All Things Policy
Takshashila Institution
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A daily podcast from the Takshashila Institution that breaks down complex economic and geopolitical ideas through the lens of current events. Each weekday, researchers explore topics such as automation, urban congestion, and shifting regional geopolitics. Designed for busy professionals and curious students alike, it offers accessible insights into global affairs.
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Geospatial Technology and India's Monsoon Crisis 12.08.2026 34minGeospatial data can predict where a flood will happen. Satellite imagery can identify vulnerable settlements before disaster strikes. Real-time mapping can guide evacuation decisions. India has all these tools. Yet our early warning systems remain fragmented, slow, and disconnected. In this episode of All Things Policy, host Kavya Rai sits with Dr Y. Nithiyanandam as he explains what needs to change in how we coordinate disaster response and what works in other countries.All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
Pakistan and the Taliban: From Allies to Adversaries 11.08.2026 23minFive years since the Taliban's returned to power in Kabul, ties between Pakistan-Afghanistan have steadily deteriorated reaching a new low. In this episode of All Things Policy, Aishwaria Sonavane speaks to Islamabad-based scholar and investigative journalist Natasha Matloob about what went wrong between the traditional allies. They look beyond the capitals to understand how communities along the border are experiencing the conflict, whether Kabul’s diplomatic promises holds up on the ground, who bears the economic costs of the confrontation, and whether this is a permanent rupture or just another cycle in a relationship that has survived decades of turbulence.All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
Indian Radius | Europe’s New Place in Indian Foreign Policy 10.08.2026 28minIn this episode of The Indian Radius series, Vanshika Saraf joins Shobhankita Reddy to examine the progress of the India–EU Trade and Technology Council. The discussion looks at cooperation on open source technologies, start-up ecosystems, critical minerals, and a prospective association with Horizon Europe. They also briefly discuss the Indian President’s visits to Moldova, North Macedonia and Romania. These engagements reflect India’s effort to diversify its European outreach and create new opportunities in trade, investment, technology and institutional cooperation.All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
Sanctions and Economic Statecraft 07.08.2026 1h 23minMore than a quarter of the world's countries now live under sanctions. They have become the West's instrument of choice—the thing governments reach for when war is unthinkable and doing nothing is unacceptable. Freeze the reserves, cut off the banks, choke the exports, and force a government to change course without firing a shot. The fashionable verdict, after Russia's economy failed to collapse, is that sanctions simply don't work. In this episode of Turbulence, Anupam Manur is joined by Mark Harrison, a Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick, one of the world's foremost economic historians of war and coercion, and co-editor of Economic Warfare and Sanctions since 1688. Reading three centuries of evidence, Harrison finds an interesting pattern: economic pressure has worked only when backed by force or the credible threat of it, which is the one thing the modern sanctions regime was built to avoid. The conversation runs from Napoleon's blockades to the chip war, asks why targets adapt faster than senders expect, and turns on an uncomfortable question for a country like India, caught between the sanctioners and the sanctioned.All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
China Gives India "Strategic Breadcrumbs" 06.08.2026 41minAs India and China navigate the paradoxes of their post-Galwan ties, stressors ranging from Delhi-Washington ties to a competition over influence in the Indo-Pacific continue to plague a strategic "reset." In this episode of 'All Things Policy', Anushka Saxena quizzes Saheb Singh Chadha on his latest research paper explaining China's India policy of "Strategic breadcrumbing." Saheb delves into the boundary question and the challenges posed by Beijing's sustained use of economic coercion, while arguing that the current thaw is nothing more than a pause before a new storm takes over the ties.Read his full paper, 'Threading The Needle', here: https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2026/07/threading-the-needle-indias-path-forward-with-china.All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
Aboard Starship, The Largest Rocket Ever 05.08.2026 28minSpaceX, which has built the largest satellite internet constellation and has also made history with the largest IPO in the world is now testing the largest rocket ever developed. Recently, the Starship, as the rocket is being called, completed its 13th test flight. But what is Starship? What does its success mean for the space sector in the US and beyond? And, what does it mean for the space race? To unpack these questions, Takshashila's tech geopolitics researcher Lokendra Sharma is joined by Ashwin Prasad, Takshashila’s space researcher who closely follows SpaceX related developments. The Takshashila Institution runs a four-week Expert Capsule Course on Space Power, covering India's space reforms, the Outer Space Treaty, megaconstellations, and the military space strategies of India and China. Cohort 4 runs 5 September to 10 October 2026. Applications close 31 August. Apply here: https://takshashila.org.in/pages/policy-school/ecc-space-power.htmlIf you often think about space and India's foray into it, then we think you may like to take the Technopolitik survey designed by the Takshashila Institution. It aims to assess what people think about how India should navigate high-tech geopolitics. Take the survey here: tinyurl.com/technopolitikAll Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
