All Things Policy
Episodes
Women In Sports & Everything That Plays Around It
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Sowmya Prabhakar is in conversation with Aditi Mutatkar, Indian badminton player and silver medallist at the Commonwealth Games....
Forecasting 2023
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
in the first episode of the year, Pranay Kotasthane gets Takshashila team members to make some predictions for the year. We will review how these pred...
Towards a World Without War
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this conversation as Manoj Kewalramani talks to Sundeep Waslekar about the ideas in his new book “A World Without War: The History, Politi...
Mumbai Climate Action Plan and Beyond
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does India's financial epicentre need to reach its Net Zero goal by 2050? Is it overambitious, or are we too late already? Lubaina Rangwala, the ...
COP27 and Future of Climate Action
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Shrikrishna Upadhyaya quizzes Simrin on the developments at the COP 27 and the future of climate action. They discuss the loss and da...
RWAs & Public Policy Education
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Manoj Kewalramani talks to Sowmya Nandan and Malathi Renati about the challenges of grassroots governance by RWAs and how sound publi...
India’s China Challenge: Trade Deficit & PLI Schemes
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Despite tensions along the LAC remaining high for the past two years, India’s trade with China has continued to expand. What’s driving this trend?...
Understanding the Various Threads of the Weaving Sector
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Vijaya Krishnappa, co-founder of Kosha.ai and Sowmya Prabhakar unpack everything that goes into creating genuine handlooms, the layers...
Controlling Tobacco: Is Banning the Way to Go?
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, New Zealand passed a new law banning tobacco products for the next generation. In this episode of All Things Policy, Shambhavi Naik and Har...
What does the Digital Rupee mean for us?
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The RBI has recently announced a pilot of the digital rupee for wholesale and retail transactions. Central bank digital currencies are increasingly b...
Banning Anti-satellite tests: A food for thought?
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The United Nations General Assembly has approved a resolution that calls on member states to stop testing direct-ascent anti-satellite weapons. The mo...
Caste Networks and the Indian Economy
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do caste networks affect India's rural and urban economies? How do these networks impact economic mobility? Suman Joshi and Sarthak Pradhan discus...
Can India grow and green the planet?
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sridhar Krishna, Anupriya Mohta and Sudisha Mishra discuss how we can leverage Michael Porter’s framework for competitive advantage of nations and t...
National Suicide Prevention Strategy
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Shrikrishna Upadhyaya hosts Sachin Kalbag (Senior Fellow, Takshashila Institution) to unpack the strategy and discuss the multi-secto...
Motherhood Penalty: The Indian Experience
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How does motherhood affect women's participation in the labour markets? Are there key differences in an Indian context? Is there a rural-urban differe...
Clearing the Mess in India’s Drug Regulatory System
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Harshit Kukreja and Mahek Nankani discuss the challenges of substandard quality checks, poor recordkeeping and implementation loopholes in the Ind...
Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Manoj Kewalramani and Kingshuk Saha analyse Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy in this episode. They discuss why the Indo-Pacific pivot to global geopol...
Medical Crowdfunding : Boon or Bane?
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Out of pocket healthcare expenses form a large chunk of people's budget. Healthcare expenses have been pushing lakhs of people back in poverty. In thi...
An Open Tech Strategy for India
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Rohan Pai, Bharath Reddy and Rahul Poruri introduce our listeners to open tech and its features. They discuss why it is in prominence...
Equal Pay in Indian Sports
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Carl Jaison & Shrikrishna Upadhyaya briefly discuss the history of the equal pay movement, why women get paid less than men and the r...
Skill Development Ecosystem in India
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship is a fairly new Ministry founded to coordinate skill development efforts across India. Sowmya P...
Missiles: History, Design and Nuclear Race
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Missiles are intimately tied to the nuclear arms race. For the first time in 40 years, the Russian military has given the public an unprecedented look...
Zero-COVID protests in China
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past week, cities across China saw unprecedented demonstrations, as people took to the streets to call for an end to the country's zero-Covid...
Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology has released the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 for public consultation. This ...
Biological Reasoning: Kinship Financing
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kinship explains a lot of costly endeavours that people do. A lot of informal financing takes place through kin based networks. In this episode of Al...
Federalism and Health Sector in India
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In India, the Union and the State Governments play a role in the health sector. How are the responsibilities divided? What are some of the issues aris...
Elon Musk's Twitter
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Karthik Srinivasan, renowned social media consultant and author, speaks with Sachin Kalbag on what Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter means for political...
