Brishti Guha                                                                                               

Degrees

• May 2005, PhD in Economics, Princeton University. Thesis title: Malfeasance and the Market: Essays in Corporate Cheating.

• 2000, M.A in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

• 1998, B.A in Economics, St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.

Positions Held

• October 2014-present: Associate Professor of Economics, Centre for International Trade and Development, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

• July 2005-July 2014: Assistant Professor of Economics, Singapore Management University.

• Fall 2004-spring 2005: Lecturer, Princeton University – joint appointment at the Department of Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy.

• Fall 2004-spring 2005: Supervisor of undergraduate theses, Princeton University.

• 2002-03: Graduate research assistant for Professors Patrick Bolton (assisted in preparing graduate text on corporate finance) and Chang-Tai Hsieh.

• 2002-04: Graduate teaching assistant, Princeton University.

Research Interests

Applied game and decision theory/mechanism design, development, crime (law and economics), behavioral economics, institutions, industrial organization.

Membership in Professional Associations

Econometric Society, Royal Economic Society, American Economics Association, European Economic Association, Canadian Economics Association, American Law and Economics Association, Economic History Association.

Honours and Awards

• Lee Foundation Fellowship for Research Excellence (April 2006-March 2007).

• Princeton University Fellowship, 2000-04.

• Chosen to teach an interdisciplinary course in Economics and Public Policy, 2004-05.

• Princeton University Graduate School Summer Stipend, 2001-04.

• Princeton University, “Dean’s Fund for Scholarly Travel” grant for presenting papers at several conferences including one at Harvard (2002-04).

• Inlaks Foundation Scholarship, 2000 at the PhD entry level.

• Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1998-2000 for excellence in a nationwide masters level economics examination.

• All-India National Talent Scholarship (1994-2000).

• Special distinction in M.A for topping university with highest ever GPA. High first class in B.A.

• GRE score: 2380/2400 (perfect scores in quantitative and analytical sections, 780/800 in verbal)

Publications

(1)    Book

Malfeasance and the Market, VDM Verlag Dr Muller, e.K. ISBN 978-383643994-7, paperback, 176 pages.

(2)    Book Chapters

Markets and Morals: Ethical Issues in Economics  (ed. A. S. Guha), New Delhi, Centre for the Study of Civilizations.

Guha, B. (2019): “Knowledge” in The Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Springer.

(3)    Journal Articles

1. “Case Preparation Investments in the Presence of Costly Judicial Attention” Research in Economics, accepted.

2. “Plea Bargaining when Juror Effort is Costly” Economic Theory, , https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-024-01551-2.

3. “Accomplice Plea Bargains in the Presence of Costly Juror Effort” Games and Economic Behavior (2023), 142: 209-225.

4. “Ambiguity Aversion, Group Size, and Deliberation: Costly Information and Decision Accuracy” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2022), 201:115-133.

5. “Affirmative Action in the Presence of Income Heterogeneity” Games and Economic Behavior (2022), 132:510-533 (with P. Roy Chowdhury).

6. “Revisiting the volunteer’s dilemma: group size and public good provision in the presence of some ambiguity aversion”, Economics Bulletin (2020), 40: 1308-1318.

7. “Should Jurors Deliberate?” Review of Law and Economics, (2020), 16(2):Article no 20180011.

8. “Pretrial Beliefs and Verdict Accuracy: Costly Juror Effort and Free Riding”, B.E Journal of Theoretical Economics, (2020),  20(2): Article no 20180020.

9. “Malice and Patience in Rubinstein bargaining”, Research in Economics, (2019), 73:264-270.

10. “Malice in Pretrial Negotiations”, International Review of Law and Economics, (2019), 58:25-33.

11. “Arbitration, indivisible assets and the possibility of malice”, Bulletin of Economic Research, (2019), 71:404-415.

12. “Malice in auctions and commitments to cancel”, Economics Bulletin, (2018), 38:1623-1631.

13. “Secret ballots and costly information gathering: the jury size problem revisited”, International Review of Law and Economics, (2018), 54:58-67.

14. “Malice in the Rubinstein bargaining game”, Mathematical Social Sciences, (2018), 94:82-86.

15. “Costly Leader Games with a Probabilistically Non-Strategic Leader”, International Game Theory Review, (2017), 19: 1750008.

16. “Testing for Malice”, Economics Bulletin, (2017), 37: 327-335.

17. “Moral Hazard, Bertrand Competition and Natural Monopoly”, Journal of Economics, (2017), 121:153-171..

