Chandan Kumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 204144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chandan Kumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chandan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumar |
| SIGNATURE | KUMAR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Christ University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2351-2442 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Heatwave Impacts and Resilience Mechanisms in Urban Informal Settlements in India: A Systematic Review
This study explores the impacts of heatwaves in urban informal settlements in India and examines the resilience strategies adopted to mitigate these effects. Using a systematic review process aligned with PRISMA guidelines, it synthesises evidence from 24 selected peer-reviewed studies published between 2000 and 2024, sourced from Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed and Google Scholar. Studies were screened based on predefined inclusion and exclusion …
The Entangled and Polyphonic Dynamics of Folk Memory: The Legend of Kadamattathu Kathanar
As memory scholars navigate towards a third wave in memory studies, recent debates have redefined how communities remember and re-narrate the past. Folklore, as a living form of cultural expression, offers a vital space in which to examine these processes of remembering. This article adopts an integrated framework, focusing on a folk phenomenon to explore how collective and individual memories interact, revealing their coordination and conflict t…
A pair model to describe the life expectancy at birth in India
Dyslexia, Memoir, and the Epiphanic Tapestry of Resilience: A Disability Studies Reframing
This article intervenes in critical disability studies debates on resilience by foregrounding its performative and narrative dimensions, particularly the role of epiphanic moments in dyslexic life writing. Through a close reading of three American memoirs— My Dyslexia by Philip Schultz, Ambitious by Likewise, and Backwords Forword by Catherine A. Hirschman—this study examines how dyslexic individuals narrate and perform resilience in ways that ch…
Unprecedented rainfall events increase the magnitude of design storms
Climate change, driven by human activities and increasing greenhouse gas emissions, is pushing Earth’s climate toward a warmer state, as evidenced by long-term observations. The frequency and intensity of unprecedented rainfall events have increased in recent years, underscoring the urgent need to revise design storms and depth-duration frequency (DDF) curves to better adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change. This study used a serial …
Wealth-related inequalities in handwashing with water and soap at critical times among mothers/caregivers of children under-five years in rural Afghanistan: A decomposition analysis
Handwashing with water and soap is a fundamental preventive behaviour, yet substantial socio-economic inequalities shape hygiene practices. This study assessed the magnitude and determinants of inequalities in reported handwashing behaviour among households in Afghanistan. Inequality was examined using concentration curves and concentration indices, while the Erreygers decomposition method was employed to identify the contributions of socio-demog…
Discourse Of Dissent: Languaging Resistance And Consciousness In Subaltern Literatures – Dalit And Black
The paper highlights the pivotal role of language in Afro-American and Dalit movements, emphasizing identity affirmation and resistance to dominant aesthetic structures. It examines language’s dynamic role in shaping subaltern experiences and fuelling revolutionary movements. While there is some analysis of the significance of literary trends and intellectual current in these parallel movements, a few scholarly inquiries integrate the linguistic …
Exploring the Landscape - A Comprehensive Literature Review on Apple Plant Leaf Disease Detection Approaches Using Deep Learning in Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh is a beautiful hilly state in Northern India. It is known for its rich agriculture, especially apple farming, which is very important to its economy. Early detection of apple leaf diseases is crucial to prevent their spread and maintain the health of apple farms. Plant diseases can harm both the quantity and quality of crops. Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a type of deep learning method, have been very useful in …
Adult children’s education and older parents’ cognitive health in India: Examining the pathways of parents’ empowered status and active engagement
The health and well-being of older parents, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) like India, depend on adult children. As such, using the 2017–18 wave 1 of the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI), we examined (1) the association between adult children’s education and older parents’ cognitive health in India; (2) the extent to which this association is mediated by (a) parents’ empowered status and (b) their active engagement;…
Ensuring Food and Nutritional Security in the Arid Climate of Rajasthan, India: Culturally Rich Foods of the Thar Desert – The Case of Panchkutta
Echo Construction and Ad hoc Categories: Semantics of Group Reference in Magahi
