Sitemap - 2020 - Takshashila Dispatch
Ep. 484: Civilisation: What Ancient Mesopotamia Tells Us about India
Ep. 483: Quad and the Semiconductor Value Chain
Ep. 482: How Can Citizens Make Cities Better?
Ep. 481: Should AYUSH Doctors Perform Surgeries?
Ep. 480: Europe's China Dilemma
Ep. 479: What are China's Lunar Ambitions?
Ep. 478: Surprises in the National Family Health Survey
Ep. 477: Is the FTC Suit Against Facebook Fair?
Ep. 476: India-China Ties: The Strategic Dimension
Ep. 475: Bear's Den: Why Does Russia Want A Naval Base in the Red Sea?
Ep. 474: Is India Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine Soon?
Ep. 473: Could Spies Avert the Next Pandemic?
Ep. 472: Is Corporate Ownership of Banks a Good Idea?
Ep. 471: The Death of a Scientist and the Future of Iran’s Nuclear Programme
Ep. 470: Does One Nation, One Election Make Sense?
Ep. 469: Is India Really Closer to Achieving its Sanitation Goals?
Ep. 468: Guidelines for Cab Aggregators: The good, the bad, and the unnecessary
Ep. 467: Dropping Out of RCEP: An Opportunity Lost for India
Ep. 466: Lessons to Learn on Big Tech Regulation
Ep. 465: Should 2020 be a Zero Year for Education?
Ep. 464: How Effective Are the New COVID Vaccines?
Ep. 463: How Not To Regulate Disinformation
Ep. 462: The World Health Assembly Meets Amid a Pandemic
Ep. 461: India's Marathon: Surya Prakash BS on Reimagining India's Revenue
Ep. 460: India's Marathon: Kunal Singh on Leveraging the India-US Partnership
Ep. 459: India's Marathon: Shruti Rajagopalan on India's Strength in Numbers
Ep. 458: India's Marathon: Raja Karthikeya on India as an International Mediator
Ep. 457: India's Marathon: Ameya Naik on India and the Rules-Based International Order
Ep. 456: India's Marathon: Alok Prasanna Kumar on Reforming India's Institutions
Ep. 455: Pfizer and the Hunt for a COVID-19 Vaccine
Ep. 454: What India's Information Ecosystem Can Learn from the US Elections
Ep. 453: How Will Biden Deal With China?
Ep. 452: What Ancient Egypt Tells Us About Ourselves
Ep. 451: What Today's Submarines Owe to the Cold War and WWII
Ep. 450: China's Plan for the Next Five Years
Ep. 449: Rags to Riches: The Mystery of Social Mobility in India
Ep. 448: The Political Theatre of Section 230
Ep. 447: The Perils of Stubble Burning
Ep. 446: How Australia Sees the Indo-Pacific
Ep. 445: Understanding the Taliban's Strategies for War and Peace
Ep. 444: Reforming the Power Sector OR Can we have less power cuts?
Ep. 443: Is Herd Immunity a Viable Strategy for COVID-19?
Ep. 442: Making Content Policy for Hate Speech
Ep. 441: The Paradoxes of Pakistani Politics
Ep. 440: Who Really Wrote the Arthashastra?
Ep. 439: Submarine Cables: Why They Matter and Who Threatens Them
Ep. 438: Mental Health and the Pandemic
Ep. 437: To Break or Not to Break: Discussing the US Congressional Report on Antitrust
Ep. 436: What's Happening in Space?
Ep. 435: How the Portuguese Influenced India's Culture
Ep. 434: The Hidden Realities Behind Crime Statistics
Ep. 433: China’s Blueprint for Data Security
Ep. 432: The Trials and Tribulations of ASHAs
Ep. 431: Taiwan's China Threat
Ep. 430: How Can States Help Themselves?
Ep. 429: Does Facebook Risk Antitrust Action?
Ep. 428: Ethics in Clinical Trials
Ep. 427: How Should We Disagree Online?
Ep. 426: Choppy Waters in the South China Sea
Ep. 425: How China's Belt and Road Initiative is Adapting to COVID
Ep. 424: Celebrities and Vaccines, From the 19th Century to the Present
Ep. 423: Online Fashion Vs Amazon
Ep. 422: Why Great Powers Procrastinate
Ep. 421: India's Sea War Against Germany and Japan
Ep. 420: Reforming the Information Technology Act
Ep. 419: Military Revolutions: Past, Present, and Future
Ep. 418: Serosurveys and the True Picture of the Pandemic in India
Ep. 417: Inside China's National Security State
Ep. 416: Whose History is it Anyway?
Ep. 415: The Wicked Problem of Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour
Ep. 414: Why Neglecting Opportunity Costs Leads to Bad Policy
Ep. 413: How Can We Vaccinate India?
