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

I speak to TVA News (Quebec) on the Canadian National Security Advisor's Parliamentary Committee Testimony on the Trudeau India visit debacle.

http://www.journaldequebec.com/2018/04/16/daniel-jean-nie-etre-derriere-une-theorie-du-complot

In an "In the Margins" special in Mint, Praveen Chakravarty and I ask: "Would Chandrababu Naidu have quit NDA had there been no GST?"

https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/f6udY1ew3FhFDbDQ3vapvK/Would-Chandrababu-Naidu-have-quit-NDA-had-there-been-no-GST.html

In this conversation, Praveen Chakravarty and I are in conversation with Reuben Abraham, CEO of IDFC Institute, on our research on regional economic divergence in India and the need for a new understanding of federalism. [video]

https://youtu.be/7lvdX3rJWeg

Also, here is a video capture of the live broadcast of my talk at Brown recently on the same subject. Please note that there is a fair amount of static in the sound.

https://brown.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=43cb3243-9368-436d-a922-a87f01094800