2004 – till date: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. 

1995-2004: Permanent Lecturer, Gargi College, University of Delhi. 

1985-1995: Temporary Lecturer, Laxmibai College, Lady Shri Ram College, Hindu College, University of Delhi.

Public Policy, Politics of Knowledge, Traditional knowledge in contemporary developing societies, Comparative Politics.

PG Level 

Comparative Politics, Public Policy, Research Methods, Comparative Political Economy, Politcs of Developing Countries. 

UG Level  

Indian Political Thought, India’s Foreign Policy, Comparative Politics.

Conference  Organization

Treating diversity: Medical Knowledge Traditions in India at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 14-15 March, 2008, Shimla.

Participation as Paper/Poster Presenter

2008. Social movements and traditional medicine: The experience of Ayurveda. Paper presented at the Conference entitled The Other Side of Politics: People’s Movements in India, UGC-ASIHSS Seminar, Chandigarh, 13-14 March 2008, Panjab University.

2006. Contemporary ayurveda: is the left right? Paper presented at the Conference entitled Back to the future? Indigenous systems of medicine in contemporary India, 24-25 February 2006, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Ayurveda in contemporary India: innovation or modernisation? Paper presented at the Conference entitled Change and Innovation in Contemporary Indi,a Department of Sociology, Central University, Hyderabad.

2005. Herbal, the hybrid: making a future for the past? Paper presented at the Conference entitled Hybrids and Partnerships: Comparing the Histories of Indigenous Medicine in Southern Africa and South Asia, September 2005, Wellcome Institute for the History of Science, Oxford University, Oxford.

2005.  Ayurveda goes global? European, American and South Asian Ayurvedas presented at Healing Today. 27 October, 2005 (Organised by the French Institute of Pondicherry).

2004. Standardisation as Pharmaceuticalisation : Ayurveda in Modern India.  Paper presented at the Public Conference on Modern and Global Ayurveda conducted by the Dharam Hinduja Institute of Indic Research, 2-3 July, 2004, The Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

2004. Pharmaceuticalisation, Neutraceuticalisation and Herbalisation: the many facets of standardisation of Ayurveda in Modern India. Paper presented at the workshop entitled Mirrored Views on Healing Systems in India: Merging Policies, Politics and Practices, 19-20 April, 2004, French Institute of Pondicherry.

European Union PROJECT Local Knowledge, Market Construction and Globalization : two modes of Pharma Innovation in the Global South IN COLLABORATION WITH Partners in CERMES, Paris and the French Institute, Pondicherry.

Travel Grant awarded for research at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London for a comparative the study of herbalists in Britain and practitioners of traditional medicine in India in the nineteenth century in terms of their political organization, June 2002. 

Recipient of a six-month fellowship under the aegis of the South Asian Visiting Scholars Programme of the Queen Elizabeth House (International Development Centre), University of Oxford in 1997. 

Recipient of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholarship, for research at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, 1988-89. 

Awarded Junior Research Fellowship of the University Grants Commission, 1986.

Memberships  

Life Member, Indian Insitute of Public Administration. 

Fellow, Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi. 

Member, Knowledge in Civil Society, a network of professional and academics working on knwoldege, suported by the Centre for World Solidarity, Hyderabad. 

Committee and Boards 

Member, Review Committee for SevaMandir, Udaipur, February - April 2009.

Visiting Researcher (Honorary) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, 15 October, 2009 - 30 June, 2010.