Ideas of India
By Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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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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Snigdha Poonam on the Political Economy of Transnational Scams
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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2025 in Review
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Ammu Lavanya on How Foreign Capital Changed Indian Bank Lending
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Nayantara Biswas on Demand- and Supply-Side Interventions in India's Maternal Health Policy
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Karthik Narayan on Measuring the Effects of Unscheduled vs. Scheduled Monetary Policy Announcements
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Asad Tariq on Electoral Redistricting and Public Goods Provision in India
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Chetana Sabnis on The Intimacy Contract and the Indian State
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Sunny Rai on Using Large Language Models to Understand the Depiction of Shame and Pride in Bollywood versus Hollywood
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Kartik Srivastava on Referral-Based Hiring, Caste Networks, and Breaking Barriers in India's Labor Markets
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Narayani Basu on K. M. Panikkar: India's Impossible Man
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Yamini Aiyar Schools Us on Education Policy in India
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Rathin Roy on How India Slices the Fiscal Pie
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Chitrakshi Jain and Prashant Reddy T. on the Dysfunction in India's District Courts
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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M.R. Sharan Examines Decentralization and Local Representation in India
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Rakesh Mohan Reflects on Dismantling the License Permit Raj
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Ramachandra Guha on the Origins of Indian Environmentalism
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Rajmohan Gandhi on Revenge and Reconciliation in South Asia
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May 22, 2025 |
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Rajmohan Gandhi Reflects on India's Founding Fathers
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May 08, 2025 |
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Taking Stock of the Indian Economy with Prachi Mishra
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Sajith Pai on India's Digital Divides
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Jasti Chelameswar on Constitutional Interpretation and Judicial Independence
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Akshay Jaitly on India's Energy Sector Challenges, Reforms, and Future Pathways
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Christopher Coyne on War, Conflict, and the Quest for a Stable Peace
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Katherine Schofield on The Hidden History of Music in Mughal India
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Anton Howes on Trade, Innovation, and the Forgotten History of Salt
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Anant Sudarshan on Market Solutions to Air Pollution, Energy Policy, and Ecological Disruption
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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2024 in Review
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Pravin Krishna on the Political Economy of Multilateral and Preferential Trade Agreements, Trade Liberalization, and the Future of Global Trade
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Deepti Sharma on Survey Methods and the Hidden Biases in Economic Data
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Kushagr Bakshi on Constitutional Interpretation and the Transformation of Federalism
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Aarushi Kalra on Digital Polarization and Toxicity, Understanding User Behavior, Social Media Algorithms, and Platform Incentives
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Abishek Choutagunta on Federalism, President's Rule, and Constitutional Design
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Atanu Chatterjee on Governance and Design in Slum Rehabilitation
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Steven Brownstone on Agricultural Subsidies, Mechanization, and Historical Land and Labor Institutions in India
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Deepika Padmanabhan on Language, Identity, and Nation-Building in South India
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Sukrit Puri on the Entanglement between Business and Politics in India
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Rolly Kapoor on Group Travel and Women's Job Search Behavior in India
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Ruchir Sharma on America's Debt and the Future of Capitalism
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Amol Agrawal on the Bankers who Built Modern India
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Amartya Lahiri and Devashish Mitra on Trade and Manufacturing-Led Economic Growth in India
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Anirudh Burman on Rethinking India's Land Regulation
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Kadambari Shah and Shreyas Narla on Continuing the Reform Agenda
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Sajith Pai Unpacks the 2024 Indus Valley Annual Report and the Changing Indian Consumer
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Anne Krueger Reflects on 50 Years of Rent-Seeking, Trade, and Economic Development
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Karthik Muralidharan Examines the State of the Indian State
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Arjun Ramani and Thomas Easton Decode India's Changing Economic Landscape
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May 23, 2024 |
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Rohit Lamba Reimagines India's Economic Policy Emphasis
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May 08, 2024 |
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Rasheed Griffith Explores the Complexities of the Caribbean
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Pranay Kotasthane Unravels the Global Semiconductor Industry
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Badri Narayanan and M. Krishnan Navigate the Choppy Waters of Fisheries Negotiations
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Aparna Chandra Puts the Supreme Court on Trial
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Doug Irwin on the History and Political Economy of Trade Policy
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Rahul Matthan on AI, Privacy, and Digital Public Infrastructure
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Aditya Balasubramanian on Swatantra Party and Opposition Politics in India
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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The Art of Talking Films with Nasreen Munni Kabir
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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2023 in Review
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Rajat Kochhar on Agricultural Market Power and Farmer Adaptation to Climate Change
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Vani Swarupa Murali on the Lack of Decentralization in India and Its impact on Water Depletion
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Kartikeya Batra on Long-Run Effects of Land Redistribution in India
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Vatsal Khandelwal on Pessimistic Belief Correction and its Impact on Well-Being
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Sarath Pillai on the Influence of Nineteenth Century German Thought on Early Twentieth Century Indian Constitutionalists
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Rithika Kumar on the Impact of Male Migration on Women's Political Engagement
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Vanisha Sharma on the Effects of Internet Expansion in Developing Communities
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Duncan Webb on Reducing Anti-Transgender Discrimination in India
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Amit Ahuja and Devesh Kapur on the Complexity of Violence and Fragility of Order in India
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Shreyas Narla and Kadambari Shah on Why Women Economic Policy Makers Matter
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Saurabh Kirpal on the Constitutional Case for Marriage Equality in India
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Peter J. Boettke on Austrian Economics and the Knowledge Problem
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Aditi Mittal on Being a Comedian
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Rohini Nilekani on Society, State and Markets
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Amit Varma on The Creator Economy
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Rahul Sagar on Finding India's Hidden 19th-Century History
