Ideas of India
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Ideas of India
Through conversations with top thinkers in the social sciences and beyond, economist Shruti Rajagopalan explores the ideas that will propel India forward.
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Chetana Sabnis on The Intimacy Contract and the Indian State
Our third scholar in the series is Chetana Sabnis, who is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Her research...
Sunny Rai on Using Large Language Models to Understand the Depiction of Shame and Pride in Bollywood versus Hollywood
Our second scholar in the series is Sunny Rai, who is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsy...
Kartik Srivastava on Referral-Based Hiring, Caste Networks, and Breaking Barriers in India's Labor Markets
Our first scholar in the series is Kartik Srivastava, who is a PhD candidate at the Kennedy School at Harvard University. Before this, he received his...
Narayani Basu on K. M. Panikkar: India’s Impossible Man
Today my guest is Narayani Basu, who is a historian and the author of the latest book, A Man for All Seasons: The Life of K. M. Panikkar. Her last boo...
Yamini Aiyar Schools Us on Education Policy in India
Today my guest is Yamini Aiyar, who is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown University and the...
Rathin Roy on How India Slices the Fiscal Pie
Recorded July 8th, 2025.
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Chitrakshi Jain and Prashant Reddy T. on the Dysfunction in India's District Courts
Recorded July 1st, 2025.
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M.R. Sharan Examines Decentralization and Local Representation in India
Today my guest is M.R. Sharan, an assistant professor in the department of agricultural and resource economics at the University of Maryland College P...
Rakesh Mohan Reflects on Dismantling the License Permit Raj
Today my guest is Rakesh Mohan. He is the President Emeritus and Distinguished Fellow at Center for Social and Economic Progress in New Delhi. He has...
Ramachandra Guha on the Origins of Indian Environmentalism
Today my guest is environmental scholar, historian and biographer Ramachandra Guha. He is the author of a number of books, including a two-volume biog...
Rajmohan Gandhi on Revenge and Reconciliation in South Asia
Today’s episode is the second part of my conversation with Rajmohan Gandhi, a historian and biographer involved in efforts for trust-building and reco...
Rajmohan Gandhi Reflects on India's Founding Fathers
Today my guest is Rajmohan Gandhi, a historian and biographer involved in efforts for trust-building and reconciliation and author of more than fiftee...
Taking Stock of the Indian Economy with Prachi Mishra
Today my guest is Prachi Mishra, who is a Professor in the Department of Economics, and Director and Head of Isaac Center for Public Policy at Ashoka...
Sajith Pai on India's Digital Divides
Today 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 o...
Jasti Chelameswar on Constitutional Interpretation and Judicial Independence
Today my guest is Justice Jasti Chelameswar, who is a former justice of the Supreme Court of India. Prior to his elevation, he served as chief justice...
Akshay Jaitly on India's Energy Sector Challenges, Reforms, and Future Pathways
Today my guest is Akshay Jaitly, one of the founders of Trilegal, one of India’s leading law firms. He specializes in advising on energy and infrastru...
Christopher Coyne on War, Conflict, and the Quest for a Stable Peace
Today my guest is Christopher J Coyne, who is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, the Associate Director of the F.A. Hayek Program at...
Katherine Schofield on The Hidden History of Music in Mughal India
Today my guest Katherine Butler Schofield who is a professor of South Asian Music and History at King’s College London. She is the author of the rece...
Anton Howes on Trade, Innovation, and the Forgotten History of Salt
Today my guest is Anton Howes head of innovation research at The Entrepreneurs Network, and the historian-in-residence at the Royal Society for the En...
Anant Sudarshan on Market Solutions to Air Pollution, Energy Policy, and Ecological Disruption
Today my guest is Anant Sudarshan, an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick and a Senior Fellow at the Energ...
2024 in Review
Today the roles are reversed. Producer Dallas Floer interviews Shruti for the annual end of year episode where they look back at key themes and episod...
Pravin Krishna on the Political Economy of Multilateral and Preferential Trade Agreements, Trade Liberalization, and the Future of Global Trade
Today my guest is Pravin Krishna is the Chung Ju Yung Distinguished Professor of International Economics and Business at Johns Hopkins University, at...
Deepti Sharma on Survey Methods and the Hidden Biases in Economic Data
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Kushagr Bakshi on Constitutional Interpretation and the Transformation of Federalism
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I spoke with Kushagr Bakshi is a Michigan Interna...
Aarushi Kalra on Digital Polarization and Toxicity, Understanding User Behavior, Social Media Algorithms, and Platform Incentives
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I spoke with Aarushi Kalra Ph.D. candidate in Eco...
Abishek Choutagunta on Federalism, President’s Rule, and Constitutional Design
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I spoke with Abishek Choutagunta, who received h...
Atanu Chatterjee on Governance and Design in Slum Rehabilitation
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I spoke with Atanu Chatterjee, a PhD candidate...
Steven Brownstone on Agricultural Subsidies, Mechanization, and Historical Land and Labor Institutions in India
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I spoke with Steven Brownstone, a PhD candidate i...
Deepika Padmanabhan on Language, Identity, and Nation-Building in South India
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I spoke with Deepika Padmanabhan, who's a PhD can...
Sukrit Puri on the Entanglement between Business and Politics in India
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Rolly Kapoor on Group Travel and Women's Job Search Behavior in India
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Ruchir Sharma on America’s Debt and the Future of Capitalism
Today my guest is Ruchir Sharma, who is the Chairman of Rockefeller International, a columnist with the Financial Times, and the author of the recent...
Amol Agrawal on the Bankers who Built Modern India
Today my guest is Amol Agrawal, who is the author of History of Private Banking in South Canara District (1906-69). He teaches economics at Ahmedabad...
Amartya Lahiri and Devashish Mitra on Trade and Manufacturing-Led Economic Growth in India
Today my guests are Amartya Lahiri and Devashish Mitra who are joining me to discuss their latest paper for the 1991 project titled India’s Developmen...
Anirudh Burman on Rethinking India’s Land Regulation
Today my guest is Anirudh Burman. He is an associate research director and fellow at Carnegie Endowment India, and prior to that, he worked at the Na...
Kadambari Shah and Shreyas Narla on Continuing the Reform Agenda
Today my guests are Shreyas Narla and Kadambari Shah, who are my colleagues at the Mercatus Center and research scholars working with me on the 1991 P...
Sajith Pai Unpacks the 2024 Indus Valley Annual Report and the Changing Indian Consumer
Today my guest is Sajith Pai, who is a partner at Blume Ventures and he is a long-time media executive turned VC. At Blume, Sajith supports investment...
Anne Krueger Reflects on 50 Years of Rent-Seeking, Trade, and Economic Development
Today my guest is Anne O Krueger. She is a Senior Fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and the Herald L....
Karthik Muralidharan Examines the State of the Indian State
Today my guest is Karthik Muralidharan. He is the Tata Chancellor's Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. He is the autho...
Arjun Ramani and Thomas Easton Decode India's Changing Economic Landscape
Today my guests are Tom Easton and Arjun Ramani from The Economist. Tom Easton is Mumbai bureau chief. He joined The Economist in 2000 at the New York...