All Episodes

Sajjid Chinoy on Whether India Faces another 1991 Moment

Ritam Chaurey on Placing the Firm at the Center of India's Structural Transformation

Pratap Bhanu Mehta on Liberalism, Nihilism, and the Collapse of Sincerity

Shruti Rajagopalan and Milan Vaishnav on India's Delimitation Dilemma

Samanth Subramanian on the Fragile and Resilient Technologies that Bind Us

Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Kapur on India's Precocious Development Odyssey

V. Anantha Nageswaran on Surveying the Growth and Financialization of the Indian Economy

Ornit Shani and Rohit De on Assembling India's Constitution

Pranay Kotasthane on the Political Economy of Rare Earths and Critical Minerals

Nachiket Mor on Rethinking India's Healthcare System

Akshay Jaitly on the Making of a Modern Indian Law Firm

Renuka Sane on Regulatory Frameworks, Rule of Law, and Pensions Reforms in India

Snigdha Poonam on the Political Economy of Transnational Scams

2025 in Review

Ammu Lavanya on How Foreign Capital Changed Indian Bank Lending

Nayantara Biswas on Demand- and Supply-Side Interventions in India's Maternal Health Policy

Karthik Narayan on Measuring the Effects of Unscheduled vs. Scheduled Monetary Policy Announcements

Asad Tariq on Electoral Redistricting and Public Goods Provision in India

Chetana Sabnis on The Intimacy Contract and the Indian State

Sunny Rai on Using Large Language Models to Understand the Depiction of Shame and Pride in Bollywood versus Hollywood

Kartik Srivastava on Referral-Based Hiring, Caste Networks, and Breaking Barriers in India's Labor Markets

Narayani Basu on K. M. Panikkar: India's Impossible Man

Yamini Aiyar Schools Us on Education Policy in India

Rathin Roy on How India Slices the Fiscal Pie

Chitrakshi Jain and Prashant Reddy T. on the Dysfunction in India's District Courts

M.R. Sharan Examines Decentralization and Local Representation in India

Rakesh Mohan Reflects on Dismantling the License Permit Raj

Ramachandra Guha on the Origins of Indian Environmentalism

Rajmohan Gandhi on Revenge and Reconciliation in South Asia

Rajmohan Gandhi Reflects on India's Founding Fathers

Taking Stock of the Indian Economy with Prachi Mishra

Sajith Pai on India's Digital Divides

Jasti Chelameswar on Constitutional Interpretation and Judicial Independence

Akshay Jaitly on India's Energy Sector Challenges, Reforms, and Future Pathways

Christopher Coyne on War, Conflict, and the Quest for a Stable Peace

Katherine Schofield on The Hidden History of Music in Mughal India

Anton Howes on Trade, Innovation, and the Forgotten History of Salt

Anant Sudarshan on Market Solutions to Air Pollution, Energy Policy, and Ecological Disruption

2024 in Review

Pravin Krishna on the Political Economy of Multilateral and Preferential Trade Agreements, Trade Liberalization, and the Future of Global Trade

Deepti Sharma on Survey Methods and the Hidden Biases in Economic Data

Kushagr Bakshi on Constitutional Interpretation and the Transformation of Federalism

Aarushi Kalra on Digital Polarization and Toxicity, Understanding User Behavior, Social Media Algorithms, and Platform Incentives

Abishek Choutagunta on Federalism, President's Rule, and Constitutional Design

Atanu Chatterjee on Governance and Design in Slum Rehabilitation

Steven Brownstone on Agricultural Subsidies, Mechanization, and Historical Land and Labor Institutions in India

Deepika Padmanabhan on Language, Identity, and Nation-Building in South India

Sukrit Puri on the Entanglement between Business and Politics in India

Rolly Kapoor on Group Travel and Women's Job Search Behavior in India

Ruchir Sharma on America's Debt and the Future of Capitalism

Amol Agrawal on the Bankers who Built Modern India

Amartya Lahiri and Devashish Mitra on Trade and Manufacturing-Led Economic Growth in India

Anirudh Burman on Rethinking India's Land Regulation

Kadambari Shah and Shreyas Narla on Continuing the Reform Agenda

Sajith Pai Unpacks the 2024 Indus Valley Annual Report and the Changing Indian Consumer

Anne Krueger Reflects on 50 Years of Rent-Seeking, Trade, and Economic Development

Karthik Muralidharan Examines the State of the Indian State

Arjun Ramani and Thomas Easton Decode India's Changing Economic Landscape

Rohit Lamba Reimagines India's Economic Policy Emphasis

Rasheed Griffith Explores the Complexities of the Caribbean

Pranay Kotasthane Unravels the Global Semiconductor Industry

Badri Narayanan and M. Krishnan Navigate the Choppy Waters of Fisheries Negotiations

Aparna Chandra Puts the Supreme Court on Trial

Doug Irwin on the History and Political Economy of Trade Policy

Rahul Matthan on AI, Privacy, and Digital Public Infrastructure

Aditya Balasubramanian on Swatantra Party and Opposition Politics in India

The Art of Talking Films with Nasreen Munni Kabir

2023 in Review

Rajat Kochhar on Agricultural Market Power and Farmer Adaptation to Climate Change

Vani Swarupa Murali on the Lack of Decentralization in India and Its impact on Water Depletion

Kartikeya Batra on Long-Run Effects of Land Redistribution in India

Vatsal Khandelwal on Pessimistic Belief Correction and its Impact on Well-Being

Sarath Pillai on the Influence of Nineteenth Century German Thought on Early Twentieth Century Indian Constitutionalists

