Narayana A
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Local Governance
- Land Governance
- E‑Governance
- Election Studies
- Karnataka Politics
Biography
Narayana has over two decades of experience in the media, academics and consultancy. With a master’s in economics, he started his career as a journalist with the Bangalore-based English daily, Deccan Herald, and switched to academics after obtaining his doctorate from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, United Kingdom, with the Ford International Fellowship. Worked as Associate Professor at the School of Media Studies, Manipal University, Manipal and as Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, Bangalore. He was the Karnataka State Coordinator for the World Bank’s Land Governance Assessment Framework and a consultant for the Karnataka Government’s High-Power Committee on Restructuring the Governance of Bangalore City. He was also a member on the Election Commission of India’s technical committee on electoral literacy. Writes a regularly in Kannada and English newspapers. At Azim Premji University, he teaches courses on governance.
Narayana teaches Political Philosophy and Indian Politics, Law and Governance and Governance Challenges in India.
Courses
Understanding State Institutions and Governance
Manage organisations to align with public policy goals, strengthen collaboration with state institutions and contribute effectively to development
Rural Governance in India
Aims to provide students with a board understanding of rural governance in India
The District As A Development Unit of The State: An Exploration
This course tries to outline the roles and structure of the District to the Village/ Ward panchayats, from Municipal Corporations to Nagar Panchayats, and open up the classroom to the reality of how administration, programmes, politics and issues play out with each other, and what are the ways and manner in which groups, and individuals impact, shape and influence lives.
Pedagogy and Content Knowledge of History and Political Science
This course will deal with the pedagogy of Social Studies and the contribution of two academic disciplines, History and Political Science, respectively, to it at various stages of the curriculum, with a focus at lower elementary, upper elementary and high school levels.
State and Governance in India
Analyse the role of the state in shaping development policy
Professional Development Courses
Imagining Sustainable Futures for Urban Policy and Governance in India
Three-day workshop is intended for professionals, practitioners, and researchers working in the broad domains of urban policy, governance, sustainable urban development, and urban planning and design.
Reports
Understanding Post-Covid-19 Governance Challenges in India
Narayana A (2022)
Publications and Writings
Articles, Journal Chapters, Conference Papers
- Narayana A (2020) The Ebb and Flow of Karnataka Politics, the Hindu, June 21
- Narayana A and Pranab R. Choudhury (2020) What Will Liberalized Land Market in Karnataka Mean? Deccan Herald, June 2020
- Narayana A and Pranab R Choudhury (2020) Introduction in Land in India: Issues and Debates, Report, Centre for Land Governance
- Narayana A (2019) Understanding Land in the time of Farmers’ Suicide, The Wire.
- Narayana A (2018) Karnataka Election-2018 How BJP Won, The Indian Express.
- Narayana A (2018) Will Karnataka’s Real, Devout Hindus Please Stand Up, The Caravan.
- Narayana A (2017) The Countdown, Caravan, Volume‑9, Issue‑6.
- Narayana A (2017) Karnataka Model: A New Idiom for an Old Agenda, The Hindu, May 13
- A, Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Vikas Kumar (2011), Lokpal Bill, ‘Lessons from theExperience of Karnataka Lokayukta’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLVII, No 1
- Narayana A (2012), Lokpal Bill, ‘Lessons from the Experience of Karnataka Lokayukta’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLVII, No 1 (along with Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Vikas Kumar).
- Op-eds in Deccan Herald, Times of India, Caravan and in various Kannada publications.
Presentations at the Conference
- Narayana A, Suraj Jacob and Ashok Sircar (2016), Institutional Design and Quality of Land Administration in Indian States, paper presented at International Conference on Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkatta, January 17.
- Narayana A and Nafis Hassan (2014) Bureaucracy in the era of E‑Governance (2014): Observations from Karnataka’, paper presented at the International Conference on Technology, Accountability and Democracy in South Asia and Beyond organized by Stanford University and the University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India.
- (2013) Governance Reforms and Welfare — A study of Karnataka Guarantee of Services to Citizens Act, paper presented at Second Azim Premji University International Conference on Law, Governance and Development: Right to Welfare, Work, Food and Education, Bangalore (along with Nafis Hasan).
On-going Projects
- World Bank Land Governance Assessment Project in Karnataka, State Coordinator.
- An ethnographic study of the implementation of the Right to Guarantee of Service to Citizens Acts in India (Co-ordinator), Law, Governance and Development Initiative, Azim Premji University, Bangalore.
- A study of the functioning of the Lokayuktas (anti-corruption ombudsman) in India, Law,Governance and Development Initiative, Azim Premji University, Bangalore.