Rana Hasan on Harnessing the Economic Potential of Indian Cities
Today my guest is Rana Hasan who is the Director, Centre for Economic Growth at NCAER and Senior Affiliate Scholar at the Mercatus Center. P...
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Gaurav Chiplunkar on the Frictions in India's Labor Market
Today my guest is Gaurav Chiplunkar , who is an Assistant Professor in the Global Economies and Markets group at the Darden School of Busine...
Shreyas Narla and Kadambari Shah on the 'The 1991 Project'
Today my guests are my colleagues Shreyas Narla and Kadambari Shah . Shreyas is a research scholar and Kadambari is a research associate at...
M.R. Madhavan on Party Power and the Decline of India's Legislatures
Today my guest is M.R. Madhavan , co-founder and president of PRS Legislative Research . We talked about the role and purpose of the Rajya S...
Rahul Sagar on the Birth of Indian Nationalism
Today my guest is once again Rahul Sagar , who is a Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science at New York University Abu Dhabi...
Sajjid Chinoy on Whether India Faces another 1991 Moment
Today my guest is Sajjid Chinoy , managing director and chief India economist at J.P. Morgan. He is also currently serving as a part-time me...
Ritam Chaurey on Placing the Firm at the Center of India's Structural Transformation
Today my guest is Ritam Chaurey , who is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies . We...
Pratap Bhanu Mehta on Liberalism, Nihilism, and the Collapse of Sincerity
Today my guest is Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta, who is the Laurance Rockefeller Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton and former presi...
Shruti Rajagopalan and Milan Vaishnav on India's Delimitation Dilemma
Today we are releasing a webinar recording from April 24th where Milan Vaishnav and I had a conversation on delimitation in India. Milan is...
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...
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...