The Road to 100 GW Nuclear Energy
India has an ambitious target of 100 GW of nuclear energy by 2047. The historic SHANTI Act of December 2025 and the second-stage PFBR reachi...
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Starlink and the Price of Dependence
In this episode, Aditya Ramanathan and Ashwin Prasad Rao discuss the ongoing debate over Starlink’s entry into India and the national securi...
America Votes | What Are We Watching?
In this second episode of America Votes, the All Things Policy series on the 2026 US midterm elections, Brig. Raman speaks with Professor Ry...
AI and India’s Electricity Market
India’s power system is becoming more complex as renewable energy grows and electricity demand becomes harder to predict. In this episode of...
The Inverse Law of Innovation
How does a young officer’s “Why not?” become a senior officer’s “Better not”? In this episode of All Things Policy, Dr Y. Nithiyanandam, Pro...
How China Makes Policy
China is often seen as a highly centralised system where policy is decided at the top and simply implemented by the bureaucracy. But is Chin...
A New Congress, A New Challenge for India-US Ties?
In this episode of All Things Policy, Aditi Palo speaks with Abhishek Kadiyala about the impacts of an altered US Congress composition on In...
America Votes | Why should India care?
In this inaugural episode of 'America Votes', All Things Policy's series covering the US mid-terms, Brigadier Anil Raman and Abhishek Kadiya...
The Limits of US-China Cooperation on AI Safety
Can the US and China cooperate on AI safety while competing to lead the technology’s development? Bharath Reddy and Shobhankita Reddy examin...
The Medical Wild East
A Chinese company engaged in semi-invasive brain-computer interface became the first firm globally to get regulatory approval for commercial...
Should Governments Read Science Fiction?
Science fiction has a habit of describing inventions decades before they're built: the submarine, the mobile phone, even the phrase "atomic...
Civic Innovation: What Works, What Doesn’t
In this episode, Sowmya Prabhakar is in conversation with Kuldeep Dantewadia about Civic Innovation: What Works, What Doesn't. The framework...
Cross-Border Strikes and Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations
In this episode of All Things Policy, Aishwaria Sonavane joins Adya Madhavan to unpack Pakistan’s escalating military strikes in Afghanistan...
Saudi Arabia’s Houthi Problem
In this episode of All Things Policy, Aishwaria Sonavane speaks to Raja Karthikeya about the origins of the Saudi-Houthi conflict, the evolu...
Mining, Money and the States
Mining in India is subject to a remarkably high number of levies, from royalty and auction premiums to DMF, NMET, cess and state-level charg...
Who Owns the View from Above?
Satellite imagery is no longer just about having better satellites or sharper images. In this episode of All Things Policy, Gopal Tomar spea...
Senior Citizen Policies: The Kerala Model
Kerala's 60-plus population has grown from 12.6% in 2011 to 18.7% today. The state's own projections put it near 30% by 2051. India as a who...
India's Electricity Woes & Solutions
Over the last decade, India's power sector has done few things correctly. Almost every household is connected, and we're adding solar and wi...
The Real Economics of Innovation Hubs
State governments love lobbying for premier institutes, hoping they'll magically turn into the next Silicon Valley. But without the right ec...
What If Your Biggest Launch Customer Is Yourself? | Space Launch 4
Rockets need things to launch. Increasingly, that demand comes from large satellite constellations whose spectrum and orbital filings are me...