Thorny Security Relations Between India and the US? 04.08.2026 27minU.S. Under Secretary of War for Policy, Elbridge Colby, recently critiqued what he called a "collective “middle powers” strategy". In this episode, Kripa Koshy (Staff Programme Manager) sits down with Brigadier Anil Raman (Retd) (Head, Defence Fellowship Programme) to analyse the U.S.' shift toward a more transactional, burden-sharing approach to global security and examine how India can navigate these evolving expectations.All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
Can China's Open-Weight Models Help India's AI Sovereignty? 03.08.2026 36minLast month, China hosted the ninth iteration of its World AI Conference in Shanghai. Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the event for the first time in nine years, and teasing out his speech beyond the rhetoric leaves some important takeaways. Meanwhile, companies around the world are turning to open-weight models from China that increasingly deliver near-frontier capability at a fraction of the cost. Join three researchers from the Takshashila Institution - Shobhankita Reddy, Amit Kumar and Bharath Reddy - as they make sense of what all this means for India. Read on - https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/lets-make-china-work-for-us-securely-building-indias-domestic-compute-keeping-good-terms-with-us-pax-silica-anthropic-101784679849823.html and https://eyeonchina.substack.com/p/the-symphony-of-global-ai All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
Technology & Geo-Economic Disruption — The AI Shock 31.07.2026 1h 26minArtificial intelligence is being sold as the biggest economic shock in a generation, a productivity revolution that will decide which countries grow rich and which fall behind. The machinery of it has already become a contest of power: chips have become chokepoints, compute is rationed by export controls, and the routine coding and back-office work that lifted millions across the developing world is squarely in the crosshairs. In this episode of Turbulence, Anupam Manur is joined by two guides to the two halves of the story. Pranay Kotasthane maps the geopolitics of AI, including the chips, the compute, and the contest for power. Economist Ashish Kulkarni brings in the economics and answers whether the productivity boom is real or overhyped, and who actually captures the gains. Together, they work through the question that matters most for India: does AI offer the developing world a shortcut up the ladder, or kick it away? Also, whether export controls actually work, and whether India should build its own "sovereign AI" or simply buy it in.All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
Whose Forest Is It Anyway? 30.07.2026 41minThe science of population biology and the coexistence debate with predators, how protected areas actually get expanded and monitored on the ground, and whose voices are heard in that process. This episode walks us through the science, the governance mechanics, and the on-the-ground reality of making any of this actually work.All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
The Hidden Government Debt 29.07.2026 29minGovernments can make debt less visible, but they can't make it disappear. In this episode of All Things Policy, Kripa Koshy speaks with Sarthak Pradhan about off-budget borrowing - the incentives that drive it, its implications for public finances and democratic accountability. Drawing on examples from across India, they explore why these liabilities matter and discuss reforms that could bring hidden liabilities back into the public eye.Read more: https://fincomindia.nic.in/asset/doc/commission-reports/16th-FC/studies/commission/A%20Study%20of%20Off-Budget%20Borrowings%20in%20India%20by%20WB.pdfAll Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
India-UK Trade Deal 28.07.2026 22minIndia and the UK have signed a landmark trade agreement—but what does it really mean? In this episode, Anisree Suresh and Suman Joshi discuss the contours of the recently signed India-UK CETA. In addition to unpacking the key provisions of the India–UK CETA, who stands to gain, what was left out, we also try to understand the changing nature of FTAs and why issues like carbon border taxes and industrial policy may matter as much as tariff cuts.All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
The New Phase of Conflict in West Asia 27.07.2026 33minIn this episode of All Things Policy, Aishwaria Sonavane speaks with Raja Karthikeya about the second phase of the US–Iran military conflict and its wider implications. The conversation examines India’s role, the opening of a new front involving the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, and the future of the US military presence in the Gulf.All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
The Future of Money 24.07.2026 1h 3minThe US dollar sits at the centre of almost everything from the reserves of central banks, the pricing of oil to the settlement of cross-border debt. Lately that centre looks less solid: central banks are stockpiling gold, countries are settling trade in their own currencies, digital money is spreading, and there's open talk of payment systems built to bypass the dollar altogether. Is the dollar's reign ending and why?In this episode of Turbulence, Anupam Manur is joined by Barry Eichengreen, the Berkeley economist and historian of how global currencies rise and fall, author of Exorbitant Privilege and the new Money Beyond Borders, who thinks the age of dollar dominance really is drawing to a close, and that this time is different. What's wearing the dollar down is the United States itself: mounting debt, threats to the Federal Reserve's independence, eroding institutional strength, and a growing readiness to turn the currency into a weapon. The conversation runs from the renminbi's ceiling to stablecoins and digital money, asks whether a BRICS-style currency could ever work, and weighs where India fits into all of this.All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
