Arun Sukumar

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

[Arun Sukumar @arunmsukumar]

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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Swati Srivastava of Purdue University addressed Ashoka students on “AI and Corporate World Order”

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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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@iiiwokk @NotionHQ "Google’s appointment schedule booking link with 15-minute slots is a different object than regular calendar events, and I do not currently have a tool to create that booking page link automatically. " You need to help us teachers with this!!

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@iiiwokk @NotionHQ Figured this out - Need to give access not in settings of database but access rule of agents

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@ovshake42 seems also like a temperament thing.. sanju has enough experience in these high-pressure matches. Abhishek is looking totally out of sorts, and is naturally wet behind the ears.

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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.

[PIL @ Oxford @oxfordPIL]

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!

[PIL @ Oxford @oxfordPIL]

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.’ https://t.co/gecFGS4OF7

[Amit|امِت|ਅਮਿਤ @amitjulka]

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: https://t.co/OXIOTec4Tm

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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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@surya_14kumar @GautamGambhir all ICT fans understand your predicament in team selection. Tough choices. Hope you guys are still taking care of Sanju and handling him well!

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Prof. V. Rajaraman, stalwart of computer science education in India, passes away at 92
https://t.co/68JgKjEVrM

[Vedica Kant @vedicakant]

For our substack @arunmsukumar pens a compelling piece on why backing Zoho might be a good move for India