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May 25, 2023 |
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Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Mapping the Journey of Policy Reform with a Policy Reformer
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May 11, 2023 |
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Sajith Pai on Startups and Venture Capital
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Chakravarthi Rangarajan on Monetary Policy After Liberalization
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Pranay Kotasthane and Raghu S. Jaitley on Individuals and the Indian State
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Nitin Pai on Educating Citizens
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Alain Bertaud on Order Without Design
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Poornima Dore on Regional Economic Diversity
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Nikhil Menon on Planning Democracy
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Nirupama Menon Rao on South Asian Identity
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Janhavi Nilekani on Maternal Healthcare and Evidence-Based Decision-Making
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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2022 in Review
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Shweta Banerjee on Decentralized Currency and the East India Company
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Mahima Vasishth on the Role of Media in Judicial Outcomes of Sexual Harassment Cases
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Khusdeep Malhotra on Sikh Identity in Kashmir
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Anoop Jain on Sanitation and Infrastructure in India
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Aliz Tóth on State-Society Bargaining over Land Acquisition in India
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Raahil Madhok on the Development-Biodiversity Tradeoff in India
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Nishant Vats on the Impact of Income Guarantee on Farm Incomes in India
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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A Conversation on Talent
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin on How the World Became Rich
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Jennifer Murtazashvili on The Future of Afghanistan
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Ashwini Deshpande on Gender and Caste Discrimination and Affirmative Action in India
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Vinay Sitapati on Liberalization and Narasimha Rao
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Saumitra Jha on Commerce and Peace
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Lant Pritchett on Reforming Development Economics
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Adeel Hussain and Tripurdaman Singh on The Debates That Defined India
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May 26, 2022 |
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Naushad Forbes on Building Innovation in Industry
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May 12, 2022 |
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Barkha Dutt on the Humans of COVID
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Anand Swamy and Tirthankar Roy on Law and the Economy
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Ramachandra Guha on Rebels Against the Raj
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Lant Pritchett on Where Did Development Economics Go Wrong?
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Rajesh Veeraraghavan on Information Politics and Social Change
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Rukmini Shrinivasan on What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Shrayana Bhattacharya on Women's Love, Longing and Labor Post-Liberalization
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Arvind Elangovan on Tensions Within the Indian Constitution
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Radhika Jain on Healthcare in the Public and Private Sectors
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Apurav Bhatiya on Synchronized Elections and Voter Behavior
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Archana Dang on Savings, Self-Control and Obesity Patterns
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Kim Fe Cramer on How Access to Banking Can Improve Health Outcomes
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Karan Babbar on Access to Reproductive Health
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Neha Gupta on Creating Affordable Housing
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Karmini Sharma on Sexual Harassment, Empathy Training and Gender Bias
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Ashish Sedai on Water, Electricity and Female Labor Force Participation
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Bhumi Purohit on Female Leaders and Bureaucratic Resistance
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Gaurav Mittal on Political Geographies and the Urban Transportation Crisis
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Chhavi Tiwari on Internal Migration for Aspiration vs. Compulsion
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Arkadev Ghosh on Religious Divisions and Production Technology
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta on The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Alice Evans on Female Friendships and Fraternal Capital
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Uday Bhatia on the Hindi Gangster Film Tradition
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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The 1991 Project
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Salil Tripathi on Lessons from Bangladesh for India
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Amartya Lahiri on Fostering Economic Growth
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Krish Ashok on Indian Food, Carnatic Music, and the Future of the Workplace
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Yashica Dutt on Coming Out as Dalit
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Keshav Desiraju on Indian Classical Music and the Legacy of M. S. Subbulakshmi
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Chinmay Tumbe on Pandemics Then and Now
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May 27, 2021 |
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Alice Evans on The Great Gender Divergence
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May 13, 2021 |
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Virginia Postrel on the History of Textiles and their Economic Relevance Throughout the World
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Himanshu Jha on Institutional Change in India
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Milan Vaishnav on How Indian-Americans View India
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Shoumitro Chatterjee on Agricultural Markets in India
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Chandra Bhan Prasad on Ambedkarism, Caste, and Dalit Capitalism
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Arvind Panagariya on Free Trade and Prosperity
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Kunal Mangal on Government Jobs and the Labor Market in India
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Vaidehi Tandel on Urban Economics in India
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Proma Ray Chaudhury on Gender and Women's Political Participation
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Tanu Kumar on the Connection Between Housing Subsidies and Political Activity
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Rohit Ticku on Temple Desecrations and Same-Sex Marriage Laws
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Vaishnavi Surendra on the Moneylender as Middleman in Rural India
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Adam Auerbach on Slum Residents Demanding Development
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Rohit De on the Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Test Libsyn
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Biju Rao on Democracy, Deliberation, and Development
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Testing Ideas of India
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Ideas of India: Fiscal Dominance—A Theory of Everything
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Ideas of India: Fiscal Dominance—A Theory of Everything
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Viral Acharya on Restoring Financial Stability in India
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Sriya Iyer on the Economics of Religion in India
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Anuj Bhuwania on Public Interest Litigation
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Dinyar Patel on Dadabhai Naoroji and the Building of Modern-Day India
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Madhav Khosla on the Framing of the Indian Constitution
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Ajay Shah on Indian State Capacity and Policy Priorities
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Aug 06, 2020 |