Sitemap - 2021 - Takshashila Dispatch

A Year - End Review of China Tech

The Year Gone By In Tech Policy

Our 2021 Reading List (Part 2)

How do Digital Communication Networks make our lives better?

Will Russia invade Ukraine?

From Romans to MDGs: The Stories of Public Health

The Fishermen Dispute and India - Sri Lanka Relations

Digital Communication Networks and their Benefits

China's Developments in Tibet

Implications of the Delay in Appointing the Next CDS

Our 2021 Reading List (Part 1)

The Case Against Prohibition

Importance of Financial Literacy for Jobs

Understanding the Developments on Indian Internet Shutdowns

What Exactly Does Russia Want?

Tackling New SARS-CoV-2 Variants

The China Factor in the US - Australia Quantum Tech Agreement

Gender Inequality in the Fashion World

Breathing New Life into India-Russia Relations

Australia's "Anti-Trolling" Bill & Internet Anonymity

Unpacking the National Family Health Survey (NFHS5) report

Will an International Travel Ban Help Contain Omicron?

Regulating the Cyberspace and International Relations

Omicron: The Harbinger of the third wave?

Are Cities Still Relevant in the Metaverse Era?

Dissent on The Personal Data Protection Bill

What’s Climate Change Got To Do With Your Dinner?

What Infrastructure Development in Tibet Means For India

India's COVID-19 Risk Communication Plan

Talks with the TTP: Peace in sight for Pakistan?

India’s Jobless Growth

Mental Health and India's Police

A Vaccine Diplomacy Framework for India

Social Networks and Indian Women

Creating Safety Nets for Gig Workers

How Piped Water Empowers Women

China's Military Power

Getting Our Feeds In Order

China's Nuclear Expansion

The Unique History of the Early Deccan

How Sports Shapes Diplomacy

The Geopolitics of International Technical Standards

How India’s Canals Shape its Cities

The EU’s Arctic Strategy and India

Can Fortifying Rice Tackle Malnutrition?

Digital Activism in China

Going Beyond Disinformation

The Geopolitics Of Technical Standards

The Strange History of South Indian Coffee

India’s Hunger and Nutrition challenge

Democratise Credit to Create Jobs

Cracks in CPEC

AI Regulation: A Global Policy Challenge

The Future of India-Russia Space Cooperation

A Practical Agenda for the Quad

Should India Make Semiconductors?

Can 'Gastrodiplomacy' Work?

Fantasy Sports and Karnataka's Online Gambling Ban

Are the Balkans on Edge Again?

The Taliban's Rise & Regional Power Dynamics

The Shadow Pandemic: Impact of COVID-19 on mental health in India

India’s labour force: Why are women missing?

Reading between the lines of the Facebook Files

What’s China doing in Africa?

Religion and the State in Medieval South India

Keeping up with the Splinternet

Afghanistan: 50 Days After Taliban's Takeover

Regulating Judicial Data

The UK’s Space Strategy

India’s Path to Power

The Sounds and Stories of Kerala's Theyyam Rituals

Machine Learning Algorithm for COVID Screening

Emigration - Can India fill the World's Vacancies?

A Global Overview of COVID-19 Booster Shots

A New Ripple in the Indo-Pacific

The Ruckus Around AUKUS

The Other Rajputs: Purbiya Warriors in 16th century Malwa

What Makes Governments Responsive?

Regulating Biobanking in India

A Lawsuit of Epic proportions

Younger Generals in the PLA

Tibet Before the Dalai Lamas

Towards an India-specific biobanking law

Is MSP Fulfilling its Purpose?

New Cities - More Jobs

Russian Interests in Afghanistan

The Climate Threat in the Indian Ocean

Space as a geopolitical environment

The Curious Case of the Havana Syndrome

What makes democracies tick?

The US Versus Facebook

Can India Mediate Between Russia and Japan?

The National Monetisation Pipeline is a welcome move

Pottery for the Gods: The Worship of Ayyanar in Rural Tamil Nadu

India’s Free Speech Challenge

Financing Upskilling

Ethical Design Practice for Smartphone Financial Apps

The Bear’s Space Power

A National Epidemic Intelligence Service for India

An Indian 5G Standard?

Creating An Epidemic Intelligence Agency

Can Vaccine Mandates Work?

Vaccinating Kids: A Parent's Perspective

What did the Kakatiyas do for us?

How Columbus Transformed Indian Cuisine

What should we do about the Taliban?

