Azim Premji University Research Update (July-Dec 2020)

1 Note from the Research Centre

2020 has been one of the most difficult of years. It was listed by the UN as the “International Year of Plant Health” and by the World Health Organization as the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife”. Sadly, the main thing the year will be remembered for is the COVID-19 Pandemic. As the year draws to an end, it is time for us to look forth with hope and expectation to a very different 2021.

For the past two years, Azim Premji University has brought out a newsletter at regular intervals, to keep us updated on the research we collectively conduct. What started as a simple exercise of collation became more than a summary, as we experimented with different sections, and added new formats.

As 2020 draws to a close, we have changed the format to a ‘magazine-like’ version. In this issue, you will find the regular newsletter coverage of articles, journal papers, research, etc. In addition, you will also find a new thematic focus: with some crystal ball-gazing into the future, we collectively engage in “Heralding 2021”. We have tried to make it as readable and visually rich as possible. As said earlier, we are evolving with time, and if you have any comments to share on the content, format or look n feel, do drop us a mail on [email protected]

In the end, as we ring in the new year – 2021, declared as the “International Year of Peace and Trust,” and “the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development” by the UN, one can only hope and pray that it does not get stamped by one label or defined by one trend. Let’s raise a toast to the hope that 2021 is a harbinger of empathy, sustainability, and collective wellbeing.

2 Spotlight – Length of the Last Mile

In the spotlight, Dr. Rajendran Narayanan, Assistant Professor. at the School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University shares the insights from the latest research report “Length of the Last Mile,” crafted by Libtech . The report highlights the immense challenges faced by workers in the states of Jharkhand, , Rajasthan, in accessing their payments for work done under the MNREGA scheme.

Watch it here : https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=YRPHE6y_WC4&feature=youtu.be

3 Journal Articles & Research Reports

· Abhijeet Bardapurkar: Teaching Scientific · Anand Krishnan, Avehi Singh, Krishnapriya · Harini Nagendra (& Sen): Local community Temper https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/ Tamma: Visual signal evolution along engagement, environmental placemaking and reso/025/10/1399-1405 (Resonance. complementary colour axes in four bird lineages stewardship by migrants: a case study of lake October 2020) https://bio.biologists.org/content/9/9/bio052316 conservation in Bengaluru, India (Landscape and (BiologyOpen. September 2020) Urban Planning. September 2020) https://www.x- · Adithya Pradyumna, Arima Mishra, J mol.com/paper/1302778824331857920 Witzinger & Mirko Winklerl: Perceived health · Arima Mishra, Bandewar S, Gautam S: Being impacts of watershed development projects at the frontline of COVID 19: Conversations · Harini Nagendra (& P Balvanera, S Jacobs, in India: A qualitative study http://idoi: 10.3390/ with grassroots health care worker https:// P O’Farrell, P Bridgewater, E Crouzat, N ijerph17103448 (International Journal of fmesinstitute.org/blog-13-heal-institute-ijme- Dendoncker, S Goodwin, KM Gustafsson, AN. Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020) covid-19-insights-july-15-2020/#.X89NwdgzbIW Kadykalo, CB Krug, FAM van Matuk, R Pandit, (Indian Journal Medical Ethics. July 2020) JE Sala, M Schröter, and C-L. Washbourne): · Alex Thomas: On “effectual demand” and The science-policy interface on ecosystems the “extent of the market” in Adam Smith and · Harini Nagendra (& R DeFries, M Agarwala, and people: challenges and opportunities David Ricardo https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ S Baquie, P Choksi, N Dogra, Preetha GS, S (Ecosystems and People. September 2020) abs/10.1080/09672567.2020.1817120?journalCode= Khanwilkar, P Mondal, and J Urpelainen): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2639 rejh20 (European Journal of the History of Post-lockdown spread of COVID-19 from cities 5916.2020.1819426 Economic Thought. September 2020) to vulnerable forest-fringe villages in central India (Current Science 119: 52-58) https://www. · Madhuri Ramesh: The coast is unclear · Amman Madan & Ananya Pathak: Sociological currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/119/01/0052.pdf (Weather report. The crisis of Climate Perspectives on Everyday Life and The Social Change. India International Centre Construction of School Failure: A Literature · Harini Nagendra (& X Bai, P Shi and H Liu): (IIC) Quarterly) https://almashines. Review. https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/ Cities: build networks and share plans to emerge s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws. SitePages/pdf/APU_201877_Working_Paper_ stronger from COVID-19 https://www.nature.com/ com/assets/media/files/266_1590735039_ Series_18-01-09-2020.pdf (Azim Premji University articles/d41586-020-02459-2 (Nature 584: 517- a55c5e5e74c1dd69b00f1488ddfdd49c.pdf Working Paper Series. September 2020) 520, August 2020)

4 · Madhuri Ramesh: A call to redefine ‘the field’ · Rajendran Narayanan (co-authored with · Rema Krishnaswamy, (coauthors from IISc in nature conservation studies in India (Ecology, Anindita Adhikari, Navmee Goregaonkar, ) Pradip Bera, Vikram Rathee, AK Economy and Society – INSEE Journal Vol 3(2)) Nishant Panicker, Nithya Ramamoorthy): Sood: Shear-induced ordering of nanopores and https://ecoinsee.org/journal/ojs/index.php/ees/ Manufactured Maladies: Lives and Livelihoods instabilities in surfactant mesh phases article/view/123 of Migrant Workers During COVID-19 Lockdown https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06422v2 (August 2020) in India https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/ · Paaritosh Nath & Amit Basole: Did Employment s41027-020-00282-x (Indian Journal of Labour · Richa Govil, Annapurna Neti and Madhushree Rise or Fall in India between 2011 and 2017? Economics. October 2020) R Rao: Farmer Producer Companies: Past, Estimating Absolute Changes in the Workforce Present and Future (Azim Premji University, https://cse.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/ · Rajendran Narayanan (with Sakina Bangalore) publications/did-employment-rise-or-fall-in-india- Dhorajiwala & Sailasri Kambathla): between-2011-and-2017-estimating-absolute- Length of the Last Mile: Delays and Hurdles · Shreelata Rao Seshadri, Seshadri S & Issac B: changes-in-the-workforce/ (CSE Working Paper. in NREGA Wage Payments http://publications. Between Dread and Stoicism: a study of reactions August 2020) azimpremjifoundation.org/2428/ to Covid-19 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers. (November 2020) cfm?abstract_id=3716758 (October 2020) · Rahul De: Mechanisms of surplus appropriation in the informal sector: A case study of tribal Migrants in Ahmedabad's construction Sector https://cse.azimpremjiuniversity.edu. “I don’t want to predict a trend or event for 2021. But I in/publications/mechanisms-of-surplus- do hope that every trend and event everywhere is about appropriation-in-the-informal-sector-a-case- celebrating basic human values of love, tolerance, empathy, study-of-tribal-migrants-in-ahmedabads- construction-industry/ (Informal Labor Process. moderation, togetherness and not about any triumph. I look October 2020) forward to fairly simple stuff like children back in schools, friends, families and strangers together and people back · Rahul Lahoti, Soham Sahoo: Are educated leaders good for education? Evidence from India at work providing all of us moments to practice, feel and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/ cherish these values.” abs/pii/S0167268120300925 (Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. August 2020) Manoj P, on looking forward to fairly normal stuff

