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  • "Ashoka University's Ali Khan Mahmudabad has moral ambition and courage. Ashoka must show some too," 'The Indian Express', May 25, 2025
  • "Can private universities really help Kerala’s education system?", 'The Indian Express', April 29, 2025
  • "The UGC's Mandate is to Elevate, Not Strangulate", 'The Hindu', February 25, 2025
  • "Importing a toxic work culture into India", 'The Hindu', October 31, 2024
  • "Hema Committee report shows why ambit of social justice must be widened", 'The Indian Express', September 24, 2024
  • "Karnataka jobs quota bill goes against the idea of India", 'The Indian Express', July 26, 2024
  • "The UGC must nudge the universities to excel", 'The Hindu', May 1, 2024
  • "Caged parrots and universities", 'The Indian Express', October 6, 2023
  • "India after 2014: Review of Parakala Prabhakar's 'The Crooked Timber of the New India'", 'The Hindu', June 11, 2023
  • "India's universities are coming apart ....", 'The Indian Express', April 26, 2023
  • "India, democracy and the promised republic", 'The Hindu', August 8, 2022
  • "Driving the Balkanisation of India", 'The Hindu', May 26, 2022
  • "The Restless Pravasi Liberal Must Gaze Inwards and Not at the Mother Country Alone", 'The Wire', April 6, 2022
  • "No Ovation for India's Stand on the Ukraine War", 'The Hindu', March 14, 2022
  • "Barriers to a knowledge society in Kerala", 'The Hindu', December 31, 2021
  • "They lived to tell the tale", 'The Hindu', August 28, 2021
  • "A moral disaster for the west", 'The Hindu', August 19, 2021
  • "Why Kerala Urgently Needs a Roadmap to Ecological Security", with Srikumar Chattopadhyay, 'The Wire Science', May 27, 2021
  • "Maharashtra's Poor COVID Experience Is a Reflection of Identity Politics", 'The Wire', April 27, 2021
  • "Reading the Bihar Verdict", 'The Hindu', November 20, 2020
  • "Seeing dystopia in India's democracy", 'The Hindu', September 24, 2020
  • "Living with the earth in Kerala", 'The Hindu', August 26, 2020
  • "To Rebuild the Economy, India Needs to Be Atmanirbhar in Ideas", 'The Wire', May 30, 2020
  • "Not by Ideology Alone", 'The Indian Express', February 21, 2020
  • "The public school possibility", 'The Hindu', February 6, 2020
  • 'Policing, a Delhi election issue", 'The Hindu', January 22, 2020
  • "The abiding power of protest", 'The Hindu', January 2, 2020
  • "Disrupting the Gender-Blind Political Discourse in India", 'The Hindu', December 27, 2019
  • "Being mindful of diversity", 'The Hindu', September 20, 2019
  • "Red herrings in the debate on Kashmir", 'The Wire', August 24, 2019
  • "Language discrimination", 'The Hindu', June 5, 2019
  • "The point of having democracy", 'The Hindu', March 26, 2019
  • "Governing India's many spaces", 'The Hindu', February 8, 2019
  • "Ascent to the temple of democracy", 'The Hindu', December 11, 2018
  • "An 'anti-national' regulation", 'The Hindu', October 25, 2018
  • "Reading between the rankings", 'The Hindu', October 13, 2018
  • "Manufacturing nationalism", 'The Hindu', September 25, 2018
  • "A redemptive moment", 'The Hindu', July 17, 2018
  • "Sexual equality affirmed", 'The Hindu', September 7, 2018
  • "A list of questionable eminence", 'The Hindu', July 13, 2018
  • "The classroom as the instructor's castle", 'The Hindu', May 22, 2018
  • “A stoppable juggernaut”, ‘The Hindu’, March 18, 2018
  • "Indian democracy and its contradictions: review of ‘The Raisina Model’ by Meghnad Desai", 'The Open Magazine’, February 2, 2018
  • “Life in a deadly democracy”, ‘The Hindu’, February 26, 2018
  • "The Federal Manouvre", 'The Hindu', September 16, 2017
  • "Endgame for Section 377?", 'The Hindu', August 25, 2017
  • "Our collective cross to bear", 'The Hindu', August 11, 2017
  • "The terrorisms we overlook", 'The Hindu', July 5, 2017
  • "At home in India", 'The Hindu', April 11, 2017
  • "Missing the Spirit for the Body", 'The Hindu', March 17, 2017
  • "Towards the next Nava Keralam", 'The Hindu', November 2, 2016
  • "The crisis of Indian democracy", 'The Hindu', July 27, 2016
  • "Crafting the joyless university," 'The Hindu', June 19, 2016
  • "The tried and the tested for Kerala", 'The Indian Express', March 29, 2016
  • "They dare to hate this minority", 'The Hindu', March 11, 2016
  • "Ode to the happy country", 'The Hindu', November 12, 2015
  • "Modi's unrealistic American dreams", 'The Hindu', September 22, 2015
  • "Swaraj and substance in the academy", 'The Hindu', August 5, 2015
  • "We don't want no education ...", 'The Hindu', June 27, 2015
  • “Radically reforming higher education”, ‘The Hindu’, June 2, 2014
  • "The Case Against Privatisation of Education", 'The Hindu', May 10, 2014
  • 'Market Reforms, Democracy and Growth', commisioned by the Centre for the Development of Entrepreneurship, Johannesburg
  • "Don't Tie Down the India of Ideas", 'The Hindu', February 12, 2012
  • "A House for the Social Sciences: Review of the Report of the Committee to Review Functioning of the ICSSR", 'Economic and Political Weekly', August 13, 2011
  • "Pay and autonomy at the IITs", 'Mint', 30 September, 2009
  • "Focus on quantity at the cost of quality", by invitation, 'Mint', 9 March 2009
  • "The MBA after the ABM", 'Mint', 9 November, 2008
  • "Higher education in India: Will 'six percent' do it?", 'Economic and Political Weekly', September 29, 2007
  • “Social science research in India: Concerns and problems”, by invitation, ‘Economic and Political Weekly’, February 2007
  • “Ensuring equity with excellence”, by invitation, ‘Seminar’, September 2006
  • “Higher education needs a longer view”, ‘Economic and Political Weekly’, August 12, 2006
  • "The IIMs and us", in Malayalam, by invitation, 'The Mathrubhumi Weekly', April 4, 2004
  • "Abetting corruption", 'The Hindu', September, 2003
  • "Nations and persons", 'The Hindu', July 4, 2003
  • "Rivers and reason", 'The Hindu', August 14, 1999
  • 'Amartya Sen’s Contribution to Economics', Talk on All India Radio Kozhikode, November 7, 1998
  • "Sen and the art of intellectual maintenance", 'The Hindu', November 7, 1998
  • "Are Colonials Cousins?", `Economic and Political Weekly’, May 2, 1998
  • "Remember Da Gama? ", 'The Hindu Sunday Magazine', May 24, 1998
  • "The invention of India", 'The Hindu', July 23, 1997
  • "A voyage revisited", 'The Hindu Sunday Magazine', January 21, 1996

Book traversal links for General

  • ❮ "Budget 1991: Through a long tunnel, slowly", 'Times of India', Bangalore, August 4, 1991
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