He wrote his PhD dissertation at the Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi on State and Governance in the post-Soviet Russia. He specializes on comparative politics, democratization issues in the post-Soviet countries and governance problems in India. He has been associated with many government bodies of government of India like the Planning Commission, the National Institute for Administrative Research and the Finance Commission. Presently he is also actively involved in the problems of drought and underdevelopment in the Bundelkhand region of Central India.