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.Podcasts
Aditya Balasubramanian on Swatantra Party and Opposition Politics in India
Published: Jan. 25, 2024, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 10 seconds
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The Art of Talking Films with Nasreen Munni Kabir
Published: Jan. 11, 2024, 12:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 20 seconds
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2023 in Review
Published: Dec. 28, 2023, 12:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 23 seconds
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Rajat Kochhar on Agricultural Market Power and Farmer Adaptation to Climate Change
Published: Dec. 14, 2023, 12:30 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 11 seconds
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Vani Swarupa Murali on the Lack of Decentralization in India and Its impact on Water Depletion
Published: Nov. 30, 2023, 12:30 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 5 seconds
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Kartikeya Batra on Long-Run Effects of Land Redistribution in India
Published: Nov. 16, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 44 seconds
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Vatsal Khandelwal on Pessimistic Belief Correction and its Impact on Well-Being
Published: Nov. 2, 2023, 11:46 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 35 seconds
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Sarath Pillai on the Influence of Nineteenth Century German Thought on Early Twentieth Century Indian Constitutionalists
Published: Oct. 19, 2023, noonDuration: 41 minutes 39 seconds
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Rithika Kumar on the Impact of Male Migration on Womens Political Engagement
Published: Oct. 5, 2023, noonDuration: 31 minutes 59 seconds
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Vanisha Sharma on the Effects of Internet Expansion in Developing Communities
Published: Sept. 21, 2023, noonDuration: 28 minutes 57 seconds
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Duncan Webb on Reducing Anti-Transgender Discrimination in India
Published: Sept. 7, 2023, noonDuration: 36 minutes 36 seconds
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Amit Ahuja and Devesh Kapur on the Complexity of Violence and Fragility of Order in India
Published: Aug. 31, 2023, 11:32 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 6 seconds
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Shreyas Narla and Kadambari Shah on Why Women Economic Policy Makers Matter
Published: Aug. 17, 2023, noonDuration: 1 hour 14 minutes 21 seconds
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Saurabh Kirpal on the Constitutional Case for Marriage Equality in India
Published: Aug. 3, 2023, noonDuration: 1 hour 35 minutes 46 seconds
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Peter J. Boettke on Austrian Economics and the Knowledge Problem
Published: July 19, 2023, 9 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 8 minutes 21 seconds
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Aditi Mittal on Being a Comedian
Published: July 6, 2023, noonDuration: 1 hour 27 minutes 10 seconds
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Rohini Nilekani on Society, State and Markets
Published: June 22, 2023, noonDuration: 1 hour 10 minutes 43 seconds
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Amit Varma on The Creator Economy
Published: June 8, 2023, noonDuration: 1 hour 32 minutes 26 seconds
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Rahul Sagar on Finding Indias Hidden 19th-Century History
Published: May 25, 2023, noonDuration: 1 hour 20 minutes 20 seconds
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Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Mapping the Journey of Policy Reform with a Policy Reformer
Published: May 11, 2023, noonDuration: 1 hour 19 minutes 42 seconds
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Sajith Pai on Startups and Venture Capital
Published: April 27, 2023, noonDuration: 1 hour 17 minutes 59 seconds
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Chakravarthi Rangarajan on Monetary Policy After Liberalization
Published: April 13, 2023, noonDuration: 1 hour 20 minutes 18 seconds
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Pranay Kotasthane and Raghu S. Jaitley on Individuals and the Indian State
Published: March 30, 2023, noonDuration: 1 hour 26 minutes
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Nitin Pai on Educating Citizens
Published: March 16, 2023, noonDuration: 1 hour 19 minutes 59 seconds
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Alain Bertaud on Order Without Design
Published: March 2, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 47 seconds
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Poornima Dore on Regional Economic Diversity
Published: Feb. 16, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 41 seconds
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Nikhil Menon on Planning Democracy
Published: Feb. 2, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 41 seconds
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Nirupama Menon Rao on South Asian Identity
Published: Jan. 19, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 53 seconds
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Janhavi Nilekani on Maternal Healthcare and Evidence-Based Decision-Making
Published: Jan. 5, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 20 seconds
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2022 in Review
Published: Dec. 22, 2022, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 5 seconds
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Shweta Banerjee on Decentralized Currency and the East India Company
Published: Dec. 8, 2022, 1 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 7 seconds
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Mahima Vasishth on the Role of Media in Judicial Outcomes of Sexual Harassment Cases
