@Anwxsha

AI governance | tech policy @TakshashilaInst | ✍🏽 ToI, Nikkei Asia, The Hindu, Indian Express, Deccan Herald, The Wire, Moneycontrol

Joined April 2021
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In today's @timesofindia, I discuss what Google's power distribution license in Andhra Pradesh means for the power sector. @TakshashilaInst
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From the US to India, countries are racing to build the infrastructure that will power the AI revolution. So who’s best positioned to win the next data center race? @Anwxsha from @TakshashilaInst weights in youtu.be/86GvRYI5xpg?si=fsx-…
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What if the people shaping policy across the subcontinent knew each other? Join our open session with The Saraca Network, on the future of Nepal and Sri Lanka! It's named after the Ashoka tree, which grows in every country of the region. The Saraca Network is an enduring regional platform for productive exchanges and collaboration among young policy professionals from the Subcontinent. The aim is to build lasting bridges between think tanks, entrepreneurs, and policy professionals, and collectively develop policy solutions. Join us on 9 October at 6 PM. 📍 The Takshashila Institution, 2nd Floor, 46/1, Cobalt Building, Church Street, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 560001 RSVP now: tinyurl.com/join-saraca
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Great point. We have shifted to small group viva sessions led by faculty members to judge quality apart from the written text for all our public policy courses @TakshashilaInst
Arpit Gupta
@arpitrageSep 28
One way economics is already pre-adapted to AI slop is we use seminar and conference presentations to judge quality, not just the written text People who use AI but don’t understand the output will pay a penalty in talks
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Why should UPI transactions remain free forever? "Because it has positive externalities". But in public finance, this argument is flawed. Having externalities does NOT imply a lifetime zero-price tag for every user. A #thread
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Anwesha Sen (@Anwxsha) writes for @ndtv on the arrival of the I-2SEA subsea cable system to India. While the new cable highlights strong global investment interest, it is not a fix for critical vulnerabilities in India's subsea cable infrastructure. To secure these vital data lifelines, New Delhi must build domestic cable-repair capacity, classify landing stations as critical national infrastructure, diversify cable landing stations, and encourage Indian companies to start building cable-laying and repair equipment. Read more: tinyurl.com/2uwkmabn
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In this All Things Policy pod, Sunil G Acharya of Semiconductor Future Accelerator Lab (SFAL) and I discuss how investors, entrepreneurs, and chip design engineers see Semicon 2.0 This is a detailed breakdown of the policy's Chip Design pillar. Do check it out. open.spotify.com/episode/3yc…

Semicon 2.0 Focuses on Getting India's Chip Design Game Right

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One of the great modern mysteries: how and why does ISKCON have my number?
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Data privacy in India is a joke. Every third person knows exactly when my car insurance is due for renewal and has my phone number. Each year, I get 100s of messages and calls from different companies selling car insurance. (Yes, DND, etc is done!). Anyone else face this?
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What if I told you that you have a public finance playground to yourself using which you can: - Upload a state budget document and it will analyse it across 9 public finance dimensions, automatically cross-referencing it against that state's own CAG audit report? - Enter what you paid in personal income tax for FY2025-26 and see how the Union government's own spending plan for that same year allocated your share? - Compare fiscal health across Indian states, over time? And more coming... @PSarthak19 has created one such playground and made it open-access. This portal is a companion to our book Fiscal Fables. We felt that in the AI age, a book should make knowledge not just accessible but also allow citizens to experiment and analyse real-world data. So here it is.
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Subsea cables are the fibre-optic networks laid across the ocean floor that carry approximately 95% of all intercontinental digital communications, serving as the essential, yet often invisible, backbone of the modern global internet. In India, the subsea cable ecosystem is constrained by regulatory gaps, procurement hurdles, and structural commercial barriers, resulting in significant vulnerabilities in the nation’s digital connectivity. In this episode of All Things Policy, Anisree Suresh (@AnisreeSuresh) and Anwesha Sen (@Anwxsha) explore these vulnerabilities and discuss ways to mitigate the same. Spotify: tinyurl.com/mtxkend3 Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/26bm26h9 YouTube: tinyurl.com/5e9ufdpc
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The income tax filing season just finished. If you want to know where your hard-earned money went, check this dashboard by @PSarthak19 sp19sedoc.github.io/india-ta…
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Have a public policy question? I built a RAG search tool based on 350+ editions of our Anticipating the Unintended newsletter. Type any policy question and get the relevant frameworks, and what we've written about it, pulled straight from six years of the archive.
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anwesha retweeted
Nitin Pai@acornAug 12
Psst. Takshashila's AI projects page. takshashila.org.in/pages/ai/

AI Projects

A living catalogue of AI-built trackers, dashboards, and tools from Takshashila’s research programmes.

takshashila.org.in
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Got the author copies of our book today. Thanks @PenguinIndia Thanks to @srajagopalan @rajeevgowda @karthik_econ @AiyarYamini Devesh Kapur, Vijay Kelkar, Kailash Nadh, and V Anantha Nageswaran for endorsing the book! Truly grateful. @PSarthak19 @karthik_venk
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Are you wondering why we are paying an absolute bomb for whey protein in the last few months? There's a host of external reasons and some extraordinary self-goals! I write in Indian Express. Read, maybe along with a protein shake!
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Q: What connects Gabbar Singh, The Beatles, Lagaan, and deadweight loss? A: Our new book, Fiscal Fables: A Citizen's Guide to Public Finance. @PSarthak19 No equations and lots of stories. Our aim is to make public finance fun. Will you read it? Please say yes, and pre-order!
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Everyone's arguing about AI, tech regulation, and geopolitics on X. Few can actually break down why. GCPP Technology and Policy gives you the frameworks- economics, ethics, and power- to go from reacting to anticipating. Built for people building tech, regulating it, or just tired of hot takes. Cohort 45. Applications close Aug 23. Apply now: tinyurl.com/tech-and-policy
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Because who needs evidence for actual policy making, when uncles can just force their worldview on everyone through coercion. (p.s. encouraging children to read is good. Thinking age-gating chunks of the internet is the answer/will work is just silly and naive)
Sridhar Vembu
@svembuJul 24
India should ban social media for young children too. I believe young children should read physical books, play in the dirt under the sun and stay away from social media!
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Begging crime beat reporters not to uncritically carry the police version on FRS. Ask them even basic questions, who are the service providers? Who authorised it? Where does the data go? What are false positive rates? How much does each attempt cost? Investigate the tenders? Find out how they were awarded?
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anwesha retweeted
Nitin Pai@acornJul 25
A good time to remind ourselves of India’s most important policy imperatives: 1. Create 20 million jobs per year 2. Ensure that schools & universities deliver high-quality education to every young person. 3. Rethink entrance exams as the way to select students/aspirants.
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