Other Media Engagements

Interviews and Podcasts

Watertalk: Groundwater in South Asia: technology &the water-energy-food-poverty tradeoff (Sep 25, 2025)
WELL Labs: Groundwater and water markets (Aug 7, 2025)
AgWired: Supporting entrepreneurship for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (Jun 26, 2023)
The Green Torch Podcast: Culturally relevant agricultural technologies (Mar 3, 2023)
The Green Torch Podcast: Creative thinking (Feb 17, 2023)
InCommon: Learning from policy failures in development economics (Jan 24, 2023)
Bloomberg Ashraq TV: Funding for Climate Change (Nov 15, 2022)
The Water Diplomat: How Water Security Is Critical to Climate Resilience (Jul 7, 2021)
US Department of State: Water Security: Key Pathways for Climate Resilience (Jun 29, 2021)
PCDN: A career in applied research with economist Dr. Soumya Balasubramanya (Apr 23, 2021)
SXSW: Into Dust: What happens when our taps run dry? (Mar 17, 2021)
Devex: Sink or swim? An historic year of floods in Asia (Dec 14, 2020)
Forbes: This Indian Researcher Is Ensuring Aid Money Gets To Those Who Need It Most (Sep 9, 2020)
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Central Asia’s Most Precious Resource: Water (Mar 31, 2019)
Economist: Fixing Food 2018 (Nov 27, 2018)

Opinion-editorials

Newspaper reports

Hollywood Reporter: Oscar-Winning Doc Maker Unveils First Scripted Film ‘Into Dust’ (Feb 19, 2021)
Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka): Flooding can be MINIMISED through technology (Aug 3, 2017)
Daily News (Sri Lanka): Deuce to Manure (Jun 27, 2017)
Ravaya (Sri Lanka): Mobile Weather Stations (Jun 11, 2017)
Virakesari (Sri Lanka): Mobile Weather Stations (May 7, 2017)
All Asia Web (Sri Lanka): IWMI does the heavy-lifting to weather Lanka’s flood risk (May 5, 2017)
Daily News (Sri Lanka): Better handling of bad weather (May 3, 2017)