I an "In the Margins" special in Mint, Rupa Subramanya and I demonstrate using a rigorous and parsimonious data analysis that making India a "less cash" economy, one of the stated goals of demonetization, has failed.

https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/PGRi4ySZO2HOWkARKq8GeM/Demonetisation-failed-to-make-India-a-less-cash-society.html

My latest Mint column assesses the political economy takeaways from the Sterlite Copper protest and plant shutdown in Tamil Nadu.

https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/bLPymr5FMDZnWpP6pwQdqJ/The-political-economy-takeaways-from-Thoothukudi.html

Writing in the Print, my co-author Praveen Chakravarty has a great explainer on our methodology and findings on spatial inequality in India using night lights luminosity data.

https://theprint.in/opinion/dark-side-of-indias-night-lights-as-states-prosper-rich-poor-gap-in-districts-widens/64973/

Soutik Biswas of BBC features research by Praveen Chakravarty and myself, which uses a unique nightlights data set to document widening regional inequality in India.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-44193144

Will the Karnataka crisis establish our Lascelles principles? I delve into Westminster constitutional history (the Canadian "King-Byng affair" of 1926) in my @livemint column.

https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/HCMCDNYzQve05lRZnDU46N/Will-the-Karnataka-problem-establish-clear-principles.html

Nightlights luminosity data reveal the immensity of the job creation problem in India, which is still stuck in a Lewis style dualistic structure, I argue in my latest Mint column.

https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/2ddrBQZHVl5xQfTUjToDSP/The-immensity-of-the-job-creation-problem-in-India.html

My latest Mint column reflects on Friedman-Phelps at half-century.

https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/sUfUF5Qe5KyG63Rci4surJ/How-Milton-Friedman-and-Edmund-Phelps-changed-macroeconomics.html