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Yusuf Unjhawala sits down with Dr. Y. Nithiyanandam to unpack his latest piece in the Takshashila Geospatial Bulletin, a deep dive into the rapid expansion of renewable energy in the Tibet Autonomous Region. From hydropower and solar to wind and other emerging sources, the conversation tracks how Tibet’s output has grown, what has improved in terms of efficiency and infrastructure, and how these developments compare with China’s broader renewable targets.
But the big question is why Beijing is doubling down on large-scale renewable harvesting in Tibet even when it already has a net surplus in electricity utilisation. The discussion moves from energy economics to the region’s shifting strategic dynamics, what this build-out could enable for China and the PLA, and the second-order effects India should be watching closely.
Publications referenced: Takshashila Geospatial Bulletin https://t.co/Vzippi10SR & https://shorturl.at/p25LD
All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areas
Check out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in
Is the proposed copyright framework to protect content creators actually going to stifle the AI revolution? Shobhankita Reddy and Bharath Reddy dive into the DPIIT’s 'One-Nation, One-License, One Payment' proposal and explore some of the impact that it might have on India's AI journey.
Based on the opinion piece: AI and copyright: One licence, many problems.
All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areas
Check out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in
In this episode, Professor Eri Ikeda, a leading scholar of Japan’s political economy joins Vanshika Saraf to explore how India-Japan economic and technology cooperation is being reshaped by deeper structural changes in the global economy. With shifting supply chains and evolving innovation ecosystems, they examine emerging areas such as standards-setting and technology governance, along with the challenges to manufacturing and infrastructure development.
All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areas
Check out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in
Companies like SpaceX are launching satellites rapidly to lock up resources in the global commons of outer space. In this episode of All Things Policy, Aditya Ramanathan and Ashwin Prasad discuss the origins and effects of this orbital entrenchment.
Read Ashwin's recent work to learn more about this issue: takshashila.org.in/content/publications/20251219-Orbital-Entrenchment.html
All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areas
Check out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in
Quick deliveries have become part of urban life in India. Against the backdrop of recent moves to drop the “10-minute delivery” messaging, Sridhar Krishna and Shreya Ramakrishnan look beyond the hype around speed to examine traffic norms, labour realities, and the economic incentives that shape sectors like quick commerce, and why job creation, improved public infrastructure, and labour reform matter far more than how fast groceries arrive.
Referenced in the episode: The 10-Minute Drama by Anupam Manur (The Times of India).
All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areas
Check out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in
Despite being the fifth largest country by GDP, India has a very low per capita income and has a long way to go before we can become an affluent nation. Sridhar Krishna from The Takshashila Institution speaks to Arvind Vasu, an entrepreneur and an expert in robotics, on the history of robotics and how robotics offers another chance to the manufacturing sector in India. We missed the bus once and let China go far ahead in manufacturing output. Robotics can help us be a real alternative to China and help boost our labour productivity, leading to a more prosperous India. Will we jump on this time?
All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areas
Check out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in
Join Yusuf Unjhawala and Arindam Goswami in this episode of All Things Policy, where we discuss the recent unrest in Iran and its ramifications.
Recent unrest in Iran, including protests and potential regime instability, disrupts India's strategic interests like Chabahar port access and energy routes, while reshaping alliances in the Middle East and beyond. Emerging groupings - such as a weakened Iran boosting Pakistan-China ties, or Sunni states hedging against a post-Khamenei vacuum - create ripple effects for India's multi-alignment policy.
However, when we talk about Iran today, the conversation usually starts with missiles, sanctions, or nuclear timelines. But that framing misses the bigger story.
What’s really unfolding is something far more consequential: the slow breakdown of how power, alliances, and rules actually work in the world.
For India, this isn’t a distant West Asian crisis. It touches our energy security, our diaspora, our connectivity ambitions like Chabahar - and more importantly, it tests the idea that countries like India can stay strategically autonomous in a world that’s fragmenting into overlapping, informal, and often contradictory groupings.
We’re no longer living in a clean Cold War of two blocs. Instead, we have shifting coalitions, selective partnerships, and crises that are never fully resolved - only managed.
So today, we’re not asking what Iran did last week. We’re asking a harder question: what does the Iran crisis reveal about the kind of world we are entering - and where does India actually stand in it?
All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areas
Check out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in
Every year, the annual gathering of political and business leaders from across the world makes headlines. But this year's gathering is unusual. Canada's prime minister has spoken about a rupture in world order, Trump has rambled about everything from Greenland to windmills, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has described the trade deal being negotiated with India as the “mother of all deals”. To discuss the many highlights from Davos, and what these mean for India and the world, Lokendra sits down with Manoj Kewalramani, chair of the Indo-Pacific Programme at Takshashila Institution.
All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areas
Check out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in
India’s new Shanti Act promises to modernise nuclear power, open the sector, and accelerate decarbonisation. But it also rewrites rules on liability and accountability. Does the law strike the right balance between growth, safety, and responsibility—or does it shift risk away from the state and industry?
All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in
The US National Defence Authorisation Act for FY 2026 aims to create partnerships based on mutual defence investment, a diversified military-industrial supply chain, and endurance of transatlantic and Indo-Pacific security. In this episode of All Things Policy, Abhishek Kadiyala, in conversation with Anushka Saxena, reads between the NDAA's lines and breaks down the US's approach to geopolitics and geoeconomics. He also sheds light on the provisions of the document for India.
All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areas
Check out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in
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