That language you hear in the public address system of Madhubani train station is Maithili, a dialect of… Read more Thinking about federalism at a train station

Should have been one of my first posts. Where are my manners? I was blessed to have a professional and… Read more The northern India team

  The media and pundits discussing Indian politics have a habit of clubbing together political preferences of ethnicities in one… Read more Perils of an easy narrative

Having been done with the ‘low’ ethnic violence case in West Bengal’s Alipurduars district, the survey experiments now takes me… Read more On the road again

Meet Jayanta Tarafder. He was the team leader in Bengal part of the survey experiments. And he’s damn good at… Read more Hire this man!

View this post on Instagram First phase of fieldwork is over. We had an excellent team of enumerators. It was… Read more On the road

View this post on Instagram Catch 'em where you can!: one of our respondents, the Toto driver (for the uninitiated:… Read more Catch ’em where you can!

View this post on Instagram One of the most challenging and sometimes frustrating aspect of running survey experiments is actually… Read more Finding the way

View this post on Instagram Pleasant surprises: after a long day walking around 6 miles in 99% humidity, the fish… Read more When you are famished…

View this post on Instagram One of the unexpected pleasures of fieldwork. We bumped into this majestic family of wild… Read more A touch of the wild!