Selected Writings


  • What Lies Behind the Doubling of Gas Prices? Sanhati Journal, July 2013, Read Here
  • Cowboy Capitalism: Curious Case of Reliance KG Basin Gas Business. Sanhati Journal , 02, 2013, Read Here
  • The Neoclassical Apology for Monopoly Capital. Monthly Review , 64, 06, 2012, Read Here
  • Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold? Infochange News & Features , August 2012, Read Here
  • The Political Economy of Corporations: Behind the Veil of 'Corporate Efficiency'. Aspects of India's Economy , 52, June 2012, Read Here
  • What's really at Stake in the Vodafone Tax Case? Infochange News & Features , May 2012, Read Here
  • Big Business and Indian Maoists (with Manali Chakrabarti). Alternative Economic Survey , India 2011, Alternative Survey Group, Indian Political Eco. Assn. New Delhi: Yuvasamvad Prakashan, 127-144. Read Here
  • Notes from Small Industry Clusters: Making sense of knowledge and barriers to innovation (with Manali Chakrabarti). AI & Society , 26, 4, 2011, 393-415. Read Here
  • Corporate Personhood: Rights without responsibilities. Infochange News & Features , December 2011, Read Here
  • Is NGO Development Assistance Mistargeted? An Epistomological Approach (with Nimruji Jammulamadaka). Critical Review , 22, 2, 2010, 117 - 128. Read Here
  • Contract Workers at IITK: A Response to Commonly Held Misconceptions. Sanhati Journal , 7, May 2010, Read Here
  • Aarthik Vraddhi ka Rahasya (with Manali Chakrabarti), Vaikalpik Aarthik Varshiki , Bharat, KN Kabra, V Upadyay & Dhruv Narayan (eds.). Delhi: Daanish Books, 23-30, 2010. Read Here
  • Labour in Global Value Chains: A Study of the Leather and Footwear Manufacturing Cluster of Kanpur (with Manali Chakrabarti). Aspects of India's Economy , 47, 2009, 36-94, Read Here
  • Satyam and the Truth about CSR. InfoChange News & Features , March 2009, Read Here
  • Debating the Ideology of Globalization (with Manali Chakrabarti). InfoChange News & Features , November 2008, Read Here
  • Contradictions of Employee Involvement, Information Sharing, and Expectations: A Case Study of an Indian Worker Cooperative (with George Mathew Kandathil). Economic and Industrial Democracy , 28, 1, 2007, 145-179. Read Here
  • Labour Standards and Globalisation (with Manali Chakrabarti). Indian Journal of Labour Economics , 50, 1, 2007. Read Here
  • Why are we Against the Reservations? eSocialSciences , 2006, Read Here
  • Approaching Human Phenomena: A Methodological Note. Bharatiya Samajik Chintan , IV, 4, 2006, 236 - 243. Read Here
  • Industrial Clustering and Cooperation: The Kanpur Saddlery Cluster (with Mridula Dwivedi). Indian Industrial Clusters , Keshab Das (ed.), 123-142. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005. Read Here
  • Contradictions of Democracy in a Workers' Co-operative (with Manali Chakrabarti). Organisation Studies , 25, 2, 2004, 183-208 Read Here
  • Nature of Trust in Small Firm Clusters (with Mridula Dwivedi & KK Saxena). International Journal of Organisation Analysis , 11, 2, 2003, 93-104. Read Here
  • Workers' Struggles in the Times of Globalisation: A Critique of Trade Unions in Historical Perspective (with Manali Chakrabarti). Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2003, 46, 4, 667-684. Read Here
  • Power and Politics in Grievance Resolution: Managing Meaning of Due Process in an Organisation (with Deepti Bhatnagar). Human Relations, 52, 1999, 349-382. Read Here