Given below is a selection of papers written and presentations that Nirantar has made between April 2005-April 2009. This list is indicative and not exhaustive.

'Tradition and Modernity in School textbooks' Paper presented at a Study Week on Gender, Organised by Uma Chakravarti and the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, June 2010

Presentation on Literacy for Empowerment at the UNESCO Literacy Day award ceremony, Paris, 8 September 2009

'Mainstreaming the Marginal: Muslim Women's Education' and 'Devising the Nation: A Feminist Critique of Language Textbooks in India', papers presented at the International Seminar on Democratic and Secular Education, Kerala, December 2008

'Writing that Makes Waves: Treading Waters of Language, Literacy and Power,' presentation on Khabar Lahariya as a 'best practice' at the Writers and Literary Translators International Congress (WALTIC), Stockholm, June 2008.

Plenary Speech on Adult Literacy, Sexuality and Self Help Groups, [LINK TO SPEECH - ATTACHED AS PDF] at the Indian Association of Women's Studies Conference, Lucknow February 2008

'Microcredit, Poverty Alleviation and Women's Empowerment'. Presentation at the ITROW Institute on Women, Leadership and Community organised in New Delhi by University of Maryland (Towson), January 2008

'Gender Perspective on Quality Adult Literacy,' presentation at International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) meeting, Nairobi 2007.

'Civil Society Initiatives on Gender and Education', presentation at the Commonwealth Conference, Jamaica, 2006.

'Gender and Information,' presentation at a Conference on Gender and Education organized by Kapal Perempuan, Indonesia, December 2006.

'A Vision for SHGs in Rajasthan' presentation at Round Table organized by Aravalli, a network of organisations working on livelihood issues, and the Government of Rajasthan, Jaipur, September 2008.

'Women and the SHG Movement in India: Critical Challenges', session in a National Consultation on 'Strengthening Women's Voices in Budgets and Policies', organised by Centre for Budgeting and Governance Analysis (CBGA) and the Ministry of Women and Child Development, New Delhi 2008.

'SHGs and Women's Empowerment,' presentation at strategizing meeting of state governments on Empowerment and Livelihood Programmes, Ranchi, September 2008.

'Women's Literacy in the Mahila Samakhya Programme' (title to be finalised), by Malini Ghose and Dipta Bhog in Cartographies of Empowerment, to be published by Zubaan (forthcoming).

'Reflections on the Construction of Heteronormativity' by Jaya Sharma, in Development, Vol. 52, No. 1., pp. 52-55, 2009.

'The Hindutva Review of History: Rewriting Textbooks in India and in the United States', by Michael Witzel, Nandini Manjrekar, Kamala Visweswaran, Dipta Bhog and Uma Chakravarti, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (Winter/Spring 2009).

'Education, Gender and Citizenship: Analysing Experiences of Khabar Lahariya', by Shalini Joshi and Dipta Bhog, in Education, Gender and Empowerment: Perspectives from South Asia, UNESCO 2007.

'Writing for Adults' and 'Teaching-learning Pedagogies for Adults', by Shalini Joshi and Malini Ghose, chapters for a distance education course offered by Jawaharlal Nehru University and PALDIN, for educators, 2007.