Vikas Kumar
Areas of Interest & Expertise
Political Economy of Statistics, Law and Economics, Economics of Religion, Indian History
Biography
Vikas Kumar is a faculty with the School of Development.
Vikas studied metallurgy at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (B Tech 2001) and economics at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai (Ph.D., 2010) and the University of Hamburg (Doctoral fellow, 2007-08). He worked with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, New Delhi and Trichy and later National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, where he taught Law, Economics, and Religion and Introduction to Game Theory, before joining Azim Premji University. His research explores the interfaces between politics and statistics, economics and religion, and the Kauṭiliya Arthaśāstra and other pre-modern texts
Publications and Writings
Book
Articles
- Vikas Kumar. “Usability of India’s Government Statistics” Statistical Journal of the IAOS. 1st January,2021.
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “Manipur’s Population Conundrum” Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 55 Iss. 48 (2020) p. 48 — 56.
- Vikas Kumar. “Census laws and the quality of census data: The limits of punitive legislation” Statistical Journal of the IAOS Vol. 36 Iss. 4 (2020) p. 1143 — 1160.
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “Delays in the release of India’s census data” Statistical Journal of the IAOS Vol. 36 Iss. 1 (2020) p. 217 — 230.
- Vikas Kumar. “Understanding Myanmar’s Conservative Transition” Contemporary South Asia Vol. 26 Iss. 3 (2018) p. 350 — 355.
- Vikas Kumar. “Recovering/Uncovering the “Indian” in Indian Diplomacy: An “ancient” tadka for a contemporary curry?” Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs Vol. 5 Iss. 2 (2018) p. 197 — 215.
- Vikas Kumar and Bibudhendra Narayan Patnaik. “Situating Sarala Das’s Mahabharata in the Story Space that is India” Indian Literature (forthcoming) (2018).
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “A Cartographic Mess: How much is Nagaland’s area?” Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 52 Iss. 29 (2017) p. 18 — 21.
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “Cartographic conflicts within a union: Finding land for Nagaland in India” Political Geography Vol. 61 Iss. C (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “Sectarianism and International Relations: Shia Iran in a Muslim World” Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs Vol. 3 Iss. 3 (2016) p. 359 — 373.
- Vikas Kumar. “Economics, an Uncertain Glory: A Comment on “What Is Wrong with the West’s Economies?” by Edmund Phelps” Homo Oeconomicus Vol. 33 Iss. 4 (2016) p. 321 — 332.
- Vikas Kumar. “Searching for Pacific climate change solutions” New Zealand International Review, 40:1, pp. 18 – 21 (2015).
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “Infirmities in NSSO Data for Nagaland” Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 49 Iss. 12 (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “A model of state secularism” Quality & Quantity Vol. 48 Iss. 4 (2014).
- Ankush Agarwal and Vikas Kumar. “Nagaland’s Demographic Somersault” Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 48 Iss. 39 (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “A Bayesian model of religious conversion” Quality & Quantity Vol. 47 Iss. 2 (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “A model of secularism in the state of nature” Quality and Quantity Vol. 47 Iss. 2 (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “A Comment on Nentjes’ On the Right to Repeat Oneself” Homo Oeconomicus Vol. 29 Iss. 4 (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “Does Monotheism Cause Conflict?” Homo Oeconomicus Vol. 29 Iss. 1 (2012).
- Vikas Kumar. “Cartels in the Kautiliya Arthasastra” Czech Economic Review Vol. 6 Iss. 1 (2012).
- Narayana A., Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Vikas Kumar. “Lokpal Bill: Lessons from the Karnataka Lokayukta’s Performance” Economic & Political Weekly Vol. XLVII Iss. 1 (2012).
- Vikas Kumar. “Scheming Lovers and their Secrets: Strategy-making in the Kamasutra” Homo Oeconomicus Vol. 28 Iss. 4 (2011).
