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  1. ArticleOpen access

    An audit of Hindi and Hinglish content moderation classifiers on three major platforms

    Dr. Rohit Malhotra, Dr. Priya Venkataraman, Aisha Khan

    Journal of AI Ethics & Society2026Computer Science64 citations

    Content moderation classifiers are evaluated overwhelmingly on English. We construct a 24,000-item benchmark of Hindi, Romanised Hindi and Hinglish social media text, annotated by nine trained annotators against a published codebook with su…

    https://doi.org/10.53456/jaies.2026.8.1.22

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    Why a sepsis bundle that worked in trials failed in eleven district hospitals: an implementation study

    Dr. Lakshmi Pillai, Dr. Marco Ferreira, Dr. Farhan Qureshi

    Lighthouse Journal of Public Health2026Public Health38 citations

    A sepsis care bundle with strong trial evidence was introduced across eleven district hospitals in two Indian states. Thirty-day mortality did not improve (adjusted OR 0.96, 95% CI 0.81 to 1.14). Rather than report a null result and stop, w…

    https://doi.org/10.53456/ljph.2026.9.2.88

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    Who inherits the shop? Succession, daughters and firm survival in 1,100 informal Indian family businesses

    Dr. Ananya Deshpande, Prof. Rajesh Iyer

    Lighthouse Journal of Management & Organisation2026Business & Management47 citations

    Family firm succession research is built almost entirely on registered, formal firms with documented ownership. We study succession in the informal sector, where ownership is undocumented and the transfer is social rather than legal. Follow…

    https://doi.org/10.53456/ljmo.2026.11.4.512

  4. ArticleOpen access

    Reading gains from first-language instruction in multilingual primary classrooms: a two-year study in 46 Karnataka schools

    Dr. Ishita Barua, Prof. Suresh Nair, Rukmini Shetty

    Lighthouse Journal of Education & Pedagogy2026Education & Language22 citations

    Karnataka's primary classrooms routinely contain children whose home languages differ from the medium of instruction. We report a two-year study in 46 government schools comparing a structured first-language bridging programme against busin…

    https://doi.org/10.53456/ljep.2026.9.1.45

  5. BookOpen access

    Algorithmic Governance in the Global South

    Dr. Priya Venkataraman, Prof. Daniel Okonkwo

    Lighthouse Studies in Technology & Society2026Computer Science

    Most writing on algorithmic governance describes systems built in San Francisco and deployed on Californians. This volume describes systems built elsewhere, or built there and deployed here, and what happened next. Fourteen contributors acr…

    https://doi.org/10.53456/book.2026.algorithmic-

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    Ghalib and After

    Dr. Fatima Sheikh

    Lighthouse Studies in Literature2026Literature & Cultural Studies

    A sustained argument about what English translation of Urdu poetry has been doing for sixty years, and what it could do instead. Sheikh reads Ghalib across eleven English versions, then turns to Faiz, Parveen Shakir and Agha Shahid Ali to t…

    https://doi.org/10.53456/book.2026.ghalib-and-a

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    Heat and the Indian City

    Dr. Arvind Subramaniam, Prof. Leila Haddad

    Lighthouse Proceedings2026Environmental Sciences

    Selected and revised papers from the Lighthouse Symposium on Urban Heat, held in Ahmedabad in February 2026. Nineteen contributions across measurement, epidemiology, building science and policy, including the sensor-network results that pro…

    https://doi.org/10.53456/book.2026.heat-and-the

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    The Informal Firm

    Prof. Rajesh Iyer

    Lighthouse Studies in Management2026Business & Management

    Nine in ten firms in India are informal, and management research has almost nothing to say about them because they do not appear in the registries it samples from. Iyer draws on fifteen years of field enumeration across four cities to descr…

    https://doi.org/10.53456/book.2026.informal-fir

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    The people behind the label: working conditions in India's data annotation industry

    Prof. Daniel Okonkwo, Aisha Khan, Dr. Hannah Weiss

    Journal of AI Ethics & Society2025Computer Science52 citations

    Machine learning depends on annotation labour that its literature rarely describes. Drawing on 68 interviews with annotators and eleven with managers across nine firms in Bengaluru, Kochi and Bhubaneswar, we document a labour process organi…

    https://doi.org/10.53456/jaies.2025.7.4.401

  10. ArticleOpen access

    The untranslatable refrain: radif, rhyme and the limits of the English ghazal

    Dr. Fatima Sheikh

    Lighthouse Review of Literature & Cultural Studies2025Literature & Cultural Studies19 citations

    The ghazal's arrival in English has been narrated as a story of formal liberation, in which Anglophone poets took what they wanted and left the rest. This essay reads that account against the form's own structural logic, arguing that what w…

    https://doi.org/10.53456/lrlcs.2025.10.3.288

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    Implementation Research for Health Systems

    Dr. Farhan Qureshi, Dr. Lakshmi Pillai

    Lighthouse Studies in Public Health2025Public Health

    Efficacy trials tell you whether an intervention can work. This book is about the harder question of whether it does, once a district health system has to deliver it on its own budget with its own staff. Qureshi and Pillai set out the desig…

    https://doi.org/10.53456/book.2025.implementati

  12. BookOpen access

    The Multilingual Classroom

    Prof. Suresh Nair, Dr. Ishita Barua

    Lighthouse Education2025Education & Language

    Written for teachers who have thirty children and eleven home languages between them, and for the people who train those teachers. Every chapter pairs research evidence with classroom procedure, and every procedure has been used in an India…

    https://doi.org/10.53456/book.2025.multilingual

  13. JournalOpen access

    Journal of AI Ethics & Society

    Dr. Priya Venkataraman, IIIT Hyderabad

    Quarterly · ISSN 2456-81712019Computer Science

    The social, legal and normative dimensions of machine learning systems — fairness, accountability, governance and the labour that trains them.

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    Lighthouse Journal of Public Health

    Dr. Farhan Qureshi, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

    Quarterly · ISSN 2456-821X2018Public Health

    Population health, health systems, epidemiology and health policy, with an emphasis on low- and middle-income settings and on implementation rather than efficacy alone.

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    Lighthouse Journal of Education & Pedagogy

    Prof. Suresh Nair, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

    Biannual · ISSN 2456-81982017Education & Language

    Classroom research, curriculum and assessment, teacher education and the politics of schooling, with a focus on multilingual and under-resourced settings.

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    Lighthouse Review of Literature & Cultural Studies

    Prof. Zoya Rahman, Jamia Millia Islamia

    Quarterly · ISSN 2456-81392016Literature & Cultural Studies

    Criticism, comparative literature, translation studies and cultural theory, with a standing commitment to writing in and about South Asian languages alongside the Anglophone canon.

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    Lighthouse Journal of Management & Organisation

    Prof. Rajesh Iyer, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

    Quarterly · ISSN 2456-81552015Business & Management

    Empirical management research on organisations in emerging economies — strategy, operations, organisational behaviour and the informal firm.