Sitemap - 2019 - Takshashila Dispatch

Ep. 230: 2019 in Review: The Indian Economy

Ep. 229: 2019 in Review: India and the World

Ep. 228: 2019 in Review: Tech in India

Ep. 227: Cyber Insecurity: What should India do in cyberspace?

Ep. 226: Beware, Warehouses!: Amazon's Fulfillment Centres and Local Economies

Ep. 225: Does the Government Want Your Data?

Ep. 224: Reading the Economist: Institutional Crises and Captures

Ep. 223: China: the Middle-Aged Kingdom

Ep. 221: Is Cyberwarfare Coming?

Ep. 220: Is NATO Going to Collapse?: The 70th Anniversary Episode

Ep. 219: Reading the Economist: The Rise and Fall of Economies

Ep. 218: What can India do about China?

Ep. 217: Why is China Powerful?

Ep. 216: The Tragedy of the Trans Bill

Ep. 215: Talking Nukes with Vipin Narang

Ep. 214: Extinguishing the Crop Burning Problem

Ep. 213: The Primacy of Bengaluru?

Ep. 212: Russia’s Military Renaissance

Ep. 211: Algorithms at War

Ep. 210: China’s Undersea Adventures

Ep. 209: Reading The Economist: From East Asian Politics to Technology Prejudices

Ep. 208: Auditing India’s Foreign Policy

Ep. 207: New Thinking on Old Nukes

Ep. 206: China’s Awful Secret

Ep. 205: Toot or Dare

Ep. 204: Reading the Economist: From Warships to Netflix

Ep. 203: India’s Genome Project

Ep. 202: Forever Young

Ep. 201: The Real Nehru

Ep. 200: Can We Stop A Climate Disaster?

Ep. 199: The Looming Shadow of Nuclear Weapons

Ep. 198: The Politics of Afghanistan: The Elections

Ep. 197: The Counterinsurgency Puzzle and the Utilities of Force

Ep. 196: Assuring Retaliation: Why India's Nuclear No-First-Use Doctrine Makes Sense

Ep. 195: Keepin’ it Real: Realism in Indian Foreign Policy

Ep. 194: China and the Bomb

Ep. 193: Predictably Indian

Ep. 192: India's Military Options Against China

Ep. 191: Digital Africa

Ep. 190: Cameras and Control

Ep. 189: India’s Afghan Conundrum

Ep. 188: Xi, Modi and the Prospects for India-China Relations

Ep. 187: The Moral Dilemmas of IVF

Ep. 186: Reading the Economist: From Hungarian Politics to Japanese Royals

Ep. 185: War on the Roof of the World

Ep. 184: The Missiles of October: The Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Ep. 183: Military Revolutions and the Future of War

Ep. 182: The Military Pensions Dilemma: Investing in Human Capital

Ep. 181: Reading the Economist: Smart Cars, Inflation, and Russia

Ep. 180: A Peculiar Alliance: The China-Pakistan Alliance

Ep. 179: A Meeting in Mamallapuram: Xi Visits India

Ep. 178: Eastern Promises: Why Does the India-Bangladesh Relationship Matter?

Ep. 177: The Fake News Conundrum: Singapore’s Gambit

Ep. 176: China’s Web of Influence and Power

Ep. 175: The Geopolitics of Online Worlds: What MMOs teach us about Economics and Politics

Ep. 174: Fighting Together: Joint Operations in the Armed Forces

Ep. 173: Getting Back on Track: Improving India’s Railway Network

Ep. 172: India's Economic Dilemmas: How to Fix the Slowdown

Ep. 171: The Promise and Tragedy of China: 70 Years of the People’s Republic

All Things Policy is Moving to IVM Podcasts!

