Takshashila Institution — Strategic Studies Graduate
Strategic studies
I completed the Graduate Certificate in Strategic Studies at The Takshashila Institution in 2018.
The programme covered the foundations and methods of strategic studies, the Arthashastra and Indian strategic thought, and policy analysis. I also completed the special credit course Inside Xi’s China and received a Distinction in the Cogitatum workshop Bringing Back India’s Most Wanted.
I arrived as a technology founder looking for better ways to reason about institutions, state capacity, security, standards, and sovereignty. The course added a second scale of analysis to engineering work: not only whether a system functions, but who can exercise authority through it, where dependencies sit, and what changes when the technology crosses jurisdictions.
That perspective now appears in my work on governed AI, local inference, technology sovereignty, blockchain infrastructure, and the relationship between public policy and operating architecture.