Why Should We Protect & Promote Our Languages?
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A loss of language is accompanied by a loss of history, heritage, cultural expression and identity. Nearly half of the world’s languages are endange...
What’s Driving Australia’s Indo-Pacific Policy?
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Australia has emerged as a key actor shaping the future trajectory of the Indo-Pacific. In this episode, Manoj Kewalramani speaks to Tim Watts, Assist...
Women & India's Sports Policies
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Malathi Renati, Associate Dean of Takshashila's Policy School and a sportsperson who has represented Karnataka in three sports, speaks with Pranay Kot...
India Must Take the Lead on Medical Pluralism
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
India has a long tradition of different systems of medicine. Medical pluralism looks at integrating these systems with modern evidence-based medicine....
Making Education More Accessible to Rural Women
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sudisha Mishra and Sowmya Nandan talk to Uthara Narayanan, founder of Buzz Women, an organization that works towards providing knowledge, skills, and ...
The Road Ahead for UPI
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rohan and Mahek discuss the recent paper published by RBI, and deconstruct the 'hidden' costs of UPI.
Reservations in India: The EWS Question
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The 103rd Amendment to the Constitution of India dealing with reservations for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) was upheld by the Supreme Court ...
Where’s China headed after the 20th Party Congress?
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Xi Jinping won an unprecedented third term as General Secretary at the Communist Party’s 20th National Congress in late October. This cemented his h...
Space Stations & Future of India's Human Spaceflight
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Pranav Satyanath talks to Aditya Ramanathan about his new discussion document, which questions the possibility of a Quad space statio...
Telecom Sector in India
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Shrikrishna hosts Aaditya Dighe to discuss foreign investment in the telecom sector, domestic manufacturing of telecom equipment, the ...
Competitive Federalism in India
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can Indian States compete with each other for investment and development? If so, how do we ensure that States - big & small and developed & underdevel...
CCI's Antitrust Verdicts Against Google
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Competition Commission of India has imposed fines and several restrictions in two antitrust verdicts against Google for abusing its market dominan...
Genetically Modified Mustard: A Step in the Right Direction
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of All Things Policy, Harshit Kukreja and Shambhavi Naik discuss genetically modified plants, their safety, efficacy and regulations.
A Holistic Assessment of MGNREGA
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sridhar Krishna and Sudisha Mishra carry out a holistic assessment of this scheme, covering themes such as objectives, benefits, shortcomings, outlay,...
Nation-States in Sports: Does Sportswashing Work?
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Jaison is joined by Jaideep Vaidya, sports journalist at The Signal who writes a weekly newsletter on the business of sports.
Biological Reasoning: Costly Information Theory and Learning Biases
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of All Things Policy, Harshit Kukreja and Carl Jaison discuss costly information theory, learning biases and their implication for pub...
The Promise and Peril of Lunar Exploration
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pranav R. Satyanath and Aditya Ramanathan discuss the goals of this US-led lunar programme and the new challenges it can create for outer space govern...
Newsroom Economics & Why It Matters
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Shrikrishna hosts Sachin, who has vast experience in running newsrooms, to discuss the importance of media freedom, business models of...
Interrogating Southern Asia’s Nuclear Dynamics
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Pranav Satyanath welcomes Dr Ashley J Tellis, a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to discuss the conti...
Transforming Justice Through Innovation & Technology
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sowmya Nandan and Shrikrishna Upadhyaya host Supriya Sankaran, co-founder of Agami India, engage in a wide-ranging conversation on ju...
Evaluating India's Efforts to Tackle Manual Scavenging
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mahek Nankani and Priyal Lyncia D’Almeida discuss some key data points and recommendations to address the issue in this episode of All Things Policy...
Why does India get only 1.64% of all global tourists?
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sridhar Krishna and Anupriya Mohta discuss how the Indian tourism industry has been on a decline since a little before the pandemic. However this sect...
Analysing India’s Higher Education Sector
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are some potential solutions to improve access and quality in higher education? Sarthak Pradhan and Suman Joshi discuss these questions in this e...
Supreme Court Ruling on Expanding Abortion Rights
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shambhavi Naik, Harshit Kukreja and Shrikrishna Upadhyaya analyse the judgement and its implications from a policy, medical science and legal viewpoin...
Escalation in the US-China Tech War
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Pranav Satyanath is joined by Pranay Kotasthane to unpack the contents of these documents, the objectives of the regulations and thei...
