Best Shruti Rajagopalan Podcasts (2024)

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Pranay Kotasthane Unravels the Global Semiconductor Industry 1:32:07

8d ago1:32:07

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Today my guest is Pranay Kotasthane who is the deputy director of the Takshashila Institution and chairs the High Tech Geopolitics Programme. Pranay co-writes Anticipating the Unintended, a newsletter on public policy ideas and frameworks, and co-hosts Puliyabaazi, a popular Hindi-Urdu podcast on politics, policy, and technology. He is the co-autho…

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Badri Narayanan and M. Krishnan Navigate the Choppy Waters of Fisheries Negotiations 1:00:35

24d ago1:00:35

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Today my guests are M. Krishnan and Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan. M. Krishnan is an economist based in Chennai and Singapore, and specializes in agriculture education systems, fisheries, and aquaculture research. He is currently an advisor at Infinite-Sum Modeling Inc and was a distinguished scientist of the Agricultural Research Service of the I…

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Aparna Chandra Puts the Supreme Court on Trial 1:35:02

1M ago1:35:02

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Aparna Chandra is a constitutional scholar and associate professor of law at the National Law school in Bangalore. She is the coauthor, along with Sital Kalantry and William Hubbard of the recent book Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India. We spoke about the problem of pendency across all courts in the Indian judiciary…

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Doug Irwin on the History and Political Economy of Trade Policy 1:17:03

2M ago1:17:03

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This is our 100th episode and I want to thank our listeners, the guests who have been exceptionally generous with their time and insights, the fantastic team at Mercatus that helps me produce and disseminate the podcast, and to all our donors and supporters. Today my guest is Douglas Irwin, who is the John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth…

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Rahul Matthan on AI, Privacy, and Digital Public Infrastructure 1:36:38

3M ago1:36:38

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Today my guest is Rahul Matthan, a technology lawyer and partner at Trilegal. He assisted the Indian government in developing India’s data privacy law and he is the author of the recent books Privacy 3.0 and The Third Way. We spoke about India’s digital public infrastructure revolution, India’s unified payments system, AI, blockchain, the design is…

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Aditya Balasubramanian on Swatantra Party and Opposition Politics in India 1:10:10

3M ago1:10:10

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Aditya Balasubramanian is a Senior Lecturer in History at Australian National University. His research focuses on various aspects of the history of modern South Asia. And he is the author of the new book, Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India. We spoke about the history of a conservative and ideological opposi…

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The Art of Talking Films with Nasreen Munni Kabir 1:28:20

3M ago1:28:20

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Today my guest is Nasreen Munni Kabir, a documentary filmmaker, TV producer and director, author, biographer, translator/subtitler, and an absolute authority on all things Hindi cinema. We spoke about her biographical conversation series of books with artists like Javed Akhtar, Gulzar, Lata Mangeshkar, Waheeda Rahman, Zakir Hussain, AR Rahman. We a…

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2023 Retrospective — A Listener Interviews Me 1:47:48

4M ago1:47:48

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In this special episode, the tables are turned as I'm interviewed by a listener of the show, DJ Thornton from Sydney. We reflect on the progress of the show in 2023, what I learned from this year's guests, and what's in store for 2024. Full transcript available at: josephnoelwalker.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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2023 in Review 1:16:23

4M ago1:16:23

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Today the roles are reversed. In the 2023 end of the year review episode, producer Dallas Floer asks Shruti questions from our listeners about Shruti's ideas of India, how Shruti prepares for the podcast, various guests, the most listened to and the most underrated episode picks of the year, and much more. Recorded December 12th, 2023. Read a full …

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David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), & The Enemies of Progress 1:55:40

4M ago1:55:40

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At a time when the Enlightenment is under attack from without and within, I bring together two of the most thoughtful defenders of progress and reason, for their first ever public dialogue. Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. I think of him as providing the strongest empirical defence of the Enlightenment (…

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Rajat Kochhar on Agricultural Market Power and Farmer Adaptation to Climate Change 40:11

4M ago40:11

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Our last scholar in the series this year is Rajat Kocchar, a post-doctoral scholar at University of Chicago’s Energy and Environment Lab. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Southern California, and his research lies in the field of environmental economics, in particular, on the understanding the factors that incentivize adaptation t…

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Vani Swarupa Murali on the Lack of Decentralization in India and Its impact on Water Depletion 36:05

5M ago36:05

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Shruti spoke with Vani Swarupa Murali a PhD. Candidate and an instructor at the South Asian Studies Department in the National University of Singapore (NUS). She has a Masters in Asian Studies from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. Her research lies at the intersection of political science and agricultural policy and env…

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Shruti Rajagopalan — On Spotting Talent, And Making Sense of Rising India 2:45:00

5M ago2:45:00

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Shruti Rajagopalan is an Indian-American economist. She leads the Indian political economy research program and Emergent Ventures India at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She also hosts the Ideas of India podcast. Full transcript available at: jnwpod.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Kartikeya Batra on Long-Run Effects of Land Redistribution in India 45:44

5M ago45:44

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Shruti spoke with Kartikeya Batra, who is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of Maryland and has a master’s in international affairs from The Fletcher School. His research lies at the intersection of political economy, development economics, and economic history. They discussed his job market paper titled “Long-Run Effects of Land Red…