18. .  “Malicious Litigation”, International Review of Law and Economics, (2016), 47:24-32.

19.  “ “Inferiority” Complex? Policing, Private Precautions and Crime”, European Journal of Law and Economics, (2015), 39: 97-106.

20.  “Borrower Targeting under Microfinance Competition with Motivated MFIs”, Developing Economies, (2014), 52: 211-240 (with P. Roy Chowdhury).

21.  “Reversal of Fortune Revisited: The Geography of Transport and the Changing Balance of World Economic Power”, Rivista di Storia Economica, (2014), 30: 161-188 (with A. Guha).

22.  “Reinterpreting King Solomon’s Problem: Malice and Mechanism Design”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2014), 98: 125-132.

23.  “Guns and Crime Revisited”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2013), 94: 1-10. Lead article.

24.  “Microfinance Competition: Motivated Microlenders, Double Dipping and Default” (2013) Journal of Development Economics, (with P. Roy Chowdhury), 105: 86-102.

25.  “Who Will Monitor the Monitors? Informal Law Enforcement and Collusion at Champagne” (2012) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 83(2): 261-277.

26. “Crime and Moral Hazard: Does More Policing Induce Private Negligence?” (2012) Economics Letters, 115: 455-459 (with A Guha).

27.  “The Persistence of Goodness” (2012) Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 168: 432-443. (with A Guha).

28. “Pirates and Fishermen: Is Less Patrolling Always Bad?” (2012) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 81(1): 29-38.

29. “Honesty and Intermediation: Corporate Cheating, Auditor Involvement and the Implications for Takeoff” (2012) Seoul Journal of Business, 18(2) : 67-105.

30.  “Pirates and Traders: Some Economics of Pirate-Infested Seas”, (2011) Economics Letters, 111(2) : 147-150 (with A Guha)

31.  “Preferences, Prisoners and Private Information : Was Socrates Rational at his Trial?” (2011) European Journal of Law and Economics, 31(3) : 249-264.

32.  “Trade, Growth and Increasing Returns to Infrastructure : the Role of the Sophisticated Monopolist”, (2009) Review of International Economics, 17(5), 1053-1065 (with A. Guha).

33.  “Utility Functions, Future Consumption Targets and Subsistence Thresholds”, (2008) Economics Bulletin, 4(30), 1-4 (with A. Guha, November 2008).

34.  “Target Savings in an Overlapping Generations Model”, (2008) B.E Journal of Macroeconomics, 8(1), 1-24 (with A. Guha, March 2008).

35.  “Maids and Mistresses : Migrating Maids and Female Labor Force Participation”, (2007) Economics Bulletin, 10(11) : 1-9 (August 2007).

36. “Green Revolutions and Miracle Economies : Agricultural Innovation, Trade and Growth”, (2006) Journal of International Trade and Economic Development , 15(2) : 209-230.

37.  “Female Labor Force Participation and Labor-Saving Gadgets”, (2005) Journal of International Trade and Economic Development , 14(4) : 483-495.

38.  “IT : Deconstructing the Bust that Followed the Boom”, (2003) Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), 37 (June 2003).

39.  “The Economic Consequences of the Microelectronics and Telecommunications Revolution”, (2000) Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), 34 : 2725-2729 (July 2000)

Working Papers

1. “A Double Edged Sword: Credit Market Imperfections, Stereotyping, and Credit Market Efficiency” (with P. Roy Chowdhury)

2. Grandparents as Guards: Inheritance and Post-Marital Residence in a World of Uncertain Paternity”,

3. “Should Criminals Buy Information? Informational Games and Cost-Efficient Outcomes in Pirate-Infested Seas”, under review.

4. “Vulnerability to Exposure as a Determinant of Market Structure”, under review.

5. “Endogenizing Giving, Reciprocity and Inequity Aversion: Norms and Cross-Cultural Differences in Ultimatum Games”, under review, SMU Research Grant.

6. “Pirates and Hostages: Perverse Effects of Patrolling on Ransoms”, under revision.

7.  “Ambiguity Aversion and Punishments for Piracy”, SMU Research Grant “Penalizing Pirates”.

8.  “Affirmative Action in an Open Economy”, SMU Research Grant.

9.  “Demography, Development and the Origin of Democracy : A Model with Case Studies of Archaic Athens and Maritime England”, SMU Research Grant

10. “Endogenous Democracy?” (with A. Guha), under review.

