Kalyan Sankar MandalKalyan Sankar Mandal undertook this work at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta (CSSSC) as ICSSR Senior Fellow. Before joining CSSSC, he was professor of sociology, Public Policy and Management Group at the Indian Institute of Managemet Calcutta (IIMC), where he taught for more than 25 years. During the academic year 2013-14, he was Indian Council of Cultural Relations Visiting Professor at the Lund University, Sweden. Before joining IIMC in 1989, he taught at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune. The major area of his research interest is sociology of poverty, social welfare, and social policy, including business solutions for poverty. He is associated with a couple of NGOs and a not-for-profit company engaged in mitigating child malnutrition among the poor through social business. Read More Read Less