- Vikas Kumar. “Negotiating Constitutions for Political Unions” International Review of Law and Economics Vol. 31 Iss. 1 (2011).
- Vikas Kumar. “Strategy in the Kautiliya Arthasastra” Homo Oeconomicus Vol. 27 Iss. 3 (2010).
- Kunal Ghosh and Vikas Kumar. “Separatism in North East India: Role of Religion, Language and Script” 1New DelhiSeparatism in North East India: Role of Religion, Language and Script (2008).
- Kunal Ghosh and Vikas Kumar. “Lingua franca and Proposed Partition of Manipur” Bharatiya Samajik Chintan Vol. VI Iss. 2 (2007).
- Vikas Kumar. “Is Urdu a Foreign Language?” Mainstream Vol. XLIV Iss. 21 (2006).
- Vikas Kumar. “My biases: A note on my articles in Mainstream (2003−05)” (2006).
Contributions to Books
- Vikas Kumar and Bibudhendra Narayan Patnaik. “Sarala Mahabharata: On reading a medieval text in the 21st Century” Proceedings of Sarala Bishwa-Bhasa Sammilani (2020).
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “Community, Numbers, and Politics in Nagaland” 1KohimaDemocracy in Nagaland: Tribes, Traditions, Tensions (2018) p. 57 — 84.
- Babu P. G., Vikas Kumar and Poonam Mehra. “Prosecuting Corruption in India: Evidence from Karnataka” New DelhiIndia Development Report 2012 – 13 (2012).
- Vikas Kumar. “A Correlation Between Stress Rupture Test Results and Normalized Oxide Scale Thickness for Reheater Tubes of 210 MW Fossil Boilers” PennsylvaniaCreep & Fracture in High Temperature Components: Design & Life Assessment Issues (2005).
Working/Occasional Papers
- PG Babu, Vikas Kumar and Poonam Singh. “Employment and Covid-19: Trends and Issues in Tamil Nadu” Covid-19 Series, MIDS Occasional Policy Paper Vol. 11 (2020).
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “Anomalies in Manipur’s Census, 1991 – 2011” Azim Premji Working Paper Series Vol. 16 (2020).
- Vikas Kumar. “The Limitations of India’s Census Legislation” Azim Premji University Working Paper Series Vol. No. 13 (2019).
- Vikas Kumar. “Naga media, the elections and ‘solutions’” The Hoot (2018).
- Vikas Kumar. “Role of advertising in the Nagaland polls” The Hoot (2018).
- Vikas Kumar. “Waging identity wars in the Nagaland press” The Hoot (2018).
- Vikas Kumar. “Covering NCRB data: how newspapers fared” The Hoot (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “Background Paper for IGIDR Symposium on “Future of India”” IGIDR PP Series PP-074 (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “How the Pew report on Modi was covered” The Hoot (2017).
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “NSSO Surveys along India’s Periphery: Data Quality and its Implications” Azim Premji University Working Paper Series Vol. No. 9 (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “Demonetisation in numbers — how statistics were used” The Hoot (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “India Must do More to Fully Leverage its Soft Power Potential” Future Directions International (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “India’s Gilgit-Baltistan Problem – Part Two: What Can New Delhi Do?” Future Directions International Associate Paper (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “India’s Gilgit-Baltistan Problem – Part One: Pakistan’s Dependence on Gilgit-Baltistan” Future Directions International Associate Paper (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “Naga papers: lots of comment, little reporting” Nagaland Page (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “Coverage of Naga women’s reservation agitation” Nagaland Page (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “Coverage of Naga women’s reservation agitation” The Hoot (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “Naga papers: lots of comment, little reporting” The Hoot (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “Is There Light at the End of the Baloch Tunnel? Part Two: The View from India” Future Directions International Associate Paper (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “Is There Light at the End of the Baloch Tunnel? Part One: Balochistan and Pakistan” Future Directions International Associate Paper (2017).