India’s Reverse Migration

The PLA and India

Outraging into the Machine

The Dilemmas of Religious Freedom

Ep. 638: Building India’s Semiconductor Ecosystem

India’s Semiconductor Ecosystem

Ep. 637: iCloud, privacy and law enforcement

Ep. 636: Pegasus and India's Cyber Security Capabilities

Ep. 635: Takshashila’s Founders Discuss Post-COVID Inequalities

Ep. 634: A "Platform" for More Jobs

Ep. 633: Uncovering the Warriors of Sinauli

Ep. 632: Making Public Health More Equal

To sign or not to sign: India and the Artemis Accords

Ep. 631: The Game of Drones

Ep. 630: Digital Communication Networks and their Harms

About the Takshashila Dispatch

Ep. 629: The Far Side of the Indo-Pacific

Ep. 628: What if Vijayanagara Won?

Ep. 627: Making sense of feed algorithms

Ep. 626: Defence of Japan

Ep. 625: Can Genomic Surveillance Tackle COVID Variants?

Ep. 624: Living together, separately: What the Pew survey says about religion in India

Ep. 623: Bangladesh - The New Miracle Economy?

Ep. 622: Tackling Mis/Disinformation on Vaccines

Ep. 621: How Social Media is Reshaping Politics

Ep. 620: China's New Missile Silos

Ep. 619: The Queens of Medieval Kashmir

Ep. 618: How Indians Shaped their Constitution

Ep. 617: Cracking Down on Didi

Ep. 616: India, the Moon and the Artemis Accords

Ep. 615: Theatre Commands: Are they Necessary?

Ep. 614: The Syncretic Rituals of South Indian Catholics

Ep. 613: CPC@100: The Challenges Ahead

Ep. 612: The Constitution & India's Democracy

Ep. 611: Fortress Russia

Ep. 610: To DARPA, or not to DARPA

Ep. 609: Policies for the Entertainment Sector

Ep. 608: The Mirage of High-Tech Self-Sufficiency

Ep. 607: India Needs a Robust Cyber Security Strategy

Ep. 606: Consumer Protection & E-commerce

Ep. 605: One Year After Galwan

Ep. 604: What Archaeology Really Tells Us About the Harappans and the Sarasvati River

Ep. 603: Improving Learning Outcomes in Schools

Ep. 602: Investigating the Wuhan Lab Leak

Ep. 601: Can You Unbundle Social Media?

Ep. 600: Lessons from Odisha's Direct Income Transfer Scheme

Ep. 599: What Fiction Teaches us About Indian History

Ep. 598: Bring Petrol under GST

Ep. 597: Apple, Network Effects and China

Ep. 596: Do Influence Operations Work?

Ep. 595: The Challenges of Governing States

Ep. 594: India: Continent or Subcontinent?

Ep. 593: Vaccines and Intellectual Property

Ep. 592: Battling Future Disease Waves

Ep. 591: In Google We Antitrust

Ep. 590: DeSWIFTing Russia?

Ep. 589: Examining Nehru's Approach to Tibet & China

Ep. 588: The Race to Acquire Vaccines

Ep. 587: The Evolution of Indian Science

Ep. 586: What Next for Facebook and India?

Ep. 585 Xi’s ‘Red Footprints’ & History Learning Campaigns

Ep. 584: India and the ‘Israeli Model’

Ep. 583: Intertwined Histories in South India's Local Legends

Ep. 582: US-UK Special Relationship and China

Ep. 581: The Life and Times of the Facebook Oversight Board

Ep. 580: Will India’s Military Remain Apolitical?

Ep. 579: South India and Ancient Rome

Ep. 578: Investigating SARS-CoV-2

Ep. 577: Unpacking Xi’s New Development Strategy

Ep. 576: Northern Ireland's Uncertain Future

Ep. 575: China’s Once-in-a-Decade Census

Ep. 574: A Defence Minister with a Military Background?

Ep. 573: Truck De India: Rajat Ubhaykar on India's truckers

Ep. 572: Finland, Russia and the Arctic

Ep. 571: China's Health Silk Road

Ep. 570: The Narrow Corridor of Liberty

Ep. 569: The Most Undiplomatic Affair: China & the Philippines

Ep. 568: Digital Monitoring of Global Public Health

Ep. 567: Why Russia’s Far East Matters

Ep. 566: France, India and the Seas

Ep. 565: Biden's Turn to the Indo-Pacific

Ep. 564: How to Depoliticise India’s Police

Ep. 563: A Single Source for all Laws?