5 “The time away from predictable routines drew us inward. · Surbhi Kesar: Economic Transition, Dualism, and Informality in India: Nature and Patterns With this experience, I think we will reimagine ‘balance’ of Household-level Transitions https://cse. in our lives – the home and workplace; in viewing travel, azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/wp-content/ relationships and what may be considered essential. The uploads/2020/10/Kesar_Economic-Transitions_ workplace is set to become more exciting. This is probably Dualism_Informality_Oct_2020.pdf (CSE Working Paper. October 2020) just wishful thinking, with the anticipated shift to our new campus!” · S Vijayan, P Balasubramanian, C Casiker, & D Uma: Non-mimetic jumping spider responses Sindhu Mathai, on the vision of a post-pandemic workplace towards three species of ants and their mimics. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10164- 020-00674-y (Journal of Ethology. Shreelata Rao Seshadri & Seshadri S: : "Introduction to · · Siddharth Swaminathan September 2020) The simple economics of vaccine quality in Special Issue on Politics and Society between competitive markets https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/ Elections (With Sandeep Shastri) (Studies in · Tarangini S & Nitya V: Bearing Witness to the papers.cfm?abstract_id=3695514 (October 2020) Indian Politics. Forthcoming December 2020) Covid Lockdown: Migrant Workers in Proof Regimes https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/ Shreelata Rao Seshadri, Rishikesh, Prasad P & · · Srikrishna Ayyangar, Sham N. Kashyap, bearing-witness-covid-19-lockdown (India Forum. Patil S: Handling Classroom Hunger: Comparing : School Prateeti Prasad, & Rishikesh BS October 2020) Modes of Mid-Day Meal Delivery in Anekal Block, Choice and Implementation: Survey (Azim Premji University Working Paper Evidence Across Indian States https://doi. · Varsha Aithala & Dr Sudhir Krishnaswamy: Series No. 19. October 2020) org/10.1177/2321023020963445 (Studies in Indian Commercial Courts in India: Three Puzzles for Politics. October 2020) Legal System Reform https://jils.co.in/wp-content/ Siddharth Swaminathan: Historical Burden or · uploads/2020/08/Commercial-Courts-in-India- Lacking Effort? Caste Perceptions of Dalit Socio- · Surbhi Kesar (co-authored with Snehashish Three-Puzzles-for-Legal-System-Reform.pdf Economic Conditions (Studies in Indian Politics. : Precarity and Development: Bhattacharya) (Journal of Indian Law and Society, Eastern Book Forthcoming December 2020) Production and Labor Processes in the Informal Company: Lucknow, August 2020) Economy in India https://journals.sagepub.com/ doi/abs/10.1177/0486613419884150 (Review of Radical Political Economics. September 2020)

6 Popular Publications & Presentations

· Abhayraj Naik: No Climate Concerns in India’s · Alex Thomas: A History of Contemporary · Amit Basole, Rajendran Narayanan, Anand draft green rules, India Climate Dialogue [co- Economic Theories. Review of Alessandro Shrivastava, Rakshita Swamy: The Time Is Right author] (India Climate Dialogue, August 2020) Roncaglia’s The Age of Fragmentation: A History for an Urban Employment Guarantee Programme https://indiaclimatedialogue.net/2020/08/24/ of Contemporary Economic Thought https:// https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/time-right- climate-considerations-missing-from-- www.epw.in/journal/2020/45/book-reviews/ urban-employment-guarantee-programme (The green-rules/ history-contemporary-economic-theories.html India Forum. November 2020) (Economic & Political Weekly. November 2020) · Achal Prabhala, Arjun Jayadev & Dean Baker: · Amit Basole, Rakshita Swamy: Wanted: An Want Vaccines Fast? Suspend Intellectual · Amalendu Jyotishi: How caste and gender are urban equivalent of MGNREGA https://www. Property Rights https://www.nytimes. intertwined in violence against Dalit women downtoearth.org.in/blog/governance/wanted-an- com/2020/12/07/opinion/covid-vaccines-patents. (, October 2020) https://www. urban-equivalent-of-mgnrega-72230 (Down To html (New York Times. December 2020) thenewsminute.com/article/opinion-how-caste- Earth. July 2020) and-gender-are-intertwined-violence-against- · Akash Bhattacharya: What the Outsider dalit-women-135025 · Amit Basole, Rakshita Swamy: 蕍뵂एट: अनौपचारिक Discourse in the Anti-CAA Movement Hides. श्रमिकⴂ की सामाजिक सुर啍ष को शामिल करने हेतु विस्ता (Newsclick. September 2020) · Amalendu Jyotishi: Twisted Trajectory, Samudra करना https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty- Report No. 83, ICSF (September 2020) inequality/pandemic-as-a-lens-identifying-and- · Alex Thomas: Book review: Christopher J. Berry, addressing-livelihood-vulnerabilities.html (Ideas Adam Smith: a very short introduction. Indian · Amit Basole, Rakshita Swamy: DUET: Expand For India. November 2020) Journal of Human Development, 14 (2). pp. 344- to include social protection for informal 352. http://publications.azimpremjifoundation. workers https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/ · Amit Basole & Reetika Khera: Can the right to org/2377/ (2020) poverty-inequality/duet-expand-to-include-social- work be made real in India https://www.thehindu. protection-for-informal-workers.html (Ideas For com/opinion/op-ed/can-the-right-to-work-be- India. October 2020) made-real-in-india/article33087164.ece (. November 2020)

7 · Amman Madan: Unpacking Intersectionality: “2020 – a year to cherish or a year to erase, 2021 is a dawn Conceptual Explorations of Convergences everyone awaits! I wonder how many more times will there and Divergences of Class, Caste and Gender in Education. (In Knowledge, Politics and Education: be days of isolation, wondering when I can see my children, Proceedings of International Conferences of meet my parents. I wonder if I will wear a mask, hold a Philosophy of Education (2013-2017) Volume II, microphone, and be the teacher whose eyes would speak more edited by Prakash Iyer) than the face. Goodbye pandemic!” · Amman Madan: Rationalization and Inequality Kinnari Pandya on hoping that normalcy is back in Higher Education in the Era of the Pandemic. , https://www.thenewleam.com/2020/07/ rationalisation-bureaucratisation-inequality-in- higher-education-amid-the-pandemic/ (The New · Anjor Bhaskar: Plug the Gaps: Aadhaar and · Awanish Kumar: Reimagining Public Policy Leam. July 2020) MGNREGA https://www.telegraphindia.com/ Studies in India’: Review of Public Policy: opinion/plug-the-gaps-aadhar-and-mgnrega/ A View from the South by Vishal Narain · Amman Madan: Rebuilding Self and Identity in cid/1792297 (Telegraph India. September 2020) (EPW, September 2020) https://www.epw.in/ Adivasi Schooling. (Learning Curve. August 2020) journal/2020/38/book-reviews/reimagining-public- · Arima Mishra and Sandesh Kotte: Beyond policy-studies-india.html · Amman Madan: From Linux to Windows and public vs private: Need for public oriented health Back. https://www.thenewleam.com/2020/10/ systems http://thecriticalmirror.com/analysis/ · CK Mathew: The historical evolution of the from-linux-to-windows-and-back/ (The New beyond-public-vs-private-need-for-strong-public- district officer https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu. Leam. October 2020) oriented-health-systems-in-india/2020/06/22/ in/SitePages/resources-books-published-the- (The Critical Mirror. June 2020) historical-evolution-of-the-district-officer.aspx · Anil Achar, Anup Naik, Champaka Rajagopal, (September 2020) Guru Prasanna, Sandhya Rao, Sanjog Shetty: · Arjun Jayadev: For All Students In Online Covid 19: Reimagine Your Space - An illustrated Classes, Your Teachers Miss You https://www. guide for precautions against Covid 19 (The .com/opinion/much-more-than-online- Institute of Urban Designers India, Karnataka learning-whats-at-stake-for-students-teachers- Chapter. July 2020) 2284825?pfrom=home-topstories (NDTV. August 2020)