Published: Nov. 23, 2022, 9 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 37 seconds
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Khusdeep Malhotra on Sikh Identity in Kashmir
Published: Nov. 10, 2022, 1 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 24 seconds
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Anoop Jain on Sanitation and Infrastructure in India
Published: Oct. 27, 2022, noonDuration: 34 minutes 7 seconds
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Aliz Toth on State-Society Bargaining over Land Acquisition in India
Published: Oct. 13, 2022, noonDuration: 42 minutes 14 seconds
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Raahil Madhok on the Development-Biodiversity Tradeoff in India
Published: Sept. 29, 2022, noonDuration: 29 minutes 20 seconds
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Nishant Vats on the Impact of Income Guarantee on Farm Incomes in India
Published: Sept. 15, 2022, noonDuration: 34 minutes 9 seconds
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A Conversation on Talent
Published: Sept. 1, 2022, noonDuration: 1 hour 8 minutes 18 seconds
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Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin on How the World Became Rich
Published: Aug. 18, 2022, noonDuration: 1 hour 34 minutes 7 seconds
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Jennifer Murtazashvili on The Future of Afghanistan
Published: Aug. 4, 2022, noonDuration: 1 hour 25 minutes 48 seconds
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Ashwini Deshpande on Gender and Caste Discrimination and Affirmative Action in India
Published: July 21, 2022, noonDuration: 1 hour 33 minutes 21 seconds
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Vinay Sitapati on Liberalization and Narasimha Rao
Published: July 7, 2022, noonDuration: 1 hour 25 minutes 25 seconds
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Saumitra Jha on Commerce and Peace
Published: June 23, 2022, noonDuration: 1 hour 17 minutes 46 seconds
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Lant Pritchett on Reforming Development Economics
Published: June 9, 2022, noonDuration: 1 hour 31 minutes 44 seconds
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Adeel Hussain and Tripurdaman Singh on The Debates That Defined India
Published: May 26, 2022, noonDuration: 1 hour 22 minutes 25 seconds
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Naushad Forbes on Building Innovation in Industry
Published: May 12, 2022, noonDuration: 1 hour 21 minutes 54 seconds
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Barkha Dutt on the Humans of COVID
Published: April 28, 2022, noonDuration: 1 hour 13 minutes 25 seconds
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Anand Swamy and Tirthankar Roy on Law and the Economy
Published: April 14, 2022, noonDuration: 1 hour 21 minutes 45 seconds
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Ramachandra Guha on Rebels Against the Raj
Published: March 31, 2022, noonDuration: 1 hour 27 minutes 23 seconds
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Lant Pritchett on Where Did Development Economics Go Wrong?
Published: March 17, 2022, noonDuration: 1 hour 37 minutes 40 seconds
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Rajesh Veeraraghavan on Information Politics and Social Change
Published: March 3, 2022, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 34 seconds
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Rukmini Shrinivasan on What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us
Published: Feb. 17, 2022, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 17 seconds
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Shrayana Bhattacharya on Womens Love, Longing and Labor Post-Liberalization
Published: Feb. 3, 2022, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 42 seconds
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Arvind Elangovan on Tensions Within the Indian Constitution
Published: Jan. 20, 2022, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 1 second
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Radhika Jain on Healthcare in the Public and Private Sectors
Published: Dec. 30, 2021, 1 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 7 seconds
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Apurav Bhatiya on Synchronized Elections and Voter Behavior
Published: Dec. 23, 2021, 1 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 16 seconds
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Archana Dang on Savings, Self-Control and Obesity Patterns
Published: Dec. 16, 2021, 1 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 32 seconds
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Kim Fe Cramer on How Access to Banking Can Improve Health Outcomes
Published: Dec. 9, 2021, 1 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 56 seconds
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Karan Babbar on Access to Reproductive Health
Published: Dec. 2, 2021, 1 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 7 seconds
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Neha Gupta on Creating Affordable Housing
Published: Nov. 25, 2021, 1 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 35 seconds
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Karmini Sharma on Sexual Harassment, Empathy Training and Gender Bias
Published: Nov. 18, 2021, 1 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 59 seconds
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Ashish Sedai on Water, Electricity and Female Labor Force Participation
Published: Nov. 11, 2021, 1 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 21 seconds
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Bhumi Purohit on Female Leaders and Bureaucratic Resistance
Published: Nov. 4, 2021, noonDuration: 33 minutes 47 seconds
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Gaurav Mittal on Political Geographies and the Urban Transportation Crisis
Published: Oct. 28, 2021, noonDuration: 37 minutes 22 seconds
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Chhavi Tiwari on Internal Migration for Aspiration vs. Compulsion
