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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.

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The Effects of a Sudden Stop in Low-Skilled Immigration

ASML’s Blowout Quarter Is a Geopolitical Signal

Pranay Kotasthane

Unlocking India’s night shift remains a relatively cheap growth reform

Are We Measuring Urban Heat Islands Correctly?

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

China and Russia, Joint At Sea

From Map-Making to Map-Checking: The Next Step in GeoAI

India’s Credible Commitment Crisis

China’s Weather War? A GEOINT Perspective

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

Where Censorship Lives On Chinese Open Weight AI Models

The WhatsApp Username Saga

Operation Trialblazer - the name takes all the glory

The EU-US Trade Deal (Truce?)

From Policy to Law: The Future of Geospatial Governance in India

China’s Mega Dam and the Question India Should Be Asking

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

Interest Groups as Iterative Units

The Illusion of AI Mapping Intelligence

An Updated 1260H List

India’s Digital Census: A Geospatial Leap That Can Still Be Refined

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

Growing Energy Transition Momentum, Rising Dependencies

Bhumika Sevkani

Why India Must Recalibrate the Sugarcane Fair and Remunerative Prices (FRP) for a US$300 Billion Bioeconomy

Anisree Suresh, Shambhavi Naik

Pakistan’s Recent Satellite Launches: The Real Question India Should Be Asking

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

Why Tethered Balloon Systems Still Matter in the Age of Satellites and Drones

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

Making Shao-Lin out of Shangri-La

IRGC’s Proposed Fee Regime on Subsea Cables

New Arms and A Leg To Stand On

The West Asia Crisis: Playing ‘Spoilt Sport’

The Impact of Rising Temperatures on Animals

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

The Beautiful China Paradox

Manoj Kewalramani, Bhumika Sevkani

Taiwan’s WHAmmy

On Clusters and Compounding

Use Case Challenge Confronts China’s Humanoid Robot Industry

Fraunhofer And Technology Diffusion

Why trucks stick to the right?

China Hits 5/5

An Honest Anniversary: The Year Pakistan Spent Building and India Spent Deliberating

Making better environmental trade-offs

Browser Choice vs Defaults

Who paid for the Liberation Day Tariffs

The Afterlife of a Server

China, Meta, Manus, and the New Shape of High-Tech Geopolitics

The Case for Open Compute Architecture

The 131st Constitutional Amendment: After the Dust Has Settled

Can Coal Gasification Reduce India’s Import Dependence?

Bhumika Sevkani

India’s inflation blindspot

State of the Economy

Introduce MDR and Make UPI Sustainable

Clean, Intelligent and Information-Based

India Needs a New Rulebook for Agriculture’s Next Technological Shift?

Before the Enumerator Knocks, Fill It Yourself

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

The Corps Talk Ideology

Toll Baaje Toll

Narayan Ramachandran

Iran’s Three-Layer Trap: What Operation Epic Fury Revealed About A2/AD Beyond China

Brig Anil Raman

Ceasefire: strategic scorecard

Democracy, Constitution, and National Power

Pranay Kotasthane

Investigating the Potential of Pax Silica

Pranay Kotasthane

Tibet a testing ground for advanced solar technologies?

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

The Party-State Embraces The Guochao Craze

Sulphur Shortage Worsens with Iran War

Bhumika Sevkani

India is the Pharmacy of the World. But We Are Losing the Drug Development Race

Soham Sankaran, Anupam Manur

Why Tracking Ships at Sea Is Not as Easy as It Seems

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

New Realities Take Shape in Both War and West Asia

Honesty, Respect, and Strategic Clarity

A Dash for the Bomb?

Mixed Signals : Divergent Lines

The Choke We Didn’t See Coming - And The One We’re Building Next

Arindam Goswami

Decoding NavIC: Why India’s Navigation System is Down, Not Out

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

New Tech, New Tenacity, Old Tensions?

