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is an economic policy analyst in the Economics and Statistics Unit at the Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States in Tamil Nadu, India. He is an alumnus of the Centre of Development Studies, ...

is an evolutionary biologist who specialises in population genetics and phylogenetics of shovel bugs. He is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the ...