This is a list of projects that I have worked in recent months. Some of them are yet to be completed. Please get in touch with me (over email), in case you are interested. Or you are welcome to come and visit me at my workplace.

Activities with the Research Group, Christ University

I have formed a research team with all dissertation students/scholars with me to engage in active research. We are a currently a group of nine students, who have taken up various projects related to agriculture, public finance, and climate change. We have conducted a few preliminary field studies. We meet regularly (once a week or once in two weeks). I am also involved with the Centre for Studies in Population and Development, hosted by the Department of Economics, Christ University. We are focusing on issues related to labour and agriculture here. Please get in touch with me if you would like to know more details, or join our team.

Farm Households and Salaried Work in India

This is a joint work with Professor Takashi Kurosaki. We examine the role of salaried employment among agricultural households over three points in time in India, using the National Sample Survey’s Situation Assessment Surveys. The latest round of the survey was conducted in 2018–19. A GitHub repository on how this dataset can be used is here. Our analysis of data is focused on how household incomes and its components have changed over time. We are particularly interested in checking if there has been any increase in household members accessing salaried employment and its contribution to the overall household income. This is an ongoing work and we have a first draft of the paper with us.

Green Revolution in India and Conceptualising the Change

This is a joint work with Sandipan Baksi and C. A. Sethu. We respond to some recent re-evaluations of the Green Revolution in India, especially those concerning whether the Green Revolution has actually increased foodgrain production or not. We used the publicly available data for working on this project. The research paper was published in the Economic and Political Weekly.

This was a component of the research project titled “Big Data Analysis to Understand Trends in Gender Division of Work and Wages in Rural India and Trends in Costs and Incomes from Crop Production in India.” The report is available on the above webpage for download. This project was undertaken by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies in association with the Evidence Module of the CGIAR GENDER Platform led by the International Rice Research Institute. I was involved in the component related to costs and incomes from crop production, where we analysed cost of cultivation data for 10 selected crops for the period 2000–01 to 2019–20.