All Things Policy
Takshashila Institution
Ever wondered how automation will change the world? Maybe you puzzle over what India could do to ease traffic congestion, or how China's aircraft carriers will transform Indian Ocean geopolitics? All Things Policy, a daily podcast brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, brings you all the answers. Every weekday, our researchers break down complex economic and geopolitical ideas through the lens of current events. For everyone from the busy executive to the curious student, All Things Policy is all you'll need to understand the world (and appreciate your breakfast) better.
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Jan 6, 2023 • 51min
Mergers & Disqualifications Under Anti-Defection Law
In this episode, Shrikrishna Upadhyaya hosts Ritwika Sharma, Senior Resident Fellow & Lead, Charka - Centre for Constitutional Law at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, on the reasons behind the failure of anti-defection law, the problems created by the merger exemption and possible changes to the law.
Jan 5, 2023 • 28min
Biological Reasoning: Social Norms
Social norms are informal rules which dictate collective behaviour. In this episode of All things policy, Harshit Kukreja and Shrikrishna Upadhyaya discuss social norms, their evolution and life cycle, and the role of social norms in policy solutions to jaywalking, queuing up in lines and cleanliness in your cities.
Jan 4, 2023 • 45min
Media Outlook 2022-23 with Vanita Kohli-Khandekar
Vanita Kohli-Khandekar, India's best-known news and entertainment media industry expert and the author of the definitive book on India's media business, analyses what happened in 2022 and crystal-gazes into 2023.
Jan 3, 2023 • 50min
Women In Sports & Everything That Plays Around It
In this episode, host Sowmya Prabhakar is in conversation with Aditi Mutatkar, Indian badminton player and silver medallist at the Commonwealth Games. They begin the chat with the daily sports scene in India and move into the zone of access, safety, systemic hurdles, government schemes, and inclusion in sports. They end on a reassuring note with research in sports and the promise that holds for the future.
Jan 2, 2023 • 27min
Forecasting 2023
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 predictions play out at the end of 2023.
Dec 28, 2022 • 38min
Towards a World Without War
Listen to this conversation as Manoj Kewalramani talks to Sundeep Waslekar about the ideas in his new book “A World Without War: The History, Politics and Resolution of Conflict”.
Dec 27, 2022 • 46min
Mumbai Climate Action Plan and Beyond
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 principal policy consultant for MCAP dissects not only the city's effort to mitigate the climate crisis, but also addresses national questions that we ought to answer soon.
Dec 26, 2022 • 31min
COP27 and Future of Climate Action
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 damage fund, phasing out of fossil fuels and the debate on setting a climate goal at a temperature increase of 1.5 °C as opposed to 2 °C.
Dec 23, 2022 • 34min
RWAs & Public Policy Education
In this episode, Manoj Kewalramani talks to Sowmya Nandan and Malathi Renati about the challenges of grassroots governance by RWAs and how sound public policy education can help understand and improve this.
Dec 22, 2022 • 37min
India’s China Challenge: Trade Deficit & PLI Schemes
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? Is a high trade deficit with China a strategic problem? And are India’s PLI schemes the answer to boosting Indian manufacturing and reducing vulnerabilities vis-a-vis China? Manoj Kewalramani and Pranay Kotasthane discuss all this and more.
