 In 2007-08 Prasad was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania.He has been profiled by "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post".Prasad's writings include "Defying the Odds- The Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs" (2014), co-authored with Devesh Kapur and D. Syam Babu.