This page summarizes my work as a journalist. For a list of my academic publications please see my academic C.V. Selected papers are available for download on my Academia.edu page.
HIGHLIGHTS:
“The Bangladesh Factory Tragedy and the Moralists of Sweatshop Economics,” Guardian April 29, 2013
“Is Google Evil?” cover story on lawsuits against Google, New Statesman magazine, August 2009
A SELECTION OF MAHA’S WORK SINCE 2007:
ON BUSINESS, CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND DEVELOPMENT
Why Fairtrade May Never Work
New Tech Shouldn’t Mean No Jobs
Mandatory CSR for Companies in India
Female Suppliers Drive Profits
India’s Generic Drug Wars
How Extractive Firms Can Help Towns Recover From Their Closure
ON SOUTH ASIA
Inequality, Belief and Elections in India
Pakistan Elections: Great Hope for Democracy, Less So for Prosperity
India and Its Neighbors
China’s Pakistan Corridor
India: Ear to the Ground
India: Hoping for Peace
Sweet Agony: Sugar in Pakistan
India: Fractured Democracy
Subcontinental Water Wars
Pakistan’s Middle Class
Pakistan: Why Af-Pak is really just Pak
Pakistan: A Truce in Balochistan
Anne Patterson, Ambassador to Pakistan’s Economy
Pakistan’s Mistaken Strategy
Hot Seat: Pakistan’s Economic Crisis
Iran-Pakistan-India Pipeline
ON TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA
FTC Takes On Pay-Per-Post
You’ve Got Blogs: ex-AOLers and Media
Privacy Lawsuit vs. Social Network Tagged
E-Learning in California
Advertisers, Data Mining and Social Networks
Green PC’s
Profiting from Social Networking
Facebook Faces Up
MySpace, Facebook: A Tale of Two Cultures
A Guide to Digital Marketing
The Talent Hunt–Design Report
ON AMERICAN POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY
Will Obama bypass Congress on climate rules?
The Mama Grizzlies and Feminine Conservatism
OPINIONS AND ESSAYS
Coming of Age in Cyberspace
Everything Old is New Again: Victorian Precedents for New Media