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “Notes on Nagaland’s Area” Azim Premji University Working Paper Series Vol. No. 4 (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “The South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation: Part Two – Where to Next?” Future Directions International Associate Paper (2016).
- Vikas Kumar. “The South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation: Part One – The Problems of SAARC” Future Directions International Associate Paper (2016).
- Vikas Kumar. “India-Iran Relations: Part Two – After A “Belated” Re-Start” Future Directions International Associate Paper (2016).
- Vikas Kumar. “India-Iran Relations: Part One – Understanding the “Delay” Factor” Future Directions International Associate Paper (2016).
- Vikas Kumar and Bibudhendra Narayan Patnaik. “Some remarks on the Sarala Mahabharata’s narrative frame and the uniqueness of Sarala’s Sakuni” The Dhauli Review (2016).
- Vikas Kumar. “India and Iran meet in Chabahar – Part Two: Why India?” Future Directions International (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “India and Iran meet in Chabahar – Part One: Reviving Old Ties” Future Directions International (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “The dumbing down of data” The Hoot (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “India and the Maldives: Greater Engagement Needed” Future Directions International (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Dimapur lynching: a travesty of reporting” The Hoot (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “India’s Rudderless Maldives Policy” Future Directions International (2015).
- “Eastern Hurdles to the Modi Government’s Foreign Policy” Future Directions International (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Climate Change and the Future Governance of the Micro-Island States of the Indian Ocean Region” Future Directions International Associate Paper (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “Pakistan’s Fragile Periphery” Future Directions International Associate Paper (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “Understanding China’s North East and South Asia Policies” Future Directions International Associate Paper (2012).
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “An Investigation into Changes in Nagaland’s Population between 1971 and 2011” Institute of Economic Growth Working Paper No. 316 (2012).
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “Nagaland’s Demographic Somersault” Institute of Economic Growth Working Paper No. 311 (2012).
Book Reviews
- Vikas Kumar. “Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China by Arunabh Ghosh” Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs Vol. 8 Iss. 1 (2021) p. forthcoming.
- Vikas Kumar. “In a Pure Muslim Land: Shi‘ism between Pakistan and the Middle East by Simon Wolfgang Fuchs” Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs Vol. 7 Iss. 2 (2020) p. 261 — 264.
- Vikas Kumar. “The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India by David C. Engerman” Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs Vol. 6 Iss. 3 (2019) p. forthcoming.
- Vikas Kumar. “The New Arthashastra: A Security Strategy for India by Gurmeet Kanwal (Ed.)” Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs Vol. 5 Iss. 3 (2018).
- Vikas Kumar. “Covering the North East cauldron” The Hoot (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “The Shias of Pakistan: An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority by Andreas Rieck” Journal of Asian Security & International Affairs (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “Introducing Saaralaa Mahaabhaarata by B.N. Patnaik” Nitidin (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “India and the World – Through the eyes of Indian Diplomats Edited by Surendra Kumar” Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs (2016).
- Vikas Kumar. “Applied Diplomacy: Through the Prism of Mythology by T.P. Sreenivasan” Journal of Asian Security & International Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 3 (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Dynamics among Nations: The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern States by Hilton L. Root” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 49, No. 4 (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Money misused (Review of A. Surya Prakash’s Public Money, Private Agenda)” Sunday Herald (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Catch Up: Developing Countries in the World Economy by Deepak Nayyar” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 49, No. 1 (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “In the boxing ring (Review of Mary Kom’s Unbreakable: An autobiography)” Sunday Herald (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “Economics: A Primer for India by G. Omkarnath” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 254 – 256 (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “Poor numbers: how we are misled by African development statistics and what to do about it, by Morten Jerven” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 252 – 254 (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “Preference, Value, Choice, and Welfare by Daniel M. Hausman” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 1052 – 1054 (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “The Political Economy of Terrorism by Walter Enders and Todd Sandler” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 1054 – 1057 (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “Rational Choice, by I. Gilboa” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 589 – 591 (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “Arthashastra: The Science of Wealth by Thomas R. Trautmann” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 46, No. 4 (2012)
- Vikas Kumar. “Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds by Steven J. Brams” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 811 – 813 (2012).
