A report on the expansion 
of open cast coal mining and its effect on local communities living in the Godavari River valley of northern Andhra Pradesh can be found here.
Jobless Openings: The Expansion of Open Cast Coal Mining at the Expense of Rural Livelihoods in the Godavari Valley of Andhra Pradesh
Three part series on labour issues in the mobile phone industry in Chennai, south India
These three posts is the result of work related to the EU-funded MakeITFair project which examined working conditions in the global electronics industry. The final report published by Cividep, FinnWatch and Somo in September 2011 can be found here.
Part I – Unionising the Chennai mobile phone industry
Part 2 – Precarious work: The abuse of contracts with low salaries and poor job security
Part 3 – Precarious Work: Health and safety in ‘world class’ facilities
Information is explosive at Singareni Colleries
A post on the South Asia Masala blog hosted by the Australian National University in Canberra Australia.
PhD thesis on bauxite mining is now available for download
My PhD thesis “The law of the land contested Bauxite 
mining in tribal, central India in an age of economic reform” is now possible to download from this site. Please see the PhD page for the complete pdf as well as for individual chapters.