Pranay Kotasthane

Pranay Kotasthane is a public policy nerd who spent his early career designing mobile processor chips before India’s governance puzzles proved to be more engrossing. He is deputy director at the Takshashila Institution, where he chairs the High-Tech Geopolitics Programme. He co-writes Anticipating the Unintended, a weekly newsletter on public policy, and co-hosts Puliyabaazi, a Hindi–Urdu podcast on politics, policy and technology. He is the co-author of four bestsellers: Missing in Action, When the Chips Are Down, We, the Citizens, and now Fiscal Fables.