Recent studies in the domain of heterogeneous plural indicate homogeneous and heterogeneous categories as two separate functional mechanisms. Given the strategic usage of language, the paper locates the pluralizing strategies in speech context and investigates their interpretive nature from the perspective of (non)/restrictive parametric features of categories like associative (APL), similative (SPL) and definite plural in Magahi (ISO639-2 mag), …
Multiple Determiners in Magahi: DP Structure and the Complex N
The paper, describing the fact that definiteness cannot be treated on par with the phi-features, suggests a pragmatic-oriented approach towards the phenomenon of multiple determiners in Magahi. It is a linguistic strategy to make the reference deictically (spatially and temporally) available in the context. The paper, providing the pragmatic justification for the phenomenon, argues in favour of a mixed structural account whereby the predicate rai…
Water as a symbol of regenerative force: A study of Margaret Laurence’s select novels
The present study entitled “Water as a Symbol of Regenerative Force: A Study of Margaret Laurence’s Select Novels” is proposes to investigate the water symbolism and water-related words in the novels of Margaret Laurence. She has been used many symbols, images, metaphors in her writings. This research paper focuses only on water symbolism and water-related words. She employed words such as, river, water, sea coast, pools, beaches, ocean, rain, an…
Social desirability and under-reporting of smokeless tobacco use among reproductive age women: Evidence from National Family Health Survey
This study argues that the current survey estimates misconstrue the authentic prevalence of tobacco use among women in India, including pregnant and lactating women. Due to social desirability or the presence of a third person during the survey interview, those respondents who do not report their tobacco use status are also more likely to forego essential support for successful tobacco cessation. Survey methodology must be strengthened to avert t…
Mixed Effect of Alcohol, Smoking, and Smokeless Tobacco Use on Hypertension among Adult Population in India: A Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Study
Sporadic evidence is available on the association of consuming multiple substances with the risk of hypertension among adults in India where there is a substantial rise in cases. This study assesses the mutually exclusive and mixed consumption patterns of alcohol, tobacco smoking and smokeless tobacco use and their association with hypertension among the adult population in India. Nationally representative samples of men and women drawn from the …
An update on explaining the rural-urban gap in under-five mortality in India
The existing rural-urban gap in under-five mortality suggests that the social and health policies need to be need to reach rural children from poor families and uneducated mothers. This call for attention to ensure that the future programme must emphasize mothers from economically and educationally disadvantaged sections. While there should be more emphasis on equal access to health care facilities by the rural population, there should also be an…
Rising burden of overweight and obesity among Indian adults: Empirical insights for public health preparedness
With simultaneous efforts to address a huge burden of malnutrition, especially among children and younger women, India also encounters a mushrooming prevalence of overweight and obesity among the adult population. This study analysed data from two consecutive rounds of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) conducted in 2005–06 and 2015–16, to present the burden of overweight and obesity among adult men and women in India. The findings highligh…
Mapping the triple burden of smoking, smokeless tobacco and alcohol consumption among adults in 28,521 communities across 640 districts of India: A sex-stratified multilevel cross-sectional study
Smokeless tobacco control in India: Policy review and lessons for high-burden countries
We examined the magnitude of smokeless tobacco (SLT) use in India and identified policy gaps to ascertain the priorities for SLT control in India and other high SLT burden countries in the Southeast Asia region. We reviewed and analysed the legal and policy framework to identify policy gaps, options and priority areas to address the SLT burden in India and lessons thereof. In India, 21.4% adults, including 29.6% of men, 12.8% of women, use SLT wh…
Why NTM is a Challenge in Trade Relations? Evidence from India–Africa Agricultural Trade
India and Africa have experienced the rapid expansion of bilateral trade during the last two decades. The India–Africa trade is understudied in general and in the agriculture sector. Very few considerable efforts have been made to study the agro-trade restrictions between both the economies. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to empirically identify the recent evidence of non-tariff measures (NTMs) imposed on the agro-products between India …
NP/DP Parameter and Classifier Languages: A Case of Magahi
The paper presents the structural evidence for the existence of DP in the article-less language, Magahi. Article-less languages can be divided into two types: class languages and non-class languages. Most of the debate surrounding the treatment of article-less languages as DP/NP languages see only the binary distinction (article and non-article languages). In this paper, it is argued that the class-languages present richer structural evidences fo…
Public health interventions to improve maternal nutrition during pregnancy: A nationally representative study of iron and folic acid consumption and food supplements in India
