Vivek’s Info

The website

In the last few years the amount of materials I read online has increased significantly. A lot of this information vanishes without trace with time. This site marks my effort to document things I read in easily retrievable ways. It also provides me a space to reflect and write on issues that I am engaged with.

Since the site is meant to document things I read, it will have a fairly diverse range of topics. Broadly my interests lies in (1) social issues such as hunger, education, health, etc. (2) policy and legal issues, specially related to development and (3) broad disciplinary interest within social sciences. Apart form this, I also hope to devote small sections to topics of current interest since I will be reading on many in any case.

Organisation of the website

to enable you to find information easily and in ways you find most comfortable several systems of navigation have been built into the site.

1. Topics: All articles are categorised under different broad topics. Some articles fall under different topics. For example a direction by the Supreme Court on school feeding will fall under ‘Law’ as well as ‘education’.
2. Tags: in addition to topics, an extensive list of tags are given to each article.
3. Links: A key feature of the site is extensive links to relevant sites, latest news on the concerned topic, etc. You will find them in the two columns to the right of the body of the page. Most of these are pages I have book-marked using social book-marking tools such as del.icio.us. Others are drawn from search engines and a variety of other sources.
4. Search: if you are not able to find your article using “topics” or “tags” use the Search function available in every page

Me

I come from Trichy, India. After studying at St. John’s Vestry Hr. Sec. School I did my B.A. Economics from St. Joseph’s College in the same town. From there I proceeded to Delhi School of Economics to do my Master’s in Economics. I took a welcome break from formal education after DSE and worked in a variety of interesting organisations starting with ICRISAT.

I entered the world of campaigns with National Alliance for the Fundamental Right to Education (NAFRE) which was an exciting experience. Subsequently I moved to the Right to Food Campaign (RFC) where I worked for the longest duration. I enjoyed and cherish all the institutions I was with, and RFC has perhaps been the best of all. I met some of the finest people I have known during my stint with RFC. Those days were marked by a sense of purpose and the most meaningful education I’ve had so far.

After a few years at the campaign, I moved to Maxwell School of Syracuse University to start my Ph.D. in Social Sciences, where I will be for the next few years to come. My general interests include reading (specially biographies), listening to an assortment of music, watching movies, travel, ventriloquism, among other things.

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