Rithika Kumar on the Impact of Male Migration on Women's Political Engagement

Vanisha Sharma on the Effects of Internet Expansion in Developing Communities

Duncan Webb on Reducing Anti-Transgender Discrimination in India

Amit Ahuja and Devesh Kapur on the Complexity of Violence and Fragility of Order in India

Shreyas Narla and Kadambari Shah on Why Women Economic Policy Makers Matter

Saurabh Kirpal on the Constitutional Case for Marriage Equality in India

Peter J. Boettke on Austrian Economics and the Knowledge Problem

Aditi Mittal on Being a Comedian

Rohini Nilekani on Society, State and Markets

Amit Varma on The Creator Economy

Rahul Sagar on Finding India's Hidden 19th-Century History

Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Mapping the Journey of Policy Reform with a Policy Reformer

Sajith Pai on Startups and Venture Capital

Chakravarthi Rangarajan on Monetary Policy After Liberalization

Pranay Kotasthane and Raghu S. Jaitley on Individuals and the Indian State

Nitin Pai on Educating Citizens

Alain Bertaud on Order Without Design

Poornima Dore on Regional Economic Diversity

Nikhil Menon on Planning Democracy

Nirupama Menon Rao on South Asian Identity

Janhavi Nilekani on Maternal Healthcare and Evidence-Based Decision-Making

2022 in Review

Shweta Banerjee on Decentralized Currency and the East India Company

Mahima Vasishth on the Role of Media in Judicial Outcomes of Sexual Harassment Cases

Khusdeep Malhotra on Sikh Identity in Kashmir

Anoop Jain on Sanitation and Infrastructure in India

Aliz Tóth on State-Society Bargaining over Land Acquisition in India

Raahil Madhok on the Development-Biodiversity Tradeoff in India

Nishant Vats on the Impact of Income Guarantee on Farm Incomes in India

A Conversation on Talent

Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin on How the World Became Rich

Jennifer Murtazashvili on The Future of Afghanistan

Ashwini Deshpande on Gender and Caste Discrimination and Affirmative Action in India

Vinay Sitapati on Liberalization and Narasimha Rao

Saumitra Jha on Commerce and Peace

Lant Pritchett on Reforming Development Economics

Adeel Hussain and Tripurdaman Singh on The Debates That Defined India

Naushad Forbes on Building Innovation in Industry

Barkha Dutt on the Humans of COVID

Anand Swamy and Tirthankar Roy on Law and the Economy

Ramachandra Guha on Rebels Against the Raj

Lant Pritchett on Where Did Development Economics Go Wrong?

Rajesh Veeraraghavan on Information Politics and Social Change

Rukmini Shrinivasan on What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us

Shrayana Bhattacharya on Women's Love, Longing and Labor Post-Liberalization

Arvind Elangovan on Tensions Within the Indian Constitution

Radhika Jain on Healthcare in the Public and Private Sectors

Apurav Bhatiya on Synchronized Elections and Voter Behavior

Archana Dang on Savings, Self-Control and Obesity Patterns

Kim Fe Cramer on How Access to Banking Can Improve Health Outcomes

Karan Babbar on Access to Reproductive Health

Neha Gupta on Creating Affordable Housing

Karmini Sharma on Sexual Harassment, Empathy Training and Gender Bias

Ashish Sedai on Water, Electricity and Female Labor Force Participation

Bhumi Purohit on Female Leaders and Bureaucratic Resistance

Gaurav Mittal on Political Geographies and the Urban Transportation Crisis

Chhavi Tiwari on Internal Migration for Aspiration vs. Compulsion

Arkadev Ghosh on Religious Divisions and Production Technology

Pratap Bhanu Mehta on The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Alice Evans on Female Friendships and Fraternal Capital

Uday Bhatia on the Hindi Gangster Film Tradition

The 1991 Project

Salil Tripathi on Lessons from Bangladesh for India

Amartya Lahiri on Fostering Economic Growth

Krish Ashok on Indian Food, Carnatic Music, and the Future of the Workplace

Yashica Dutt on Coming Out as Dalit

Keshav Desiraju on Indian Classical Music and the Legacy of M. S. Subbulakshmi

Chinmay Tumbe on Pandemics Then and Now

Alice Evans on The Great Gender Divergence

Virginia Postrel on the History of Textiles and their Economic Relevance Throughout the World

Himanshu Jha on Institutional Change in India

Milan Vaishnav on How Indian-Americans View India

Shoumitro Chatterjee on Agricultural Markets in India

Chandra Bhan Prasad on Ambedkarism, Caste, and Dalit Capitalism

Arvind Panagariya on Free Trade and Prosperity

Kunal Mangal on Government Jobs and the Labor Market in India

Vaidehi Tandel on Urban Economics in India

Proma Ray Chaudhury on Gender and Women's Political Participation

Tanu Kumar on the Connection Between Housing Subsidies and Political Activity

Rohit Ticku on Temple Desecrations and Same-Sex Marriage Laws

Vaishnavi Surendra on the Moneylender as Middleman in Rural India

Adam Auerbach on Slum Residents Demanding Development

Rohit De on the Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic

Biju Rao on Democracy, Deliberation, and Development

Viral Acharya on Restoring Financial Stability in India

Sriya Iyer on the Economics of Religion in India

Anuj Bhuwania on Public Interest Litigation

Dinyar Patel on Dadabhai Naoroji and the Building of Modern-Day India

Madhav Khosla on the Framing of the Indian Constitution

Ajay Shah on Indian State Capacity and Policy Priorities