Samanth Subramanian on the Fragile and Resilient Technologies that Bind Us
Today my guest is Samanth Subramanian, who is a journalist and writer and the author of the recent books The Web Beneath the Waves and A Dom...
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Through conversations with top thinkers in the social sciences and beyond, economist Shruti Rajagopalan explores the ideas that will propel India forward.
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Listen to Ideas of India, a Science & Medicine podcast by Shruti Rajagopalan. Stream 163 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Kapur on India's Precocious Development Odyssey
Today my guests are Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Kapur. Arvind is a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and...
V. Anantha Nageswaran on Surveying the Growth and Financialization of the Indian Economy
Today my guest is Dr. V Anantha Nageswaran , who is currently serving as the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India. He is also t...
Ornit Shani and Rohit De on Assembling India's Constitution
Today my guests are Ornit Shani and Rohit De , historians and the authors of the latest book Assembling India's Constitution . Ornit Shani i...
Pranay Kotasthane on the Political Economy of Rare Earths and Critical Minerals
Today my guest is Pranay Kotasthane who is the deputy director of the Takshashila Institution and chairs the High Tech Geopolitics Programme...
Nachiket Mor on Rethinking India's Healthcare System
Today my guest is Nachiket Mor , a health economist whose work focuses on the design of national and regional health systems. He is a visiti...
Akshay Jaitly on the Making of a Modern Indian Law Firm
Today my guest is Akshay Jaitly , the author of the recent book, Trilegal: The Making of a Modern Indian Law Firm . He is one of the founder...
Renuka Sane on Regulatory Frameworks, Rule of Law, and Pensions Reforms in India
Today my guest is Renuka Sane who is the managing director of Managing Director of Trustbridge . An institution that seeks to improve India'...
Snigdha Poonam on the Political Economy of Transnational Scams
Today my guest is Snigdha Poonam who is a journalist and writer. She is the author of the new book Scamlands and also the author of the 2018...
2025 in Review
Shruti and Ideas of India producer Dallas Floer sit down for the 2025 end-of-year episode. They look back at key themes and top episodes fro...
Ammu Lavanya on How Foreign Capital Changed Indian Bank Lending
Our seventh and final scholar in the series is Ammu Lavanya , a PhD candidate in Economics at George Washington University. Her research is...
Nayantara Biswas on Demand- and Supply-Side Interventions in India's Maternal Health Policy
Our sixth scholar in the series is Nayantara Biswas is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She recei...
Karthik Narayan on Measuring the Effects of Unscheduled vs. Scheduled Monetary Policy Announcements
Our fifth scholar in the series is Karthik Narayan , who is a doctoral candidate in Economics at Nuffield College and at the Department of E...
Asad Tariq on Electoral Redistricting and Public Goods Provision in India
Our fourth scholar in the series is Asad Tariq , who is a doctoral candidate in Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi....
Chetana Sabnis on The Intimacy Contract and the Indian State
Our third scholar in the series is Chetana Sabnis , who is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Political Science at Yale University. H...
Sunny Rai on Using Large Language Models to Understand the Depiction of Shame and Pride in Bollywood versus Hollywood
Our second scholar in the series is Sunny Rai , who is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Computer and Information Science Universit...
Kartik Srivastava on Referral-Based Hiring, Caste Networks, and Breaking Barriers in India's Labor Markets
Our first scholar in the series is Kartik Srivastava , who is a PhD candidate at the Kennedy School at Harvard University. Before this, he r...
Narayani Basu on K. M. Panikkar: India's Impossible Man
Today my guest is Narayani Basu, who is a historian and the author of the latest book, A Man for All Seasons: The Life of K. M. Panikkar . H...
Yamini Aiyar Schools Us on Education Policy in India
Today my guest is Yamini Aiyar , who is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown Univers...
Rathin Roy on How India Slices the Fiscal Pie
Today my guest is Rathin Roy , who's a Distinguished Fellow at the Kautilya School of Public Policy and a Visiting Senior Fellow at ODI Glob...
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