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Journey Through Tibet: Unlocking the Secrets of Transport Infrastructure

All Things Policy - June 14, 2024 10:47 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Join us for an insightful episode of " Journey Through Tibet: Unlocking the Secrets of Transport Infrastructure," where Shreya Ramakrishnan, Programme Manager of the Graduate Certificate in Public Policy (Advanced Public Policy) program at Takshashila Institution, interacts with Dr. Y. Nithiyana...

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China at Shangri La Dialogue 2024

All Things Policy - June 13, 2024 03:57 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In this episode of All Things Policy, Anushka Saxena and Amit Kumar discuss China's Representation at the recently concluded Shangri La Dialogue 2024 in Singapore. They further talk about remarks made by Dong Jun and Cui Tiankai at the Dialogue, and the internal debate in the Chinese party-state...

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Will the Coalition Government Witness Legislative Reforms?

All Things Policy - June 12, 2024 00:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Indian politics has re-entered the coalition era with the new government under PM Narendra Modi being sworn in last week. Given that coalition governments tend to witness greater political bargaining and deliberation, the fate of critical legislative reforms such as one nation one election (ONOE...

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Innovation policy and private sector R&D

All Things Policy - June 11, 2024 06:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
There is a lot of focus worldwide and in India in spurring innovation and private sector R&D. Join Arindam Goswami and Ashwin Prasad in this episode of All Things Policy as they look at this from a public policy angle, and discuss various frameworks and ideas around this. Arindam had written ab...

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GLÖD: En dag på jobbet som kirurg, patolog och cancerforskare

Cancerfondens podd – GLÖD - June 11, 2024 05:16 - 33 minutes
En patient med sköldkörtelcancer har precis opererats och en tumör har plockats ut. Vi följer vävnadsprovet från operationssalen till laboratoriet på patologen, till frysarna i biobanken och sedan tillbaka till vården igen. Det här är en resa som för forskningen framåt, och som är så viktig för ...

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How Xi Thinks of ‘Extreme Scenarios’

All Things Policy - June 10, 2024 00:30 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In 2023, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that his country must be prepared for “worst-case and extreme scenarios” both at home and abroad. Is China simply trying to manage risks amid a difficult external and internal environment? Or is there something else going on? Manoj Kewalramani delves ...

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Foreign Policy And Strategic Priorities For The New Government

All Things Policy - June 07, 2024 19:25 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
As a new government takes shape in New Delhi, what are some of the key foreign policy and strategic challenges that lie before it? This question will no doubt be on top of the minds of several policy professionals who look forward to the next five years as one where India continues to play a maj...

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Protecting the welfare of farmed animals

All Things Policy - June 06, 2024 00:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Do animals have a voice? Not many are aware that India's animal laws are actually forward looking. Come discover this and other empirical evidence that Malathi Renati unearths in her conversation with Shreya Swaminath: Director, Farm Animal Protection, HSI/India. While the focus is on farmed/ do...

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China, Russia, and the Balance of Power

All Things Policy - June 05, 2024 05:20 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
The China-Russia 'no limits partnership' has become part and parcel of deliberations on the nature of the world order today. Most recently, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin met for the 43rd time, breaking a record for the number of times leaders of two countries have met. And especially since the R...

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Decreasing Usefulness of Online Ratings

All Things Policy - June 04, 2024 06:47 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In this episode of All Things Policy, Saurabh Todi and Anupam Manur discuss the decreasing quality of online reviews and ways in which vendors, platforms and websites game the system to the detriment of consumers. All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Taksh...

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Anti-Satellite Warfare: Direct Ascent Missiles

All Things Policy - June 03, 2024 00:30 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In this episode, Ashwin Prasad and Nandika Rohith explore India's Direct Ascent Anti-Satellite (DA-ASAT) missile technology, detailing its capabilities and offering a look at how India is shaping its stance in space defence and diplomacy. All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy br...

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Beyond boundaries: exploring India's space odyssey

All Things Policy - May 31, 2024 05:43 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
India has recently taken huge steps to open up the space sector to private entities. Join Arindam Goswami and Ashwin Prasad in this episode of All Things Policy as they look at the trajectory of private sector participation in the Indian space sector, especially in the context of the recent refo...

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Drone Warfare: Eyes in the Air

All Things Policy - May 30, 2024 00:30 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
If you are curious to know about the evolution of drones & the way it's changing the landscape of Military Warfare, here's an episode put together for you. Sowmya and Lakshmi are in conversation with Anushka. They dwell into India's drone capabilities, technical details, materials used, AI & job...

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Rabia Chaudry - Serial, True Crime, & Countering Violent Extremism

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - May 29, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 224 ratings
Lawyer, advocate, podcaster, writer, and the reason you know about Adnan Syed from Serial, Rabia Chaudry, talks about her experience advocating for him, what it was like entering the true crime world, why Adnan is free now, what disappointed her about the coverage of his story, her work in CVE (...

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Are Main Battle Tanks Obsolete?

All Things Policy - May 29, 2024 00:30 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In this episode of All Things Policy, Rakshith Shetty quizzes Amit Kumar on the utility and relevance of MBTs in modern warfare in the context of heavy losses suffered by Russian armoured campaign against a weaker adversary. All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you b...