11. “Semi-Contracts” (with A. Guha)

12. “Gambling on Genes: Ambiguity Aversion Explains Investments in Sisters’ Children”

13. “Marrying Multiple Males: an Economic Model of Polyandry”

14. “Divorce Laws, Sex Ratios and the Marriage Market”, SMU Research Grant.

15. “Is a Woman’s Work Really Never Done? Engines of Liberation in Open Asian Economies”, SMU Research Grant.

Work in Progress

            “Experimentally Testing for the Presence of Malice in a Game Theoretic Framework”

 “Manipulability and the Classical Pareto Criterion”, with A. Guha

“Sex Crimes”

“A Model of Polygamy and Labor Market Opportunities for Women”, with S. Grossbard.

Research Grants

    Ford Foundation (under the head "faculty research and teaching") for conducting an economics experiment for the project "Auctions with a commitment to cancel: an experimental study" (2019).

• Ford Foundation (under the head “faculty research and teaching”) for conducting an economics experiment for the project “Experimentally Testing for the Presence of Malice in a Game Theoretic Framework” (current financial year, obtained IERB clearance in December 2018).

• SMU Research Grant (November 2012-October 2013) for the project “Altruism, Greed or Fear? Endogenizing Giving and Reciprocity Norms in Long-Run Perspective.”

• SMU Research Grant (November 2011-October 2012) for the project “Penalizing Pirates”.

• SMU Research Grant (November 2010-October 2011) for the project “Microfinance Competition with Motivated MFIs”

• SMU Research Grant (October 2009-September 2010) for the project “Endogenous Democracy?”

• SMU Research Grant (October 2008-September 2009) for the project “Demography, Development and the Origin of Democracy : A Model with Case Studies of Archaic Athens and Maritime England”.

• SMU Research Grant (October 2007-September 2008) for the project “Divorce Laws, Sex Ratios and the Marriage Market”.

• SMU Research Grant (October 2006-September 2007) for the project “Affirmative Action, Screening, Signaling and the International Labour Market”.

• SMU Research Grant (October 2005-September 2006) for the project “Is a Woman’s Work Really Never Done?Gadget Imports and Female Labor of Slavery?Gadget Use and Female Labor Force Participation in Open Asian Economies”).

Conference Presentations

1.           Annual Conference on Growth and Development, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, December 2021 (virtual) presenting “Affirmative Action in the Presence of Income Heterogeneity.”

2.           Econometric Society European Summer Meeting (August 2021, virtual) presenting “Affirmative Action in the Presence of Income Heterogeneity).

3.           9th International Conference on Public Finance and Public Policy, CTRPFP (Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance and Policy), Kolkata, January 2020 (presented “Some Behavioural Economics Based Insights on Legal Policy”).

4.           AIIASC 2019, School of International Studies, JNU, January 2019 (session on India’s Recent Development Experience, presented “Microfinance Competition: Motivated Microlenders, Double Dipping, and Default”).

5.           Annual Conference on Growth and Development, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, December 2017 (to present “A Double Edged Sword: Credit Market Imperfections, Stereotyping, and Education Subsidies).

6.           Australasian Public Choice Conference, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, December 2017 (to present “A Double Edged Sword: Credit Market Imperfections, Stereotyping, and Education Subsidies).

7.           Conference on New Developmentalism, University of Campinas, Brazil, September 2015 (to present “Microfinance Competition with Motivated MFIs: Motivated Microlenders, Double Dipping, and Default)

4. 8th Annual Conference on Growth and Economic Development, Indian Statistical 

    Institute, Delhi, December 2012 (to present “Transport Costs, Geopolitics and

    Economic Incentives in Medieval Eurasia and their Role in Shaping Modern

       Economic Growth”)

5. ESAM (Econometric Society Australian Meeting), July 2013 (to present “Games 

    of Moral Hazard and Market Concentration: Audit Oligopolies and Natural

    Monopolies in Experience Goods Markets”)

6. SED (Society of Economic Design) Meeting, July 2013, Lund, Sweden (to      “Reinterpreting King Solomon’s Problem: Malice and Mechanism Design”)

7. 8th Conference on Economic Theory, Policy and Applications, Athens, July 2013 (presented “Reinterpreting King Solomon’s Problem: Malice and Mechanism Design”)

8. SABE (Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics) Conference, Granada, July 2012 (presented “Gambling on Genes: Ambiguity Aversion and Investments in Sisters’ Children”)

9. 7th Annual Conference on Growth and Economic Development, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, December 2011 (presented “Microfinance Competition: Motivated Microlenders, Double Dipping and Default”)

