All Things Policy

In this episode of All Things Policy, Anushka Saxena and Amit Kumar explore the trends and developments taking place in the Chinese Economy in the past decade since Xi Jinping's ascendance to power in 2012-13, and what they indicate for the trajectory of the country's economic policy in the months to come.

Kingshuk Saha and Manoj Kewalramani discuss Japan's Security Strategy, background, and its impact.

This episode of All Things Policy features IIC fellows (University of Chicago Trust), Ritul Gaur and Arjun Gargeyas, who are joined by Liv Nordhaug (Co-Lead at Digital Public Goods Alliance) to discuss the concept of digital public goods, the challenges and opportunities they present, and how they can be used to benefit society at scale.

In the thousandth episode, Nitin Pai and Pranay Kotasthane discuss the macro-changes in the world order over the last three years. They also discuss the frames of references useful to analyse the current world disorder. In the second half, they respond to listener questions.

We at Takshashila Institution have released our findings of our survey on Heritable Gene Editing. In this episode of All Things Policy, Shambhavi Naik and Harshit Kukreja discuss gene editing, India’s viewpoint, our survey’s results and much more.

Global temperatures are expected to rise by 1.5℃ by 2050 and 3℃ to 4℃ by 2100. This will have disastrous consequences for us. In this episode of All Things Policy, Harshit Kukreja and Carl Jaison discuss climate change, global cooperation, biological reasoning and much more.

Jency Jacob, Managing Editor of Boom Live, India's first and largest fact-checking newsroom, dissects the new draft rule that makes the Press Information Bureau the final arbiter of the truth when it comes to journalism related to Central government decisions.

Indian research and scholarship are significantly impacted by the lack of a proper declassification policy for government documents. This prevents a holistic assessment of crucial issues, especially in foreign policy, military history, public policy, and modern history. In this episode, Aditya Ramanathan, Manoj Kewalramani, and Saurabh Todi discuss the impact of this lacuna and the need to improve access to national archives.

Recently the University Grants Commission came up with draft regulations to facilitate foreign higher educational institutions to set up their campuses in India. Suman Joshi and Sarthak Pradhan assess the possible impact of these regulations.

2023 promises to have many important developments in the tech policy space. Shailesh Chitnis and Bharath Reddy look at what we can expect this year in upcoming legislation, anti-trust judgments and digital public infrastructure.