Aashish Gupta

Aashish Gupta

Aashish Gupta is a post-doctoral associate in the Social Science Division at New York University Abu Dhabi.

Will the Government Finally Acknowledge the Scale of India’s Covid-19 Tragedy?

Newly released 2021 government mortality data shows 3 million excess death registrations in India during Covid-19, suggesting over 4 million total excess deaths. The pandemic’s real impact then was…
▶06-Jul-2025
Aashish Gupta, Murad Banaji

Mortality and Death Registration in India

Underlying the controversy over the estimates of Covid-19 mortality in India is the uncertain quality of mortality statistics and the death registration data. The pandemic is an opportunity to…
▶18-Aug-2022
Murad Banaji, Aashish Gupta, Vipul Paikra

Coercion, Construction, and 'ODF paper pe'

The Swachh Bharat Mission has turned out to be a top-down programme in which villagers are often coerced into building latrines, with relatively little focus on latrine use. A field survey challenges…
▶05-Mar-2019
Aashish Gupta, Nazar Khalid, Payal Hathi, Nikhil Srivastav, Sangita Vyas, Diane Coffey