing else’, Tehelka, 6 March 2004.

34.  ‘Health Checkup’, The Hindu, 12 March 2004.

35.  ‘An Unconventional Convention’, Frontline, 16 July 2004.

36.  ‘A Permanent Indian Emergency’ (with N.C. Saxena), Tehelka, 11 September 2004.

37.  ‘Bangladesh Shows the Way’, The Hindu, 17 September 2004.

38.  ‘Green Taxes for Guaranteed Employment?’, published as 'Using Green Taxes for Public Welfare' in Down to Earth, 30 September 2004.

39.  ‘Employment as a Social Responsibility’, The Hindu, 21 November 2004.

40.  ‘Why Should Anyone be Afraid of the Employment Guarantee Act?’, Financial Express, 18 December 2004.

41.  ‘Unemployment Guarantee Bill’, The Hindu, 31 December 2004.

42.  ‘Rozgar Guarantee Act: Shaandaar Party Mein Bheega Kutta’, Itihaas Bodh, February 2005.

43.  ‘Rational Advisory Council?’, Itihaas Bodh, 2005.

44.  ‘Employment Guarantee Act: Promise and Demise, Yojana, April 2005.

45.  ‘Loot for Work Programme’, Times of India, 2 July 2005.

46.  ‘Employment Guarantee and Its Discontents’, Times of India, 12 and 13 August 2005 (published as ‘Totally Off Target’ and ‘Time to Clean Up’); also published in Hindustan.

47.  ‘Transparent is the Colour of Corruption’, Tehelka, 17December 2005; Hindi translation (‘Hathiyaar Bana Maddgaar’) published in Hindustan, 14 November 2005.

48.  ‘Employment and Empowerment’, Sahara Time (annual issue), 7 January 2006.

49.  ‘Democracy and the Right to Work’, Peace, Jan-March 2006; partly reprinted in Peace Research, 37(2), November 2005.

50.  ‘Mid-day Meals and the Joy of Learning’, Learning Curve, 2006.

51.  ‘India’s Forgotten Teachers: Anganwadi Workers’, Economic Times, 5 September 2006.

52.  ‘National Employment Guarantee Inaction’, The Hindu, 12 September 2006.

53.  ‘Children Under Six: Out of Focus’, The Hindu, 20 October 2006 (published as ‘Children Under Six: Out of the Spotlight’); reprinted in Yojana, May 2007.

54.  ‘Bacchon ki Dekhbhal Samjik Jimmedaree Hai’ (‘Children’s Wellbeing as a Social Responsibility’), Kathan, October-December 2006.

55.  ‘Badlav ka Behtar Jariya he Mid Day Meal’, Hindustan, 17 November.

56.  ‘Empty Stomachs and the Budget’, The Hindu, 9 March 2007.

57.  ‘Rozgar ke Khoye Avsaron Ki’, Hindustan, 14 April 2007.

58.  ‘The Right to Transparent Governance’ (with Nikhil Dey and Aruna Roy), Combat Law, 2007.

59.  ‘Rang de Basti’ (with Bela Bhatia), Hindustan Times, May 2007.

60.  ‘Act on Brights Spots in Job Guarantee’, Outlook Business, 2007.

61.  ‘Child Care as a Social Responsibility’, Infochange Agenda, Issue 8, 2007.

62.  ‘Employment Guarantee and Corruption’, published (in Hindi translation) in Hindustan, 6 July 2007.

63.  ‘Employment Guarantee: Unfinished Agenda’ (with Siddharth Lal), The Hindu, 13 July 2007.

64.  ‘Commendable Act’ (with Christian Oldiges), Frontline, 27 July 2007.

65.  ‘Long Road to Employment Guarantee’ (with Sowmya Kidambi), The Hindu, 2 August 2007.

66.  ‘India and the Deal: Partner or Pawn?’, The Hindu, 7 September 2007.

67.  ‘NREGA: Dismantling the Contractor Raj, The Hindu, 20 November 2007.

68.  ‘Employment Guarantee: Beyond Propaganda’, The Hindu, 11 January 2008.

69.  ‘Employment Guarantee: Launching a New Phase’ (with Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey), published as ‘Finish the Job’ in Hindustan Times, 31 January 2008.

70.  ‘Corruption in NREGA: Myths and Reality’ (with Reetika Khera and Siddhartha), The Hindu, 22 January 2008; reprinted in ; reprinted in Yojana, August 2008.

71.  ‘Glucose for Lok Sabha?’ (with Reetika Khera), Hindustan Times, 14 April 2008.

72.  ‘NREGA: Ship Without Rudder?’, The Hindu, 19 July 2008.

73.  ‘NREGA Banking: From Accounts to Accountability’ (with Reetika Khera), published (as ‘From Accounts to Accountability’) in The Hindu (6 December 2008).