10. EEA-ESEM Congress (European Economic Association and Econometric Society European Meeting), Oslo, Norway, August 2011 (presented “Who Will Monitor the Monitors? Informal Law Enforcement and Collusion at Champagne”)

11. World Congress of the International Economic Association, Tsinghua University, Beijing, July 2011 (presented “Microfinance Competition with Motivated MFIs”)

12. 11th SAET (Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory) Conference, Ancao, Portugal, June 2011 (presented “Gambling on Genes: Ambiguity Aversion and Investments in Sisters’ Children”)

13. 6th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, ISI Delhi, December 2010 (presented a preliminary version of “Microfinance Competition with Motivated MFIs”)

14. Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics, San Diego, August 2010 (presented “Patrilocal Exogamy as a Monitoring Mechanism : How Inheritance and Residence Patterns Coevolve” , an earlier version of “Grandparents as Guards: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Inheritance and Post-Marital Residence in a World of Uncertain Paternity”)

15. ISNIE (International Society for New Institutional Economics) Annual Meeting, Stirling, Scotland, June 2010 (presented “Collusion at Champagne Or Who Will Monitor the Monitor? A Lesson from History”, an earlier version of “Who Will Monitor the Monitors? Informal Law Enforcement and Collusion at Champagne”)

16. 5th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, ISI Delhi, December 2009 (participant).

17. Econometric Society Australasian Meeting, ANU, Canberra, July 2009 (presented “Collusion in the Champagne Fairs: Controlling Law Merchants”, the preliminary version of “Who Will Monitor the Monitors? Informal Law Enforcement and Collusion at Champagne”)

18. North American Econometric Society Summer Meetings, Boston University, Boston, June 2009 (presented “Demography, Development and the Origin of Democracy”)

19. 8th Louis-Andre Gerard Varet Conference in Public Economics, Marseille, France, June 2009 (presented “Quotas in Education and Employment: Affirmative or Negative?”)

20. 4th Annual Conference on Growth and Development, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, December 2008 (presented “Demography, Development and the Origin of Democracy”)

21. Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society (FEMES 2008), Singapore Management University, July 2008 (presented “Managers, Boards and Investors: The Consequences of Corporate Cheating for Firm Structure Under Different Wealth Distributions”)

22. World Congress of the International Economic Association, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2008 (presented “Quotas in Education and Employment: Affirmative or Negative?”)

23. 5th Conference on Economic Design, Society of Economic Design and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 2008 (presented “Managers, Boards and Investors: The Consequences of Corporate Cheating for Firm Structure Under Different Wealth Distributions”)

24. Conference on the Institutional and Social Dynamics of Growth and Distribution, Lucca, Italy, December 2007 (presented “Quotas in Education and Employment: Affirmative or Negative?”)

25. Summer Research Conference, Centre For Analytical Finance, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, August 2007 (presented “The Case of the Errant Executive : Management and Control in Corporate Cheating”)

26. Econometric Society North American Meeting (NASM 2007), Duke University, June 2007 (presented “The Case of the Errant Executive : Management and Control in Corporate Cheating”)

27. International Industrial Organization Conference, Savannah, April 2007 (presented “Honesty and Intermediation: Corporate Cheating, Auditor Involvement and the Implications for Development”)

28. Third Annual Conference on Growth and Development, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, December 2006 (presented “Target Savers”, a preliminary version of “Target Saving in an Overlapping Generations Model”)

29. 35th Australian Conference for Economists (ACE 2006), Perth, September 2006 (presented “Honesty and Intermediation: Corporate Cheating, Auditor Involvement and the Implications for Development”)

30. Public Economic Theorists (PET 2006), Hanoi, August 2006 (presented two papers, (1) “Honesty and Intermediation: Corporate Cheating, Auditor Involvement and the Implications for Development”, and (2) “Strategy Meets Evolution : Games Suppliers and Producers Play”)

31. Third Asian Workshop on General Equilibrium Theory (GETA 2006), Academia Sinica, Taipei, July 2006 (presented “Strategy Meets Evolution : Games Suppliers and Producers Play”)

32. Econometric Society Australasian Meeting (ESAM 2006), Alice Springs, July 2006 (presented “Honesty and Intermediation: Corporate Cheating, Auditor Involvement and the Implications for Development”)

33. Econometric Society North American Meeting (NASM 2006), Minneapolis, June 2006 (presented “Honesty and Intermediation: Corporate Cheating, Auditor Involvement and the Implications for Development”)

34. Second Annual Conference on Growth and Development, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, January 2006 (presented “Trade, Growth and Increasing Returns to Infrastructure : the Role of the Sophisticated Monopolist”)

35. Southwestern Economics Association Conference, April 2004 (presented “Female Labor Force Participation and Labor-Saving Gadgets”)

36. Harvard East Asia Society Conference, February 2002 (presented “Green Revolutions and Miracle Economies : a Solution to Young’s Puzzle?”)

