Select Publications 

• Teaching Medical Anthropology in India, Anthropology News, March, 2007

• ‘The everyday life in a slum in Delhi: The Children’s view’, IN Deepak Behera ed. Childhoods in South Asia , 2006, Pearson, Longman: Delhi

• Between the visible and invisible: Gender relations in an Indian Tribe IN Janet Huber Lowry and Kamal K.Mishra Social Science Researches on Indian Women: Recent Empirical Studies, 2006, Rawat Publications : Jaipur

• With M, Arora, M. Stigler et al ‘Indian Youth Speak about Tobacco: Results of Focus Group Discussions among school students in Delhi’. Health Education and Behavior, 35, 2005

• Local Perceptions of Famine: Study of a village in Orissa, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XL(8): 572-578, 2005

• Kado Bikri: Informal Process of Land Transfer among the Kutia Kandhas, In George Peffer and Deepak Behera (ed.) Contemporary Society: Tribal Studies Series Vol. 6 Concept Publishing House: New Delhi 2005

• With Shifalika Goenka and K.S.Reddy, ‘Diabetes in Developing countries: A Real world View’, Heart Beat, January 2003

•  ‘The Study of the Impoverishment Process: The Great Bengal Famine of 1943’. Indian Historical Review, January 2000

Forthcoming

• Studying cultural synthesis: Evidence from a boarder village in Orissa, in N.K.Das ed. Multiculturalism, syncretism Vol. II, New Delhi, Jaipur: Rawat Publications

• ‘Insiders and Outsiders: Studying ‘tribal villages’ In Georg Pfeffer and Deepak Behera (eds.) Contemporary Society: Tribal Studies series Vol. 8 Concept Publishing House: New Delhi

• Made in China: Women Factory workers in a Global Workplace, Pun Ngai, 2005, Book Review Journal of Intercultural Studies, March 2008 

Courses Taught

• Industrial sociology

• Population and Society

• Sociological Theories

Visiting Faculty

Department of Social Work, Sambalpur University, Orissa

Research Programmes/Projects   

Control and prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in Developing Countries (2000-2003), School based Tobacco related interventions (2003-2004), Television and Childhood (2005-06), Alternative Healing: Yoga (2005 onwards), Lay discourse on heart diseases (2004 onwards)

Award                                                                                   

Recipient of the M.N.Srinivas Memorial Prize for the paper ‘Local Perceptions of famine: Study of a village in Orissa’, EPW, February 2005