Lalatendu Keshari Das Editor

Purendra Prasad is the Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Chair in the School of Public Policy at University of Massachusetts Amherst and Professor of Sociology at the University of Hyderabad, India. Prasad’s research spans critical agrarian studies, environmental studies, political economy of health and development, and urban studies. As part of a multi-country project, his recent work investigates wealth accumulation and the role of business elites in India. His latest book is Equity and Access: Health Care Studies in India (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Lalatendu Keshari Das is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. His area of research spans agrarian studies, gender studies, political ecology. His recent work looks at the practices of organic and natural farming in the Eastern Ghats of Odisha, India. Lalatendu is the recipient of Development in Practice Practitioner and Early Career Researcher Prize for 2024.