Editorial Services

Referee for

• Review of Economic Studies

• Econometrica

• Economic Journal

• International Economic Review

• Journal of Development Economics

• Journal of Public Economics

• Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

• Economics Letters

• American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

• International Review of Law and Economics

• Public Choice

• Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

• International Journal of Economic Theory

• Review of Development Economics

• Review of Economics of the Household

•  EPW

• Journal of Industrial Economics

• Oxford Economic Papers

• Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

• European Journal of Law and Economics

• BE Journal of Macroeconomics

• BE Journal of Economic Analysis And Policy

• Review of International Economics

• Economics Bulletin

• Journal of Economics and Business

• Singapore Economic Review

• Defence and Peace Economics  

• Journal of Happiness Studies.

Other Professional Services

(1)   Outside SMU : Provided input to the founders of the Asian Business School, Hyderabad regarding design of an effective research program, as one of several invited delegates from business schools across Asia (January 18-19, 2008).

(2)   In SMU :

• Member of School of Economics Seminar Committee and Working Paper Series Committee.

• Organized talks by Andrea Podhorsky (fall 2011), Shoshana Grossbard (summer 2011), Prabal Roy Chowdhury (April 2010), E. Somanathan (March 2010), Jialin Yu (July 2009), Gautam Bose (December 2008) and Arye Hillman (September 2007) for the Seminar Series.

• Sitting in on job talks and meeting with junior faculty candidates.

• Conducting student admission interviews.

• Academic counselor to many students.

Seminars, Workshops and Economics Talks Given

• Invited speaker for a lecture, “Topics in Behavioural Economics,” Indraprastha College, February 2020.

• Invited speaker for a half-day workshop on Behavioural and Experimental Economics, St Stephen’s College, September 2019.

• Grandparents as Guards: Inheritance and Residence in a World of Uncertain Paternity, Delhi School of Economics, April 2017.

• Malicious Litigation, Tel Aviv University Law School, Tel Aviv, March 2016.

• Who Will Monitor the Monitors? Informal Law Enforcement and Collusion at Champagne, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, December 2013.

• Reinterpreting King Solomon’s Problem: Malice and Mechanism Design, SMU Micro/Macro Workshop, June 2013.

• Games of Moral Hazard and Market Concentration: Audit Oligopolies and Natural Monopolies in Experience Goods Markets, SMU Micro/Macro Workshop, June 2013.

• Pirates and Fishermen: Is Less Patrolling Always Bad? SMU Micro/Macro Workshop, March 2012.

• Microfinance Competition: Motivated Microlenders, Double Dipping and Default, SMU Micro/Macro Workshop, November 2011, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, November 2013.

• Pirates and Traders: Some Economics of Pirate-Infested Seas, SMU Micro/Macro Workshop, April 2011.

• Patrilocal Exogamy as a Monitoring Mechanism: How Inheritance and Residence Patterns Coevolve, SMU Micro/Macro Workshop, August 2010.

• Demography, Development and the Origin of Democracy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, December 2008.

• Future Targets and Multiple Equilibria (preliminary version of “Target Saving in an Overlapping Generations Model”), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, November 2005.

• Honesty and Intermediation: Corporate Cheating, Auditor Involvement and the Implications for Takeoff, (a) NUS (b) SMU (job talks, February 2005).

• Intermediation and Honesty: Corporate Cheating and Auditor Involvement, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, January 2004.

• Green Revolutions and Miracle Economies : a Solution to Young’s Puzzle?, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, January 2003.

University teaching

• Law and Economics at JNU (winter semesters 2016-2019) – designed and taught an elective course for second year M.A students.

• Macroeconomics 1 at JNU (fall semesters 2015-19), for first year M.A students

• Balance of payments at JNU (winter semester 2015), for second year M.A and MPhil students.

• Currently supervising MPhil and PhD students (2 confirmed PhD students with synopses confirmed, 1 provisional PhD student with MPhil degree complete, 2 who got their MPhil degrees already, 1 currently pursuing MPhil).

