All Episodes

#240 Peering Into the Future

#239 Of Screws and Racquets

#238 Everything's Connected

#237 Looking Under the Hood

#235 Right Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription

#221 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

#220 (China+1) Or (1-China)?

#219 Of Sins, Bets, and Bluffs

#218 TechTalk

#217 False Hopes and Weak Promises

#216 Thick and Fast

#215 Of Openings and Possibilities

#214 The Stakes are High

#213 The Mind Plays Tricks

#212 Myths & Misconceptions

#211 Of Motives and Presumptions

#210 Metastability

#209 Of New Beginnings and Old Grouses

#208 Go Shape the Molten Metal Now*

#207 The Rise and Rise of Conglomerates

#206 Those Immutable Laws

#205 Doodh Ka Doodh, Paani Ka Paani

#204 The Distant Roll Of Thunder

#203 Economic Growth and Voter Preferences

#201 Blocking out the Sun

#202 The Debt of the Future

#200 The Stories We Choose to Believe

#199 A New Deal?

#198 How To Build In India?

#197 Everything for Everyone All At Once

#196 Roving Bandits

#195 Missing In Action Is Here

#194 The e₹ is in Town

#193 No Country For Young Men?

#192 From Local to Global

#191 #TwitterMustDie?

#190 Hubris Leads to Downfall

#189 Strange Are The Ways Of Democracy

#187 Seek Not To Alter Me

#186 Of Magnitude and Littleness*

#185 Nature Will Take Its Course

#184 The Persistence Of Failure

#183 Free Lunches Forever

#182 Aisa Mauka Phir Kahan Milega?

#181 We Shall Overcome

#180 This World Is Given To Lying

#179 The Flesh is Willing but the Mind is Weak

#178 How Do I Raid Thee? Let Me Count The Ways

#177 We See What We Want to See

#176 Of East Asian Transformations

#174 Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn*

#173 Lathpath, Lathpath, Lathpath, Agnipath*

#172 State Of Play

#171 The House That Jack Built And Other Stories

#170 A Universal Solution & The Rocket Man

#168 The (W)heat Is On

#167 Sare Jahan Se Achha..

#166 Putin' Vodka In Bihar

#165 Vishwaguru Max?

#164 Two Perspectives

#163 The Past Is A Foreign Country*

#162 The Closing Of The Indian Mind

#161 No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent*

#160 Through The Looking Glass

#159 Three Conundrums

#158 Avoiding The Usual Distractions

#157 Money Matters

#156 The Republic Of Our Future

#155 The Persistence Of Memory (of bad ideas)

#154 We’ve Seen This Movie Before

#153 Hope Is A Thing With Feathers*

#152 2021 Ends

#151 The Wrong Kind Of Convergence

#150 One Country, Infinite Variety

#149 Turning And Turning In The Widening Gyre

#148 All The Wrong Reasons

#147 Bole Choodiyan, Bole Kangana?

#146 Woke Up On The 'Right' Side

#145 The Escalation Ladder of Outrage

#144 Yeh Democracy Hai Aur Yahan Hamari Pawri Ho Rahi Hai

#143 This Day, That Year, Their Civilisation 🎧

#142 The Games We Play 🎧

#141 Pakistan, Afghanistan....Hindustan: The Akhanda Bharat Edition 🎧

#140 We Do Need Education 🎧

#139 A Question Of Sports

#138 Empire Of The Clouds (And Beyond) 🎧

#137 Opening Up And Closing Down 🎧

#136 Xi Is Unfriending Big Tech

#135 The Nehruvian Ideal 🎧

#134 "Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani" Or "तथापि हृदय भारतीय अस्ति"? 🎧

#133 The Centre Cannot Hold 🎧

#132 A (Non) Manchurian Candidate 🎧

#131 Learn From Others. It's Free 🎧

#130 Everybody Loves A Good Conspiracy Theory 🎧

#129 To Kill A Mocking Mosquito 🎧

#128 Where The Clear Stream Of Reason.. 🎧

#127 What Makes an Ideology? 🎧

#126 A Little Boat Adrift 🎧

#124 Flailing Again 🎧

#123 Lost In The Kumbh 🎧

#122 Naya Paisa, Purana Qissa 🎧

#121 Mundell's Trilemma; Sumption's Dilemma 🎧

#120 Narrative Dominance

#119 That 2008-like Feeling

#117 A Resignation

#116 India's rajamandala

#115 Anti-State, Anti-Government Or Anti-Nation? 🎧

#114 A Self-Help Text For Andolan-jeevis 🎧

#113 Opioids, Domar Rule And Who Moved My Chips 🎧

#112 Courting Trouble

#111 'Tu Tu Main Main' In the Information Age

#110 Will There be a Yangon Spring? 🎧

#109 Google Isn't Feeling Lucky🎧

#108 We Need To Talk About State 🎧

#107 An Enemy A Day....🎧

#106 Exit, Voice, Loyalty, And Mia Khalifa

#105 The 2021 Union Budget 🎧

#104 No More GameStop Puns

#103 Constitution Chronicles: 4 Books & 2 Speeches 🎧

#102 How To Tame Your Elephant?

#101 The Vaccine Question 🎧

#100 Intoxicating Eardrops 🎧

#99 Rage Against The Dying Of The Light 🎧

#98 Parliamentary Overslide 🎧

#97 What To make Of Protests? 🎧

#96 A Lazy Start To 2021🎧

#95 Lippman-Dewey Debates: Janata Is Janardhan? 🎧

#94 Reforms: Caught Consensus, Bowled Hubris

#93 Democracy, Aap Too Much Ho!🎧

#92 India's Marathon 🎧

#91 Hope And Despair In India🎧

#90 "Politics is the Art of the Possible"

#89 Uncovering The Recovery🎧

#88 Economics Matters, Capitalism Works

#87 A Not-So-Peaceful Transfer Of Power🎧

#86 Production-Linked Subsidies & Decoding Charisma

#85 Legitimacy Of Unelected Powers🎧

#84 Factions Are Natural

#82 What Does it Mean to be Free?

#81 Aap Party Hain, Ya Broker?🎧

#79 What Do Voter Preferences Reveal?

#78 Radically Nefarious Outrage

#77 The Inflation Conundrum 🎧

#76 Yeh Strategic, Strategic Kya Hai?🎧

#75 "Out-atmanirbharing" The Competition

#74 (Internet+Politics) & India's Transition To An Industrial Society 🎧

#73 Thinking About Retrospective Taxation - Will India Appeal? 🎧

#72 Should Courts Make Social Policies?🎧

#71 Liberalism And Central Banking

#70 Concentrated Costs, Diffused Benefits 🎧

#69 Abe Yaar! Lessons From 'Japanification'

#68 A 'Sin' Called Consumption 🎧