India Dithering on Signing the Trade Deal with the US is a Welcome Development

Lokendra Sharma

The War Few Wanted

India needs to Catch-up on CBAM Preparedness

Bhumika Sevkani

A ‘New Era’ of Smart Logistics

How could a US ground invasion of Iran look like?

Abhishek Kadiyala

Why Imperfect Actors Still Move Technology Forward

Arindam Goswami

Sooner or Later, Anthropic is Likely to Fall in Line

Lokendra Sharma

The Non-Proliferation Trap - How AI Safety Narratives Armed the Pentagon Against Anthropic

Not The AI Sovereignty We Want, But The One We Can Get

The Compass and the Weathervane

Arindam Goswami

The critical 96 hours

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

New Trends in Arms Transfers

China is Just A Salesperson, Not Iran’s Defender

Why Technology Denial Regimes Often Backfire

Arindam Goswami

Why India Must Move Away from Freebies!

Data Centre Growth in the US and Malaysia

What did the US Supreme Court say on tariffs and what comes next?

Abhishek Kadiyala

China Moves to Electrify its Shipping Fleets

EU ReArm’s Arms, Legs and Nerves

Nagara – The Democracy Game

The Takshashila Institution

The India AI Impact Summit, Beyond the Headlines

Lokendra Sharma

India Formally Joins the Pax Silica

Pranay Kotasthane

America First Global Health Strategy

Train For A Fight

An Analysis of the 2026-27 Union Sports Budget

Five Observations on the India-US Framework Trade Agreement

Lokendra Sharma

A Love Letter at First Sight: Guwahati and the Brahmaputra

Dr Y Nithiyanandam

When Deep-Tech Met Bureaucracy

Arindam Goswami

Strengthening the Indian Republic

Pranay Kotasthane

Democratising Compute in India

Why China’s economic coercion did not work with Japan

Why Iran Is Unlikely to See Another 1979

Aishwaria Sonavane

The Gap Between Intentions and Outcomes

Agastya Mohanty

How Social Norms Flip

Agastya Mohanty

Why Tax Breaks Alone Won’t Suffice For India’s AI Ambitions

Arindam Goswami

Calm Down and Keep Executing

Pranay Kotasthane

Decoding the budget for India’s AI priorities

Why the Timing of EU–India Trade Deal Matters!

Is the World Running Out of Copper?

The Long Jump of the FY27 Defence Budget

Union Budget Proposes Tax Holiday for Global Cloud Services

Will the Chips Get “Up” in India?

Lokendra Sharma

The Logic of US-China AI Competition

The FY 2027 Defence Budget Must Bridge the Gap Between ‘Aatmanirbharta’ and Reality

An Analysis of the India-EU Technology Action Agenda

Pranay Kotasthane

India–EU Relations and Open Source Tech

The RIC Brick of BRICS Lacks Strength

EVs at the Core of China-EU Trade Tensions

Bhumika Sevkani

Highlights of the New TikTok Deal

Lokendra Sharma

MeitY Considers Reducing DPDPA Compliance Timelines

Takshashila Institution - BDA Change Management Programme

Lakshmi Shashidhar

Iran at a Tipping Point

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

Nobel Peace Prize, 2025- an opportunity missed?

Abhishek Kadiyala

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

Ashwin Prasad Rao

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

NASA’s Declining Independence Reflects a Shift toward Private Control of U.S. Space Exploration

Abhishek Kadiyala

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

Ashwin Prasad Rao

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

The Pentagon’s Think Tank Ban Marks a Restructure, not a Severance

Abhishek Kadiyala

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

Decline of State-rights as an electoral issue in the US

Abhishek Kadiyala

What should the Democrats learn from Zohran Mamdani’s win

Abhishek Kadiyala

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 Rao, 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 Rao

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

Amit Kumar, Pranay Kotasthane

The Proposed Lok Sabha Seat Apportionment—What Should the Southern States Really Demand?

Suman Joshi, Pranay Kotasthane

What is new at the BWC?

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

Amit Kumar, Ashwin Prasad Rao

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