What is Millennial Subsidy and Why is it Coming to an End?
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shrikrishna Upadhyaya hosts Ritul Gaur and Saiyed Kamil to discuss millennial subsidy, economic cycles and the future of start-up funding and innovati...
Biological Reasoning: Kinship and Policy
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
People tend to undertake costly behaviour for their family and kin. In this episode of All Things Policy, Harshit Kukreja and Carl Jaison unpack this ...
FIFA WC 2022 & Future of Sports OTT market in India
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Harshit Kukreja hosts Carl Jaison who shares his thoughts on Viacom18’s decision to make the FIFA WC available to stream for free, the long-term...
Vaccine Nationalism
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Priyal D'almeida talks to Mahek Nankani about what Vaccine Nationalism is, it's implications on LMICs and what are the ways to tackle it.
Social Media’s Rule of Three
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shrikrishna hosts Pranay Kotasthane to discuss three interrelated mechanisms, namely, reference networks, Overton Window and disproportionate rewards ...
Land laws of West Bengal
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sudisha Mishra invites Rahul Sanghavi to discuss the land laws that have curtailed business growth in West Bengal, inadvertently impacting job creatio...
Preserving vernacular languages
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ritul Gaur and Sowmya Nandan are joined by Vasant Shetty (Co-Founder MyLang) and Aakash Athawasya (Co-host Kannada Gothilla Podcast) ...
Moonlighting and the Future of Employment
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Suman Joshi and Sridhar Krishna join Bharath Reddy in looking at issues around moonlighting and how the future of work might look like.
An Indian Approach to Tech Diplomacy
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Arjun Gargeyas discusses his recently published paper with Rohan Pai, and explains the nuances of an Indian approach to tech diplomac...
AI Hardware Ecosystem In India
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Arjun Gargeyas and Priyal D'almeida get into a conversation on AI hardware, the need for AI hardware policy for India, and the streng...
Reducing logistics costs in India
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anupam Manur and Sarthak Pradhan discuss the recent policy move's significance and the challenges ahead.
Is “Make in India” a distant dream or an impossible goal?
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sridhar Krishna speaks to Preeti Ahluwalia about creating manufacturing jobs in India. They discuss what the Indian manufacturing sector needs besides...
Math with CCP Characteristics
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Pranay Kotasthane and Manoj Kewalramani decode the math of CCP slogans.
Cycling to Work - Hear from the Bangalore Bicycle Mayor
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ritul Gaur and Sowmya Nandan speak to our guest, Sathya Sankaran. He has been working towards a sustainable vision for Bengaluru, cam...
Can sustainable cities create more jobs?
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anupriya Mohta and Sudisha Mishra discuss the role of sustainability in building new cities with a special focus on Gurugram.
Overcoming learning losses- lessons from the Tamil Nadu experiment
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sarthak Pradhan and Suman Joshi summarize findings of a new working paper titled -COVID-19 Learning Loss and Recovery: Panel Data Evidence from India ...
Western Australia’s Business Diplomacy in India
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Jaison speaks to Nashid on the various deals that were struck, the key Indian states Western Australia is focused on and much more.
Online Privacy 101 to Commemorate 5 Years of the Puttaswamy Judgement
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been 5 years since the Puttaswamy judgement on privacy. India’s data protection bill which came about as a result of this judgement has been ...
Gene Editing: What Do Americans Think?
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pew Research Centre conducted a survey to understand the public opinion on gene editing. Arjun Gargeyas talks to Priyal D’almeida about the results ...
Reintroduction of Cheetahs in India
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ananya Rao and Rohan Pai deliberate over the implications of bringing cheetahs back into the Indian ecosystem.
Credit, livelihoods and transforming communities
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sridhar Krishna talks to Smita and Ram, co-founders of RangDe, about the need for credit and how peer to peer lending can transform lives in a sustain...
Scihub and the Battle for Access
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of All Things Policy, Harshit Kukreja and Carl Jaison talk about Scihub, the ongoing litigation before the Delhi High Court, supply-de...
India-China Border Disengagement: From LAC to SCO
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shrikrishna Upadhyaya speaks to Manoj Kewalramani on the significance of the latest developments, its connection with the upcoming Shanghai Cooperatio...
How does China's Techplomacy Work?
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the Information Age, technology is slowly becoming a tool of foreign policy and diplomacy. Shrikrishna Upadhyaya speaks to Arjun Gargeyas on how Ch...