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Are Professions Noble?

All Things Policy - May 28, 2024 07:14 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Professions in India such as doctors, advocates and teachers have been accorded an elevated status of nobility. The idea that professions are noble has a range of consequences in terms of their regulatory and judicial treatment. In this hard-hitting episode, Anupam Manur & Shrikrishna Upadhyaya...

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Role of Indian states in driving bioeconomy

All Things Policy - May 27, 2024 04:58 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
India's growth in bioeconomy will require strong regional inputs. In this episode, Shambhavi Naik and Saurabh Todi discuss why individual states should have dedicated biotechnology departments and a bioeconomy policy.

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China's Great Green Leap Forward

All Things Policy - May 24, 2024 07:44 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In this episode of "All Things Policy," Rakshith explores China's remarkable rise as a green energy superpower with Wanyuan Song, a section editor at the China Desk at Carbonbrief. China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has set ambitious targets to peak carbon emissions before 2...

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Sports as an Accelerator of Social Change

All Things Policy - May 23, 2024 10:46 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In this episode of All Things Policy, we are joined by Deepthi Bopaiah who is the CEO of GoSports Foundation, a National award winning non-profit organisation to support elite and emerging athletes across Olympic and Paralympic disciplines. Under her leadership in 2019, GoSports was bestowed wit...

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Jessica Kahn - Y2K Cult

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - May 23, 2024 08:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 224 ratings
Today we chat with Jessica Kahn, former member of a group we're calling "The Narrow Road." She'll tell us about being born into this isolated fundamentalist Christian sect that was originally formed as an addiction treatment program, the leader's connection to the founders of AA, how every part ...

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All Things Climate Policy

All Things Policy - May 22, 2024 10:05 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In this episode of "All Things Climate Policy," Rakshith explores the complexities of climate policy and its global impact with Dr Simon Evans from Carbon Brief. As we navigate through a potential shift in the U.S. political landscape, Dr. Evans elaborates on how a Donald Trump victory could sig...

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Hurdles to India's Domestic Mobile Manufacturing

All Things Policy - May 21, 2024 05:44 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
India is the second largest mobile phone market in the world and produces 97% of it's mobile phone demand locally. However, the sector is increasingly dependent on the imported components to manufacture it domestically. Mariam Azeemuddin and Anisree Suresh analyse whether the push towards domest...

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What the Urban Heat Island effect means to us

All Things Policy - May 20, 2024 04:02 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
The year 2023 was globally the hottest on record. India was no different. Temperature spikes in 2024 are indeed worrying policymakers, but the common citizen is perhaps the worst affected. To understand what is happening in our cities, Dr Y Nithiyanandanam and Sachin Kalbag discuss the Urban Hea...

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GLÖD: Less is more vid bröstcanceroperationer

Cancerfondens podd – GLÖD - May 17, 2024 12:46 - 31 minutes
Man ska inte bara överleva, man ska kunna leva väl också. Men en cancerbehandling som är bra på att få bort cancer kan också skada det friska som skulle bevaras. Cancerforskaren Jana de Boniface går till jobbet varje dag för att ta reda på exakt hur mycket som behöver tas bort vid en bröstcancer...

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Nukes in Space?

All Things Policy - May 17, 2024 05:10 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
The United States has accused Russia of developing a space-based "nuclear device" capable of targeting other satellites. What could such a device be and why would states want such weapons? Ashwin Prasad and Aditya Ramanathan delve into the frightening rationales for waging nuclear warfare in our...

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Madi Stroud - Daughter of a Cult Leader: Love Has Won & Amy Carlson

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - May 16, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 224 ratings
Today our guest is Madi Stroud. She was featured on the HBO docu series Love Has Won, and is late cult leader Amy Carlson’s daughter - the one whose mummified body was found wrapped in Christmas lights in Colorado. Madi shares what she remembers of her mom as a kid, how it felt after Amy suddenl...

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Lessons from South Korea’s use of Industry Policies

All Things Policy - May 16, 2024 00:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
South Korea's economic trajectory from a low-income, agriculture-based economy in the 1950s to a high-income, technology, and innovation leader is a testament to its remarkable transformation. What facilitated this transition? Were there any unintended consequences?  In this episode of All Thing...

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Did India attempt a self goal on Digital trade tariffs?

All Things Policy - May 15, 2024 04:20 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Listen to this episode of All Things Policy where Anushka Saxena and Sridhar Krishna question India's stance on digital trade and opposing the moratorium on tariffs on electronic transmission. They ask why a country which is a net exporter and the fourth largest exporter of digital services woul...

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Beyond the Coastline

All Things Policy - May 14, 2024 06:47 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
India’s regional connectivity strategy has seemingly focused its efforts on maritime domains. A recent working paper by the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) makes the case for greater inland connectivity, particularly between India's Northeast region and the Bangladesh, Bhutan, Ind...

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De(Generative) AI: Is ChatGPT Killing The Essay?

All Things Policy - May 13, 2024 00:30 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In this episode of All Things Policy, Rohan Pai and Anisree Suresh discuss the various knee-jerk responses from educational institutions to prevent academic dishonesty in the ChatGPT era. Should bans be placed on the use of ChatGPT by students? Should schools and universities restructure assignm...