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The Takshashila Institution is a networked, next-generation public policy institution. A think tank that works on India's national interest, and a public policy school that equips talented p...
Anirudh Kanisetti and Utkarsh Narain join Aditya Ramanathan to discuss the most interesting stories of the week: China and the US are underg...
Four years after its inception, China's Strategic Support Force (SSF), which is responsible for cyber, space and electronic warfare, has bec...
How does someone who wants to influence policy actually do so outside of government? How does a policy career help transform the country, an...
V. K. Krishna Menon is probably India's most famous defence minister - especially for his role in the 1962 Sino-Indian War. But it turns out...
How has the Indian economy fared in 2019? From agricultural output to the GDP calculations, Apurva Kumar, Pranay Kotasthane, and Anupam Manu...
How did India's foreign policy hold up in 2019? From the ASAT test to Howdy Modi, Manoj Kewalramani, Pranay Kotasthane, Sankalp Gurjar and S...
What did 2019 mean for the Indian tech space? Rohan Seth talks to Utkarsh Narain and Prateek Waghre about how the debate has progressed in p...
The Union government is asking for inputs on a cybersecurity strategy for a new India. Takshashila's Tech Team, Prateek Waghre, Utkarsh Nara...
What happens when Amazon enters or leaves an Indian city? In this episode, Manoj Kewalramani talks to Anupam Manur and Rohan Seth about how...
What does the Personal Data Protection Bill say about linking Aadhar to social media? What exactly will the proposed Data Protection Authori...
What role do institutions of the state play in shaping government policy, and how do these institutions affect policy when in peril? In this...
China's fertility rate is down to just 1.6. The workforce is shrinking while the population of the elderly grows. At the same time, the now...
Getting to space has never been as easy as it is today, but this has also opened the doors for a new space race. In this episode, Aditya Ram...
The term "cyber warfare" has come into vogue in recent times, but nobody seems to know what it actually is. In this episode, Anirudh Kaniset...
After last week's annual summit, cracks seem to be appearing in NATO over Russia, Turkey, and even the USA. Is this anti-Soviet alliance fin...
In this week's Reading the Economist, Apurva Kumar and Suyash Desai join Anirudh Kanisetti to discuss global inequality and how bad policies...
Anirudh Kanisetti and Suyash Desai join Manoj Kewalramani to further unpack our report to India's Parliament on China's rise. This is part 2...
Takshashila researchers Manoj Kewalramani, Anirudh Kanisetti and Shibani Mehta unpack our latest research: a report to India's Parliament ab...
The Transgender Persons Bill that has been passed by Parliament has been widely decried by activists, but met with societal and political in...
Are new developments eroding the credibility of India's no first use policy? Is North Korea going to spark a crisis in the new year? In this...
Annual stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana is a major cause of pollution in North India and a serious public health crisis. While the prob...
Do hi-tech industries create regionally unbalanced development? If so, is it a problem governments can address? In this episode, Pranay Kota...
The post-Soviet military of Russia has evolved into a fighting force for the 21st century. How has Russia achieved this and how do the Russi...
What do dolphins, artificial intelligence, and brain-machine interfaces have to tell us about the future of war? Manoj Kewalramani, Anirudh...
How does China plan to use its expanding submarine fleet? And what does it mean for India? Aditya Ramanathan, Pranav RS and Suyash Desai div...
The US-South Korea alliance is on shaky ground. China is looking to expand its nuclear arsenal. The parallels between Sri Lankan and Indian...
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar's Ramnath Goenka Lecture last week was hailed by some as a landmark speech. But did it really lay ou...
Since the first mushroom cloud erupted over Hiroshima, there's been a strong belief that nukes have fundamentally changed international poli...
A New York Times report based on leaked internal Chinese documents sheds fresh light on the unprecedented crackdown on ethnic minorities in...
Why have Indian Twitter users started moving to Mastodon? What is the so-called Fediverse, and will it replace Twitter? Utkarsh Narain, Anir...
An unwieldy coalition is set to rule Spain but will it last? What good are aircraft carriers in today's world? How are online platforms like...
The IndiGen project will map genes across India's ethnic groups to discover clinically actionable genetic information. Shambhavi Naik, Prana...
New technologies are pushing the boundaries of how long humans beings can lead healthy lives. In this episode, Manoj Kewalramani, Shambhavi...
Was Jawaharlal Nehru a starry-eyed foreign policy optimist? Did he have a more realist strategy than we like to think? And how did his actio...
How will climate change transform societies and economies? What solutions do we have ready right now? Australian climate change scholar Prof...
Why are nuclear arms control agreement between the US and Russia falling apart or under pressure? What new dangers do they pose? And what ca...
How is the post-election politics shaping up in Afghanistan? What is the prospect of peace after the Presidential elections in September? Pr...
How should great powers support local governments fighting insurgencies? And is the Indian Army's Cold Start doctrine still relevant? In thi...
On this episode, Dr Manpreet Sethi, distinguished fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies, tells Aditya Ramanathan and Pranav RS why nucl...
What is realism in international relations? Where are the Indian realists? And what do they think of the India-China relationship? Prof. Raj...
China's nuclear arsenal has evolved and expanded since its first nuclear test in 1964. In this episode, Sankalp Gurjar talks to Pranav RS an...
Standard economic wisdom tells you people are self-interested, rational actors. But behavioural science says otherwise. How can we better un...
A new paper has made some interesting recommendations for how India's armed forces can manage the challenge from China. But are they feasibl...
In the last two decades, Africa has seen extraordinary leaps in access to mobile phones, sparking an IT revolution across the continent. And...
As CCTVs become more ubiquitous in Indian cities and facial recognition algorithms become more advanced, we may be moving towards a world wh...
With an election in limbo and uncertain peace talks, Afghanistan's long war could pack some surprises for India. In this special episode, Ni...
The informal summit in Mamallapuram between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping may have generated photo ops, but does it...
In the recent past, In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) or assisted reproductive technologies has enabled women of older age to bear children. What...
Viktor Orbán's setback in Budapest; Japan's Naruhito faces royal restrictions; psychedelics could treat depression; and China's uncomfortabl...
The 1962 war with China scarred India and had a lasting impact on its politics. But why did the war break out? How did the world react? And...