Australia's Space Ambitions: A Conversation with Enrico Palermo
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Aditya Ramanathan and Pranav Satyanath host the Head of the Australian Space Agency, Enrico Palermo, to learn about Australia's space...
Rationalising subsidies to create more fiscal space
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How much does India spend on subsidies? What is its implication? Can there be a better solution? In this episode, Pranay Kotasthane and Sarthak Pradha...
Why India's women labour force participation is low
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sudisha Mishra invites Nitya Maniktala to discuss the reasons behind this problem and what can actually help in the long run.
Gorbachev and his Nuclear Legacy
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Shirikrishna Upadhyaya talks to Pranav R Satyanath about Gorbachev's role in negotiating the most significant arms control agreements...
Solving India’s Transportation Problem
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ritul Gaur and Sowmya Nandan speak to our alum Anand A about his entrepreneurial journey in solving India’s transportation problem....
An Open Source Future for Science & Technology Research
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shambhavi Naik and Manoj Kewalramani discuss what this shift towards open access is likely to mean for individual researchers, journals and research e...
Will the Chip4 Alliance Work?
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since Pelosi's visit and Biden's CHIPS Act, news reports are emerging of kickstarting of the Chip4 Alliance. Priyal Lyncia D'Almeida talks to Arj...
Freebies - are they really free ?
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Recently the Supreme Court suggested constituting an expert body to look into “freebies” offered by political parties to voters. In this episode, ...
The Market for Blood
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Blood was always a scarce resource in the country. A demand-supply mismatch has always existed. In this episode of all things policy, Dr. Harshit Kukr...
Humans of AI - The Women Labour behind Data Annotation
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Carl Jaison speaks to Karishma Mehrotra, Journalist & Fulbright Scholar on her story about women from Ranchi and Mannarkad who play a...
Being Aware of Space Situational Awareness
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In April 2022, India and the United States signed a Memorandum of Understanding to share Space Situational Awareness (SSA) data. But what exactly is S...
Ease of doing business in Kolkata
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sudisha Mishra asks Rahul Sanghavi a businessman from Kolkata, pertinent questions regarding the business landscape in Kolkata and can businesses in K...
Reimagining justice delivery in India ft. SAMA
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ritul Gaur and Shrikrishna Upadhyay are joined by Pranjal Sinha and Akshetha Ashok, the Co-founders of SAMA, an ODR platform, about t...
Withdrawal of the Data Protection Bill
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Bharath Reddy speaks with Prateek Waghre and Tejasi Panjiar from Internet Freedom Foundation on the complicated legacy of the bill an...
Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan Visit
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Megha Pardhi and Manoj Kewalramani discuss the significance of this visit, the difference between the One China Principle and One Chi...
The rise of TB in India
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID -19 pandemic has caused an increase in Tuberculosis disease burden. In this episode, Dr. Harshit Kukreja and Priyal D’Almeida discuss TB, ...
IPL Digital Media Rights
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Bharath Reddy, Ritul Gaur and Rohan Pai unfold the implications of the big players investing in the digital media landscape, and why ...
The End of Happy Hours: Un-Liberalisation of Delhi's Excise Policy
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ritul Gaur, Pranay Kotasthane and Harshit Kukreja discuss Delhi's Excise policy, the importance of alcohol in a state's revenue and t...
Reviewing the NPT RevCon
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Pranav R Satyanath and Aditya Ramanathan discuss how these changes affect the deliberations at the RevCon.
The story of Article 370: Looking back and looking ahead
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Arghya Sengupta, Founder and Director of Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, walks Mihir Mahajan through Article 370 and the constitutional challenges the ...
India's manufacturing success depends on making its firms bigger
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sridhar Krishna and Minu Chawla discuss how recent labour reforms and other efforts could help alleviate some of India’s labour manufacturing woes.
Understanding the intricacies behind ONDC
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Arjun Gargeyas and Bharath Reddy talk to Mr. Sanjay Jain, a Fellow at iSPIRIT, on how exactly ONDC works and how it might evolve in t...
How can we contain the spread of Monkeypox in India?
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Priyal Lyncia D'Almeida talks to Rohan Pai and unravels all that is currently known about Monkeypox. She highlights the prevention measures that indiv...
Is China's Semiconductor Rise Inevitable?
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Priyal Lyncia D'Almeida talks to Arjun Gargeyas about why it is essential to watch out for the post-pandemic semiconductor rise of China.