- Vikas Kumar. “How Many Languages Do We Need? The Economics of Linguistic Diversity by Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 80 – 82 Vol. 46 Iss. 2 (2012).
Popular Press
- Vikas Kumar. “Who Represents Women and Minority Tribes in the Naga Peace Process?” The Wire (2020).
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “Data deficit and India’s peripheral States” The Hindu BusinessLine (2020).
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “डेटा, डेवलपमेंट और डेमोक्रेसी: भारत के सीमावर्ती राज्यों का परिप्रेक्ष्य” Indian in Transition (2020).
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “Data, Development, and Democracy: A View from India’s Periphery” Indian in Transition (2020).
- Vikas Kumar. “Are We Well-Informed About the Country’s Periphery?” The Wire (2020).
- Vikas Kumar. “Why the Delimitation Exercise in Jammu and Kashmir Calls for Caution” The Wire (2020).
- Vikas Kumar. “Modi govt was handed weak data institutions by Congress, but it ruined them further” The Print (2020).
- Vikas Kumar. “Manipur’s Delimitation Puzzle Requires the Widest Possible Consultation” The Sangai Express (2020) p. 4.
- Vikas Kumar. “Manipur’s Delimitation Puzzle Requires the Widest Possible Consultation” The Wire (2020).
- Vikas Kumar. “The Naga Peace Process Is Lost Between Integration and Unification” The Wire (2020).
- Vikas Kumar. “An Ill-timed Delimitation in Nagaland” The Wire (2020).
- Vikas Kumar. “Census 2021 will be delayed. It gives Modi govt time to bring long-pending reforms” The Print (2020).
- Vikas Kumar. “India’s statistical system just doesn’t add up” East Asia Forum (2020).
- Vikas Kumar. “What Ails the Naga Peace Process?” The Wire (2020).
- Vikas Kumar, PG Babu and Poonam Singh. “Joblessness and opportunity in Tamil Nadu” The Hindu (2020).
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “One foot in the city, one in the village: India’s urban poor and their rural bonds” South Asia @ LSE (2020).
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “Counting urban India” East Asia Forum (2020).
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “Politics should not meddle with our official statistics” Mint (2019) p. 15.
- Chandan Gowda and Vikas Kumar. “Why Bengaluru doesn’t need the NRC” Mint (2019).
- Vikas Kumar and Poonam Singh. “The problem of excessive purchasing power in politics” Mint (2019) p. 15.
- Vikas Kumar. “Modi’s last economic moves before the elections” East Asia Forum (2019).
- Chandan Gowda and Vikas Kumar. “Millennials Don’t Have a Taste for Politics” Mint (2019) p. 10.
- Vikas Kumar. “What Geography Can Teach us about how Myanmar Views and Treats its Minorities” South Asia @ LSE (2018).
- Vikas Kumar. “India’s deficient federal redistribution debate” East Asia Forum (2018).
- Vikas Kumar. “BJP strikes roots in Nagaland” Deccan Herald (2018) p. 12.
- Vikas Kumar and Bibudhendra Narayan Patnaik. “Reading the Whole in the Part (Sarala Mahabharata)” margASIA Vol. 6 Iss. 1 (2018) p. 11 — 12.
- Vikas Kumar. “Reassessing Deve Gowda” The Hindu (2018).
- Vikas Kumar. “Northeast leaders campaigned for BJP in Karnataka. Lessons for opposition in 2019?” ThePrint (2018).
- Vikas Kumar. “Simultaneous polls: cost, efficiency arguments bogus” Deccan Herald (2018) p. 11.
- Vikas Kumar. “Swarajya’s slander in Nagaland” The Hoot (2018).
