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All Things Policy

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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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Episodes

Women & India's Sports Policies

Malathi Renati, Associate Dean of Takshashila's Policy School and a sportsperson who has represented Karnataka in three sports, speaks with Pranay Kotasthane about designing sports policies that encourage participation of women. You can follow Pranay Kotasthane on twitter: https://twitter.com/pranaykotas Check out Takshashila’s courses: https://school.takshashila.org.in/ You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: http...

Nov 21, 202230 min

India Must Take the Lead on Medical Pluralism

India has a long tradition of different systems of medicine. Medical pluralism looks at integrating these systems with modern evidence-based medicine. Mahek Nankani and Dr. Harshit Kukreja discuss AYUSH, Covid-19 and the potential of India’s traditional knowledge.

Nov 18, 202231 min

Making Education More Accessible to Rural Women

Sudisha Mishra and Sowmya Nandan talk to Uthara Narayanan, founder of Buzz Women, an organization that works towards providing knowledge, skills, and tools to rural women at the doorstep.

Nov 17, 202233 min

The Road Ahead for UPI

Rohan and Mahek discuss the recent paper published by RBI, and deconstruct the 'hidden' costs of UPI.

Nov 16, 202221 min

Reservations in India: The EWS Question

The 103rd Amendment to the Constitution of India dealing with reservations for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) was upheld by the Supreme Court last week. Shrikrishna Upadhyaya and Suman Joshi discuss in this episode.

Nov 15, 202233 min

Telecom Sector in India

In this episode Shrikrishna hosts Aaditya Dighe to discuss foreign investment in the telecom sector, domestic manufacturing of telecom equipment, the challenges in the ongoing 5G roll-out, and alternatives like satcom based internet services.

Nov 10, 202233 min

Competitive Federalism in India

Can Indian States compete with each other for investment and development? If so, how do we ensure that States - big & small and developed & underdeveloped - compete on an equal footing?

Nov 09, 202230 min

CCI's Antitrust Verdicts Against Google

The Competition Commission of India has imposed fines and several restrictions in two antitrust verdicts against Google for abusing its market dominance in the Android operating system and app store markets.

Nov 08, 202234 min

A Holistic Assessment of MGNREGA

Sridhar Krishna and Sudisha Mishra carry out a holistic assessment of this scheme, covering themes such as objectives, benefits, shortcomings, outlay, and unintended consequences.

Nov 04, 202239 min

The Promise and Peril of Lunar Exploration

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 governance.

Oct 31, 202227 min

Newsroom Economics & Why It Matters

In this episode Shrikrishna hosts Sachin, who has vast experience in running newsrooms, to discuss the importance of media freedom, business models of newsrooms, the alternative offered by subscription-based models, and the role of public broadcasters.

Oct 28, 202245 min

Interrogating Southern Asia’s Nuclear Dynamics

In this episode, Pranav Satyanath welcomes Dr Ashley J Tellis, a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to discuss the continuity and change in the nuclear trajectories of Southern Asia.

Oct 27, 202239 min

Transforming Justice Through Innovation & Technology

In this episode, Sowmya Nandan and Shrikrishna Upadhyaya host Supriya Sankaran, co-founder of Agami India, engage in a wide-ranging conversation on justice-makers, legal-tech start-ups, digital transformation in courts.

Oct 26, 202242 min

Why does India get only 1.64% of all global tourists?

Sridhar Krishna and Anupriya Mohta discuss how the Indian tourism industry has been on a decline since a little before the pandemic. However this sector has an opportunity to contribute close to 2.4M jobs per year over the next decade.

Oct 20, 202232 min

Analysing India’s Higher Education Sector

What are some potential solutions to improve access and quality in higher education? Sarthak Pradhan and Suman Joshi discuss these questions in this episode of All Things Policy.

Oct 19, 202230 min

Escalation in the US-China Tech War

In this episode, Pranav Satyanath is joined by Pranay Kotasthane to unpack the contents of these documents, the objectives of the regulations and their implications for the future.

Oct 17, 202228 min

Biological Reasoning: Kinship and Policy

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 "kinship" behaviour and discuss its implication for public policy.

Oct 13, 202231 min

FIFA WC 2022 & Future of Sports OTT market in India

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 strategy of the Reliance-owned subsidiary and the future of the sports OTT market in India.

Oct 12, 202226 min

Vaccine Nationalism

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.

Oct 11, 202225 min

Social Media’s Rule of Three

Shrikrishna hosts Pranay Kotasthane to discuss three interrelated mechanisms, namely, reference networks, Overton Window and disproportionate rewards for extreme content, understanding which could contain the key in cracking the social media problem.

Oct 10, 202230 min

Land laws of West Bengal

Sudisha Mishra invites Rahul Sanghavi to discuss the land laws that have curtailed business growth in West Bengal, inadvertently impacting job creation in the state.

Oct 07, 202222 min

Preserving vernacular languages

In this episode, Ritul Gaur and Sowmya Nandan are joined by Vasant Shetty (Co-Founder MyLang) and Aakash Athawasya (Co-host Kannada Gothilla Podcast) to discuss their work in widening the reach of Kannada.

Oct 06, 202243 min
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