Career
He is currently Professor at O P Jindal Global University, Sonepat. He was Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (District Attorney-IICT), Gandhinagar, India and has held the position of Senior fellow Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi He has also taught at the Delhi School of Economics. He has held visiting professorships at Smith College, Stanford, Goldsmiths, Arizona State University and Maastricht University.
He is author of Organizing for Science (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, Delhi, 1985), A Carnival for Science (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, Delhi, 1997) and has co-edited Foulplay: Chronicles of Corruption (Banyan Books, Delhi, 1999).
He has been consultant to the National Council of Churches and Business India. As a public intellectual, he is a regular columnist to newspapers like The Hindu, The New Indian Express, Indian Express and The Deccan Chronicle and The Asian Age.
He also contributes to popular magazines like Outlook, India Today, Governance Today and Tehelka. His popular writings touch topics as wide as science, cricket, anthropology, development, intellectual history, and walking.
2012- Professor, School of Government and Public Policy, O P Jindal Global University
2004- Professor, District Attorney-IICT
1994 - Senior Fellow, CSDS, 1994
1985 - Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
1983-1985 - Visiting Fellow, Ford Foundation Faculty Expansion Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
1982-1985 - Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, Delhi
1980-1982 - ICSSR Young Scientist Fellow, Department of Sociology, Delhi University
1976-1980 - Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics
Lokayan Chairman, 1988-1990
IUMDA Newsletter Editor, 1990-1993
Lokayan Bulletin Member, Editorial Board, 1992-1995
Alternatives Member, Editorial Board, Delhi and Colorado, till 1997
Sage Member, Advisory board, Studies in Science Technology and Society, Delhi till 2004
Indian Institute of Advanced Study Member, Advisory Board, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Simla, till 1994.