Objective: Despite a reduction in maternal mortality in recent years, a high rate of anaemia and other nutrient inadequacies during pregnancy pose a serious threat to mothers and their children in the Global South. Using the framework of the WHO–Commission on Social Determinants of Health, this study examines the socioeconomic, programmatic and contextual factors associated with the consumption of iron and folic acid (IFA) tablets/syrup for at le…
Is the use of maternal healthcare among prospective mothers higher in households that have experienced maternal death? Evidence from India
Essential maternity care services include providing antenatal, delivery and postnatal care in a continuum to avert excess maternal deaths. This study assesses whether there is any significant difference in the utilization of maternal healthcare services between women from households that experienced any maternal death and women from households that did not experience any maternal death. Data from India's District Level Households and Facility Sur…
Factors associated with maternal healthcare services utilization in nine high focus states in India: A multilevel analysis based on 14 385 communities in 292 districts
BACKGROUND: Studies have often ignored examining the role of community- and district-level factors in the utilization of maternity healthcare services, particularly in Indian contexts. The Social Determinants of Health framework emphasizes the role of governance and government policies, the measures for which are rarely incorporated in single-level individual analysis. This study examines factors associated with maternal healthcare utilization in…
Equity in maternal, newborn, and child health care coverage in India
BACKGROUND: Addressing inequitable coverage of maternal and child health care services among different socioeconomic strata of population and across states is an important part of India's contemporary health program. This has wide implications for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal targets. OBJECTIVE: This paper assesses the inequity in coverage of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) care services across household wealth qu…
Factors associated with maternal healthcare services utilization in nine high focus states in India: A multilevel analysis based on 14 385 communities in 292 districts
BACKGROUND: Studies have often ignored examining the role of community- and district-level factors in the utilization of maternity healthcare services, particularly in Indian contexts. The Social Determinants of Health framework emphasizes the role of governance and government policies, the measures for which are rarely incorporated in single-level individual analysis. This study examines factors associated with maternal healthcare utilization in…
Is the use of maternal healthcare among prospective mothers higher in households that have experienced maternal death? Evidence from India
Essential maternity care services include providing antenatal, delivery and postnatal care in a continuum to avert excess maternal deaths. This study assesses whether there is any significant difference in the utilization of maternal healthcare services between women from households that experienced any maternal death and women from households that did not experience any maternal death. Data from India's District Level Households and Facility Sur…
Equity in maternal, newborn, and child health care coverage in India
BACKGROUND: Addressing inequitable coverage of maternal and child health care services among different socioeconomic strata of population and across states is an important part of India's contemporary health program. This has wide implications for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal targets. OBJECTIVE: This paper assesses the inequity in coverage of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) care services across household wealth qu…
Individual Characteristics and Use of Maternal and Child Health Services by Adolescent Mothers in Niger
Factors associated with maternal healthcare services utilization in nine high focus states in India: A multilevel analysis based on 14 385 communities in 292 districts
BACKGROUND: Studies have often ignored examining the role of community- and district-level factors in the utilization of maternity healthcare services, particularly in Indian contexts. The Social Determinants of Health framework emphasizes the role of governance and government policies, the measures for which are rarely incorporated in single-level individual analysis. This study examines factors associated with maternal healthcare utilization in…
Is the use of maternal healthcare among prospective mothers higher in households that have experienced maternal death? Evidence from India
Essential maternity care services include providing antenatal, delivery and postnatal care in a continuum to avert excess maternal deaths. This study assesses whether there is any significant difference in the utilization of maternal healthcare services between women from households that experienced any maternal death and women from households that did not experience any maternal death. Data from India's District Level Households and Facility Sur…
Smokeless tobacco control in India: Policy review and lessons for high-burden countries
