Subject(s): Public health in India, healthcare delivery in rural Rajasthan, strained mercy, revealed preference for open defecation -- Education : Can information campaigns raise awareness and local participation in primary education, dose school choice help rural children from disadvantaged sections, para teachers in India, Dalit or tribal child in Indian schools -- Food security : Democracy and right to food, rethinking ICDS, mid-day meals, revival of public distribution system -- Employment guarantee : Does India's employment guarantee scheme guarantee employment, heterogeneous pro-poor targeting in national rural employment guarantee scheme, women workers and perceptions of national rural employment guarantee act, MGNREGA works and their impacts -- Social security pensions and cash transfers : Social security pension in India, policy to practice, pro-poor maternity benefit schemes and rural women, case for reframing the cash transfer debate in India -- Inequality and social exclusion : Inequality on booming Indian economy, caste discrimination and food security programs, mapping the adverse consequences of sex selection and gender imbalance in India and China, Adivasis, Naxalites and Indian democracy