- Vikas Kumar. “Blame it on Rio: BJP’s rise in Nagaland” Deccan Herald (2018) p. 10.
- Vikas Kumar. “Nagaland’s Intractable Problem: Waiting for a solution” Deccan Herald (2018) p. 10.
- Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar. “Data delays are denying India access to good policy” East Asia Forum (2018).
- Vikas Kumar. “Teller of Naga tales” Sunday Herald (2017) p. 7 — 7.
- Vikas Kumar. “Naga Peace: The inclusivity imperative” Deccan Herald (2017) p. 10 — 10.
- Vikas Kumar. “India’s fragile soft power” Deccan Herald (2017).
- Vikas Kumar. “Trump’s outreach to the Saudis and the Sectarian Smokescreen” The Sunday Standard (2017) p. 9.
- Vikas Kumar. “Strengthen ties with Iran” Deccan Herald (2017) p. 10 — 10.
- Vikas Kumar. “Truncated trumpet: elephant, whither goest thou?” The Sunday Standard (2017) p. 9 — 9.
- Vikas Kumar. “Gilgit-Baltistan: Outreach or overreach?” Deccan Herald (2017) p. 10 — 10.
- Vikas Kumar. “Manipur Post Elections: Rough road ahead” Deccan Herald (2017) p. 10 — 10
- Vikas Kumar. “Lack of clear policy leads to silence on the Baloch front” The Sunday Standard Magazine (2017) p. 4 — 4.
- Vikas Kumar. “The fall of BSP after 2007 win” Deccan Herald (2017) p. 10.
- Vikas Kumar. “Our language crisis” Greater Jammu (2017) p. 6 — 6.
- Vikas Kumar. “Our language crisis” Deccan Herald (2017) p. 10 — 10.
- Vikas Kumar and Bibudhendra Narayan Patnaik. “Bhinnadrshti: Sarala Mahabharata, Ek Bandi Pratighatar Gatha (Different view: Sarala Mahabharata, a prison-revenge story)” Paurusha (2017) p. 59 — 63.
- Vikas Kumar. “Why Manipur is imploding” Deccan Herald (2016) p. 10 — 10.
- Vikas Kumar. “The Plight of Balochistan: Light at end of tunnel?” Deccan Herald (2016) p. 10 — 10.
- Vikas Kumar. “Balochistan’s future” Deccan Herald (2016) p. 10 — 10.
- Vikas Kumar. “Allow its natural death: Future of SAARC” Deccan Herald (2016) p. 10 — 10.
- Vikas Kumar. “Naga Agreement: Heading nowhere” Deccan Herald (2016) p. 10 — 10.
- Vikas Kumar and Bibudhendra Narayan Patnaik. “The Sarala Mahabharata as a novel ‘prison-revenge’ story” The Political and Business Daily (2016) p. II — II.
- Vikas Kumar. “Dealing with a hostile China” State Times (2016).
- Vikas Kumar. “India’s NSG Bid: Dealing with a hostile China” Deccan Herald (2016) p. 10 — 10.
- Vikas Kumar. “BJP in North-East: Little elbow room” Deccan Herald (2016) p. 10 — 10.
- Vikas Kumar. “Urban bias aplenty” State Times (2016) p. 6.
- Vikas Kumar. “Agreement on Chabahar Port: Modi visit’s key takeaway” Deccan Herald (2016) p. 10 — 10.
- Vikas Kumar. “Urban bias aplenty” Deccan Herald (2016) p. 10 — 10.
- Vikas Kumar. “Wooing Tribes in Assam: Will it help BJP?” Deccan Herald (2016) p. 10 — 10.
- Vikas Kumar. “Assam-Nagaland: Artificial boundaries and real problems” Morung Express (2016) p. 5 — 5.
- Vikas Kumar. “Assam-Nagaland: Artificial boundaries and real problems” Deccan Herald (2016) p. 13 — 13.
