Tannmay Kumarr Baid
Tannmay Kumarr Baid

Tannmay Kumarr Baid

I’m a high-school student in Bengaluru working on critical minerals, technology and geopolitics.

I’m also a Junior Adjunct Scholar at The Takshashila Institution, where I work with the High-Tech Geopolitics team.

My other interests include poker, astronomy, collecting stuff and, predictably, books.

Tools

India Critical Minerals · interactive dashboard

51 minerals, ten vectors, six groups. A way to examine different supply bottlenecks without flattening them into a single criticality score.

Tannmay Kumarr Baid · Shobhankita Reddy

The India Critical Minerals dashboard
Inside the Motor · 3D explainer

Why do EV motors need rare earths? A five-chapter walkthrough of how they work, the alternatives, and the trade-offs. Takshashila’s first 3D explainer.

Tannmay Kumarr Baid · Shobhankita Reddy · Pranay Kotasthane

Inside the Motor, a 3D explainer
An Interactive Blockchain Course · learning tool

A self-paced course for learning blockchain by doing, from cryptography and mining to programmable money and the role of the state.

Tannmay Kumarr Baid

An Interactive Blockchain Course

Writing

  1. China’s chokehold on critical minerals is loosening, but not quickly
    Moneycontrol, 24 Sep 2026 · Shobhankita Reddy · Tannmay Kumarr Baid · Pranay Kotasthane
  2. Critical minerals need priorities, not longer lists
    Moneycontrol, 6 Aug 2026 · Tannmay Kumarr Baid · Shobhankita Reddy
  3. What the Budget reveals about India’s critical minerals goals
    Moneycontrol, 12 Feb 2026 · Shobhankita Reddy · Tannmay Kumarr Baid
  4. Rare earths sector can do with recycling thrust
    Hindustan Times, 2 Feb 2026 · Pranay Kotasthane · Tannmay Kumarr Baid
  5. Inside the Tent: India and the Limits of Pax Silica
    India’s World, 16 Jan 2026 · Pranay Kotasthane · Tannmay Kumarr Baid
  6. Rare earths in India: Bridging the gaps to ensure sufficiency
    Hindustan Times, 1 Dec 2025 · Tannmay Kumarr Baid · Pranay Kotasthane
  7. Pakistan is bluffing. There’s no proof for $6 trillion mineral wealth claim
    ThePrint, 10 Nov 2025 · Pranay Kotasthane · Tannmay Kumarr Baid
  8. Beijing’s rare earth playbook is tired. It’s time India wrote its own
    Times of India, 19 Oct 2025 · Tannmay Kumarr Baid · Pranay Kotasthane
  9. Tracks Without Trains
    The Hindu, 8 Oct 2025 · Tannmay Kumarr Baid · Pranay Kotasthane
  10. Trump’s AI Strategy: Beyond the race for global supremacy
    Moneycontrol, 12 Aug 2025 · Tannmay Kumarr Baid · Bharath Reddy
  11. Brownfield mining operations are enough to meet India’s rare-earth needs
    Moneycontrol, 28 Jul 2025 · Tannmay Kumarr Baid
  12. The Way to Break China’s Stranglehold on Rare Earths
    India’s World, 23 Jun 2025 · Tannmay Kumarr Baid · Pranay Kotasthane
  13. Severing the Hype: China’s Cable Cutter in Perspective
    StratNews Global, 29 Apr 2025 · Tannmay Kumarr Baid
  14. China’s rare-earth controls are not the masterstroke they seem
    Times of India, 27 Apr 2025 · Tannmay Kumarr Baid · Pranay Kotasthane

Research

India Should Double Down on Rare Earth Recycling

How India’s e-waste could become a source of rare earths, and why recycling incentives need to reward what is recovered, rather than its weight.

Discussion document, 23 Jan 2026 · Tannmay Kumarr Baid · Pranay Kotasthane · Narayan Ramachandran
Geopolitics of Bengaluru’s Yellow Metro Line

What Bengaluru’s delayed trains reveal about procurement rules, Chinese suppliers and the geopolitical risks hidden in the lowest bid.

Discussion document, 9 Sep 2025 · Tannmay Kumarr Baid · Pranay Kotasthane

I co-organised Politics and Policy of Critical Minerals with Shobhankita Reddy and taught a section of its first edition in May 2026 to a cohort of 65 participants.

Podcasts

  1. Are All Minerals Critical In The Same Way?26 Jun 2026Tannmay Kumarr Baid · Shobhankita Reddy
  2. Critical Minerals Partnerships24 Jun 2026Shobhankita Reddy · Tannmay Kumarr Baid
  3. India Should Double Down On Rare Earth Recycling18 Feb 2026Shobhankita Reddy · Tannmay Kumarr Baid
  4. Unpacking the New US National Security Strategy2 Jan 2026Lokendra Sharma · Brigadier Anil Raman (retd) · Tannmay Kumarr Baid
  5. Bengaluru’s Yellow Metro Line Through Geopolitical Tracks23 Sep 2025Lokendra Sharma · Tannmay Kumarr Baid
  6. Tackling Oil Spills in India’s Coastal Waters26 Aug 2025Lokendra Sharma · Swathi Kalyani · Tannmay Kumarr Baid
  7. Making Sense of the Geopolitics of Rare Earths14 Jul 2025Shobhankita Reddy · Tannmay Kumarr Baid · Dr Julie Michelle Klinger
  8. Trump’s Tariff Pause and Implications for India30 Apr 2025Tannmay Kumarr Baid · Anupam Manur · Anisree Suresh
  9. Signals from the Signal Chat Leak15 Apr 2025Lokendra Sharma · Manoj Kewalramani · Tannmay Kumarr Baid
  10. Inside the Lok Sabha: Who Really Cares About Foreign Policy?14 Apr 2025Dr Walter C. Ladwig III · Vanshika Saraf · Tannmay Kumarr Baid
  11. How Should India Navigate Tech Geopolitics?11 Apr 2025Lokendra Sharma · Avinash Shet · Tannmay Kumarr Baid

Off the clock

The library

Tannmay’s bookshelves

Currently reading

How to Prove It by Daniel J. Velleman

The whole catalogue

The shelves, searchable and sorted by subject.

Browse the catalogue →

Looking up

I built my first telescope at 12 from plumbing pipe. I now photograph the night sky with an 8-inch Dobsonian.

Collecting

More than 500 coins and notes from over 40 countries, collected since childhood.

Contact