He is a renowned academician in the field of Sociology and Social Sciences with a luminous career spanning over 30 years now. He recently retired as a Professor of Sociology at IIT Kanpur and has written almost 11 books, numerous research papers and his area of specilisation lies in Social Demographiy and Social Statistics, Neo-Social Movements, Social Development, Social Aspects of Science, Gandhian Theory, Representation of Health and Illness, Sociology of Gender Rights etc.