I host of the Ideas of India podcast produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Every two weeks, I have a conversation with the most interesting minds working on India, and together, we examine ideas that can propel India forward.
Episode 153 with Akshay Jaitly on the Making of a Modern Indian Law Firm, January 29, 2026.
Episode 152 with Renuka Sane on Regulatory Frameworks, Rule of Law, and Pensions Reforms in India, January 15, 2026.
Episode 151 with Snigdha Poonam on the Political Economy of Transnational Scams, January 2, 2026.
Episode 150: 2025 in Review, December 23, 2025.
Episode 149 with Ammu Lavanya on How Foreign Capital Changed Indian Bank Lending, December 4, 2025.
Episode 148 with Nayantara Biswas on Demand- and Supply-Side Interventions in India’s Maternal Health Policy, November 20, 2025.
Episode 147 with Karthik Narayan on Measuring the Effects of Unscheduled vs. Scheduled Monetary Policy Announcements, November 6, 2025.
Episode 146 with Asad Tariq on Electoral Redistricting and Public Goods Provision in India, October 23, 2025.
Episode 145 with Chetana Sabnis on the Intimacy Contract and the Indian State, October 9, 2025.
Episode 144 with Sunny Rai on Using Large Language Models to Understand the Depiction of Shame and Pride in Bollywood versus Hollywood, September 25, 2025.
Episode 143 with Kartik Srivastava on Referral-Based Hiring, Caste Networks, and Breaking Barriers in India’s Labor Markets, September 11, 2025.
Episode 142 with Narayani Basu on K. M. Panikkar: India’s Impossible Man, August 28, 2025.
Episode 141 with Yamini Aiyar on Education Policy in India, August 14, 2025.
Episode 140 with Rathin Roy on How India Slices the Fiscal Pie, July 31, 2025.
Episode 139 with Chitrakshi Jain and Prashant Reddy T. on the Dysfunction in India’s District Courts, July 17, 2025.
Episode 138 with M.R. Sharan on Decentralization and Local Representation in India, July 3, 2025.
Episode 137 with Rakesh Mohan on Dismantling the License Permit Raj, June 19, 2025.
Episode 136 with Ramachandra Guha on the Origins of Indian Environmentalism, June 5, 2025.
Episode 135 with Rajmohan Gandhi on Revenge and Reconciliation in South Asia, May 22, 2025.
Episode 134 with Rajmohan Gandhi on India’s Founding Fathers, May 8, 2025.
Episode 133 with Prachi Mishra on the Indian Economy, April 24, 2025.
Episode 132 with Sajith Pai on India’s Digital Divides, April 10, 2025.
Episode 131 with Jasti Chelameswar on Constitutional Interpretation and Judicial Independence, March 27, 2025.
Episode 130 with Akshay Jaitly on India’s Energy Sector Challenges, Reforms, and Future Pathways, March 13, 2025.
Episode 129 with Christopher Coyne on War, Conflict, and the Quest for a Stable Peace, February 27, 2025.
Episode 128 with Katherine Schofield on the Hidden History of Music in Mughal India, February 13, 2025.
Episode 127 with Anton Howes on Trade, Innovation, and the Forgotten History of Salt, January 30, 2025.
Episode 126 with Anant Sudarshan on Market Solutions to Air Pollution, Energy Policy, and Ecological Disruption, January 16, 2025.
Episode 125: 2024 in Review, December 26, 2024.
Episode 124 with Pravin Krishna on the Political Economy of Trade Agreements and the Future of Global Trade, December 5, 2024.
Episode 123 with Deepti Sharma on Survey Methods and the Hidden Biases in Economic Data, November 21, 2024.
Episode 122 with Kushagr Bakshi on Constitutional Interpretation and the Transformation of Federalism, November 14, 2024.
Episode 121 with Aarushi Kalra on Digital Polarization, Social Media Algorithms, and Platform Incentives, November 7, 2024.
Episode 120 with Abishek Choutagunta on Federalism, President’s Rule, and Constitutional Design, October 31, 2024.
Episode 119 with Atanu Chatterjee on Governance and Design in Slum Rehabilitation, October 24, 2024.
