What happens when radically networked societies confront hierarchically structured states? Here’s a video recording of my talk at the Takshashila Shala in Chennai last Sunday. It doesn’t offer answers, but explores some of the questions that I’ve been thinking about. Onto some levity. V Keshav, The Hindu’s editorial cartoonist, who spoke on cartooning and politics ...
Takshashila Shala // Pune 2011 – Attendee Geography According to EventBrite’s estimates, here’s where Shala participants are coming from. It’s guessing the location based on IP addresses, so those who registered from corporate networks might show up as being at their network gateway locations. Still, it gives us a fair sense of attendee geography. The ...
Getting people excited about public policy We had two excellent sessions of the Takshashila Roundtable Conclave Programme in Bangalore and Hyderabad. We had extremely high quality discussions and a good mix of participants. This format, however, restricts the number of participants to 50 (26 actually, if my colleagues would allow me to have my way). ...