Indian policy, explained through systems.
All Things Policy treats news as an entry point into longer policy questions. Its rotating conversations move from AI in schools and municipal finance to West Asia, missile warfare, navigation satellites, sports governance, gene therapy, and space exploration.
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All Things Policy is a daily policy conversation with an Indian center of gravity and a broad field of view. It is not limited to election chatter or defense headlines, though both current affairs and strategic affairs are frequent starting points. The show’s method is patient. A host poses a concrete question, a guest supplies context, and the conversation works through definitions, history, institutional mechanics, and consequences. Recent episodes show that range clearly. AI in Indian schools becomes a question about academic habits, exam preparation, time management, and the limits of early evidence. A discussion of Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, Israel, and the United States becomes an attempt to understand West Asia through mandates, post-colonial borders, Cold War alignments, and shifting power arrangements. Sports policy is treated with the same seriousness as security policy, with age fraud, doping, coaching gaps, match fixing, and Olympic experience placed inside the Indian sports ecosystem. Urban finance becomes a way to ask how autonomous Indian cities really are. A gene therapy episode explains BIRSA-101, sickle cell disease, CRISPR-based treatment, public health ambition, and the challenge of scale. Space episodes add a different register. Artemis II is discussed through Apollo history, NASA infrastructure, political urgency, and the meaning of human return to the Moon. NavIC is treated as invisible infrastructure with real geopolitical stakes, especially when GPS signals can be jammed, spoofed, or denied. The defense episodes can be granular, with attention to drones, ballistic missiles, interceptors, air defense saturation, choke points, economics, and narrative warfare. The tone stays sober even when the subject is urgent. The show suits listeners who want Indian public policy explained through systems, not slogans. Its recurring value is synthesis: technical detail, institutional history, and strategic implication brought into the same room.
Made for: For listeners who follow Indian affairs, geopolitics, technology, public institutions, and security strategy. It suits people who want current events connected to history, incentives, capabilities, and policy design.
What sets it apart: All Things Policy combines Indian institutional questions with global strategic analysis in a rotating conversation format. It is unusually comfortable moving from municipal finance to missile defense to gene therapy without losing its policy discipline.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
All Things Policy connects technical systems and global conflict to the strategic choices facing India.
All Things Policy turns strategic policy into working detail, with rotating Takshashila Institution voices examining global events from an Indian perspective.
A missile salvo becomes a question about India's readiness, with the interceptor math laid out for you.
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A moon mission talk that turns quickly into Apollo history, budgets, and strategic pressure.
Artemis II comes across as both a technical milestone and a political echo, with the conversation moving from four astronauts flying around the moon to the larger Apollo story behind it.
A plainspoken briefing on missile economics, air defense strain, and India-facing lessons.
All Things Policy frames the Persian Gulf war as a study in air-and-missile economics, with Brigadier Anil Raman and Air Marshal T.D. Joseph, retired, tracing drone salvos, layered air defenses, and interceptor depletion.
A measured look at how navigation satellites become a question of state power.
The episode treats NavIC as more than a navigation system. It frames it as a matter of sovereignty, jamming, and wartime denial, then moves from the basics of satellite coverage into the harder question of who gets to control the infrastructure beneath it.
NavIC's satellite failures turn a sovereignty project into a practical policy problem for drones, vehicles, tolls, and railways.
NavIC's story is strongest when it is treated as a sovereignty test with a technical weak point. The episode traces the system back to India's push for independence after the 1999 Kargil War, when a denied request for US GPS data became part of the case for building NAVIC.
A policy-focused discussion of how China and other major players are reading the Iran war through carriers, Hormuz, and regional leverage.
All Things Policy's Iran Brief follows how China, Russia, and North Korea are sizing up the Iran war as it reaches its 33rd day. Amit Kumar anchors the conversation in the strategic effect of U.S.
A sharp, historically framed look at failed G2 resets and the strategic space they create for India.
The episode asks whether sharp US language points to a real pullback from Asia, or whether Washington is again testing a softer line toward Beijing.
A lunar milestone opens into a measured discussion of spaceflight, political purpose, and Apollo's turbulent historical shadow.
Artemis II frames a hopeful achievement against a wartime backdrop, using the lunar mission to reopen larger questions about ambition, pressure, and national purpose.
The episode discusses NASA's Artemis II mission, which successfully sent four astronauts on a flyby around the moon, marking the farthest human travel from Earth.
This episode analyzes key takeaways from the Munich Security Conference, focusing on geopolitical shifts, European concerns about transatlantic relations, and implications for India, featuring an interview with an Indo-Pacific program chair.
This episode examines whether US disengagement from Asia and warming relations with China are real or rhetorical.
This episode discusses a survey on AI adoption in Indian school education, exploring how AI tools are transforming students' academic habits, exam preparation, and overall learning journey.
This episode analyzes the current fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran, Israel's continued bombardment of Lebanon, and Iran's threats, placing these developments in the historical context of West Asia's structural crisis stemming from post-colonial borders and Cold War legacies.
This episode examines the critical challenges of age fraud, doping, and coaching gaps plaguing India's sports ecosystem, featuring insights from senior sports journalist G.
This episode examines the state of urban governance in India through a municipal finance blueprint submitted to the 16th Finance Commission, discussing city autonomy and financial constraints.
This episode discusses BIRSA-101, India's first indigenous CRISPR-based gene therapy for sickle cell disease, exploring its implications for public health and self-reliance in advanced therapeutics.
The conversation opens on Artemis 2.
Brigadier Anil Raman and Air Marshal T.D.
The hosts open by asking what NavIC is supposed to do for India.
All Things Policy by Takshashila Institution examines NavIC, India’s regional satellite-navigation system, and the March 2026 warning that it is in operational collapse.
Amit Kumar opens the Iran Brief by asking how China, Russia, and North Korea are reading the war as it enters its 33rd day.
This episode analyzes key takeaways from the Munich Security Conference, focusing on geopolitical shifts, European concerns about transatlantic partnerships, and insights from an expert who attended the event.
This episode discusses India's potential to enhance mineral resiliency through rare earth recycling, termed 'urban mining', in response to geopolitical challenges like China's economic coercion.
This episode examines the practical military interoperability between China and Pakistan, questioning whether their partnership is as integrated as NATO or structurally limited.
This episode explores how climate change, including pollution and shifting weather patterns, is impacting athletes and sports calendars globally and in India, analyzed through societal, market, and governmental perspectives.