We examined the magnitude of smokeless tobacco (SLT) use in India and identified policy gaps to ascertain the priorities for SLT control in India and other high SLT burden countries in the Southeast Asia region. We reviewed and analysed the legal and policy framework to identify policy gaps, options and priority areas to address the SLT burden in India and lessons thereof. In India, 21.4% adults, including 29.6% of men, 12.8% of women, use SLT wh…
Why NTM is a Challenge in Trade Relations? Evidence from India–Africa Agricultural Trade
India and Africa have experienced the rapid expansion of bilateral trade during the last two decades. The India–Africa trade is understudied in general and in the agriculture sector. Very few considerable efforts have been made to study the agro-trade restrictions between both the economies. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to empirically identify the recent evidence of non-tariff measures (NTMs) imposed on the agro-products between India …
NP/DP Parameter and Classifier Languages: A Case of Magahi
The paper presents the structural evidence for the existence of DP in the article-less language, Magahi. Article-less languages can be divided into two types: class languages and non-class languages. Most of the debate surrounding the treatment of article-less languages as DP/NP languages see only the binary distinction (article and non-article languages). In this paper, it is argued that the class-languages present richer structural evidences fo…
Public health interventions to improve maternal nutrition during pregnancy: A nationally representative study of iron and folic acid consumption and food supplements in India
Objective: Despite a reduction in maternal mortality in recent years, a high rate of anaemia and other nutrient inadequacies during pregnancy pose a serious threat to mothers and their children in the Global South. Using the framework of the WHO–Commission on Social Determinants of Health, this study examines the socioeconomic, programmatic and contextual factors associated with the consumption of iron and folic acid (IFA) tablets/syrup for at le…
Rising burden of overweight and obesity among Indian adults: Empirical insights for public health preparedness
With simultaneous efforts to address a huge burden of malnutrition, especially among children and younger women, India also encounters a mushrooming prevalence of overweight and obesity among the adult population. This study analysed data from two consecutive rounds of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) conducted in 2005–06 and 2015–16, to present the burden of overweight and obesity among adult men and women in India. The findings highligh…
Mapping the triple burden of smoking, smokeless tobacco and alcohol consumption among adults in 28,521 communities across 640 districts of India: A sex-stratified multilevel cross-sectional study
Multiple Determiners in Magahi: DP Structure and the Complex N
The paper, describing the fact that definiteness cannot be treated on par with the phi-features, suggests a pragmatic-oriented approach towards the phenomenon of multiple determiners in Magahi. It is a linguistic strategy to make the reference deictically (spatially and temporally) available in the context. The paper, providing the pragmatic justification for the phenomenon, argues in favour of a mixed structural account whereby the predicate rai…
Water as a symbol of regenerative force: A study of Margaret Laurence’s select novels
The present study entitled “Water as a Symbol of Regenerative Force: A Study of Margaret Laurence’s Select Novels” is proposes to investigate the water symbolism and water-related words in the novels of Margaret Laurence. She has been used many symbols, images, metaphors in her writings. This research paper focuses only on water symbolism and water-related words. She employed words such as, river, water, sea coast, pools, beaches, ocean, rain, an…
Social desirability and under-reporting of smokeless tobacco use among reproductive age women: Evidence from National Family Health Survey
This study argues that the current survey estimates misconstrue the authentic prevalence of tobacco use among women in India, including pregnant and lactating women. Due to social desirability or the presence of a third person during the survey interview, those respondents who do not report their tobacco use status are also more likely to forego essential support for successful tobacco cessation. Survey methodology must be strengthened to avert t…
Mixed Effect of Alcohol, Smoking, and Smokeless Tobacco Use on Hypertension among Adult Population in India: A Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Study
Sporadic evidence is available on the association of consuming multiple substances with the risk of hypertension among adults in India where there is a substantial rise in cases. This study assesses the mutually exclusive and mixed consumption patterns of alcohol, tobacco smoking and smokeless tobacco use and their association with hypertension among the adult population in India. Nationally representative samples of men and women drawn from the …
An update on explaining the rural-urban gap in under-five mortality in India
The existing rural-urban gap in under-five mortality suggests that the social and health policies need to be need to reach rural children from poor families and uneducated mothers. This call for attention to ensure that the future programme must emphasize mothers from economically and educationally disadvantaged sections. While there should be more emphasis on equal access to health care facilities by the rural population, there should also be an…