8 · Dhanya Bhaskar and Charuta Kulkarni: · Dipa Sinha, Rajendran Narayanan: Hunger, · Giridhar A Rao: Plurlingva edukado en Barato: Cinderella at the ball: Mainstreaming agroforestry nutrition are worse than before lockdown. PDS taskoj kaj defioj [Multilingual education in India: for a resilient post-COVID India (Global South must be universalised https://indianexpress.com/ tasks and challenges]. https://www.ilei.info/ipr/ Development Magazine, October 2020) article/opinion/columns/india-hunger-index-poor- malnovaj_numeroj.htm (Internacia Pedagogia https://www.gsdmagazine.org/mainstreaming- pds-welfare-programme-coronavirus-lockdown- Revuo. 2020) agroforestry-for-a-resilient-post-covid-india-2/ narendra-modi-7061645/lite/?__twitter_ impression=true (Indian Express. November · Giridhar A Rao: (In press). (Forthcoming in · Dhanya Bhaskar: Mainstreaming agroforestry for 2020) English and Marathi). Mother-Tongue based Atmanirbhar Bharat https://www.deccanherald. multilingual education in India. Palakneeti. https:// com/opinion/mainstreaming-agroforestry-for- · Gayatri Menon: Teaching Extraction and its palakneeti.wordpress.com/ atmanirbhar-bharat-866484.html (In perspective, Discontents-A conversation with Anna Zalik . July 2020) (Teaching Commodity Frontiers, August 2020) · Harini Nagendra: The Life and Impact of Rachel https://library.wur.nl/ojs/index.php/commodity- Carson (Resonance, November 2020) https:// · Dipa Sinha, Rajendran Narayanan: Hunger, frontiers/article/view/17965/17376 www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/025/11/1481-1490 nutrition are worse than before lockdown. PDS must be universalised https://indianexpress.com/ · Gayatri Menon: The Mirror Stage- the review of · Harini Nagendra: Look past Ecosystem article/opinion/columns/india-hunger-index-poor- the book entitled ‘Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from ‘Services’ – to scientific wonders and the miracles pds-welfare-programme-coronavirus-lockdown- a Quarantined City’ written by Fang Fang (Biblio of evolution ( Science, September narendra-modi-7061645/lite/?__twitter_ India, September 2020) https://biblio-india.org/ 2020) https://science.thewire.in/environment/ impression=true (Indian Express. showart.asp?inv=5&mp=JS20 ecosystem-services-scientific-wonders-evolution- November 2020) miracles-janaki-lenin-harini-nagendra/ · Giridhar A Rao: Book review in Contemporary Education Dialogue of Rama Kant Agnihotri, · Harini Nagendra: Bengaluru: Of heritage lost Mahendra Kishore Verma, Vandana Puri (Eds.) and found (Deccan Herald, September 2020) Language and Identity: Selected Papers of Robert https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/ B. Le Page. . (Orient Blackswan. 2020) bengaluru-of-heritage-lost-and-found-883168. html

9 “The “new normal” might force us to accept restricted social · Karuna Dietrich Wielenga: Bled dry: How India exploits its health workers https:// mobility. In each institution, practices might be changed to a caravanmagazine.in/health/how-india-exploits- great extent, considering the physical distance maintenance health-workers (Caravan. September 2020) for a better and healthy life. Probably digital platforms will gain more popularity in the education and health sectors. · Kaustubh Manchanda (& HH Jafri): Collective Dynamics of Coupled Star Networks (Dynamics Given the existing digital divide in India, there is a chance Days Digital 2020. August 2020) of more inequity within society.” · Krishnapriya Tamma: Rodents, birds, and forests Saswati Paik, on the emergence of digital education (International Biogeography Society. September 2020)

· Harini Nagendra: We need a clear tree · Harini Nagendra: Stinging caterpillars and · Malini Bhattacharjee: Serving the ‘Other’ During policy and a strong climate action plan (New poisonous news (Deccan Herald, October 2020) the Pandemic: Hindu Nationalist Groups and Indian Express, August 2020) https://www. https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/stinging- Covid Relief in India (Asia Research Institute, July newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2020/ caterpillars-and-poisonous-news-900275.html 2020) https://ari.nus.edu.sg/20331-28/ aug/22/we-need-a-clear-tree-policy-and-a-strong- climate-action-plan-2186651.html · Jonathan Coutinho & Amit Basole: The · Malini Bhattacharjee: ‘73 yrs ago, Sylhet COVID-19 fiscal response and India’s standing Referendum left a Hindu community homeless · Harini Nagendra: Songs of the lake (Deccan https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the- between Assam and Bangladesh https:// Herald. August, 2020) https://www.deccanherald. covid-19-fiscal-response-and-indias-standing/ theprint.in/opinion/73-yrs-sylhet-referendum- com/opinion/songs-of-the-lake-871208.html article32154153.ece (The Hindu. July 2020) hindu-community-homeless-between-assam- bangladesh/455233/ (The Print. July 2020) · Harini Nagendra (& H Unnikrishnan): · Kanika Gauba: India that is Bharat: The Quenching a city’s thirst: the shifting waters of Politics of a National Name https://www.epw.in/ Bangalore (Encyclopedia of the World’s Biomes, journal/2020/28-29/commentary/india-bharat.html ed. J. Quinn, Elsevier) (Economic and Political Weekly. July 2020)

10 · Malini Bhattacharjee: Did the First Amendment · Rahul Lahoti, Amit Basole, Rosa Abraham, · Rajendran Narayanan, Aruna Roy: When to the Constitution lay the foundation for Surbhi Kesar, Paaritosh Nath: Pandemic as the state is silent, it becomes the citizen’s an authoritarian state? https://indianexpress. a lens: Identifying and addressing livelihood duty to speak up and express dissent https:// com/article/books-and-literature/did-the- vulnerabilities https://www.ideasforindia.in/ indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/ first-amendment-to-the-constitution-lay-the- topics/poverty-inequality/pandemic-as-a- bengaluru-violence-delhi-riots-caa-nrc-hindu- foundation-for-an-authoritarian-state-6720006/ lens-identifying-and-addressing-livelihood- muslim-6583468/ (Indian Express. (. October 2020) vulnerabilities.html (Ideas For India. July 2020) September 2020)

