Shruti Rajagopalan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where she leads the Indian Political Economy Program and Emergent Ventures India . She is a Fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at NYU School of Law and an Innovation Fellow with Schmidt Futures. Before joining the Mercatus Center she was an Associate Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Purchase College. She is also the host of the Ideas of India podcast . She currently writes a Substack on Indian political economy and culture called Get Down and Shruti .