Pranay Kotasthane

Deputy Director at the Takshashila Institution

Pranay Kotasthane is deputy director of the Takshashila Institution and chairs the High Tech Geopolitics Programme. Pranay co-writes Anticipating the Unintended, a newsletter on public policy ideas and frameworks, and co-hosts Puliyabaazi, a popular Hindi-Urdu podcast on politics, policy, and technology. He is the co-author of three books - Missing in Action: Why Should You Care About Public Policy, When the Chips Are Down, and We, the Citizens. He has co-edited India’s Marathon: Reshaping the Post-Pandemic World Order. Before joining Takshashila, he had stints with two Fortune 500 companies working on integrated circuit design for mobile processors.