74.  ‘The Battle for Employment Guarantee’ (with Reetika Khera), Frontline, 26(1), 3 January 2009.

75.  ‘What’s Wrong with Contractors?’ (with Reetika Khera), Frontline, 26(1), 3 January 2009.

76.  ‘NREGA: Right without Might?’ (with Siddhartha), Frontline, 26(1), 3 January 2009.

77.  ‘Corruption in Jharkhand: A Way of Life?’ (with Reetika Khera), published in Hindi in Prabhat Khabar, November 2008.

78.  ‘Work in Progress’ (with Christian Oldiges), Frontline, 14 February 2009.

79.  ‘Lok Adalat in Latehar’ (with Reetika Khera), published in Hindi in Prabhat Khabar, 6 February 2009.

80.  ‘Lok Adalat ka Haalat’ (with Reetika Khera), Prabhat Khabar, 9 February 2009.

81.  ‘School Education: Struggling to Learn’ (with A. De, M. Samson and A.K. Shiva Kumar), The Hindu, 20 February 2009.

82.  ‘Lok Adalat or Joke Adalat?’ (with Reetika Khera), The Hindu, 22 February 2009.

83.  ‘Education: Report Card’ (with A. De, M. Samson, A.K. Shiva Kumar and S. Dasgupta), Frontline, 26(6), 14 March 2009.

84.  ‘Interpretation of Dreams’, Times of India, 28 April 2009.

85.  ‘Taking the Right to Food Act Seriously’, published as ‘A Grain of Good Sense’ in Outlook, 20 July 2009.

86.  ‘NREGA: The Accountability Gap’, published as ‘Act Fair, Give Rural Workers their Due’, Times of India, 12 July 2009.

87.  ‘Employment Guarantee or Slave Labour?’, The Hindu, 18 September 2009.

88.  ‘Voting in Maoist Land’, The Hindu, 10 January 2010.

89.  ‘Poverty Estimates vs Food Entitlements’, The Hindu, 24 February 2010.

90.  ‘The Task of Making the PDS Work’, The Hindu, 8 July 2010.

91.  ‘Losing their Nerve?”, Hindustan Times, 15 October 2010.

92.  ‘Chhattisgarh Shows the Way’ (original title: “The PDS Turnaround in Chhattisgarh”) (with Reetika Khera), The Hindu, 13 November 2010.

93.  ‘UID: Unique Facility or Recipe for Trouble?’ (original title: “UID: Facility or Calamity?”), The Hindu, 25 November 2010.

94.  ‘A Notional Advisory Council?’, The Hindu, 10 January 2011.

95.  ‘The Bribing Game’, Indian Express, 23 April 2011.

96.  ‘The Cash Mantra’, Indian Express, 11 May 2011.

97.  ‘Mending the Food Security Act’, The Hindu, 23 May 2011.

98.  ‘The Perils of Gandhigiri’, in Khera, R. (ed.) (2011), The Battle for Employment Guarantee (New Delhi: Oxford University Press).

99.  ‘PDS Leakages: The Plot Thickens’ (with Reetika Khera), The Hindu, 13 August 2011.

100.        ‘The Poverty Trap’, Hindustan Times, 22 September 2011.

101.        ‘The BPL Club’, The Hindu, 3 October 2011.

102.        ‘Putting Growth in Its Place’ (with Amartya Sen), Outlook, 14 November 2011; reprinted in abridged form in Yojana, January 2012.

103.        ‘Kaun Banega Scorepati?’, The Hindu, 28 November 2011.

104.        ‘Hunger Must Go’, Hindustan Times, 21 December 2011.

105.        ‘Understanding the PDS’ (with Reetika Khera), Frontline, 13 January 2012.

106.        ‘Just Target the Rich’, Times of India, 4 February 2012.

107.        ‘Poverty, Targeting and Food Security’, Seminar, No. 634, June 2012.

108.        ‘Unique Identity Demo’, published (as ‘Experiments with Aadhaar’) in The Hindu, 27 June 2012.

109.        ‘Food Security: Time to Act’, published (in Bengali) in Anand Bazar Patrika, 27 June 2012.

110.        ‘Food Security: Plan Z’, Hindustan Times, 23 August 2012 (Hindi translation published in Hindustan, 24 August 2012).

111.        ‘A Bill that Asks too Much of the Poor’ (with Reetika Khera), The Hindu, 5 September.

112.        ‘The Quiet Grip of Caste’, Hindustan Times, 29 November; also published in Hindi in Hindustan (‘Jati ke diwaron se ghire log’), 29 November.

113.        ‘Fixing the Food Bill’, Economic Times (renamed ‘Fix Food Bill for Millions of People Facing Food Insecurity’), 15 February 2013.

114.        ‘Why the Food Bill is Sound Economics’, Tehelka, 13 April 2013.