· M Manjula (& P Indira Devi): Redefining a · Rahul Lahoti, Rahul Mukhopadhyay: School · Rajendran Narayanan (& Dipa Sinha): The Farmer (The Hindu. September 2020) https:// choice in rural India: Perception versus reality Wide Net of Hunger https://indianexpress.com/ www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/redefining-a- https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/human- article/opinion/columns/india-hunger-index-poor- farmer/article32566123.eces development/school-choice-in-rural-india- pds-welfare-programme-coronavirus-lockdown- perception-versus-reality.html (Ideas For India. narendra-modi-7061645/ (The Indian Express. · Pranab R Choudhury & A Narayana: What will August 2020) November 2020) the liberalized farmland market in Karnataka mean? https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/ · Raghvendra, S Vanjari, Seema · Rajendran Narayanan: NREGA didis of Kurhani panorama/what-will-the-liberalised-farmland- Purushothaman, Sheetal Patil: How farmers in https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/nrega- market-in-karnataka-mean-862162.html (Deccan Mandya are faring in the aftermath of COVID-19 didis-of-kurhani-6927389/ (The Indian Express. Herald. July 2020) and lockdown (The News Minute. October 2020) November 2020) https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/how- · Rahul Lahoti, Rahul Mukhopadhyay: 嵍राीण भारत farmers-mandya-are-faring-aftermath-covid-19- · Rajendran Narayanan: Palanpur tribune: Review मᴂ स्क ल का चयन: धारणा बनाम वास्विकता https:// and-lockdown-134311 of ‘Rumble in a Village’ by Luc Leruth and Jean www.ideasforindia.in/topics/human-development/ Drèze https://www.thehindu.com/books/palanpur- school-choice-in-rural-india-perception-versus- · Rajendran Narayanan: The pandemic is about tribune-review-of-rumble-in-a-village-by-luc- reality-.html (Ideas For India. October 2020) eyes shut https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/ leruth-and-jean-drze/article32917812.ece the-pandemic-is-about-eyes-shut/article32025369. (The Hindu. October 2020) ece (The Hindu. July 2020)

11 Ashok Kumar · Rajendran Narayanan (& Bishwa Pandey): · Seema Mundoli & Harini Nagendra: Heritage Sircar, on the role Labour's Data Lost https://www.thehindu.com/ Trees of Urban India: Importance and their local administration opinion/op-ed/labours-data-lost/article32856412. Protection https://bngenvtrust.org/wp-content/ in managing the ece (The Hindu. October 2020) uploads/2020/09/2020-09-09_Report-on- pandemic Heritage-trees.pdf · Rajendran Narayanan: Dekh Li Democracy?': What I Learned During a Few Hours in Ramban · Seema Purushothaman: Life and Livelihood – https://thewire.in/rights/jammu-kashmir-article- what a virus taught us https://smallfarmdynamics. “All the available signs indicate that 370-valley-police-ramban (Thewire.in. blog/2020/09/22/life-and-livelihood-what-a-virus- 2021 will mostly continue to be a August 2020) taught-us-by-seema-purushothaman COVID year, with many local and often · Rakhi Banerjee: Area of rectangle = Length × · Seema Purushothaman (& R Devi): Complete repeated surges. How is our local Breadth: Conversations with a 9 year old. (At and Effective Implementation of FRA1 in preparedness? We have the presence of Right Angles. July 2020) Kerala: Strategies and Approaches. https:// local governments at the village, block, practiceconnect.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/ · Rishikesh BS: From doubling enrolment rates complete-and-effective-implementation-of-fra-in- district, and towns, but their roles in to increasing Budget allocation, NEP 2020 kerala-strategies-and-approaches/ the prevention and management of could prove transformational https://www. COVID have been generally minimal, firstpost.com/india/from-doubling-enrolment- · Seema Purushothaman & Sheetal Patil: rates-to-increasing-budget-allocation-on- Resilience during the pandemic – lessons from except in Kerala and some large cities. education-nep-2020-could-prove-to-be- the family farms of Yadgir (The News Minute. The time has come now to rethink transformational-8659091.html (Firstpost. August, 2020) https://www.thenewsminute.com/ our strategy of how to engage local July 2020) article/resilience-during-pandemic-lessons-family- farms-yadgir-130919 governments in this endeavour.” · Rishikesh BS: NEP 2020 has the answer to the question of impossibly high cut-offs https:// indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/nep- 2020-student-board-exams-college-admission- high-cut-off-6887408/ (Indian Express. October 2020)

12 · Seema Purushothaman, Sheetal Patil (& · Seema Purushothaman: What is the · Sheetal Patil: Building 'backyards' better – an Saurabh Singh): Tackling Covid: Overcoming purpose of Education? ( approach for urban agriculture in India (The Hans pandemic despair (Financial Express. August, Manorama. September, 2020) India, August 2020) https://www.thehansindia. 2020) https://www.financialexpress.com/ https://www.manoramaonline.com/education/ com/life-style/building-backyards-better-an- opinion/tackling-covid-overcoming-pandemic- horizon/2020/09/26/what-Is-the-purpose-of- approach-for-urban-agriculture-in-india-642687 despair/2075285/ education.html · Shreelata Rao Seshadri, Rishikesh BS, Prateeti Prasad & Sheetal Patil: Handling Classroom “In the backdrop of mass layoffs in the aviation sector and Hunger: Comparing Modes of Mid-Day Meal Delivery in Anekal Block, Karnataka. the grounding of domestic and international travel during (October 2020) COVID– 19, approaches to travel have drastically altered. India was the 7th highest contributor of carbon emissions · Shreelata Rao Seshadri: Health Systems and the Pandemic (. July 2020) through international aviation and 3rd highest for domestic aviation in 2019. The pandemic could provide the opportunity · Shreelata Rao Seshadri: Reducing Covid-19 risk to move away from greenwashing of tourist spaces to create equitably (Deccan Herald. August 2020) more inclusive and equitable ventures, led by committed, · Shreelata Rao Seshadri: Achieving 'Herd collaborative relationships between communities Immunity' - Easier said than done (Prajavani. and travellers.” December 2020)

Sunayana Ganguly, on how the pandemic could affect tourism · Sindhu Mathai: Critical Reflections on Making School Level Science Inclusive and Inviting for All https://www.thenewleam.com/2020/09/critical- reflections-on-making-school-level-science- inclusive-and-inviting-for-all/ (The New Leam. September 2020)

13 · Surbhi Kesar: Why do economists have trouble “In these times of post-truth politics, epistemic and ethical understanding racialized inequalities? https:// relativism is neither politically neutral nor innocuous. It www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/ why-do-economists-have-trouble-understanding- matters profoundly and determines who gets charged with racialized-inequalities (Institute for New sedition, and whose liberty is secured by the top courts no Economic Thinking. August 2020) less, whose freedom of speech is sacred and whose excessive.

