Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia

Kalaiyarasan is an Associate Professor of Development Studies at the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) and a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London. He was previously with the Planning Commission (NITI Aayog) of India, Institute of Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), Delhi, He was also a Visiting Assistant Professor and Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs (WIIPA), Brown University, a research affiliate at the South Asia Institute, Harvard University, and Visiting Fellow at IIT-Bombay. His works among others include The Dravidian Model: Interpreting Political Economy of Tamil Nadu, which he co-authored, was published by the Cambridge University Press. His research focuses on the political economy of development and structural inequalities in the Global South.