We, the Citizens

Khyati Pathak is an IT consultant turned artist who looks at the world like it’s a puzzle waiting to be solved. She creates comic artwork on not-so-comic themes such as politics, feminism, environment and culture. Her work has featured in children’s magazines Pluto and Cycle, and on comics platform Bakarmax. She co-hosts Puliyabaazi, a podcast that features in-depth conversations with experts on policy, politics, technology and more. Her work can be found at www.thescribblebee.com Anupam Manur is an assistant professor at the Takshashila Institution. His research interests lie at the intersection of economics, technology, and public policy. He writes on platform economics, international trade, India’s ongoing jobs crisis, and on economic policy. He edits the Indian Public Policy Review, a peer-reviewed and open-access journal of economics, public policy and strategy. He has also edited three books under the Takshashila Institution Press. Anupam teaches different variants of economics in all of Takshashila’s public policy programmes and is responsible for designing the curriculum for the educational programmes. Pranay Kotasthane is deputy director at the Takshashila Institution, where he is a researcher and teacher of public policy, foreign policy and public finance. Pranay is the co-author of the public policy best-seller Missing in Action: Why You Should Care about Public Policy (2023) and When the Chips are Down: A Deep Dive into a Global Crisis (2023). He 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.