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Vatsal Khandelwal on Pessimistic Belief Correction and its Impact on Well-Being 37:35

6M ago37:35

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In this episode, Shruti spoke with Vatsal Khandelwal, who is a junior research fellow at Merton College and an associate member of the Department of Economics at University of Oxford. His main research interest are development and behavioral economics, with a focus on social and economic networks. They discussed his job market paper titled “Silent …

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Raghuram Rajan — Debt, Monetary Policy, and Unintended Consequences 1:51:50

6M ago1:51:50

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What were the deep causes of the global financial crisis and great recession? Has unconventional monetary policy in the wake of the crisis done more harm than good? And should monetary policy target financial stability? I discuss these questions and more with Indian economist and Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Raghuram Rajan. Rag…

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Sarath Pillai on the Influence of Nineteenth Century German Thought on Early Twentieth Century Indian Constitutionalists 41:39

6M ago41:39

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Shruti spoke with Sarath Pillai, who is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India at University of Pennsylvania. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Chicago, a Master of Studies in Law from Yale Law School, a MA in history from the University of Delhi, and a Postgraduate Diploma in archives and record…

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Rithika Kumar on the Impact of Male Migration on Women’s Political Engagement 31:59

7M ago31:59

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Shruti spoke with Rithika Kumar, who is a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in August 2023. Her research lies at the intersection of gender, urbanization and politics in India. Shruti and Rithi…

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Vanisha Sharma on the Effects of Internet Expansion in Developing Communities 28:57

7M ago28:57

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Shruti spoke with Vanisha Sharma who is a Ph.D. candidate at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. She earned her BA in economics with a double minor in psychology and sociology at the University of Hong Kong. She is also the co-editor-in-chief for the blog Economics That Really Matters, which encourages early …

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Peter Singer — Moral Truths and Moral Secrets 1:54:39

7M ago1:54:39

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Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He is widely regarded as the world's most influential living philosopher. Full transcript available at: jnwpod.com Episode recorded on 26 April 2023. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Joe Walker

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Duncan Webb on Reducing Anti-Transgender Discrimination in India 36:36

8M ago36:36

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Duncan Webb is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the Paris School of Economics. He received his B.A. in PPE at Oxford University and his masters in economics at Paris School of Economics. His research lies at the intersection of development and behavioral economics. We spoke about his job market paper titled, “Silence to Solidarity: Using Group Dyn…

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Amit Ahuja and Devesh Kapur on the Complexity of Violence and Fragility of Order in India 1:23:06

8M ago1:23:06

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In this episode, Shruti speaks with Amit Ahuja, Associate Professor of Political Science at UC Santa Barbara, and Devesh Kapur, Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies at SAIS at Johns Hopkins University, about their latest volume, Internal Security in India: Violence, Order, and the State. Learn more about their latest volume and their o…

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Peter Turchin — Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next) 1:41:45

8M ago1:41:45

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Peter Turchin is a complexity scientist and one of the founders of cliodynamics — a new, cross-disciplinary field that applies mathematics and big data to test historical theories. Full transcript available at: jnwpod.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Joe Walker

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Shruti Rajagopalan Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Ideas of India

Mercatus Center at George Mason University

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The Joe Walker Podcast (Jolly Swagman formerly)

Joe Walker

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Beneath the Surface: An Infrastructure Podcast

Stripe Press

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Pranay Kotasthane Unravels the Global Semiconductor Industry 1:32:07

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Badri Narayanan and M. Krishnan Navigate the Choppy Waters of Fisheries Negotiations 1:00:35

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Aparna Chandra Puts the Supreme Court on Trial 1:35:02

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Doug Irwin on the History and Political Economy of Trade Policy 1:17:03

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Rahul Matthan on AI, Privacy, and Digital Public Infrastructure 1:36:38

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Aditya Balasubramanian on Swatantra Party and Opposition Politics in India 1:10:10

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The Art of Talking Films with Nasreen Munni Kabir 1:28:20

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2023 Retrospective — A Listener Interviews Me 1:47:48

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2023 in Review 1:16:23

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David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), & The Enemies of Progress 1:55:40

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Rajat Kochhar on Agricultural Market Power and Farmer Adaptation to Climate Change 40:11

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Vani Swarupa Murali on the Lack of Decentralization in India and Its impact on Water Depletion 36:05

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Shruti Rajagopalan — On Spotting Talent, And Making Sense of Rising India 2:45:00

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Kartikeya Batra on Long-Run Effects of Land Redistribution in India 45:44

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Vatsal Khandelwal on Pessimistic Belief Correction and its Impact on Well-Being 37:35

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Raghuram Rajan — Debt, Monetary Policy, and Unintended Consequences 1:51:50

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Sarath Pillai on the Influence of Nineteenth Century German Thought on Early Twentieth Century Indian Constitutionalists 41:39

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Rithika Kumar on the Impact of Male Migration on Women’s Political Engagement 31:59

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Vanisha Sharma on the Effects of Internet Expansion in Developing Communities 28:57

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Peter Singer — Moral Truths and Moral Secrets 1:54:39

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Duncan Webb on Reducing Anti-Transgender Discrimination in India 36:36

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Amit Ahuja and Devesh Kapur on the Complexity of Violence and Fragility of Order in India 1:23:06

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Peter Turchin — Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next) 1:41:45

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