Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
Promoting research, teaching and public engagement on key issues of modern South Asia in an interdisciplinary framework and in a historically and culturally grounded manner.
Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
Promoting research, teaching and public engagement on key issues of modern South Asia in an interdisciplinary framework and in a historically and culturally grounded manner.
In The News
Aiyar writes: "To be clear, in interrogating efficiency, and questioning its dominance as the core value proposition of the State, I am not making the case that efficiency is undesirable. Indeed, entrenched waste, corruption and incompetence of the State is visible to citizens at every turn."
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The Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney: Imbalance of power
Varshney writes: "Trump-Modi summit was, of course, not without benefits for India, but benefits for US are greater."
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Financial Times
Arvind Subramanian: India, the next economic superpower?
Arvind Subramanian gives assessment of India's economic slowdown in podcast with FT's Martin Wolf
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India Today
Yamini Aiyar: Reframing the Cash Transfer Debate
Aiyar writes on Twitter/X: "Reframing the cash transfer debate in India today New Year issue. I am no fan but to deride investments in welfare as "freebies" & "revadis" is just wrong. The real prob is this new fad distracts frm structural challenges in the econ while feeding the authoritarian beast"
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Faculty Spotlight
The Perils and Promises of Unequal Democracy: Insights from the Sociology of India
January 18, 2024
News from Watson
Hindu Nationalism and the New Jim Crow
Ashutosh Varshney co-authored a paper for the Journal of Democracy titled, "Hindu Nationalism and the New Jim Crow."
July 17, 2023
News from Watson
The Rich Have Peers, the Poor Have Patrons: Engaging the State in a South Indian City
Patrick Heller and Ashutosh Varshney recently co-authored a paper published in the American Journal of Sociology titled "The Rich Have Peers, the Poor Have Patrons: Engaging the State in a South Indian City."
Fellows Spotlight
Economics Graduate Student, Saxena Affiliate and PSTC Trainee Aarushi Kalra pictured with Rema Hanna, Harvard Kennedy School, and Andrew Weiss of Weiss Asset Management, wins best paper award for NEUDC 2024 at Northeastern University in Boston. Her paper is entitled " Hate in the Time of Algorithms: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Online Behavior"
Saxena on Trending Globally
Trending Globally is a regular podcast featuring insight on today's critical global challenges. With Brown University scholars, practitioners, and students, the discussions bridge research, politics, and policy.