Mufsin Puthan Purayil

The author is a PhD Candidate in Public Policy & Management at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, India. He holds an MPhil in Planning and Development from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. Recently, he has been a DAAD funded exchange scholar to the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Gottingen, Germany. His research interests include public policy, South Asian history & politics, and migration.

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