Shruti Rajagopalan and Milan Vaishnav on India’s Delimitation Dilemma
Ideas of India
Today we are releasing a webinar recording from April 24th where and I had a conversation on delimitation in India. Milan is a senior fellow and the director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also the host of the excellent where this recording will be simultaneously released. We talked about the failure to pass the 131st constitutional amendment bill in Parliament, the government’s intention to reapportion and increase the size of the Lok Sabha, the delimitation freeze pegged to the 1971 census that has...
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Samanth Subramanian on the Fragile and Resilient Technologies that Bind Us
Ideas of India
Today my guest is Samanth Subramanian, who is a journalist and writer and the author of the recent books and . We talked about under water sea cables and choke points in critical global infrastructure, the intersection of technology and geopolitics, large language models, JBS Haldane and the relationship between science and politics, and much more. Recorded March 25th, 2026. Read a enhanced with helpful links. Connect with Ideas of India Follow on X Follow on X Click for the latest Ideas of India episodes sent straight to your inbox. Timestamps...
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Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Kapur on India’s Precocious Development Odyssey
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Today my guests are Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Kapur. is a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India. is the Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies and Director of the Asia Programs at the Johns Hopkins. They are co-authors of the recent book, . We talked about India’s redistributive democracy, why Indian states have taken such different development paths, India's socialism and consequent scarcity, manufacturing challenges, and much more. Recorded February 13th,...
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V. Anantha Nageswaran on Surveying the Growth and Financialization of the Indian Economy
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Today my guest is , who is currently serving as the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India. He is also the co-author of the books and We talked about import substitution and strategic resilience, futures and options market, gross fixed capital formation, crypto markets, India’s growth trajectory, and much more. Recorded March 12th, 2026. Read a enhanced with helpful links. Connect with Ideas of India Follow on X Click for the latest Ideas of India episodes sent straight to your inbox. Timestamps (00:00:00) - Intro ...
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Ornit Shani and Rohit De on Assembling India’s Constitution
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Today my guests are and , historians and the authors of the latest book . Ornit Shani is an associate professor of history at the University of Haifa and the author of . Rohit De is an associate professor of history at Yale University and the author of . We talked about how their latest book is a radical departure from the usual telling of the making of the Indian Constitution as an elite project, the mass mobilization that took place during the drafting of the constitution, the role of public participation in political negotiation, the status of...
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Pranay Kotasthane on the Political Economy of Rare Earths and Critical Minerals
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Today my guest is who is the deputy director of the Takshashila Institution and chairs the . Pranay co-writes a newsletter on public policy ideas and frameworks, and co-hosts a popular Hindi-Urdu podcast on politics, policy, and technology. He is the co-author of - When the Chips are Down, and the graphic nonfiction narrative . We spoke about rare earths and critical minerals, China’s dominance, the gap between India’s ambitions and opportunities, the potential for recycling, and much and...
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Nachiket Mor on Rethinking India’s Healthcare System
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Today my guest is , a health economist whose work focuses on the design of national and regional health systems. He is a visiting scientist at the Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health, a senior research fellow at the Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy at IIIT Bangalore, and a commissioner and author on the , which published its . We talked about the different layers of the Indian healthcare system, the design and policy failures in both public and private sector healthcare, the role of community workers, the health insurance and regulation market, and...
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Akshay Jaitly on the Making of a Modern Indian Law Firm
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Today my guest is , the author of the recent book, . He is one of the founders of Trilegal and specializes in advising on energy and infrastructure projects. His research interests include power sector reform, the energy transition and public-private contracting. We talked about how Trilegal grew in the context of India’s market liberalization and sectoral reforms, different partnership structures, delegated legislation, regulatory capture, the alchemy between the founding partners, and much more. Recorded January 6th, 2026. Read a enhanced with helpful links. Learn...
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Renuka Sane on Regulatory Frameworks, Rule of Law, and Pensions Reforms in India
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Today my guest is who is the managing director of Managing Director of . An institution that seeks to improve India’s business environment by improving the rule of law. Renuka was a member of many expert committees including: the Task Force of Experts set up by the Employees Provident Fund Organisation; the research team of the Bankruptcy Legislative Reforms Commission; the Pension Advisory Committee of the Pension Fund Regulatory Development Authority; and the Working Group on personal insolvency at the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India. She received a Ph.D. in...
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Snigdha Poonam on the Political Economy of Transnational Scams
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Today my guest is who is a journalist and writer. She is the author of the new book and also the author of the 2018 award winning book : How Young Indians Are Changing Their World. We talked about the scam industrial complex in different states like Jharkhand, Assam and Tamil Nadu in India, the interaction between the scam economy and the formal economy, the transnational scams in China and Cambodia and how they are connected to India, the aspirations and traumas of the scam work force and much more. Recorded November 17th, 2025. Read a enhanced...
info_outlineToday my guest is Sajith Pai, who is a Partner at Blume Ventures, an early stage Indian venture fund. He is also a well known writer, and the author of the annual Indus Valley Report. We spoke about the trends in the latest Indus Valley Report, the stratifications in Indian consumer markets, investor sentiment, policies and infrastructure to foster the AI boom in India, the AI start-up scene and much more.
Recorded March 6th, 2025.
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Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:04:32 - 2025 Trends
00:24:30 - Last Year vs. This Year
00:32:25 - The Role of Artificial Intelligence
00:45:59 - Artificial Intelligence Startup Scene
01:16:40 - Sajith’s Reading Habits
01:22:20 - Outro