Win-Win Energy Policy 23.07.2026 44minPublic conversation about energy and climate tends to default to a sense of unavoidable trade-offs, where every gain is assumed to carry an equal and offsetting loss. India's own record complicates that pessimism. Fly ash, once a disposal problem piling up in ash ponds beside thermal plants, now moves into cement, bricks, and roads. Clean cooking gas has reached households that had never had a connection. None of these was costless, and none was free of design flaws, but each shows that well-constructed policy can improve health, the environment, and the economy at the same time.Join Srinivasan Iyengar and Arindam Goswami as this episode of All Things Policy uses the ethanol debate as an entry point to a wider question: how India can keep designing pragmatic energy policy that treats electrification, biofuels, coal-bed methane, coal-to-methanol, and green ammonia as complements rather than rivals. The organising idea is not loyalty to any one fuel, but rigorous cost-benefit thinking anchored in scientific evidence, the country's resource endowment, and its developmental priorities.All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
MilTech and the Governance of Future Wars 22.07.2026 39minAs the wars in Ukraine and Iran have evolved, military technologies ranging from drones and lethal autonomous weapons are becoming a matter of great debate across global platforms. In this episode of 'All Things Policy', Manoj Harjani from RSIS, Singapore, sheds light on how military technologies are shaping procurement policies and how global governance debates on LAWS and military AI are attempting to establish norms and best practices. He also discusses Singaporean lessons and perspectives on defence procurement. Read his latest paper on these debates here: https://rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publication/idss/ip26076-framing-expectations-for-the-fourth-reaim-summit/.All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
Tech Sovereignty, Geopolitics, and Open Source 21.07.2026 53minIn this episode, Shobhankita Reddy, research analyst at the Takshashila Institution, and Sai Rahul Poruri, CEO of the FOSS United Foundation, sit down to unpack the nuances of tech sovereignty, arguing that it is not about absolute self-sufficiency, but rather about having the freedom to choose and avoiding proprietary vendor lock-in. They discuss ways in which the open source ecosystem can help secure a nation's long-term technological resilience.This discussion was recorded during Takshashila’s Academic Conference (June 2026) for the 44th cohort of the Graduate Certificate in Public Policy. Applications for the September cohort are now open. Join us to participate in such conversations at the next iteration of the Academic Conference!All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
NGO Service Delivery And Civic Society Partnerships 20.07.2026 32minHost Malathi Renati sits down with Ankita J Chakkraborty (Trustee & Treasurer, Avant Welfare Foundation) to unpack how NGOs actually deliver services on the ground and what real partnership with government looks like, beyond the funding buzzwords.We cover the fragmented NGO landscape (3M+ registered NGOs, one of the largest non-profit ecosystems globally), the compliance runway for young NGOs seeking CSR recognition, PPP models in public health like Karuna Trust's PHC management, and whether CSR money is built for sustained infrastructure work or just visibility.All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
Tariffs and Trade Disruption — Trump and Beyond 17.07.2026 1h 27minTariffs are back, industrial policy is fashionable again, and over the past year the United States, the country that helped build and maintain the open trading system, has spent its energy tearing holes in it, taxing allies and rivals alike. The popular verdict in India is grim: a global trade war is on, the rules-based order is finished, and we are caught in the crossfire. But is that really what's happening?In this episode of Turbulence, Anupam Manur is joined by Devashish Mitra — Professor of Economics at Syracuse University's Maxwell School, and the economist who has written extensively on the political economy of trade policy. His answer is bracing on two counts. Tariffs, he argues, can't do what they promise: trade balances are governed by macroeconomics, not trade policy, and the cost of a tariff falls largely on the country that imposes it. And for India, the more uncomfortable truth is that the binding constraint was never Washington, but it's India's own protectionism. The conversation runs from Trump's tariffs to the wider drift toward industrial policy and "friend-shoring," to what the future of trade might look like and what India should actually do about it.All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in -
India's Water Troubles 16.07.2026 38minFrom the Indus Waters Treaty to the Brahmaputra's origins on the Tibetan Plateau, India's water security sits at the intersection of climate stress, outdated irrigation infrastructure, and some of the most contested river systems in the world. In this episode of All Things Policy, Adya Madhavan sits down with Maj Gen Akash Kaushik, author of India's Water Security: Threats, Strategies and Solutions, about what's really driving the crisis, and who India needs to worry about most.All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in
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