· Tarangini S & Nitya V: Bearing Witness to the When idealistic, non-violent, wide-eyed student activists are Covid Lockdown: Migrant Workers in Proof deemed culpable for the violence they never even fantasise to Regimes https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/ engineer, and gluttonously scheming, manically narcissistic bearing-witness-covid-19-lockdown (India Forum. October 2020) TV anchors allowed to burnish their wares publically, we know with a despairing certitude the Republic has · V Vinay Kumar: Blood Fry Other Recipes From definitively turned a leaf. It will be a fatal error to assume My Dalit Childhood https://www.goya.in/blog/ that the present belongs to us alone; it is a debt we owe to the blood-fry-other-recipes-from-my-dalit-childhood (Goya Journal. September 2020) future generations to come. What we do know – this year and in the near future- will determine if we have kept the polity · V Vinay Kumar: Film Review: Is A and civility safe, secure and nurturing for them, or not. The Tale Of Love, Loss And Fading Personhood (FII) https://feminisminindia.com/2020/10/06/film- enormity of this task can hardly be understated; nor however, review-moothon-love-loss-fading-personhood/ can the onus of it shifted elsewhere anymore.” (September 2020) Vishnupad, on the role of the future generations · Varsha Aithala: Idea of Social Stock Exchanges for India (The India Forum, September 2020) https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/social-stock- exchanges-india-sebi-s-promise

14 Books

· Edward Premdas Pinto “Three Mars exploration programmes, multiple spaceflights Health Justice in India: Citizenship, Power and to the Moon, various human spaceflight programmes, a large Healthcare Jurisprudence (Springer Nature, Singapore. November 2020) Space telescope, and maiden flights of several space-vehicles – our plans for Space during 2021 are a source of optimism · Hriday Kant Dewan, Shivani Negi, Manoj and technological wonder. Less clear is what we will achieve Kumar & Manish Jain (Edited by) Adhyapak, Adhyapan Aur Adyapak Siksha here on Earth. The familiar struggles will continue: against Neetiyan, Bahasen Aur Anubhav https://www. poverty, inequality, injustice, and discrimination. In 2021 we vaniprakashan.in/details.php?prod_id=9149 will need to continue to enable our students to address the (Vani Prakashan. 2020) transgenerational challenges that they face. Only thus will · Karuna Dietrich Wielenga the reality on Earth begin to match the promise of Space.” Weaving Histories: The Transformation of the Handloom Industry in South India, c. 1800-1960 A Giridhar Rao, on hoping the achievements in outer space match to (British Academy and OUP (UK). that on terra firma November 2020)

· Manoj Kumar (Edited) Biographical account of a teacher/headmaster: Adhyāpakīya Jīvana Kā Gunanaphala, by Syāma Nārāyana Miśra. (Ananya Prakāśana. Delhi 2020)

· Sharad Sure & Manjunath S V Shala Shikshana Maththu Shikshakaru: Samakaleena Samvada, Bengaluru (Azim Premji University and Navakarnataka Publishers)

15 Chapters in Books

· Abhayraj Naik · John Kurien · Sheetal P & Seema Purushothaman Violent Beasts and Legal Animals, Wise Sayings from an ‘ecosystem community’: Landowners as Non-farm Workers: A Case of in RETHINKING LAW AND VIOLENCE IN INDIA Reflections from a search for challenging Small Farmer Migrants in Karnataka. edited by Latika Vashisth and Jyoti Dogra neoliberal worldviews on nature. In: Reframing In Mishra D.K. and P Nayak (eds.) Land and https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/ the Environment Resources, Risk and Resistance Livelihoods in Neoliberal India. (Palgrave view/10.1093/oso/9780190120993.001.0001/oso- in Neoliberal India. Taylor & Francis, London, pp. Macmillan, Singapore. 2020) 9780190120993-chapter-5 (Oxford University 204-213. http://publications.azimpremjifoundation. Press in collaboration with the Indian Law org/2434/ · Varuni Bhatia Institute. August 2020) The Afterlife of an Avatara in Modern Times, · Rajendran Narayanan (with Annie Raja) in Ferdinando Sardella and Lucian Wong, eds., · Anjor Bhaskar MGNREGA: A Distress Saviour or Saviour in The Legacy of Vaishnavism in Colonial Bengal. Back to the Barracks: Changing Pattern of Distress (We The People: Establishing Rights and New York. (Routledge. 2020) Women's Work Participation in India (Labouring Deepening Democracy, Penguin India. August Women: Issues and Challenges in Contemporary 2020) · Vishnupad India. August 2020) Hegemony without Dominance: Notes on · Saswati Paik the Rule of Law in India, in Law and Violence, · Arun K Thiruvengadam Disruption in School Education in Drought-Prone edited by Jyoti Dogra and Latika Vashist. Delhi Pandemics and Emergency Powers in Asia. Areas: A Case Study from Barmer, Rajasthan, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/ COVID-19 in Asia: Law and Policy Contexts India. (Drought Risk Management in South and view/10.1093/oso/9780190120993.001.0001/oso- (Oxford University Press: UK, December 2020) South-East Asia, Indrajit Pal and Mihir Bhatt (ed). 9780190120993-chapter-3 (Oxford University (Sage Publication, India. August 2020) Press and Indian Law Institute Press. August 2020).

16 Talks & Panel Discussions

Abhayraj Naik · Classical Political Economy: Theories of Value, · The Vital Contribution of Small Pelagic Fish · No Climate Concerns in India’s draft green rules, Distribution, and Growth. Workshop for college to Food Security: India and Ghana Compared India Climate Dialogue [co-author] https:// teachers affiliated to MG University on Heterodox with Holly Hapke, Maarten Bavinck and indiaclimatedialogue.net/2020/08/24/climate- Economics (Sree Sankara College, Kalady. Benjamin Campion https://www.oceangov. considerations-missing-from-indias-green-rules/ September 2020) eu/news_full/final-virtual-conference-ocean- (India Climate Dialogue, August 2020) · The Political Economy of India: Theories, governance-action-insights-and-foreshadowing- Context, and Policies. https://www.youtube.com/ challenges-on-19-and-20-november-2020/ Alex Joy watch?v=UlSIkeuVNB4 (Christ (deemed to be (Virtual Conference on Ocean Governance for · 蕍रपआउट ब楍च की संख्य कम करना और सभी स्तⴂ पर University), Bengaluru, August 2020) Sustainability. November 2020) शि啍ष की सािवभौशमक पहԁच सुशनशित करना (DIET, · Scarcity vs. Surplus Approaches in the Study of · Marine fish value chain- implications for food SCERT, Lucknow. September 2020) Economics (Kumaraguru College of Liberal Arts security. (School of Economics, University of · Professional development of science teachers and Science, Coimbatore. September 2020) Hyderabad. December 2020) (Department of Educational Studies, Jamia Milia · NWO Food & Business Programme, NWO- Islamia, New Delhi. November 2020) Amalendu Jyotishi WOTRO organises a PhD Impact Award https:// · Recent Trends and Developments in Science · Evolution of Money in a Webinar Series on www.nwofoodbusinessconference.nl/page/755234 Education (Department of Educational Studies, "Future of Money" (School of Business, Amrita (December 2020) Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi. November 2020) Vishwa Vidaypeetham. September 2020) · State, Private or Cooperatives? The Governance Amman Madan Alex Thomas of Tawa Reservoir Fisheries, India, International · National Education Policy 2020. Webinar · On Amartya Sen’s Contributions: A History Webinar on Small Scale Fisheries in Inland Open organised by the department of Political Science. of Economic Thought Approach https://www. Water (CIFRI, India. September 2020) (Christ College, Kanpur. September 2020) youtube.com/watch?v=dAZdgIxtQkQ (Kristu · Social inequality and identity in the New Jayanti College, Bengaluru. November 2020) Education Policy 2020 Workshop on Leadership Development Programme, UGC-Human Resource Development Centre. (Doctor Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyala, Sagar (MP). September 2020)