Episode 118 with Steven Brownstone on Agricultural Subsidies, Mechanization, and Historical Land and Labor Institutions in India, October 17, 2024.
Episode 117 with Deepika Padmanabhan on Language, Identity, and Nation-Building in South India, October 10, 2024.
Episode 116 with Sukrit Puri on the Entanglement between Business and Politics in India, October 3, 2024.
Episode 115 with Rolly Kapoor on Group Travel and Women’s Job Search Behavior in India, September 26, 2024.
Episode 114 with Ruchir Sharma on America’s Debt and the Future of Capitalism, September 12, 2024.
Episode 113 with Amol Agrawal on the Bankers who Built Modern India, August 29, 2024.
Episode 112 with Amartya Lahiri and Devashish Mitra on Trade and Manufacturing-Led Economic Growth in India, August 15, 2024.
Episode 111 with Anirudh Burman on Rethinking India’s Land Regulation, August 1, 2024.
Episode 110 with Kadambari Shah and Shreyas Narla on Continuing the Reform Agenda, July 18, 2024.
Episode 109 with Sajith Pai on the 2024 Indus Valley Annual Report and the Changing Indian Consumer, July 4, 2024.
Episode 108 with Anne Krueger on 50 Years of Rent-Seeking, Trade, and Economic Development, June 20, 2024.
Episode 107 with Karthik Muralidharan on the State of the Indian State, June 6, 2024.
Episode 106 with Arjun Ramani and Thomas Easton on India’s Changing Economic Landscape, May 23, 2024.
Episode 105 with Rohit Lamba on India’s Economic Policy Emphasis, May 9, 2024.
Episode 104 with Rasheed Griffith on the Complexities of the Caribbean, April 25, 2024.
Episode 103 with Pranay Kotasthane on the Global Semiconductor Industry, April 11, 2024.
Episode 102 with Badri Narayanan and M. Krishnan on Fisheries Negotiations, March 28, 2024.
Episode 101 with Aparna Chandra on the Indian Supreme Court, March 14, 2024.
Episode 100 with Doug Irwin on the History and Political Economy of Trade Policy, February 22, 2024.
Episode 99 with Rahul Matthan on AI, Privacy, and Digital Public Infrastructure, February 8, 2024.
Episode 98 with Aditya Balasubramanian on Swatantra Party and Opposition Politics in India, January 25, 2024.
Episode 97 with Nasreen Munni Kabir on the Art of Talking Films, January 11, 2024.
Episode 96 on 2023 in Review, December 28, 2023.
Episode 95 with Rajat Kochhar on Agricultural Market Power and Farmer Adaption to Climate Change, December 14, 2023.
Episode 94 with Vani Swarupa Murali on Lack of Decentralization in India and Its Impact on Water Depletion, November 30, 2023.
Episode 93 with Kartikeya Batra on Long-Run Effects of Land Redistribution in India, November 16, 2023.
Episode 92 with Vatsal Khandelwal on Pessimistic Belief Correction and its Impact on Well-Being, November, 2023.
Episode 91 with Sarath Pillai on the Influence of Nineteenth Century German Thought on Early Twentieth Centure India Constitutionalists, October 19, 2023.
Episode 90 with Rithika Kumar on the Impact of Male Migration on Women’s Political Engagement, October 5, 2023.
Episode 89 with Vanisha Sharma on the Effects of Internet Expansion in Developing Communities, September 21, 2023.
Episode 88 with Duncan Webb on Reducing Anti-Transgender Discrimination in India, September 7, 2023.
Episode 87 with Amit Ahuja and Devesh Kapur on the Complexity of Violence and Fragility of Order in India, August 31, 2023.
Episode 86 with Shreyas Narla and Kadambari Shah on Why Women Economic Policy Makers Matter, August 17, 2023.
Episode 85 with Saurabh Kirpal on the Constitutional Case for Marriage Equality in India, August 3, 2023.
Episode 84 with Pete Boettke on Austrian Economics and the Knowledge Problem, July 19, 2023.
Episode 83 with Aditi Mittal on Being a Comedian, July 6, 2023.