Cryptocurrency Explained

On Killer Robots and Partisan Bubbles

A Climate Emergency: Policy Implications and Plausible Solutions

Reading The Economist: The Perils of Climate Change

Howdy Prime Minister?: Modi visits the United States

An Engine of Growth Sputters

Art Of The Deal In Kabul: A Businessman in Afghanistan

Setting the Desert on Fire: Attack on Saudi Oil

Reading The Economist: Immortality, Huawei And Apple

Libra Raj?

India's Podcasting Adventures

Speedy Redressal: Massive Fines and Road Safety

An Indian Trade Dilemma: RCEP and its Future

Reading The Economist: Assad, AI and Mugabe

Space, Incorporated: Private players and Indian space policy

The Future of Humanity

On Nukes and Bystanders

No Smoking: Banning E-Cigarettes in India

Reading The Economist

Political Resilience and the Chalukyas: Lessons from 11th Century India

On Nations and Power

Reading the Economist

RBI's Massive Transfer

How China Wins Without Fighting

Distance from Delhi: The experience of being in Bangalore

Financing India's Defence

India Needs a Chief of Defence Staff

India's Russia Conundrum

India's Economic Slump: The indicators and possible solutions

A Medieval Trade War

The Future of Jammu and Kashmir: The Way Forward

Reading The Economist: Currency wars, space debris and microeconomics

Bartering Privacy? The death of privacy and data analogies

Decoding The Chinese Art Of Strategy

The Clash Of The Titans: The Trade War in China's Perspective

Reading the Economist

The Wealth Of Nations

The Twilight of Arms Control: The End of the INF Treaty

Politics of Afghanistan: Talking to the Taliban

Witnessing China's Transformation

Reading the Economist

Shaking up the Labour Market: Andhra Pradesh and its new labour reforms

The Death of Privacy: AI and Privacy concerns

China's Military Ambitions: The New Defense White Paper

DNA Dilemmas: Genome Catalogue in India

Ending an Estrangement?

Pacific Ream: China’s Naval Base in Cambodia

Do these Genes Fit? DNA testing and congenital diseases

The French Digital Tax: A new headache for tech giants?

Parched Nation: Solving India's Water Crisis

Reading The Economist: Annoyed Penguins, Global Recession and Happiness

Sri Lanka's Uncomfortable SOFA: United States in Indian Ocean

Osaka Backtrack: The new Data Regime

Access DNAed: Discussing the DNA Tech Bill

China's Carrier Killers: The Anti Ship Missile in the South China Sea

Reading the Economist: Water Crises, Brexit and More

Inside Indian Diplomacy: A Conversation with Indrani Bagchi

Learning from War: Kargil, Pulwama and the Future

Weapons, Diplomacy and Mobs

Reading The Economist

Another Trump - Kim Meeting: The Future of nuclear North Korea

The G20 Summit

First-Use and its Critics: The Problem of Credibility

An Indian Space Strategy: What is India Going to do Next?

Pompeo's Visit to India: The Future of US-Indian Relations

A Chinese data trap? Data localization and Indian policy

Is the world getting any better? Battle deaths, digital economy and measuring national power

Why didn't Vijayanagara have a Navy?

Troubles in the Persian Gulf

India's Ocean?

Reading The Economist: Brexit, Airless tires and Shocking experiments

When Xi Met Modi

India Needs GMOs

Upheaval in Hong Kong

Reading the Economist: Trade in the Plant World, Magic Mushrooms and Mo Salah

Grossly Doubtful Production: A Mis-estimation Of India's GDP Growth Rate

A Master Class on Sea Power: Talking with Rear Admiral Shrikhande

Anti-Abortion Laws: Legality and Consequence.

The U.S Indo-Pacific Strategy: Discussing America's Plan

Reading The Economist- Intestinal Bacteria, Genital Mutilation, and Iraqi Sheikhs

The Tiananmen Square Massacre -- 30th Anniversary

A National Security Doctrine for India

Voting With Your Wallet- Exploring Ethical Consumerism

Understanding Chinese Power

The Promise of BIMSTEC

Reading The Economist- Jobs in Rich Countries, Tech Wars and Soda Tax

The Case For Defence Reforms

Will RuNet Ruin the Net?