17 Ankur Madan, Anjor Bhaskar · National Webinar on Understanding the on the impact of · The People, the State and Management of the Current Public Health Crisis in India through technology on Waste - What is the Role of Media (Jagran School Dr Ambedkar’s Writings. (T S Dhandapani education sector of Journalism & Communication, JLU, Bhopal. Chettiar Chair in the Field of Social Sciences and October 2020) Dr Ambedkar Studies Centre, Avinashilingam · Social Policy Making and Implementation in India Institute for Home Science and Higher Education (Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat. for Women, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. August 2020) October 2020) “As teachers scramble to reinvent · Reimagining Public Policy Studies in India’: Review themselves and search for technological, Annapurna Neti of Public Policy: A View from the South by Vishal · Future of FPOs in India. (Hand in Hand India. Narain (EPW, September 2020) https://www. innovative and creative pedagogical October 2020) epw.in/journal/2020/38/book-reviews/reimagining- solutions to meet the academic public-policy-studies-india.html goals of their pupils, this could also Arun K Thiruvengadam · Kushaldas Advani at 70 presented as part of Divya Uma be an opportunity to also find new, a virtual panel. https://www.youtube.com/ · Ecology in the time of pandemic (Indian Academy individualised solutions for teaching watch?v=Ha6Qz-GohfY (ILS Law College, Pune. Degree College, Bangalore. August 2020) children with disabilities, July 2020) just like all other children? In my view, Gayatri Menon Awanish Kumar · The Gender-Migration-Work Nexus as part of the this could break both attitudinal, as well · History of Agriculture Insurance in India Gender and the Changing World of Work series as skill barriers and the trend for years to with special reference to PMFBY, under the Panel Discussion with Indrani Mazumdar and come, could be creating a more robust and programme on ‘Overview of Financial Inclusion Karen Coelho (September 2020). and Development Department with a focus on · The Indian Case: Neoliberal Authoritarian inclusive education system, for all.” MSMEs and Priority Sector Lending’. (Reserve Populism on the Peripheries of Capitalism, Bank of India, New Delhi. September 2020) UNIFESP, Sao Paulo. With Aparna Sundar. (July 2020)

18 Giridhar A Rao · La urdua: lingvo kaj kulturo [: Language and Seema Mundoli, on · Teaching Linguistic Diversity in India. Panel on Culture], Lingva Festivalo, VEKI. https://youtu. the increased positive "Interculturality in language teaching: teaching be/4s606uy0-Zk (53rd International Association action from civil of intercultural values, intercultural pragmatics" of Esperanto-Teachers (ILEI). July 2020) society organisations http://interl.home.amu.edu.pl/interlingvistiko/ · Plurlingva edukado en Barato: taskoj kaj simpozio2020.html (5th International defioj[Multilingual education in India: tasks Interlinguistics Symposium, Adam Mickiewicz and challenges] https://www.youtube.com/ University, Poznan, Poland. September 2020). watch?v=huo7PNPDbPY&t=2558s (London 2020b. Esperanto Club. August 2020) “Hopefully, we will see more youth · Teaching Science Fiction for Intercultural · Enhancing English Language Skills Webinar whose futures have especially been Dialogue and Critical Thinking Webinar on for Judicial Officers(Andhra Pradesh Judicial impacted by the pandemic coming "Science Fiction in an Age of Crisis" https://youtu. Academy. July 2020) be/HigibMXG5RI?t=890 (Damdama College, forward to say “Enough!” – to how we Assam. August 2020) Harini Nagendra have led our lives. Amidst the gloom · La urdua: lingvo kaj kulturo [Urdu: Language and · The Impact of Governing the Commons on and doom, I predict for 2021; there will Culture], Lingva Festivalo, VEKI. https://youtu. Social-Ecological Thinking and Practice. Panel also be slivers of positive action from be/4s606uy0-Zk (53rd International Association Discussion on Governing the Commons: 30 Years of Esperanto-Teachers (ILEI). July 2020) Later (Virtual Symposium, Ostrom Workshop, citizens and civil society organisations · Teaching Linguistic Diversity in India. Panel on Indiana University/online. October 2020) trying to bring change by protecting "Interculturality in language teaching: teaching · A ~25 Year Journey of Commons Research: a tree or raising their voice against of intercultural values, intercultural pragmatics" Ecology, Society, Norms and Action (Keynote http://interl.home.amu.edu.pl/interlingvistiko/ address, International Association for the Study injustices perpetrated in the name of simpozio2020.html (5th International of the Commons (IASC) Early Career Network gender, caste or religion.” Interlinguistics Symposium, Adam Mickiewicz Meeting, October 2020) University, Poznan, Poland. September 2020). · Thinking ecologically about development: A · Teaching Science Fiction for Intercultural Global South perspective. Plenary panel on Dialogue and Critical Thinking Webinar on Diminishing Resources and Environmental "Science Fiction in an Age of Crisis" https://youtu. Sustainability. (Global Young Academy be/HigibMXG5RI?t=890 (Damdama College, e-conference. July 2020) Assam. August 2020)

19 · Collective roles and responsibilities of people · Recreating the rooe – Panel discussion with · Climate Information for Building Small Holder in restoration of the commons. (In The People Pradip Krishen, Sita Reddy and Shannon Olsson. Resilience: Experience from India (Workshop Factor, Bangalore Environment Trust (online). (Bangalore Science Museum and Bangalore on 'Climate Change and Community Resilience: July 2020) International Centre. August 2020) Insights from South Asia, Jointly Organised by · An ecological imagination of India’s cities. · Thinking ecologically about India’s cities: International Centre "for Integrated Mountain (Dr K Narayana Reddy memorial lecture, Sri A challenge for our sustainable future. Development, (ICIMOD) and South Asian Venkateswara College of Engineering, Tirupati (Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Network for Development and Environmental (online). July 2020) Group: South Asia Chapter. October 2020) Economics (SANDEE), Nepal. October 2020) · Urban environment and biodiversity in the post-Covid world. Panel discussion at Urban Kinnari Pandya Manu V Mathai Update e-dialogues. https://www.youtube.com/ · NEP 2020: Vision for Curriculum & Pedagogy · Sustainable Development Goals On a Finite watch?v=TL6IVeI4EyM&list=PLObLoUo1mKwsw5 for the Foundational Stage (Panel Discussion, Planet. (IUPUI SDG Conversation Series. 0kX1dCQDNXdOwWqwi_n&index=9 (July 2020) organized by AECED, . September 2020) September 2020) · Green, food-secure and healthy cities. (Panel discussion at Tomorrow’s Liveable Cities. Madhuri Ramesh Pallavi Varma Patil July 2020) · Glorious past, glorious future? Panel discussion · Reinventing Gandhian ideas and practice of · How to creatively engage your family with on nature and culture conservation in India Consensual Democracy, Satyagraha, and Village ecology. https://newindianwoman.podbean.com/e/ (Bangalore International Centre. August 2020) Socialism in today’s context: the case of Village how-to-creatively-engage-your-family-and-more- Mendha Lekha, India. https://our-global-u. chat-with-harini-nagendra-episode-21/ (The New M Manjula org/oguorg/en/seventh-south-south-forum- Indian Woman, Episode 21. July 2020) · Biodiversity on FarmLand -- Economic Benefits on-sustainability-ssfs7/ (Global University of · Restoring urban ecology. https://www.youtube. and Employment Potential in the Agriculture Sustainability conference. July 2020) com/watch?v=5pZ2sSaRWDY (BuzzonEarth Sector in the webinar on Biodiversity CloudChats 2. July 2020) Conservation: India's Opportunities and Porag Shome · Interview Nature in the City: Planet Outlook Challenges (Office of the Principal Scientific · Denotified Tribes: History and their evolving Episode 8. https://www.youtube.com/ Advisor, Government of India, The National livelihoods. (July 2020) watch?v=6Jye0yilHkE (Outlook Magazine. Biodiversity Authority and the Biodiversity August 2020) Collaborative. October 2020)