Ensuring Food and Nutritional Security in the Arid Climate of Rajasthan, India: Culturally Rich Foods of the Thar Desert – The Case of Panchkutta
Echo Construction and Ad hoc Categories: Semantics of Group Reference in Magahi
Recent studies in the domain of heterogeneous plural indicate homogeneous and heterogeneous categories as two separate functional mechanisms. Given the strategic usage of language, the paper locates the pluralizing strategies in speech context and investigates their interpretive nature from the perspective of (non)/restrictive parametric features of categories like associative (APL), similative (SPL) and definite plural in Magahi (ISO639-2 mag), …
Discourse Of Dissent: Languaging Resistance And Consciousness In Subaltern Literatures – Dalit And Black
The paper highlights the pivotal role of language in Afro-American and Dalit movements, emphasizing identity affirmation and resistance to dominant aesthetic structures. It examines language’s dynamic role in shaping subaltern experiences and fuelling revolutionary movements. While there is some analysis of the significance of literary trends and intellectual current in these parallel movements, a few scholarly inquiries integrate the linguistic …
Exploring the Landscape - A Comprehensive Literature Review on Apple Plant Leaf Disease Detection Approaches Using Deep Learning in Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh is a beautiful hilly state in Northern India. It is known for its rich agriculture, especially apple farming, which is very important to its economy. Early detection of apple leaf diseases is crucial to prevent their spread and maintain the health of apple farms. Plant diseases can harm both the quantity and quality of crops. Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a type of deep learning method, have been very useful in …
Adult children’s education and older parents’ cognitive health in India: Examining the pathways of parents’ empowered status and active engagement
The health and well-being of older parents, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) like India, depend on adult children. As such, using the 2017–18 wave 1 of the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI), we examined (1) the association between adult children’s education and older parents’ cognitive health in India; (2) the extent to which this association is mediated by (a) parents’ empowered status and (b) their active engagement;…
Dyslexia, Memoir, and the Epiphanic Tapestry of Resilience: A Disability Studies Reframing
This article intervenes in critical disability studies debates on resilience by foregrounding its performative and narrative dimensions, particularly the role of epiphanic moments in dyslexic life writing. Through a close reading of three American memoirs— My Dyslexia by Philip Schultz, Ambitious by Likewise, and Backwords Forword by Catherine A. Hirschman—this study examines how dyslexic individuals narrate and perform resilience in ways that ch…
Unprecedented rainfall events increase the magnitude of design storms
Climate change, driven by human activities and increasing greenhouse gas emissions, is pushing Earth’s climate toward a warmer state, as evidenced by long-term observations. The frequency and intensity of unprecedented rainfall events have increased in recent years, underscoring the urgent need to revise design storms and depth-duration frequency (DDF) curves to better adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change. This study used a serial …
Wealth-related inequalities in handwashing with water and soap at critical times among mothers/caregivers of children under-five years in rural Afghanistan: A decomposition analysis
Handwashing with water and soap is a fundamental preventive behaviour, yet substantial socio-economic inequalities shape hygiene practices. This study assessed the magnitude and determinants of inequalities in reported handwashing behaviour among households in Afghanistan. Inequality was examined using concentration curves and concentration indices, while the Erreygers decomposition method was employed to identify the contributions of socio-demog…
Heatwave Impacts and Resilience Mechanisms in Urban Informal Settlements in India: A Systematic Review
This study explores the impacts of heatwaves in urban informal settlements in India and examines the resilience strategies adopted to mitigate these effects. Using a systematic review process aligned with PRISMA guidelines, it synthesises evidence from 24 selected peer-reviewed studies published between 2000 and 2024, sourced from Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed and Google Scholar. Studies were screened based on predefined inclusion and exclusion …
The Entangled and Polyphonic Dynamics of Folk Memory: The Legend of Kadamattathu Kathanar
As memory scholars navigate towards a third wave in memory studies, recent debates have redefined how communities remember and re-narrate the past. Folklore, as a living form of cultural expression, offers a vital space in which to examine these processes of remembering. This article adopts an integrated framework, focusing on a folk phenomenon to explore how collective and individual memories interact, revealing their coordination and conflict t…
Medicine (12 works) · Environmental health (11 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (8 works) · Population (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (5 works)