Assistant Professor, Ashoka University. Previously @UniLeiden and @TheHagueProgram

Joined December 2012
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Tech’s ‘Sovereignty Washing’ in Europe Will Ripple in the Global South - my essay for Lawfare on the hyperscalers’ “sovereign cloud” offerings
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The IR department at Ashoka is hosting a series of lectures this week on the future of the international order 🧵
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Courtney Fung of Macquarie lecturing students and faculty on “Pax Sinica: What China wants for the international order”
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Swati Srivastava of Purdue University addressed Ashoka students on “AI and Corporate World Order”
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.@vedicakant speaking with the heads of PwC and Deloitte in India to a packed room on the future of consultancy
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Debayan Gupta of Ashoka CS: AI is posing some threats to Open Source software. As the experience of Tailwind CSS layoffs shows, ppl are just not turning towards OS software and tinkering to get what they want. LLMs give it to them.
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Arun Sukumar retweeted
For our third PIL Discussion Group event, we were delighted to have Professor Duncan Hollis and Dr Arun Sukumar present on their project, ‘New Challenges and New Concepts?  Prepositioning and Civilian Critical Infrastructure in International Law.’ Thanks, everyone, for attending!
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Pratyush K and Vivek Raghavan rocking up to Sarvam’s big launch at the AI summit. Seismic response from the crowd. What an atmosphere - feels amazing!
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Please attend if interested!
We warmly invite you to our third PIL Discussion Group for the term on 19 February. Professor Duncan Hollis and Dr Arun Sukumar will present on ‘New Challenges and New Concepts? Prepositioning and Civilian Critical Infrastructure in International Law.’ tinyurl.com/59ptpf4t
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Arun Sukumar retweeted
Teaching Fellow opportunity, especially for PhD students/Master's degree holders in NCR - share/RT: @arunmsukumar and I are co-teaching a course on IPE (Intl Political Economy). Starts next week, apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

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“You may squirm at the impact but it has made you think and imbibe new ideas, and the one thing which India requires in many fields is being hit on the head so that it may think.”
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The 2025 NIF Book Prize goes to Aparajith Ramnath’s excellent biography of M. Visvesvaraya (a complicated figure to put it mildly). Could not think of a more deserving book and worthier recipient of this accolade than Ramnath.
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For our substack @arunmsukumar pens a compelling piece on why backing Zoho might be a good move for India
Give Zoho a Chance kuwi.news/p/give-zoho-a-chan… a guest post for @anmolm_ and @vedicakant’s Keeping Up With India blog
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Arun Sukumar retweeted
21 Oct 2025
Came across this timely and compelling piece by @arunmsukumar.
Give Zoho a Chance kuwi.news/p/give-zoho-a-chan… a guest post for @anmolm_ and @vedicakant’s Keeping Up With India blog
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Arun Sukumar retweeted
20 Oct 2025
great piece and an interesting perspective from @arunmsukumar on why it could be good actually for GOI to back and support Zoho. Sharing some snippets - people and countries have pushing for open & interoperable protocols worldwide
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Give Zoho a Chance kuwi.news/p/give-zoho-a-chan… a guest post for @anmolm_ and @vedicakant’s Keeping Up With India blog
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