Updates
Conference notes, media appearances, professional updates, and dispatches from the field.
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Understanding Africa’s Broken Climate Finance System: How the Missing Layers in the Capital Stack are Holding the Market Back
Co-authored this piece on Next Billion to unpack climate finance ecosystem in Africa and its implications on financing climate action.. read it here.
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Sankalp Bharat 2025
Last Friday, I moderated the opening plenary of the Sankalp Bharat 2025 to explore the next phase of transformation of Indian agriculture. We didn’t just discuss problems but mapped…
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Transforming Agriculture in the Global South – The South-South Agriculture Alliance
I strongly believe that innovative AgTechs can address some of the most pressing problems of the smallholder farmers and small producers. India has been…
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A Visit to Kigali Genocide Memorial
As I walked out of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, after a harrowing half-hour inside, there was only one thought in my mind: How could…
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Lighting Up Young Minds
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. -Agatha Christie Indeed, a…
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Bihar: A Glorious Past and An Uncertain Future
As I walked past a small hut the chorus of ‘ek duni do.. do duni char.. caught my attention. The sound was coming from…
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Killer in the kitchen – Household Air Pollution Problem
Several news articles highlighted the deteriorating air quality in Delhi and its impact on health. Many of my friends and colleagues started contemplating options…
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Gathering Past in Muzaffarpur
I was searching for the small magazine shop near Shyam Talkies but could not find any trace of that shop. This shop had been…
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Calling 911
A few weeks ago I had my maiden US Trip, thanks to some professional requirement and generosity of my supervisor (need to mention this..…
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We are in news..
Since last one year we have been working on it, right from developing concept paper to fine tuning the methodology. The District Level Economic…
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Stink of Money
We looked from the car window to find ‘Raju Ka Hotel’ – no signboards, nothing, no sign of a decent eating joint on either…
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Chennai 3.0
Chennai celebrates its 369th birthday. Though my professional commitments and other constraints deprived me from participating in the celebrations, I did get a chance…
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Its Party Time!
Today, we are going to have a gala party from the PFM cell. This is the official welcome party from the IIFM to the…
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Karnataka Diary
The last couple of days have been very hectic for us. Getting up in the morning at 7 o’clock to get ready for the…