• Senior thesis advisor at SMU (2009-2010).

• The economics of asymmetric information (SMU, 2008-present)

• Introductory economics (SMU, 2006-present)

• Economics and Public Policy (Princeton, Woodrow Wilson School, 2004-05 as “part-time lecturer”)

• Mathematical topics in Microeconomics (Princeton Economics, as teaching assistant)

• Intermediate micro (Princeton Economics, as teaching assistant)

• Introductory micro and macro (Princeton Economics, as teaching assistant).

• Special topics in applied economics (SMU, Masters in Applied Economics, 2011)

Articles in the Popular Press

• “How Ancient is Yoga?”, Times of India, 21 June 2019.

• “Zen, Kung Fu, and a South Indian prince,” 9 May 2019, The Wire.

• “The moderns of Ancient India,” 24 December 2015, Times of India.

• “Ancient India’s liberated women,” 13 July 2015, Times of India.

• “Story of swords and steel,” 20 June 2015, The Telegraph.

• “John Nash was a mysterious genius who changed the way economists think,” 26 May 2015, Times of India.

• “Astronomer without a Telescope,” 4 April 2015, The Telegraph.

• “The Story of Shunya,” 18 March 2015, Indian Express.

• “Ancient wisdom,” 17 February 2015, The Telegraph.

• “Studded with gems,” 3 January 2015, The Telegraph.

Other Publications in Literary Journals

·         “Science Fiction Meets Science Fact: the Robots of Ancient India” Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2022.

·         Sanskrit poems in translation, “Magic at Dusk” and “The Captive” accepted at Ezra, an online journal of translation.

·         Sanskrit poems in translation, “Futile Heat”, “Besotted”, “Keep it Casual”, and “Thirst”  Empty Mirror, 9th August 2019

·         “Relative Perception”, (a retelling of a Sanskrit science fiction story) accepted at Sci Phi Journal.

·         “A ghostly riddle”, (Sanskrit fantasy story in translation) accepted at the Dr T.J. Eckleburg Review.

·         Intoxicated! (a translation of an excerpt from Mattavilasa, a seventh century Sanskrit farcical one-act play by Mahendravarman), in The Mercurian: Theater in Translation, spring 2020 issue (Vol 8, Issue 1). https://the-mercurian.com/2020/05/04/intoxicated/

·         An Eccentric Writer, a King, and a Bet: the story of how the “Huge Story” came to be (a translation of a story extracted from the Brihatkathamanjari, an eleventh-century Sanskrit novel in verse by Kshemendra), in Samovar, spring 2020 issue, http://samovar.strangehorizons.com/2020/04/27/an-eccentric-writer-a-king-and-a-bet-the-story-of-how-the-huge-story-came-to-be/

·         A Riddle-Loving Ghost Saves a King (a translation of another Sanskrit ghost story from the eleventh century), in Newfound, fall 2020 issue.

·         Aurora (a translation of a poem from the eighth-century Sanskrit poet Magha’s Shishupalavadha) in Chrome Baby (issue 94, August 2020).

Popular Talks

·         Speaker at International Women’s Day, IIT Mumbai, on “Women in Research: Women’s Education and Research in Ancient India”, March 8, 2019.

·         Seminar on “Some Ancient Mathematicians, with a focus on Ancient India”, National Institute of Immunology, December 2, 2015.

   Main Administrative Responsibilities at JNU

• M.A Coordinator, December 2017-present. Responsibilities include registration, designing course and exam timetables, interaction with masters students regarding fellowships, organizing orientation programmes, attending student faculty advisory meetings.

• Member of centre grievance committee (addresses students’ grievances).

• Handled Centre’s discussion paper series (2014-December 2017).

• Co-convenor of an international conference on “New Paradigms of Economic Development: Social and Environmental Dimensions” held in CITD, JNU, December 4-8, 2017. Was also on scientific committee for selecting papers, also principally involved in securing ICSSR funding for the conference as well as all ministry approvals.

• Member of Sub-Committee for Revision of Eligibility Criteria for Admission

• Member of Screening Committees for Faculty Applications

• On various supervisor allotment committees

• Sole coordinator of M.A entrance exam, 2015-16, for the centre.

• Regular help in conducting vivas, contributing entrance exam questions, etc every year.

• Designed a new course for prospective inclusion in the new PhD programme.

Students who submitted PhD Theses

Nikita Jain “Motivating Innovations: A Game Theoretic Approach” November 2021.

Contact Information                                                                       

Email : brishtiguha@gmail.com