Blogs

India and South Korea’s OTT Strategies in 4K

Aryaman Das - MPP 2027

Aryaman Das, MPP 2025–26, writes that: India’s immense storytelling potential is at a critical juncture in the age of OTT platforms, where soft power

Life in the Precariat

Aryaman Chatterjee - Senior Academic Associate, Kautilya

Precarity refers to a state of uncertain existence. It is often used to describe the precariat, a socio- economic group defined by unpredictability in

Epistemology and Power: Critique of Feminist Foreign Policy

Janvi Kaur Chandla - MPP 2027

Gender is engraved in International Relations where women’s ‘lived experience’ is bypassed within the international order. Terms such as sovereignty,

Telangana’s 2026-27 Budget: Balancing the 2047 Vision with Debt and Disparity

Dr. Amrendra Pandey - Assistant Dean (Research), Kautilya

Telangana’s 2026–27 budget signals bold ambition under the “Rising Telangana 2047” vision, but also exposes underlying concerns around rising debt, fi

India’s Digital Diplomacy: From UPI to Global Tech Sovereignty

Yadala Vaishnav Kireeti - Student Kautilya

India is being hailed by everyone, as the shining example of digital revival. The key to this transformation is the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) t

Intersecting Vulnerabilities: Conflict Amplifies Disability Exclusion

Krithi Khanduri - Student, Kautilya

“Mama, it’s over. Leave me here, and you run away.” Cried a girl of 14 with cerebral palsy. She had lost her assistive device in a military attack in

Film-Induced Tourism and the New Cultural Economy

Soundarya Venkatraman - Executive Assistant to Dean, Kautilya

Soundarya Venkataraman (Executive Assistant to Dean) writes that Film-induced tourism is reshaping the cultural economy, as cinema increasingly

Finding India in the Indo-Pacific

Dr. Kanica Rakhra - Assistant Professor, Kautilya

The shift in terminology from Asia-Pacific to the Indo-Pacific became an important transition as it brought the Indian subcontinent into the Asian nar

Reproductive rights in America and the road ahead for India

Vanamali Sahithi - Student Kautilya

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade through the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organisation ruling. Roe had guaranteed abortion ri