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Blogs

Individual standpoints on important policy issues from the researchers at the Think Tank. Posts do not constitute Takshashila’s policy recommendations.

When Society Subsidises Corporate Losses

Arindam Goswami

US tariff updates (Jan 1–20, 2026)

Abhishek Kadiyala

China’s Expanding Footprint in New Energy Trade

Bhumika Sevkani

Chasing the Cyber Enigma in Venezuela

Lokendra Sharma

Swatting Flies & Caging Tigers

Trump’s WTO Dream and What He Got Right

Paradigms Shift in LLMs and Compute

Yet Another Instance of China Blocking India’s Tech Aspirations

On or Off?

Operation Absolute Resolve : Shaping the Battlefield

Col Belliappa CS

The Geopolitics of Critical Minerals

Pranay Kotasthane

US’s Power Pivot

Why India Should Lead a Funding Push Within the IORA

Soon-to-be? The EU–Mercosur Trade Deal

The Growing Glare Problem on Our Roads

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

Why India - New Zealand Free Trade Agreement Matters?

India’s Pragmatic Turn in Taliban-Era Afghanistan

Aishwaria Sonavane

What’s so Intelligent About China’s Warfare?

How Can We Reduce High-Beam Misuse and LED Dazzle?

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

The Solid State Revolution

Arindam Goswami

The Shift from TACO to FAFO Represents an Ominous Warning for 2026

Lokendra Sharma

The Venezuelan Upheveal

Tactical Tweaks Need Formalisation

Col Vikrant S Shinde

China’s Climate Diplomacy at COP30: Cleantech Led the Show

Bhumika Sevkani

The Spatial Logic of Drug Seizures in India’s North Eastern Borderlands

Challenges and Opportunities for India-Japan Semiconductor Collaboration

Pranay Kotasthane

Public Policy and the Omniabsent State

Pranay Kotasthane

Venezuela, Taiwan and the Spectre of Nuclear Proliferation

Lokendra Sharma

The Reported Solutions for Allowing Chinese Investment in India

Pranay Kotasthane

What the US’s New Defense Authorisation Act Says About Taiwan

The strategic consequences of European rearmament

Pax Silica Minus India

Pranay Kotasthane

Social Media’s Wake-Up Call

Anwesha Sen, Pranay Kotasthane

Today’s captcha is a reputation score for your browser

Tannmay Kumarr Baid

Resetting India’s Quality Control Regime for a New Geoeconomic Era

AI in Legal Processes and Prosecution Preparedness

Kabir Adkoli, Prakash Sankar

Adaptive Tech Strategies and the US-China Tech Rivalry

Kashish Parpiani

Understanding India’s Drone Requirements

What AIS data reveals about Foreign Fishing in the Indian EEZ

Why Curriculum Matters More Than Degree Titles

Dr. Y Nithiyanandam

India’s Upcoming Nuclear Reforms

Data Centres in Space

Imagining a world where energy is clean, available in plenty and almost free

Sridhar Krishna

Identifying Addresses

Disarmament with Chinese Characteristics

India’s Cyber Safety App Mandate

Rotational Labour Mobility is Not Necessarily Growth-Enhancing

Lokendra Sharma

Leveraging the ACITI Partnership

Taking Off Their Gloves

Vanshika Saraf, Manoj Kewalramani

Is the EU Deregulating its Tech?

A Blueprint for China’s Tech Ambitions

Arindam Goswami

AI Safety is a Market Failure: Lessons from the Anthropic Disclosure

Rotational Labour Mobility Does Not Address Anti-Immigrant Sentiment

Lokendra Sharma

What We Lose When AI Filters Our Perception

The Tussle Over Nexperia

US helium export ban and the Hindenburg disaster

MeitY Notifies DPDP Rules 2025

US-Dutch oil embargo and Pearl Harbor

A Carrier in the Navy

Why connected buses and cars worry the West

Lokendra Sharma

When Geography Meets AI

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

The MBT is Not Dead Yet

Col Vikrant S Shinde

Should we Outsource Humanity to Technology?

China Doubles Down on Weaponising Antitrust Regulations

Pranay Kotasthane

Do deepfakes need separate regulations?