Published: Oct. 21, 2021, noonDuration: 26 minutes 45 seconds
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Arkadev Ghosh on Religious Divisions and Production Technology
Published: Oct. 14, 2021, noonDuration: 28 minutes 32 seconds
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta on The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Published: Sept. 30, 2021, noonDuration: 1 hour 32 minutes 40 seconds
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Alice Evans on Female Friendships and Fraternal Capital
Published: Sept. 16, 2021, noonDuration: 1 hour 5 minutes 7 seconds
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Uday Bhatia on the Hindi Gangster Film Tradition
Published: Sept. 2, 2021, noonDuration: 1 hour 23 minutes 32 seconds
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The 1991 Project
Published: Aug. 19, 2021, noonDuration: 1 hour 12 minutes 20 seconds
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Salil Tripathi on Lessons from Bangladesh for India
Published: Aug. 5, 2021, noonDuration: 1 hour 15 minutes 51 seconds
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Amartya Lahiri on Fostering Economic Growth
Published: July 22, 2021, noonDuration: 1 hour 34 minutes 15 seconds
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Krish Ashok on Indian Food, Carnatic Music, and the Future of the Workplace
Published: July 8, 2021, noonDuration: 1 hour 31 minutes 12 seconds
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Yashica Dutt on Coming Out as Dalit
Published: June 24, 2021, noonDuration: 1 hour 28 minutes 2 seconds
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Keshav Desiraju on Indian Classical Music and the Legacy of M. S. Subbulakshmi
Published: June 10, 2021, noonDuration: 1 hour 31 minutes 33 seconds
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Chinmay Tumbe on Pandemics Then and Now
Published: May 27, 2021, noonDuration: 1 hour 32 minutes 11 seconds
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Alice Evans on The Great Gender Divergence
Published: May 13, 2021, noonDuration: 1 hour 31 minutes 51 seconds
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Virginia Postrel on the History of Textiles and their Economic Relevance Throughout the World
Published: April 15, 2021, noonDuration: 1 hour 30 minutes 15 seconds
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Himanshu Jha on Institutional Change in India
Published: April 1, 2021, noonDuration: 1 hour 14 minutes 34 seconds
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Milan Vaishnav on How Indian-Americans View India
Published: March 18, 2021, noonDuration: 1 hour 12 minutes 11 seconds
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Shoumitro Chatterjee on Agricultural Markets in India
Published: March 4, 2021, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 9 seconds
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Chandra Bhan Prasad on Ambedkarism, Caste, and Dalit Capitalism
Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 18 seconds
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Arvind Panagariya on Free Trade and Prosperity
Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 38 seconds
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Kunal Mangal on Government Jobs and the Labor Market in India
Published: Jan. 14, 2021, 1 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 38 seconds
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Vaidehi Tandel on Urban Economics in India
Published: Jan. 7, 2021, 1 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 21 seconds
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Proma Ray Chaudhury on Gender and Women's Political Participation
Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 47 seconds
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Tanu Kumar on the Connection Between Housing Subsidies and Political Activity
Published: Dec. 24, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds
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Rohit Ticku on Temple Desecrations and Same-Sex Marriage Laws
Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 52 seconds
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Vaishnavi Surendra on the Moneylender as Middleman in Rural India
Published: Dec. 10, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 20 seconds
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Adam Auerbach on Slum Residents Demanding Development
Published: Nov. 26, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 48 seconds
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Rohit De on the Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic
Published: Nov. 12, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 35 seconds
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Biju Rao on Democracy, Deliberation, and Development
Published: Oct. 29, 2020, noonDuration: 1 hour 20 minutes 31 seconds
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Viral Acharya on Restoring Financial Stability in India
Published: Oct. 15, 2020, noonDuration: 1 hour 34 minutes 9 seconds
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Sriya Iyer on the Economics of Religion in India
Published: Oct. 1, 2020, noonDuration: 1 hour 25 minutes 7 seconds
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Anuj Bhuwania on Public Interest Litigation
Published: Sept. 17, 2020, 12:21 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 44 seconds
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Dinyar Patel on Dadabhai Naoroji and the Building of Modern-Day India
Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 12:16 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 44 seconds
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Madhav Khosla on the Framing of the Indian Constitution
Published: Aug. 20, 2020, noonDuration: 1 hour 6 minutes 51 seconds
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Ajay Shah on Indian State Capacity and Policy Priorities
Published: Aug. 6, 2020, 12:03 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 4 seconds
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