Indian AI Policy
When Anthropic was forced by the US government to cutoff access to the world to its latest models, there was much yearning in India for `sovereign AI’. Writing in the Business Standard yesterday, Siddharth Raman and I question the case for sovereign AI in India. We worry that such an attempt would constitute industrial policy. We propose a four-pronged Indian AI policy strategy.
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Food licensing and vending
In When remedies become regulation: The Karnataka High Court’s intervention in food licensing and street vending, on The Leap Blog, Prashant Narang, Aryan Pandey, and Indira Unninayar analyse the institutional consequences of courts undertaking regulatory design. They examine a 2025 judgment mandating new food safety rules for street vendors and assess this directive against existing legislation and state capacity. They find the court ignored the Street Vendors Act and the documented shortage of food safety officers. They argue that imposing high-discretion mandates on a low-capacity state apparatus fails to improve public health; instead, it generates selective enforcement, increases rent-seeking, and forces compliance costs onto informal workers.
Prashant Narang
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