Publications & Books

A Short Description about Domestic, Wild and Pet Animals

By Dr. Antarjeeta Nayak & Dr. Ramakrishna Biswal

The book has been designed to make our younger ones learn about different types of animals and their habitat more effectively through pictures and small sentences. The book can be a perfect introductory tool for pre-school children to learn reading and writing English words, making sentences, and enhancing their vocabulary. The book can contribute to increasing focus and concentration of the child while having fun learning.

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50 Things Around You

By Dr. Antarjeeta Nayak & Dr. Ramakrishna Biswal

The book is designed to introduce the basic concepts to children that they find in their immediate surrounding. Each concept is associated with a picture that would help in better learning and retention. Further, basic communication skills like Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing of children can be strengthened as they would be using these concepts in their daily communication.

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know some persons around you

By Dr. Antarjeeta Nayak, Shri. Laxmikanta Nayak, and Dr. Ramakrishna Biswal

We live in a society and depend on each other for our daily needs. Knowing about persons around us would help children understand the value of other human beings in their lives. The book aims at introducing children briefly about some persons who play an important role in our lives as well as in the society. Further, children would learn some new concepts and improve their vocabulary easily through these brief descriptions of persons around them.

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Poverty: By Chance or By Choice

By Antarjeeta Nayak and Ramakrishna Biswal

“Why poor are poor? Who can cure poverty; ‘God’ or the ‘Government’?”‘NO POVERTY’ tops the list of Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Several government and non-government organizations are working towards ending poverty for a long time. But, much of their work and several anti-poverty policies have failed over the years because of a skewed understanding of poverty. Several theories and approaches, social scientists, and laureates often miss capturing the intrinsic cause of poverty. Ending poverty in all its forms requires an understanding of poverty in all its forms, including the nucleus of it.Careful attention has to be shown towards the pieces of evidence for making thoughtful assessments on what really impacts the poor and their poverty. The authors delve deepinto the human psyche to understand why the poor are poor through intriguing case-studies. Poverty: By Chance or By Choice is a book that can widen the horizons for a better understanding of the poor and the poverty.

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500 Must Know General Knowledge Questions

By ARDF / Dr. Ramakrishna Biswal

The children are curious by nature. 'Why the leaves are green,' 'How many days are there in a year,' 'Which is the fastest animal on earth,' and the like questions that children ask as they grow. 'Who,' 'Why,' 'What,' 'Where,' 'Which,' and 'How' ignites and stimulates the little minds. Some facts like this encourage a child's curiosity to explore more and more. The questions and answers given in this book can provide the children with the nuggets of information that could keep them engaged. This book contains a variety of information and facts designed for the children to enhance their general knowledge.

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TribaNomics: Rethinking Economics Through Tribal Realities

By Dr. Ramakrishna Biswal & co-authors

"TribaNomics: Rethinking Economics Through Tribal Realities," is the first book of its kind to place tribal realities at the center of economic thought, drawing a vital distinction between the tribal economy and tribal economics. While there exists a wide body of work on tribal livelihoods, subsistence systems, and marginalization, no book until now has sought to correlate established economic theories, principles, and models with the realities of tribal communities. At a time when mainstream economics often privileges growth over equity, and profit over people, this book turns its gaze towards communities who remind us that economies can be built on principles of reciprocity, collective stewardship, and harmony with nature. The book explores how tribal practices can expand, challenge, and enrich the core principles of economics. As the first comprehensive text that systematically integrates economic theory with sustainable tribal development, the book is a pioneering contribution to development studies and a foundational text that can guide curricula, research, and policymaking. For the very first time, this book has brought together economic theory and tribal practice in an integrated, comparative, and forward-looking manner. It is not only a contribution to academic discourse but also a blueprint for reshaping sustainable tribal development policy in India and beyond.

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Tribal Freedom Fighters of Odisha

By Dr. Ramakrishna Biswal & co-authors

The coffee table book, “Tribal Freedom Fighters of Odisha,” is a tribute to those who rose not for medals or memorials but to protect the pulse of their community and motherland. The book is an attempt to retrieve those luminous fragments of history and reassemble them into the narrative they always deserved. Odisha’s tribal freedom fighters were never rebels by chance; they were guardians by destiny. Their revolts were born from a deep moral economy of land, dignity, and ancestral rights. Their courage travelled through hills and rivers, speaking a language of sovereignty rooted in soil. Their struggle was not episodic but civilizational; not reactive but visionary. To celebrate them is to honor the very grammar of India’s freedom movement, whose earliest chapters were drafted in tribal homelands.

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The Psychonomics of Poverty

By Dr. Ramakrishna Biswal & co-authors

"The Psychonomics of Poverty" offers a deeply human exploration of poverty—not through statistics, equations, or policy frameworks, but through lived experience. It moves beyond income lines and economic models to examine the emotional and behavioral architecture of deprivation.

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