Episode 82 with Rohini Nilekani on Society, State and Markets, June 22, 2023.
Episode 81 with Amit Varma on the Creator Economy, June 8, 2023.
Episode 80 with Rahul Sagar on Finding India’s Hidden 19th-Century History, May 25, 2023.
Episode 79 with Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Mapping the Journey of Policy Reform with a Policy Reformer, May 11, 2023.
Episode 78 with Sajith Pai on Startups and Venture Capital, April 23, 2023.
Episode 77 with Dr. C Rangarajan on Monetary Policy after liberalization, April 13, 2023.
Episode 76 with Pranay Kothastane and Raghu S Jaitley on individuals and the Indian State, March 30, 2023.
Episode 75 with Nitin Pai on educating citizens, March 16, 2023.
Episode 74 with Alain Bertaud on Order without Design, March 2, 2023
Episode 73 with Poornima Dore on Regional Economic Diversity, February 16, 2023.
Episode 72 with Nikhil Menon on Planning Democracy, February 2, 2023.
Episode 71 with Nirupama Rao Menon on South Asian Identity, January 19, 2023.
Episode 70 with Janhavi Nilekeni on Maternal Healthcare and Evidence-based Decision-making, January 5, 2023.
Episode 69 with Dallas Fleur and Shruti Rajagopalan -2022 in Review, December 22, 2022.
Episode 68 with Shweta Banerjee on Decentralized Currency and the East India Company, December 8, 2022.
Episode 67 with Mahima Vasishth on the Role of Media in Judicial Outcomes of Sexual Harassment Cases, November 23, 2022.
Episode 66 with Khusdeep Malhotra on Sikh Identity in Kashmir, November 10, 2022.
Episode 65 with Anoop Jain on Sanitation and Infrastructure in India, October 27, 2022.
Episode 64 with Aliz Tóth on State-Society Bargaining over Land Acquisition in India, October 13, 2022.
Episode 63 with Raahil Madhok on the Development-Biodiversity Tradeoff in India, September 29, 2022.
Episode 62 with Nishant Vats on the Impact of Income Guarantee on Farm Incomes in India, September 15, 2022.
Episode 61 A Conversation on Talent with Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross, September 1, 2022.
Episode 60 with Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin on How the World Became Rich, August 18, 2022.
Episode 59 with Jennifer Murtazashvili on The Future of Afghanistan, August 4, 2022.
Episode 58 with Ashwini Deshpande on Gender and Caste Discrimination and Affirmative Action in India, July 21, 2022.
Episode 57 with Vinay Sitapati on Liberalization and Narasimha Rao, July 7, 2022.
Episode 56 with Saumitra Jha on Commerce and Peace, June 23, 2022.
Episode 55 with Lant Pritchett on Reforming Development Economics, June 9, 2022.
Episode 54 with Adeel Hussain and Tripurdaman Singh on The Debates That Defined India, May 26, 2022.
Episode 53 with Naushad Forbes on Building Innovation in Industry, May 12, 2022.
Episode 52 with Barkha Dutt on the Humans of COVID, April 28, 2022.
Episode 51 with Anand Swamy and Tirthankar Roy on Law and the Economy, April 14, 2022.
Episode 50 with Ramachandra Guha on Rebels Against the Raj, March 31, 2022.
Episode 49 with Lant Pritchett on Where Did Development Economics Go Wrong?, March 17, 2022.
Episode 48 with Rajesh Veeraraghavan on Information Politics and Social Change, March 3, 2022.
Episode 47 with Rukmini Shrinivasan on What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us, February 17, 2022.
Episode 46 with Shrayana Bhattacharya on Women’s Love, Longing and Labor Post-Liberalization, February 3, 2022.
Episode 45 with Arvind Elangovan on Tensions Within the Indian Constitution, January 20, 2022.
Episode 44 with Radhika Jain on Healthcare in the Public and Private Sectors, December 30, 2021.
Episode 43 with Apurav Bhatiya on Synchronized Elections and Voter Behavior, December 23, 2021.
Episode 42 with Archana Dang on Savings, Self-Control and Obesity Patterns, December 16, 2021.