Ep. 412: Making Sense of the LAC Standoff
Ep. 411: When Japan Tried to Invade China
Ep. 410: Should the State Set Rules for Content Moderation?
Ep. 409: How to Increase India's State Capacity
Ep. 408: Should the Government Collect Health Data?
Ep. 407: China Military Report
Ep. 406: Xi Jinping's Plans for Tibet
Ep. 405: How Can India be More Disabled Friendly?
Ep. 404: How the Pandemic Has Affected Indian Women
Ep. 403: Can Our Public Spaces Return to Normalcy?
Ep. 402: Strategic Autonomy: What It Means for India
Ep. 401: The Forgotten Heritage of the Deccan
Ep. 400: The Scale of the Pandemic in India
Ep. 399: Revamping India's Labour Laws
Ep. 398: WhatsApp Pay Antitrust case
Ep. 397: Does History Shape Foreign Policy?
Ep. 396: An Extraordinary Life in the British Raj
Ep. 395: Restructuring India's Public Health Sector
Ep. 394: Regulating India's Wet Markets
Ep. 393: How Big Tech Sees the World
Ep. 392: Pivoting towards Taiwan
Ep. 391: The Secrets of Bengaluru's Past
Ep. 390: Ensuring Nutrition Amid a Pandemic
Ep. 389: Reforming India's Agricultural Markets
Ep. 388: The Promise and Perils of Facial Recognition
Ep. 387: Confucian Confusion: India Reviews Work of CIs
Ep. 386: Gender and the Indian City
Ep. 385: Is India Prepared for Gene Edited Humans?
Ep. 384: The Puzzle of Tech Clusters
Ep. 383: Antitrust Enquiry and Tech Giants
Ep. 382: Securing the Future: India’s Options Amid the LAC Standoff
Ep. 381: Did India Win in Doklam?
Ep. 380: Disconnecting From Huawei
Ep. 379: The Twitter Hack and Data Protection
Ep. 378: India's Arctic Ambitions
Ep. 377: Why Don't We Have Underwater Aircraft Carriers?
Ep. 376: Personal Memory and History
Ep. 375: The Grand Challenge of Weaponising the Economy
Ep. 374: Beijing's Bid for Supremacy in the South China Sea
Ep. 373: Getting Children Back to Schooling
Ep. 372: How to do More COVID-19 Testing
Ep. 371: A COVID-19 Vaccine Made in India?
Ep. 369: Should Companies Boycott Social Media?
Ep. 368: A Mountain Strike Corps to Deter China?
Ep. 367: The State of India's Judiciary
Ep. 366: Talking Turkey in India
Ep. 365: Crafting India's Strategy for China
Ep. 364: China Tightens it Noose Around Hong Kong
Ep. 363: Oil Prices and the Hidden Game of Governments
Ep. 361: China Through Indian Eyes
Ep. 360: Will the TikTok Ban Work?
Ep. 359: China's Ambitions in the Subcontinent
Ep. 358: How Should India Deal With China?
Ep. 357: Galwan Clash: Understanding Chinese Propaganda and Reportage
Ep. 356: Making Sense of the Galwan Valley Incident
Ep. 355: Can India and China Fight and Trade?
Ep. 354: Ordering the Information Disorder
Ep. 353: COVID-19: A Testing Strategy for India
Ep. 352: How a Pandemic Creates New National Security Risks
Ep. 351: What the Second World War tells us about COVID-19
Ep. 350: The Geopolitics of a COVID-19 Vaccine
Ep. 348: How Russia Plans for Nuclear War
Ep. 347: SARS-CoV-2 and the Biological Weapons Convention
Ep. 346: Modi and Morrison - India and Australia Draw Closer
Ep. 345: A Chip on China's Shoulder: The Geopolitics of Semiconductors
Ep. 344: When Should India Reopen Its Schools?
Ep. 343: What's Happening on the LAC With China?
Ep. 342: Locking Horns on the LAC
Ep. 341: Is the Clock ticking for TikTok?
Ep. 340: One Country, One System: China’s Toughening HK Policy
Ep. 339: Choppy Waters: Assertion in the South China Sea
Ep. 338: Spying on your Neighbour
Ep. 337: Cheap Internet: Reliance and the Telecom Sector in India
Ep. 336: Managing Civil-Military Relations?