India’s Brahmaputra Bet

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

Meity’s yet another definitional stretch

Lokendra Sharma

More Letters, Low Bars, and Lesser Opportunities

Seven Points Worth Thinking About China’s Gameplay on Rare Earths

Pranay Kotasthane

Sahyog Portal’s e-commerce push

Is Geopolitics Reversing the Brussels Effect

India’s Options amid Chinese Export Curbs on Battery-related Technologies

Bhumika Sevkani

Lawfare, Leverage, and Lex Talionis

Ruminations about the Anti-Immigration Tendencies

A New Chapter for West Asia?

Why EU’s norm startup is struggling

Lokendra Sharma

India’s performance in WIPO’s Global Innovation Index 2025 Hides More Than it Reveals

Arindam Goswami

What India and Canada Can Do Together

Pranay Kotasthane

Understanding Hazard Proneness of Arunachal Pradesh

The Worldview from Xiangshan

Yo-yoing is the New Normal

Pranay Kotasthane

When Geopolitics Pulls The Plug On Technology

Food Safety or Food Policing?

When the flowers bloomed in China

Lokendra Sharma

No UPI, Only Cash

Sana Nehal Hashmin

Agricultural Tensions in the India-US Trade Negotiations

Why PM Ishiba is under fire

CROPIC: Farm Snapshots to Data-Driven Agriculture

FTA and Public Health

Continuity in Competition: US-China Tech Rivalry under Trump and Biden

Kashish Parpiani

Collaboration with Chinese Companies can Enhance India’s Clean Mobility Landscape

Bhumika Sevkani

Open Source AI Becomes a Strategic Priority

Pranay Kotasthane

India-UK sign FTA

What’s the point of a trade deal?

When legends are born!

Rethinking Proportional Representation

Pranay Kotasthane

The Digital Battlefield

China’s Underconsumption: Myth or Reality

Implications of H20 Sale Resumption to China

Pranay Kotasthane

The Impatience Epidemic underlying India’s Traffic Chaos

Arindam Goswami

The case for an open, liberal, transparent and democratic nation as the world’s leader

Arindam Goswami

The Knowledge Paradox: Why Economic Policymakers Need Humility

Arindam Goswami

Get religion off its high horse

Arindam Goswami

Continue to do what you want; don’t publicise it just yet.

Arindam Goswami

Reorienting Metro Transportation: Attracting the Rich for Comprehensive Urban Mobility Success

Arindam Goswami

Writing for an AI audience

The Iranian Bomb That Wasn’t

Pranay Kotasthane

English is the MP3 format of Scripts

Pranay Kotasthane

It’s About ‘Naam, Namak aur Nishan’

Vikrant S Shinde

The AI Diffusion Framework Was Repealed. What Does This Mean For India?

Ashwin Prasad, Bharath Reddy, Rijesh Panicker

Tech By Theater

Plugging the Leak - Alternative Solutions to Internet Shutdowns for Exam Leaks

Ragini Thakur, Samyak S, Devina Sikdar

Policy Approaches to Digitally Instigated Violence from Misinformation on Online Platforms

Shipra Bihani, Charu Chadha, Bushara Bano, Dr. Mohit Nayal, Dr. Naveen Kumar Singh, Shivashish Narayan

Operation Sindoor

Jhelum River: The Focal Point of Indus Water Treaty

Can BIMSTEC Set Sail for Real This Time?

Pathways to AI Sovereignty for India

Shobhankita Reddy

Xi Jinping’s Meeting with Private Tech Entrepreneurs

Shobhankita Reddy

Rethinking Bengaluru’s Metro Hike Strategy: Affordability versus Financial Viability

Anisree Suresh, Sourav Mannaraprayil

India must set up a Cabinet Committee on Science & Technology

It’s Your Everyday Defence Budget

Do the AI Diffusion Rules mean India cannot get more than 50,000 advanced GPUs?

Satya Shoova Sahu, Ashwin Prasad

Digging Deep: Tunnel Boring Machines and India’s China Challenge

Amit Kumar, Pranay Kotasthane

What is new at the BWC?

A Silicon Curtain: Examining the Implications of US Export Controls on Chips

Amit Kumar, Ashwin Prasad

Lessons for India from China’s pitch at the G20 summit in Rio

Manoj Kewalramani, Anushka Saxena

Building India’s State Capacity

The Chagos saga is not over

Lokendra Sharma

India must set up a Cabinet Committee on Science & Technology