Episode 41 with Kim Fe Cramer on How Access to Banking Can Improve Health Outcomes, December 9, 2021.
Episode 40 with Karan Babbar on Access to Reproductive Health, December 2, 2021.
Episode 39 with Neha Gupta on Creating Affordable Housing, November 25, 2021.
Episode 38 with Karmini Sharma on Sexual Harassment, Empathy Training and Gender Bias, November 18, 2021.
Episode 37 with Ashish Sedai on Water, Electricity and Female Labor Force Participation, November 11, 2021.
Episode 36 with Bhumi Purohit on Female Leaders and Bureaucratic Resistance, November 4, 2021.
Episode 35 with Gaurav Mittal on Political Geographies and the Urban Transportation Crisis, October 28, 2021.
Episode 34 with Chhavi Tiwari on Internal Migration for Aspiration vs Compulsion, October 21, 2021.
Episode 33 with Arkadev Ghosh on Religious Divisions and Production Technology, October 14, 2021.
Episode 32 with Pratap Bhanu Mehta on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, September 30, 2021.
Episode 31 with Alice Evans on Female Friendships and Fraternal Capital, September 16, 2021.
Episode 30 with Uday Bhatia on the Hindi Gangster Film Tradition, September 2, 2021.
Episode 29 with Shreyas Narla and Prakhar Mishra on the 1991 Project, August 19, 2021.
Episode 28 with Salil Tripathi on Lessons from Bangladesh for India, August 5, 2021.
Episode 27 with Amartya Lahiri on Fostering Economic Growth, July 22, 2021.
Episode 26 with Krish Ashok on Indian Food, Carnatic Music, and the Future of the Workplace, July 08, 2021.
Episode 25 with Yashica Dutt on Coming Out as a Dalit, June 24, 2021.
Episode 24 with Keshav Desiraju on Indian Classical Music and the Legacy of MS Subbulakshmi, June 10, 2021.
Episode 23 with Chinmay Tumbe on Pandemics Then and Now, May 27, 2021.
Episode 22 with Alice Evans on The Great Gender Divergence, May 13, 2021.
Episode 21 with Virginia Postrel on the History of Textiles and their Economic Relevance Throughout the World, April 15, 2021.
Episode 20 with Himanshu Jha on Institutional Change in India, April 1, 2021.
Episode 19 with Milan Vaishnav on How Indian-Americans View India, March 18, 2021.
Episode 18 with Shoumitro Chatterjee on Agricultural Markets in India, March 04, 2021.
Episode 17 with Chandra Bhan Prasad on Ambedkarism, Caste, and Dalit Capitalism, February 11, 2021.
Episode 16 with Arvind Panagariya on Free Trade and Prosperity, January 28, 2021.
Episode 15 with Kunal Mangal on Government Jobs and the Labor Market in India, January 14, 2021.
Episode 14 with Vaidehi Tandel: Urban Economics and Policy in India, January 7, 2021.
Episode 13 with Proma Ray Chaudhury: Female Populist Leaders in India, December 31, 2020.
Episode 12 with Tanu Kumar: Impact of Subsidized Housing on Political Participation, December 24, 2020.
Episode 11 with Rohit Ticku: Temple Desecrations as a Political Strategy, December 17, 2020.
Episode 10 with Vaishnavi Surendra: Moneylenders and Formal Banking, December 10, 2020.
Episode 9 with Adam Auerbach: Slum Residents Demanding Development, November 26, 2020.
Episode 8 with Rohit De: The Importance of seemingly ordinary people, November 12, 2020.
Episode 7 with Biju Rao: Democracy, Deliberation and Development, October 29, 2020.
Episode 6 with Viral Acharya: Fiscal Dominance – A Theory of Everything, October 15, 2020.
Episode 5 with Sriya Iyer: The Economics of Religion, October 1, 2020.
Episode 4 with Anuj Bhuwania: Not Always in Public Interest, September 17, 2020.
Episode 3 with Dinyar Patel: Nationalism and Liberalism, September 3, 2020.
Episode 2 with Madhav Khosla: Constitutional Democracy, August 20, 2020.
Episode 1 with Ajay Shah: Libertarians by Necessity, August 6, 2020.