Blogs
Individual standpoints on important policy issues from the researchers at the Think Tank. Posts do not constitute Takshashila’s policy recommendations.
What AIS data reveals about Foreign Fishing in the Indian EEZ
Geospatial Research
Data for Policy
Why Curriculum Matters More Than Degree Titles
Geospatial Research
National Interest
India’s Upcoming Nuclear Reforms
High Tech Geopolitics
Nuclear Energy
Regulation
Data Centres in Space
HTG
AI
Space
Imagining a world where energy is clean, available in plenty and almost free
High Tech Geopolitics
Energy
Identifying Addresses
Regulation
National Interest
Disarmament with Chinese Characteristics
Defence
China
India’s Cyber Safety App Mandate
High Tech Geopolitics
Regulation
National Interest
Rotational Labour Mobility is Not Necessarily Growth-Enhancing
High Tech Geopolitics
Leveraging the ACITI Partnership
High Tech Geopolitics
Geopolitics
Taking Off Their Gloves
Geopolitics
Indo-Pacific
Is the EU Deregulating its Tech?
High Tech Geopolitics
Artificial Intelligence
A Blueprint for China’s Tech Ambitions
High Tech Geopolitics
Innovation
R&D
Geopolitics
AI Safety is a Market Failure: Lessons from the Anthropic Disclosure
Artificial Intelligence
Rotational Labour Mobility Does Not Address Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
High Tech Geopolitics
What We Lose When AI Filters Our Perception
Artificial Intelligence
The Tussle Over Nexperia
HTG
Geopolitics
China
US helium export ban and the Hindenburg disaster
HTG
Geopolitics
MeitY Notifies DPDP Rules 2025
Privacy
Regulation
National Interest
Tech Policy
US-Dutch oil embargo and Pearl Harbor
Geopolitics
HTG
A Carrier in the Navy
Defence
China
Why connected buses and cars worry the West
High Tech Geopolitics
When Geography Meets AI
Geospatial Research
Geopolitics
The MBT is Not Dead Yet
High Tech Geopolitics
Defence Tech
Should we Outsource Humanity to Technology?
Regulation
National Interest
Geopolitics
China Doubles Down on Weaponising Antitrust Regulations
HTG
Geopolitics
China
Do deepfakes need separate regulations?
Artificial Intelligence
High Tech Geopolitics
India’s Brahmaputra Bet
Geospatial Research
Geopolitics
Meity’s yet another definitional stretch
High Tech Geopolitics
More Letters, Low Bars, and Lesser Opportunities
HTG
Regulation
Geopolitics
China
Seven Points Worth Thinking About China’s Gameplay on Rare Earths
HTG
Geopolitics
China
Sahyog Portal’s e-commerce push
Platform Governance
Regulation
Is Geopolitics Reversing the Brussels Effect
Geopolitics
India’s Options amid Chinese Export Curbs on Battery-related Technologies
Geopolitcs
China
Indo-Pacific
Lawfare, Leverage, and Lex Talionis
Geopolitics
China
Ruminations about the Anti-Immigration Tendencies
HTG
National Interest
Geopolitics
A New Chapter for West Asia?
HTG
Nuclear
Geopolitics
Why EU’s norm startup is struggling
High Tech Geopolitics
India’s performance in WIPO’s Global Innovation Index 2025 Hides More Than it Reveals
HTG
Research and Development
Innovation
What India and Canada Can Do Together
Artificial Intelligence
High Tech Geopolitics
Understanding Hazard Proneness of Arunachal Pradesh
Geospatial Research
Geospatial Analysis
StoryMaps
The Worldview from Xiangshan
China
Geopolitics
Yo-yoing is the New Normal
Geopolitics
When Geopolitics Pulls The Plug On Technology
National Interest
Strategic Autonomy
Geopolitics
Food Safety or Food Policing?
Public Health
Discussion
No UPI, Only Cash
Digital Economy
Agricultural Tensions in the India-US Trade Negotiations
Regulation
Geopolitics
Why PM Ishiba is under fire
Geopolitics
CROPIC: Farm Snapshots to Data-Driven Agriculture
Geospatial Research
Mapping And Intelligence
FTA and Public Health
Geoeconomics
Economics Freedom
Regulation
Open Source AI Becomes a Strategic Priority
Artificial Intelligence
High Tech Geopolitics
India-UK sign FTA
Geoeconomics
Trade and Industrial Policy
What’s the point of a trade deal?
Geoeconomics
Trade and Industrial Policy
When legends are born!
National Interest
Geopolitics
Rethinking Proportional Representation
Public Policy
Politics
The Digital Battlefield
Geospatial Research
Mapping And Intelligence
National Interest
Geopolitics
China’s Underconsumption: Myth or Reality
Indo Pacific
China
Economy
Geopolitics
Implications of H20 Sale Resumption to China
Artificial Intelligence
High Tech Geopolitics
China
The Impatience Epidemic underlying India’s Traffic Chaos
Governance
Regulation
The case for an open, liberal, transparent and democratic nation as the world’s leader
Liberalism
Discussion
The Knowledge Paradox: Why Economic Policymakers Need Humility
Economic Reasoning
Get religion off its high horse
Freedom of Speech
Reorienting Metro Transportation: Attracting the Rich for Comprehensive Urban Mobility Success
Governance
Policy Design
Writing for an AI audience
Artificial Intelligence
The Iranian Bomb That Wasn’t
Geopolitics
English is the MP3 format of Scripts
Technology
Languages
It’s About ‘Naam, Namak aur Nishan’
National Interest
The AI Diffusion Framework Was Repealed. What Does This Mean For India?
Artificial Intelligence
High Tech Geopolitics
Tech By Theater
PLA
Indo-Pacific
Operation Sindoor
Geospatial Research
Geospatial Analysis
StoryMaps
Jhelum River: The Focal Point of Indus Water Treaty
Geospatial Research
Analysis
StoryMaps
Can BIMSTEC Set Sail for Real This Time?
Economic Policy
Geoeconomics
Pathways to AI Sovereignty for India
Artificial Intelligence
High Tech Geopolitics
Xi Jinping’s Meeting with Private Tech Entrepreneurs
China
Technology
HTG
Rethinking Bengaluru’s Metro Hike Strategy: Affordability versus Financial Viability
Economic Policy
Economic Reasoning
India must set up a Cabinet Committee on Science & Technology
HTG
Governance
National Interest
It’s Your Everyday Defence Budget
Budget
Analysis
Defence
Do the AI Diffusion Rules mean India cannot get more than 50,000 advanced GPUs?
Artificial Intelligence
High Tech Geopolitics
Digging Deep: Tunnel Boring Machines and India’s China Challenge
China
Geoeconomics
Economic Policy
Trade and Industrial Policy
What is new at the BWC?
Advanced Biology
Biosecurity
Bioweapons
A Silicon Curtain: Examining the Implications of US Export Controls on Chips
HTG
Semiconductors
China
Trade Policy
Lessons for India from China’s pitch at the G20 summit in Rio
China
Geopolitics
Building India’s State Capacity
State Capacity
The Chagos saga is not over
Geopolitics
Indo Pacific
Geoeconomics
India must set up a Cabinet Committee on Science & Technology
Geopolitics
Renewable Energy
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