Quotas- Are They Hurting the Prospects of Social Equity?

Butcher and Bolt: The Truth About Surgical Strikes

Huawei To Hell: The Future of Technology Geopolitics

Reading The Economist - More Cold War, Political Comedy, and Sleep Technology

Politicising The Military- Should Military Officers Be Allowed to Join Politics?

Teaching Soldiers- Is Military Education Inefficient?

Reading The Economist- Decline of Racial Bias, Left-Leaning Think-tanks and More

Cab Apps and Congestion- Why Are Cab Aggregators Jamming Our Roads?

Need Jobs? Build Cities.- Is Creating Additional State Capitals a Good Idea?

Mainstreaming Counterculture- How do counterculture movements end up as part of the mainstream?

A War of Ideas- Do Ancient Civilisations Explain Present Day Power Politics?

Pakistan's Nuclear Bluff- Is the Nasr Just an Intimidation Tactic?

Justice Denied- Is the Chief Justice Above the Law?

China And Masood Azhar- Why Did China Cave?

Poets and Kings: Then and Now

Marvel(ous) Geopolitics- What Does the MCU Teach Us About International Relations?

Recruiting Better Spies- How Do We Improve India's Intelligence Agency?

The Paradoxes of Prediction- Do Prediction Markets Affect Actual Outcomes?

China's Naval Might

Bubble Boy- A Bold New Age in Healthcare?

Belt And Road Forum II

Why Sri Lanka?

Tik For Tok- What Does the Ban Mean for Freedom of Expression?

Where No Tourist Has Gone Before

Affairs of the Heart

On Terrorists, Nukes, And Linguistic States

Coming Home

Breaking The Ice In The Arctic

The Politics Of National Security

To Gene or Not To Gene

Great Wall Of Trade

Break Up Big Tech?

The Emperor's New Norms

Robot Rules

India's Satellite Killers

Fixing Indian PhDs

What Is The Kra Canal?

Why Is Facebook Banning Pages?

Sat Wars

Dream Manifestos Science And Technology

Dream Manifestos: Manufacturing

Dream Manifestos: Judicial Reforms

Dream Manifestos: Foreign Policy

Dream Manifestos: Agriculture

Is All Charity Good?

Creative Accounting

Biowarfare Is Coming

India Works At Night

Counting Every Vote

China Shields a Terrorist

Brexit And Its Implications

Genetics Is Better Than Cure

The Mullah Omar Mystery

The Future Of India's Social Infrastructure

The CPC: China's Political Carnival

Trouncing Trump's Tariffs

Is Prohibition The Answer?

How Many Jobs Is India Really Creating?

Trump & Kim: The Art Of No Deal

What is India's New Ecommerce Policy?

The Struggle For Afghanistan's Future

The Limited War Paradox

What DNA Tells Us About Indians Past, Present and Future

Why the Demand for Special Category Status in Andhra Pradesh?

Should The Indian Government Regulate Social Media?

What Is the Jaish-e-Mohammad?

Should Publicly Funded Research Be Free?

The Pakistani Military-Jihadi Complex

India's Responses to Sub-conventional Warfare by Pakistan

Security vs Privacy in a Digital Economy: Social Credit Edition

Key insights from the ASER 2018 Report

How Does an Angel Tax Affect the Indian Economy?

Do We Need A Ministry of Culture?

Chinese Apps in India and Regulating Fake News

New ECommerce Regulations and FDI in Retail

Defence Budgeting And The Strategy Bridge

Afghanistan After Withdrawal of US Forces

The Jobs Crisis in India

Avoiding a Nuclear Catastrophe

The Geopolitics of Technology: 5G edition

The Minimum Income Guarantee Scheme for the Poor vs Universal Basic Income