20 Puja Guha Rajesh Joseph & Balmurli · Key challenges and urban forestry solutions · Has the rural consumer’s mindset changed · Strategies for mobilisation and collectivization (Panelist UN session on Urban Forestry with increasing access?', Webinar on India’s among domestic workers in India (Workshop on Innovations: Transforming Landscapes for Human Rural Economy post Covid-19: Opportunities to Paid Domestic Work as “Decent Work”: Inter- Well-being in the Post-Covid 19 era. 3rd Asia- Reboot, Revitalise. https://www.bridgeindia.org. disciplinary Conversations in the Indian Context. Pacific Urban Forestry Meeting. October 2020) uk/event/our-covid-19-webinar-series/ (www. Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College bridgeindia.org.uk. September 2020) London August 2020) Seema Purushothaman · The Precarity of the Urban Informal Enterprises · Economics for seeking sustainability in the During a Pandemic Crisis', in Webinar on Making Seema Mundoli times of pandemic and recession, International Cities Belong to Those who Build Them. (Baha'i · Darren Simpsons “Scavengers” and SDG 11 e-Conference on “The Challenges and Chair for Studies in Development, DAVV, Indore. (with Lakshmi Karunakaran). Reading for Rehabilitation Avenues in the Context of July 2020) Change: Monthly book reading and discussions Covid-19” (Madurai Kamraj University, August · ICARD - Vulnerabilities Across Time (July 2020) on the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2020) (SDGs) (Champaca Bookstore and Bengaluru Rajendran Narayanan Sustainability Forum, August 2020) · (with the Right to Food Campaign): Hunger Watch Survey (Conducted surveys across 11 states to assess the situation of hunger. Report forthcoming) “The significant happening of 2021 would be ‘going back · (with Sakina Dhorajiwala): Home and Away: to school’ in the middle of a pandemic. If the situation is The Splintered Lives of Migrant Workers (XV somewhat “in control” and the government decides to open International Conference of Public Policy and Management, IIM Bangalore. August 2020) schools then children may again find themselves in each · The Slow Poisoning of NREGA: How a Rural other’s company, running in the playground and having Lifeline Can be Stifled by a Technocratic lunch. It would be interesting to see how protocols are Government (Jayanta Dasgupta Memorial Public followed, how will children stay 6 feet away from each other, Lecture. October 2020) and how wearing masks is going to change interactions.”

Shipra Suneja, on how schools will change in 2021

21 · Constraints in moving towards sustainable Surbhi Kesar Vasvi Oza agriculture in Jharkhand: Civil Society · Neoliberalism is dead. Long live...what? (United · The Curious Case of Art Writings and Anecdotal Organisation forum of JH organised seminar Nations Conference on Trade and Development Debates in Kumar and Vrishchik (Foundation for (September 2020) (UNCTAD) summer school. August 2020) Indian Contemporary Art, New Delhi. December · Introduction to Heterodox and Pluralist 2020) Sheetal Patil Economics (Rethinking Economics - India. · Image and/as Text (Talking Images, an online · Agricultural ecologies shaping food in and around September 2020) initiative for cross-disciplinary dialogues in Bangalore. (Bangalore Science Exhibition, August · Decolonising economics (University of Missouri Creative Practices. October 2020) 2020) and Kansas City. October 2020) · Responding to the pandemic (Decolonising Vijitha Rajan Shreelata Rao Seshadri, Rishikesh BS, Prateeti the post-pandemic world, London School of · The Ontological Crisis of Schooling: Situating Prasad & Sheetal Patil Economics. October 2020) Migrant Childhoods and Educational · Handling Classroom Hunger: Comparing Modes · Discussant in a panel on Orientalism in Exclusion https://journals.sagepub.com/ of Mid-Day Meal Delivery in Anekal Block, Economics Theory with Jan Toporowski and doi/10.1177/0973184920948364 (Contemporary Karnataka (October 2020) Gilbert Achcar (School of Oriential and Afircan Education Dialogue. October 2020) Studies, University of London. November 2020) Sitharamam Kakarala · Precarity and Development (University of West · Approaches to Interdisciplinary Research. England, Bristol. November 2020) (St Joseph’s College Faculty Development · Decolonising Economics: What does it mean Programme. August 2020) and how is it done? (Bristol Festival of Ideas. · Delivered three lectures on the concept of November 2020) Citizenship and Political Obligation to students. · Economic Transitions, Dualism, and Informality (National Law Institute and University, Bhopal. in India (Seminar in Applied Microeconomics August 2020) (SERI)-SAMVAAD series. November 2020) · Creative Writing and Social Science Research · Decolonising economics curriculum (Glasgow Methods to participants of the Writing Lab University Real World society. November 2020) (Indian Ensemble, Bengaluru. September 2020)

22 Blogs

· Amit Basole, Rakshita Swamy: 蕍뵂एट: अनौपचारिक “2021 will be a reflective year that would raise a lot of श्रमिकⴂ की सामाजिक सुर啍ष को शामिल करने हेतु विस्ता questions about human existence, its pursuits and its future. करना https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty- inequality/pandemic-as-a-lens-identifying-and- How do we restore the place of community, communication, addressing-livelihood-vulnerabilities.html (Ideas connectedness and compassion at a juncture of human life For India. November 2020) gripped by technology? Or, How do we rethink our assumed human supremacy over nature?” · Amit Basole, Rakshita Swamy: DUET: Expand to include social protection for informal Rajashree Srinivasan, on community, communication and connectedness workers https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/ poverty-inequality/duet-expand-to-include-social- protection-for-informal-workers.html (Ideas For “2020 was never the same as the years before. Would 2021 be India. October 2020) any different? I wish to cheat my doubts, that now and then · Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven & Surbhi peeps in, saying there is a long way to go. I don’t want to go Kesar: Why Do Economists Have Trouble back to those ugly discriminations, splitting my thoughts Understanding Racialized Inequalities? https:// www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/ and emotions. If any, I wish to celebrate pluralism; I want to why-do-economists-have-trouble-understanding- see the dignity of labour in a more humane and sustained racialized-inequalities#.Xyl8c7vaEp8.twitter way; climbing down a few steps from ‘wants’ to get back to (Institute for New Economic Thinking. August 2020) the ‘needs’; be more caring not only to fellow human being but also extend beyond to the flora, the fauna, the history, the culture, the visible, the invisible.”

