Anupma Mehta is Head of Publications and Senior Editor at NCAER. She leads the editorial and content writing team at the institution, overseeing the writing, editing, and production of diverse company literature, including digital content, newsletters, reports, working papers, press releases, and project briefs. She is Managing Editor of the in-house journals, the India Policy Forum, and Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research. She also publishes updates and opinion articles on NCAER research in national dailies and other media.
She has earlier worked as Associate Editor for the social science journals, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Indian Journal of Human Development, and Journal of Social Inclusion Studies, and has editing experience across research organisations, publishing houses, UN bodies, public sector units, and the social sector. She has published articles and syndicated columns in various dailies, including Hindustan Times, Business Standard, Financial Express, The Pioneer, Mid-Day, and The Tribune. She has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English Literature from Lady Shri Ram College, and University of Delhi, and a Post-graduate Diploma in Communications from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi.
Opinion | Qrius (online)
Alarming Decline in Child Nutrition Levels in India
Anupma Mehta
January 13, 2021
Opinion | The Pioneer
Insights from the Ground
Anupma Mehta
July 18, 2020
Opinion | The Economics Society, SRCC
Need for Gender-transformative Focus in India’s Education Policy
Anupma Mehta
May 29, 2020
Opinion | The Pioneer
Women the Biggest Losers
Anupma Mehta
April 20, 2020
Opinion | The Pioneer
Women in STEM Research in the Age of Coronavirus
Anupma Mehta
March 9, 2020
Opinion | The Pioneer
In Pursuit of Gender Equality
Anupma Mehta
December 30, 2020
Opinion | The Pioneer
Child Marriage: Nothing to Celebrate
Anupma Mehta
November 22, 2020
Opinion | The Pioneer
The Great Water Paradox
Anupma Mehta
August 5, 2020
Opinion | The Pioneer
Now Fewer Women Voters
Anupma Mehta
April 11, 2020
OPINION | The Pioneer
Beaten, battered, brutalised
ANUPMA MEHTA
March 2019
OPINION | The Pioneer
Yes to reservation, no to women
ANUPMA MEHTA
February 2019
OPINION | The Pioneer
Marriage by choice or convention?
ANUPMA MEHTA
October 2018
OPINION | The Pioneer
What drives women over the edge?
ANUPMA MEHTA
October 2018
OPINION | Business Standard
Gender gap in land ownership
ANUPMA MEHTA
April 2018
OPINION | The Pioneer
End the Politics of Female Exclusion
ANUPMA MEHTA
March 2018
OPINION | The Pioneer
Time to Nurture the Hands that Feed us
ANUPMA MEHTA
February 2018
OPINION | The Pioneer
The Female Principle
ANUPMA MEHTA
November 2017
OPINION | The Hindu
No Economy for women
ANUPMA MEHTA AND SONALDE DESAI
March 2017
OPINION | The Indian Economist
Is UBI the USP of this year’s Economic survey?
ANUPMA MEHTA
February 2017
OPINION | The Indian Economist
Has the American Dream Gone with the Wind?
ANUPMA MEHTA
November 2016
OPINION | The Tribune
Laadli races up literacy ladder in Himachal
ANUPMA MEHTA
August 2016
OPINION | First Post
Where are the women? Political power is still a male domain in India
ANUPMA MEHTA
June 2016