Ep. 562: Active Measures Short of War

Ep. 561: Free speech on India's Internet

Ep. 560: Reflecting on India's COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy

Ep. 559: The Dragon’s Anniversary at Sea

Ep. 558: Supplying COVID-19 Therapeutics

Ep. 557: How an FDI Hike Could Boost Pensions

Ep. 556: Understanding the US’s Tri-Service Naval Strategy

Ep. 555: Intellectual Property Un-reform

Ep. 554: Ending America's Forever War

Ep. 553: Cracking Down on China’s Tech Giants

Ep. 552: Of Freedom of Navigation and Outrage

Ep. 551: Impact of China’s policies in Tibet on India’s National Security

Ep. 550: What Lies Ahead for Antitrust Reform

Ep. 549: Does India's Vaccine Diplomacy Work?

Ep. 548: Rethinking Indian Healthcare

Ep. 547: Is Privacy a Competition Issue?

Ep. 546: How Britain Plans to Engage the World

Ep. 545: Panchsheel - How a Dream Ended

Ep. 544: How to Provide Reliable Power

Ep. 543: Making the Net-work

Ep. 542: Quad to Anchorage - Shifting sands of the international order

Ep. 541: A New Law for Assisted Reproductive Technology?

Ep. 540: India's Approach to Welfare

Ep. 539: Welcome to the Splinternet

Ep. 538: Is the Quad ushering a new era in the Indo-Pacific?

Ep. 537: How Does China Think About Nuclear War?

Ep. 536: Is it Safe to Breathe in India?

Ep. 535: The Missiles of Lady Liberty

Ep. 534: Safe Water for Big Cities

Ep. 533: Will the Internet FLoC to Google’s Standards?

Ep. 532: Peace for Afghanistan?

Ep. 531: Does the Government Spend as Promised?

Ep. 530: What’s China Planning in 2021?

Ep. 529: Fixing Mumbai's Air Pollution

Ep. 528: The Long Arm of the Law Crosses Borders

Ep. 527: Northern Sea Route - A New Dawn for Russia?

Ep. 526: Citizen Science - A Solution to Fake Information?

Ep. 525: China's New Coastguard Law

Ep. 524: A New Era for Indian Internet

Ep. 523: China’s Naval Expansion and India’s Options

Ep. 522: How Did Rome Defeat the Armies of Alexander's Successors?

Ep. 521: The Strange World of Serina

Ep. 520: Reaching for the Heavens Via India

Ep. 519: How Russia Uses the Geopolitics of Natural Gas

Ep. 518: Should Google and Facebook Pay for News?

Ep. 517: The Mirage of a United Asia

Ep. 516: Can India Meet Its COVID-19 Vaccination Target?

Ep. 515: Making sense of China-India disengagement on the LAC

Ep. 514: 5G: will India be Late to the Party?

Ep. 513: Struggle and Revolution in Telugu Literature

Ep. 512: China's Vaccine Diplomacy

Ep. 511: Will the DNA Bill do More Harm than Good?

Ep. 510: The Contest to Chart the Indo-Pacific's Oceans

Ep. 509: Making Sense of India's Defence Budget

Ep. 508: When The Stonks Are Down

Ep. 507: The Seleukid Empire and the Silk Roads

Ep. 506: What Does 137% Hike in Health Budget Mean?

Ep. 505: Unpacking Budget 2021

Ep. 504: Asia's Cold Frontier: Tracking Japan - Russia Ties

Ep. 503: Alexei Navalny - The Face of the Russian Opposition?

Ep. 502: What Angkor Teaches Us About India

Ep. 501: How to Foster Science and Tech in India

Ep. 500: Behind the Scenes at All Things Policy

Ep. 499: What Should India Do With Its Rare Earth Reserves?

Ep. 498: How Not to Secure Women's Liberty

Ep. 497: The Vaccine Update: India's Rollout and Beyond

Ep. 496: Launching India's Space Start-ups into Orbit

Ep. 495: Declassified: The US’ Indo-Pacific Strategy

Ep. 494: Jack and the Ant: A Fairytale that's Ending?

Ep. 493: Can India Displace China in Global Supply Chains?

Ep. 492: What Biden Means for India

Ep. 491: Trustbusters! What the Microsoft Case Teaches Us About Antitrust

Ep. 490: What was China’s PLA up to in 2020?

Ep. 489: What's Going to Happen in 2021?

Ep. 488: Can you Speed up Vaccine Approval?

Ep. 487: Great Books From a Year of Reading

Ep. 486: How Britain Spied on the Seas

Ep. 485: The Curious Case of Markets, Masks and Hand Sanitisers