Amalendu Jyotishi, on his hopes for the next year

23 Research Projects

· Amalendu Jyotishi: Transregional Collaboratory · Arun K. Thiruvengadam: Co-investigator · Manjula M & Amalendu Jyotishi: Alternative on the Indian Ocean, SSRC, https://www.ssrc.org/ for collaborative project on ‘Transformative Measures of Sustainability in a Subsistence programs/view/transregional-collaboratory-on- Constitutionalism and Varieties of Economy: A study in two tribal-dominated the-indian-ocean/grantees/rupture-gendered- Constitutionalism’ in partnership with Professor districts in Odisha and Kerala. (Project funded by adaptation-and-the-social-economy-of-indian- Philipp Dann (Humboldt University) and ICSSR) ocean-fisheries/(Research Grant. Rupture, Professor Jurgen Bast (Geissen University). Gendered Adaptation, and the Social Economy of Funded by the Indo-European Advanced · Narayana A & Sham Kashyap Indian Ocean Fisheries) Research Network (IEARN), this project involves Analysis of the implementation of IEC a series of three workshops where scholars programmes and strategies under SBM-G · Amalendu Jyotishi: Dried Fish Matters, Funded from India and the European Union will meet to in Karnataka by SSHRC, Canada, https://driedfishmatters.org/ deliberate and exchange ideas. (Supply and Demand Drivers of Dried Fish in · Rajesh Joseph: Covid Crisis: Situation Karnataka) · Jayanti Ray Mukherjee: Investigating the assessment survey on the internal challenges population fluctuation and fission-fusion faced by organisations in the development sector · Anindita Bhattacharya & Ankita Tandon: Work dynamics of stray dogs. and their response. and non-work interface, perceived stress and felt needs in schoolteachers in the context of · John Kurien, Edward H Allison, Yoshitaka · Sheetal Patil: Coronavirus as game-changer COVID-19 Ota: The human relationships with our planet for sustainability in Indian food systems. (BA/ ocean (Oceanpanel.Org) https://oceanpanel. Leverhulme Small Research Grant. ) · Kit Patrick: Study on Access to Government org/sites/default/files/2020-09/Human%20 Entitlements in Jharkhand: Status, Barriers and Relationship%20with%20Our%20Ocean%20 · Sheetal Patil: Urban - Peri-urban Agriculture as Opportunities Planet%20Final.pdf Green Infrastructure: Implications on wellbeing and sustainability in the Global South · Annapurna Neti, Nazrul Haque, & Rajesh · Kripa Gowrishankar: Exploring the scope of Joseph: Covid Crisis: Situation assessment survey the “Bouncing droplet” system as a tool for on the internal challenges faced by organisations demonstrations in a Dynamical Systems lab. in the development sector and their response

24 Faculty Grants

· Jayanti Ray-Mukherjee “Changes in dispositions are not visibly manifest like Investigating the population fluctuation and physical changes are. Dispositional differences become fission-fusion dynamics of stray dogs visible only when in situations which demand that we act. We · Kripa G should wait and watch every societal event in the forthcoming Exploring the scope of the “Bouncing droplet” months. We will see a gradual increase in empathy and system as a tool for demonstrations in a Dynamical Systems lab kindness towards the hitherto marginalised, which is bound to manifest in significant collective action.” · Shomen Mukherjee Habitat Selection decisions in field cockroaches Prakash Iyer, on building empathy and increasing kindness in response to interspecific-competitors and predation risk

· Sriya Iyer, Girish Bahal & Anand Shrivastava “As someone who has always been interested in Covid-19 and Religion understanding the place of religion in the modern world, I · Tarangini Sriraman have been thinking about how has or how would religion be Spirited, Dispirited Voices and Those-in-Between: possibly impacted by the ongoing pandemic? One significant A History of Women and Alcohol Regulation in trend the world will see in 2021; it will be the re-invocation of South India (1870-2015) the ‘sacred’ in different forms that is likely to strengthen the communitarian aspects of our identity much more sharply than before.”

Malini Bhattacharjee, on the different forms of the “sacred”

25 External Grants

· Aaditeshwar Seth (Gram Vaani (OnionDev · Ashita Alag (One Future Collective (Morarka · Inbarasan K G (Institute of Grassroots Technologies Pvt Ltd)) Leadership Foundation)) Governance) Building SOPs for Grievance Redressal to Civil Society Response to Domestic Violence Combating COVID-19 by Panchayati Raj Reduce Exclusions in Access to Social Protection during COVID-19 | Building Better Support for Institutions - A comparative study of Elected Schemes for Poor and Vulnerable Populations Survivors Vs Non-elected Village Panchayats in selected districts of Tamil Nadu · Ama Grace Barla (Samajik Seva Sadan) · AS Pradeep Kumar (Health Systems Research Atmanirbhar Adivasis: Community Role in India Initiative Trust) · Joy Elamon (Kerala Institute of Local Prevention and Management of Covid Crisis Understanding the role of public health system Administration (KILA)) reforms in combating COVID-19 pandemic in the Local Governance during the COVID-19 · Amit Kumar (Kumarappa Gram Swaraj State of Kerala, India Pandemic Times Sansthan) Role of Local Self Government (LGs)/Panchayats · Bhanupriya Rao (BehanBox (Part of Women · Joy Syiem (Indian Council of Social Welfare, and Community Based Organisations (CBOs) Unlimited Media Pvt Ltd)) Meghalaya State Branch) during Corona Pandemic (a case study of Proposal for the Study of Female Frontline Traditional Institutions (Dorbars Shnongs) of Rajasthan) Community Healthcare Workforce In India during Shillong, Meghalaya: Integral to the Community the Covid-19 Pandemic Efforts against COVID19 · Anindita Bhattacharya (APU), Seema Mehrotra & Poornima Bhola (NIMHANS, · Digant Mohanty (Kartabya) · Paromita Sen (SEWA Bharat) Bengaluru) Study on the Role of Rural Local Bodies in Community Health in the time of Corona Perceived stress, resources, resilience and felt Pandemic in Odisha needs related to mental wellbeing among college youth in the context of COVID-19

26 Sherry Martin, · Romate John (Central University of Karnataka) · Udit Ranjan (Accountability Initiative, Centre for on the COVID Exploring the challenges, psychological problems, Policy Research) vaccine and delivery and mental health needs among frontline health Research on Frontline Workers within Means, mechanisms workers of government hospitals: A study in Motives and Opportunities Framework Hyderabad Karnataka Region · Varsha Venugopal (Suvita, a Programme of · Sapna Desai (Population Council Institute) Development Consortium) Building women’s health capabilities through a Remote Gossip Pilot to Improve Uptake of “Considering the impact of the ongoing digital, group-based response: An implementation Routine Immunisation COVID crisis and the way it has research study of Lok Swasthya SEWA Trust’s affected the lives of people around the response to COVID-19 globe with no foreseeable end, I think · Saritha Thomas (People's Power Collective) that research into COVID vaccines and Community Mobilisation and Good Governance: their delivery systems will dominate Via the Community Radio Network – Umeed, in the Himalayan State of Uttarakhand, in the time at least the initial part of 2021. It is of Covid-19 important to note that many countries do not have the infrastructure · Stutilina Pal (Self Reliant Initiatives through Joint Action (SRIJAN)) to ensure effective storage and Understanding the perspectives of frontline distribution of vaccines and building health workers (ASHAs, Anganwadi workers and these would be a focus area.” ANMs) to improve COVID 19 containment efforts at the community level

· T K Srikanth (International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore) Assisted Telemedicine for Rural Healthcare Ecosystem

27 Credits: Padma Nayar Vargheese Thomas Raghvendra Vanjari Shashwat DC Kshiraja Krishnan Tejas Pande Kritika Santhosh Kumar

Cover Illustration : Sahana Subramanian

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