Interview: Ajit Ranade on why India can’t project power if it doesn’t acknowledge economic missteps

The reputed economist on ‘India’s Path to Power’, a new report that seeks to map out policy priorities over the next decade.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Nov 06, 2021 · 09:00 am

Interview: Pranay Kotasthane makes the case for the Quad to take on China via semiconductors

The deputy director of the Takshashila Institution on why semiconductors are ‘metacritical technology’ and the role India could play in the chip supply chain.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Oct 23, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Interview: Ambika Vishwanath on what it would mean for India to have a ‘feminist foreign policy’

The co-founder of the Kubernein Initiative on gender mainstreaming and how increasing the number of women is only one part of the solution.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Oct 16, 2021 · 09:38 am

Interview: Josy Joseph on how the government’s abuse of security agencies could ‘destroy India’

The author of ‘The Silent Coup: A History of India’s Deep State’ on the lengths to which police and intelligence agencies go to obey their political masters.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Oct 02, 2021 · 08:30 am

Interview: Garima Mohan on why AUKUS should only sharpen Europe’s focus on the Indo-Pacific

Mohan, who studies India-Europe ties and the Indo-Pacific, explains why she believes Europe will not step back but double down on the Indo-Pacific.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Sep 25, 2021 · 06:30 am

Interview: Ashwini Deshpande on the need for Indian economists to grapple with discrimination

The founding director of Ashoka University’s Centre for Economic Data & Analysis speaks about engaging with questions related to gender and caste in the field.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Sep 18, 2021 · 06:30 am

Interview: Jessica Namakkal on what Auroville tells us about the ‘end of colonialism and empire’

The author of ‘Unsettling Utopia The Making and Unmaking of French India’, on ‘spiritual utopianism’ and the need to re-examine colonial narratives.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Sep 11, 2021 · 08:30 am

Interview: Nikhar Gaikwad and Gareth Nellis on the political exclusion of migrants in India

Research finds that nativism is not necessarily the reason politicians are not responsive to migrant concerns in India.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Aug 28, 2021 · 09:00 am

Interview: Vijay Gokhale on why India should not assume China’s success is due to lack of democracy

The former foreign secretary and author of ‘The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India’ on the need to understand Beijing’s policymaking.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Aug 14, 2021 · 08:30 am

Interview: Ian Sanjay Patel on Britain’s decades-long effort to keep its own non-white citizens out

The author of ‘We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire’ explains why imperial policies are key to today’s immigration debates.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Jul 31, 2021 · 08:30 am

Interview: Gilles Verniers on the pressing need to study Indian politics between elections

The co-director of the Trivedi Centre for Political Data on the need for an open-data ecosystem and what Indian political scientists students need to know.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Jul 24, 2021 · 07:30 am

Interview: Radhika Singha on the need to expand our understanding of India’s role in World War I

In ‘The Coolie’s War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914-1921’, the JNU professor looks beyond just the experiences of soldiers.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Jul 17, 2021 · 08:30 am