Takshashila Sandesh - February 2022
A newsletter connecting Takshashila alumni to ideas, opportunities and networks.
Hi Takshashila Alum,
With the Omicron wave subsiding, hope things are looking better for you and your family.
We have some exciting updates from our alumni across the globe. Our alum Rudrashish Sinha who is with the Karnataka Administrative Reforms Commission-2 as a Technical Advisor has put out a newsfeed on Kalpa to review and make recommendations for reforming administration and governance of the state across multiple departments. Your contribution will make the state future-ready.
Do not miss checking out these exciting opportunities on the Kalpa job portal: Delhivery is hiring Senior Economist & Economist Economic Research Unit (ERU).
We at Takshashila are keen on having our alumni intern with us. Do check out the newsfeed on Kalpa.
This reminds us, please use the Kalpa Newsfeed to share updates with the Takshashila community. Whether a few of you are meeting over a coffee, doing collaborative research work, or climbing mountains together, we are all ears!
For instance, our alumni based out of Washington DC braved the snow for a nice meet-up at DuPont Circle.
Few of our DFA cohort mates caught up to attend the Republic Day Parade. They are now vouching that they found their soul tribe at Takshashila :)
And one last thing. We’re excited to boast about our new merch that we have exclusively launched for our alumni. Order here!
— Sowmya Nandan & Apurva Kumar, on behalf of Takshashila
Other Work/Internship Opportunities
Indus Action is hiring for multiple positions
Commonwealth Bank is looking for a Policy Governance and Compliance Analyst
CEGIS has a few more job opportunities to be filled
Waste Warriors have multiple job openings at different locations
Citizen Matters is hiring Reporters & Associate Editors
Featured Alumni Story | Trupti Mulajkar
Early days of Twitter when there was not so much noise and more people made sense, I came across Nitin Pai and The Takshashila Institution who were offering to study Public Policy. I was also among the armchair pundits who had tonnes of opinions on almost every issue without a clear idea how to go about doing it and the course Takshashila offered fit perfectly with the tools I needed. Several years later when I decided to pivot my career and become a market researcher turned development sector professional, I was ready to take the plunge and study public policy and could not think of any other name than Takshashila.
Takshashila was the catalyst instrumental in shaping my thought process and ideology. It is here I learned how to convert emotions into problem statements and biases into trade-offs. Along with highly curated reading material and access to highly qualified faculty, what I truly value is the discourse we had. Today as I work with Teach For India, my understanding of the education sector in India and the forces that shape it has been influenced greatly by what I studied in this course.
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Takshashila Gyan
Our PGP student, Deepanker Kaul, has come up with a guide on how to think clearly in polarised times. He urges his readers to follow the ‘First Principles’ that are essentially the ideas that you believe to be fundamental truths and everything else is informed from it.
Some of us at Takshashila discussed interesting trends from the Union Budget 2022-23. We spoke about spending on health and nutrition, justice, defence etc. Do you know that India’s first Finance Minister, R.K. Shanmukham Chetty spoke about the rule of law in his budget speech? Do check out the episode to know more about this. In his Technopolitik dispatch, Aditya Pareek talks about the latest bans on apps by the Union Government.