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Books:
Chapter titled ‘India-Bangladesh Relations'

The book 'Indian Foreign Policy 2008-2010' discusses Indian forein relations with various countries of the world. The chapter 'India-Bangladesh Relations' attempts to chronicle the see-saw relationship that India shares with its eastern neighbour. It encompasses the recent military, economic and political developments between the two countries in context of the ethno-religious tensions existing in the region.

Publisher: Indian Foreign Palicy, edited by Jabin Jacob, to be published by MacMillan Books(forthcoming)

Chapter titled ‘Bangladesh: The Clampdown'
The book 'Armed Conflicts and Peace Processes in South Asia 2009' aims at mapping the armed conflicts that occurred in the South Asia region in year 2009. Along with providing factual analyses of these conflicts, it also seeks to provide the historical context and geo-political & geo-strategic implications to the conflicts. The chapter 'Violence in Bangladesh' covers the military-sponsored violence, extrajudicial killings, terrorist activities and religion-motivated violence that occurred in Bangladesh in 2009.
Publisher: Armed Conflicts and Peace Processes in South Asia 2009, edited by P R Chari and D Suba Chandran, New Delhi: Routledge Books (2010)

Papers:

Bangladesh: The BDR Mutiny
An analysis of the events that preceded and followed the Bangladesh Rifles Mutiny in Dhaka during March 2009. The paper analyses the immediate implications and possible reasons of the mutiny.
Publisher: Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, Special Report #70 (April 2009)

Bangladesh in 2009: Challenges After Elections
This issue brief focuses on the challenges that the newly-elected Bangladesh government faces, attempting to impress the urgency of some of the critical problems that the country faces. It also attempts at looking any possible solutions to these problems.
Publisher: Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, Issue Brief 90 (January, 2008)

Bangladesh: Forthcoming Elections
This issue brief provides an analysis of upcoming parliamentary elections in Bangladesh. It surveys the electoral reforms brought into the elections in 2008 and goes on to analyze the political situation of key players in Bangladesh elections.
Publisher: Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, Issue Brief 86 (December, 2008)

Creating a Paradigm Shift in Educational Systems in India
This research paper incorporates the ideas of user-led innovation, mass creativity and professional amateurs (pro-ams) to create a democratic learning process that allows for a greater number of choices and information to create a new structural dynamics for education systems specifically designed to nurture creativity and individuality of students.
Publisher: Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, Vol 2, Issue 3, pp.83-92, Aug, ‘08

Projects:

Crime and National Security (August, 2008 - January 2009)
The project attempts at looking at the changing nature of crime in India and the trends of its occurrence in context of National Security. It attempts at identifying and understanding the challenges that government faces and accordingly provide government with appropriate policy advice.
Sponsor: National Commission on Center-State Relations, Government of India

Changing role of Paramilitary Forces in India (October, 2009 - )
The Project attempts to look at the identity and role of the Central Paramilitary Forces (CPF) within the new paradigm of post-cold war global security issues. Statistically, in the past ten years, the troop sizes and annual budgets of every CPF in India has gone up with the singular exception of National Security Guard. Strategically the CPFs which had a predefined role to play are now rapidly altering their scope of operation by providing a new stop-gap instrument for violence control. This development not only requires the rethinking the national security policy, but also its socio- political implications.
Sponsor: Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi

Other City (Nov, 2007- June, 2008) (See sample 1, 2)
Conceptualization and design of a complete newspaper page that incorporates extensive reporting on the city of Ahmedabad, celebrating its great families, its unrivalled eccentrics, its untold collectors, its popular culture, its youth, its roads, its religions and its food. Published in DNA Sunday edition from November 2007 to June 2008. Sponsor: Daily News and Analysis, Ahmedabad

Articles:

Security, Political and Foreign Policy Analysis:

As the smoke clears (9 March 2009, The Indian Express)
Friends, Pointing east (11 Feb 2009, The Indian Express)
India-Bangladesh Relations: Are the Carrots Working? (12 August 2008, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies)
Indo-Bangladesh Relations: A Golden Opportunity Missed? (6 August 2008, IPCS)
Terrorism and the Internet: Security Agencies Barking up the Wrong Tree (4 September 2008, IPCS)
Cyber Terrorism: Threat Exaggerated? (28 August 2008, IPCS)
Bangladeshi Politics: Rewind the Last Two Years (9 October 2008, IPCS)
The South Ossetian War: Lessons for the Future (10 September 2008, Mainstream Weekly)
Bangladesh: The Great Experiment Fails (1 January 2009, Epilogue, Vol 3, Issue 1)


Political, Security and Economic news reports
'Disillusioned Congress vote bank helped BJP:Survey' (27 Dec 2007, DNA Ahmedabad/Mumbai)
Muslims, Dalits and Tribals, traditional Congress vote banks in Gujarat, had altered their loyalties in state election
2007.

'As inflation overtakes bank returns, high costs erode earnings' (15 May 2008, DNA Ahmedabad/Mumbai)
Breaking the story pointing out that inflation have increased more than bank interest rates.

'Rs20K cr worth fake notes are choking our economy' (29 April 2008, DNA Ahmedabad)
Revealing DFS Chandigarh's belief that hostile foreign governments are trying to destabalise India by pumping in fake currency.

'Piracy threat rings alarm for the navy' (16 June 2008, DNA Ahmedabad)
Breaking the story revealing that naval intelligence believes that Let, HuJI, Al Qaeda are in collaboration with sea
pirates of South east Asian countries in Arabian Sea.

'Ahmedabad airport not so safe for VIPs' (21 Jan 2008, DNA Ahmedabad)
An investigative story showing the inefficiency of airport security in Gujarat.

Scientific news reports
'Tsunami terror lurks along Gujarat's coast' (10 Jan 2008, DNA Ahmedabad/Mumbai)
Revealing seismic study showing the probability of an 8.5 Richter or 10 m tsunami originating from the Makran
Coast.

'Moon Mission Package' (6 Jan 2008, DNA Ahmedabad)
First detailed news report on the Indian Moon Mission Chandrayaan-I in mainstream media.

Feature Pages
'A Graphic Recollection' (2 Dec 2007, DNA Ahmedabad)
A feature piece on cult of comics and graphic novels among adults and kids of Ahmedabad.

'Seeking Beyond the Horizon' (11 May 2008, DNA Ahmedabad)
A feature piece on travel.