115.        ‘Let Them Starve’, Hindustan Times (renamed ‘No Food, Lots of Beer’), 30 April 2013.

116.        ‘The Food Security Debate in India, India Ink (New York Times blog), 9 July 2013.

117.        ‘Clouds Over the Food Bill’ (renamed ‘From the Granary to the Plate’), The Hindu, 1 August 2013.

118.        ‘Health at Sixty-Six’ (renamed ‘Still a Sick Man of South Asia’), Hindustan Times, 15 August 2013.

119.        ‘Beyond Small Mercies’, The Hindu, 25 December 2013.

120.        ‘How Life is Improving in India’s Poorest Regions’, BBC Website, 23 December 2013 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-25315528).

121.        ‘Beyond Small Mercies’, The Hindu, 25 December 2013.

122.        ‘From Nirma to NaMo’, Prabhat Khabar (Hindi translation), 31 December 2013.

123.        ‘The Other India’ (with Reetika Khera and the PEEP team), Outlook, 24 March 2014.

124.        ‘The Gujarat Muddle’, The Hindu, 11 April 2014.

125.        ‘The Gujarat Middle’, The Hindu, 12 May 2014.

126.        ‘NREGA Scam Exposed in Latehar’ (with Reetika Khera), published in Hindi in Prabhat Khabar, 1 and 2 June 2014.

127.        ‘Loi Nationale de l’Inde sur la Sécurité Alimentaire’, Revue Quart Monde, No 230, 2014.

128.        ‘On the Mythology of Social Policy’, The Hindu, 8 July 2014.

129.        ‘Squaring the Poverty Circle’ (with Angus Deaton), The Hindu, 25 July 2014.

130.        Learning from NREGA’, The Hindu, 23 August 2014.

131.        'Health Bites', published (under the title 'Symptoms of Terminal Decline’) in Hindustan Times, 10 October 2014; also published in Hindi on BBC Hindi website.

132.        'Paribartan, tike tike' (with Reetika Khera and Rajkishor Mishra), Samaj (Odiya daily), 23 October 2014.

133.        'The Pretence of Democracy', Rashtriya Sahara, 8 November 2014 (also posted on BBC Hindi website).

134.        'Black Diwali for NREGA Workers'; published in Hindi in Prabhat Khabar, 22 November 2014.

135.        ‘Doublespeak on Food Security’, Scroll, 31 January 2015.

136.        ‘Food Insecurity and Statistical Fog’, The Hindu, 25 February 2015.

137.        ‘Ending the APL Scam’ (with Reetika Khera), Livemint, 2 March 2015.

138.        ‘Nehruvian Budget in the Corporate Age’, The Hindu, 5 March 2015.

139.        ‘Samuhik Prayas na hua to Narega ki koi Guarantee Naheen’, Janmat, April 2015.

140.        ‘Unique Identity Dilemma’, Indian Express, 19 March 2015; Hindi translation published in Jansatta.

141.        ‘How Bihar Mended Its Ways’, The Hindu, 15 May 2015; Hindi translation (‘Badlav ki rah par hai Bihar’) published in Prabhat Khabar, 17 May 2015.

142.        ‘Caste, Class and Eggs’, Times of India, 9 June 2015; Hindi translation posted on BBC Hindi website, 10 June 2015.

143.        ‘No Mercy for the Poor’, The Wire (www.thewire.in), 18 June 2015; Hindi translation published in Amar Ujala, 21 June 2015.

144.        ‘The Digging-holes Myth’ (original title: ‘Guaranteeing Productive Work’), Indian Express, 1 July 2015; Hindi translation posted on BBC Hindi website.

145.        ‘Thought for Food’ (with Reetika Khera), Outlook (English and Hindi editions), 31 August 2015.

146.        ‘Small Leap Forward in Child Health’, The Hindu, 16 September 2015; Hindi translation published in Prabhat Khabar, 21 September.

147.        ‘Memories of the Sabar’, Scroll, 26 September; Hindi translation was posted on BBC Hindi website (also 26 September).

148.        ‘JAM and the Pursuit of Nirvana’, The Wire (www.thewire.in), 6 November 2015; Hindi translation published in Amar Ujala, 10 November 2015.

149.        ‘Child Development: Kerala Tops, Gujarat Flops, Bihar Hops’ (with Reetika Khera), posted at www.ndtv.com and www.ideasforindia.in (Hindi translation posted at khabar.ndtv.com); reprinted in Budget Track, Vol 11, February 2016.

150.        ‘Man Made Starvation’, Times of India, 21 December 2015 (Hindi translation posted on BBC Hindi website).

151.        ‘Leaving no Poor Person Behind’, The Hindu, 13 January 2016.

152.        ‘The Aadhaar Coup’, The Hindu, 15 March 2016; Hindi translation published in Rashtriya Sahara, 19 March 2016.