- Vikas Kumar. “Centre’s Mediation in J&K: Dialogue within state vital” Deccan Herald (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Chabahar: India’s gateway to Iran, Af, Central Asia” Deccan Herald (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Overcoming resistance” State Times (2015) p. 6.
- Vikas Kumar. “Recovering Intellectual Autonomy: Overcoming resistance” Deccan Herald (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “The politics of Indian census data” South Asia Masala (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Govt-NSCN peace pact: Another accord of discord?” Deccan Herald (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “The politics of Indian census data” East Asia Forum (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Wrong to penalise Kannada film bodies for dubbing” Deccan Herald (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Communalisation of census, aided by political parties” Deccan Herald (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Overcoming underdevelopment, conflict and data deficits along India’s periphery” East Asia Forum (2015).
- Vikas Kumar and Ankush Agrawal. “Statistical mirage: Bad data to fail governance” Deccan Herald (2015).
- Vikas Kumar and Ankush Agrawal. “Poor numbers misrepresent the development of India’s tribes” East Asia Forum (2015).
- Vikas Kumar and Ankush Agrawal. “Errors in ST data unattended for decades” Deccan Herald (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “The Bangladeshi Bugbear” Bangalore Mirror (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Lynching highlights Nagas, immigrants acrimony” Deccan Herald (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Use of statistics in politics not new in India” Deccan Herald (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Naga peace talks: Need to guard interests of diverse sections” Deccan Herald (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “The Emperor’s mangoes and horses, and his daggers and swords” South Asia Masala (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Dual role of Sumi newspapers” The Hoot (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Can India and the US Go Beyond Symbolism?” Global Asia Forum (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Frontier hope for the doubly marginalised” Deccan Herald (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “A forgotten chapter” Sunday Herald (2015).
- Vikas Kumar. “Reviving Naga peace process” Deccan Herald (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “Doubly anachronistic” South Asia Masala (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “First Nagamese daily completes a year” The Hoot (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “Can BJP expand reach?” Deccan Herald (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “Amid climate crisis and instability, microstates face bleak future” Deccan Herald (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “The Caste of the Modi Effect” South Asia Masala (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “The Caste of the Modi Effect” Deccan Herald Election Blog (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “Checking the influence of money in Indian elections” Glocal (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “What can a Modi-led government do to the country?” Deccan Herald (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “Checking the influence of money in Indian elections” East Asia Forum (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “Caught between Ramraj and Swaraj” South Asia Masala (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “Caught between Ramraj and Swaraj” Deccan Herald Election Blog (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “Post-poll, regional parties will play crucial role” Deccan Herald (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “A New Politics?” Outlook (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “AAP faces litmus test” Deccan Herald (2014).
- Vikas Kumar. “Changing Indian political landscape” East Asia Forum Vol. forthcoming (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “Capital Nourishment” Outlook (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “Can the AAP click elsewhere?” South Asia Masala (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “India’s missed opportunity to review federal redistribution” East Asia Forum (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “Nurturing India’s Linguistic Diversity” South Asia Masala (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “Post-election scenarios in India” East Asia Forum (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “India’s economic, foreign policies unlikely to change under new government” East Asia Forum (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “Gilgit-Baltistan Holds Importance Beyond Kashmir” Atlantic-Community.Org (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “Avoiding policy paralysis in India” East Asia Forum (2013).
- Vikas Kumar and Poonam Singh. “India’s clumsy legislature and the gradually evolving competition law” East Asia Forum (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “Balochistan: Pakistan’s Next Headache?” Security Watch, ISN, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “Balochistan: Pakistan’s Next Headache?” Atlantic-Community.Org (2013).
- Vikas Kumar. “Combating Islamic Terrorism in the Sahel” Atlantic-community.org (2013).
- Vikas Kumar and Poonam Singh. “Competition law and the entertainment industry in India: a case of overreach?” East Asia Forum (2013).