Ep. 335: Lift Off: Space policy reforms and the private sector in India
Ep. 334: Call of Duty: Short-term service in armed forces
Ep. 333: Krishnadevaraya: The Man and the Myth
Ep. 332: Intervention Using Tech: Solutions for Tackling COVID-19
Ep. 331: Economic Stimulus for Post-COVID India
Ep. 329: Preparing for the Second Wave: India Against COVID-19
Ep. 328: Improving India’s Testing Capacity
Ep. 327: Why India Needs Arms Imports
Ep. 326: India’s Post-Covid Opportunities
Ep. 325: Going Conventional: Europe and the Future of Arms Control
Ep. 324: Facebook’s Supreme Court
Ep. 323: Command of the Officer
Ep. 322: WhatsApp with Jio-Facebook?
Ep. 321: India: The World's Factory?
Ep. 320: The Virus Ravages West Asia
Ep. 319: When Will We Get a Vaccine?
Ep. 318: How MAD was the Cold War?
Ep. 317: Containing the Misinformation Virus
Ep. 316: Other Strategic Reserve: Securing Medical Equipment for India
Ep. 315: COVID-19: Crisis or Opportunity?
Ep. 313: Content Moderation During COVID Times
Ep. 311: A National Reopening Strategy For India
Ep. 310: Learning from History: Bengal Famine and Covid-19
Ep. 309: Spending More in the Face of Covid-19
Ep. 308: Price Controls in a Pandemic
Ep. 307: The Shape of India's Nuclear Arsenal
Ep. 305: Have the Hong Kong Protests Failed
Ep. 304: Is There a Doctor on the Phone?
Ep. 303: Truth-Telling in the Military
Ep. 302: India's Neighbours and Covid
Ep. 300: NPT, Covid-19 and the Future
Ep. 299: China Invests in India
Ep. 298: Post Pandemic Economics
Ep. 297: COVID and China's Economy
Ep. 296: Pakistan's Pandemic Politics
Ep. 295: India and the Oil Wars
Ep. 294: A Grand Strategy with Chinese Characteristics
Ep. 293: The Geopolitics of Covid-19
Ep. 292: Sandalwood: A Sad Story
Ep. 290: Tech in the Time of Corona
Ep. 288: The Two Ns Meet: The End of Pandemics?
Ep. 287: Narratives of COVID-19
Ep. 286: Ruling the World-Island
Ep. 285: Stocking up on Oil: India's Strategic Petroleum Reserves
Ep. 284: Making Sense of China's Military Modernization
Ep. 281: The Coronavirus Update
Ep. 279: The Contest for Undersea Supremacy
Ep. 278: Bertil Lintner on India-China Rivalry
Ep. 277: The Problem of Depressed Potatoes
Ep. 276: Getting More Women in the Workforce
Ep. 275: Sense and Censorship?
Ep. 274 What Next in Afghanistan?
Ep. 273: Indian Troops in Afghanistan?
Ep. 272 China's Expeditionary Forces
Ep. 271: Fighting the Coronavirus Pt 4
Ep. 270: The Perils of Eugenics
Ep. 269: A European Nuclear Force?
Ep. 268: Is a Multipolar World Good for India?
Ep. 267: Fighting the Coronavirus Pt 3
Ep. 265: India's Fiscal Future
Ep. 264: Reading the Economist
Ep. 263: Competition and Reassurance in the Indo-Pacific
Ep. 262: Fighting the Coronavirus Pt 2
Ep. 260: Dissing Misinformation
Ep. 259: Reading the Economist
Ep. 258: India versus the Internet
Epi 257: Fighting the Coronavirus
Ep 256: The Challenge of Theatre Commands
Ep. 255: Does the Budget Matter
Ep. 254: The Dilemmas of Nuclear Security
Ep. 253: China's AI Ambitions and Nuclear Weapons
Ep 252: Religion and Money In Medieval Gujarat
Ep. 250: The Dark Side Of The Kashmir Whitelist
Ep. 249: The Rise and Fall of West Asia
Ep. 247: Dispatches From China
Ep. 246: The Stubborn Challenge of PSU Reform
Ep. 245: Protection from Data Protection
Ep. 244: Ten Risks to Global Health
Ep. 243: Going Soft on Hard Balancing
Ep. 242: The State of India's Media
Ep. 241: The Meaning of Taiwan’s Elections
Ep. 240: Shooting the Messenger
Ep. 239: Reading Foreign Policy Magazine: From Flight Shaming to Volunteer Journalism
Ep. 238: Behaving Badly in the South China Sea
Ep. 237: Favourite Books from 2019
Ep. 236: The Year that Changed the World
Ep. 235: The Death of Soleimani - The US, Iran, and West Asia
Ep. 234: Reading the Economist: On China, Tech and Forest Fires
Ep. 233: SSF - China’s War-Winning Tool
Ep. 232: The World of Public Policy
Ep. 231: The Many Colours of Krishna Menon - A Conversation with Jairam Ramesh