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India’s Pivot in the Middle East
Grand Tamasha - November 01, 2023 01:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsAs the fighting between Israel and Hamas intensifies, the world is bracing for the widening of a conflict that has the potential to escalate quickly and bring in outside powers from the region and beyond. India’s position in the aftermath of the horrific Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7th—a...
What the Women's Reservation Bill Means for Women
Grand Tamasha - October 25, 2023 01:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsIn September, India’s parliament passed a long-anticipated piece of legislation, known as the Women’s Reservation Bill. The bill—which sailed through both houses of Parliament within days of being introduced— reserves one-third of seats in the national parliament and the various state assemblie...
What the Solar Revolution Means for India and the World
Grand Tamasha - October 18, 2023 01:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsOne of the major themes of India’s G20 presidency, which concludes later this year, has been the advancement of an ambitious green transition for the 21st century. If the world’s hopes of accelerating a clean, sustainable, just, affordable, and inclusive energy transition are to come to fruitio...
The Hidden History of Conservative Economics in Post-1947 India
Grand Tamasha - October 11, 2023 01:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsToward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India is a new book on the Swatantra Party, a leading opposition party that emerged after Indian independence to contest the entrenched dominance of the Congress Party. The leaders of Swatantra imagined a conservative alterna...
An Unconventional History of 20th Century South Asia
Grand Tamasha - October 04, 2023 01:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsShadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century is a sweeping new book by the historian Joya Chatterji. The book tells the subcontinent's story from the British Raj through independence and partition to the forging of the modern nations of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. This is no ordinary ...
What the Personal Data Protection Act Means for India
Grand Tamasha - September 27, 2023 01:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThis August, India’s parliament passed a landmark piece of legislation, known as the Digital Personal Data Protection Act. The new act provides a framework for the protection of users’ personal data and the privacy of individuals. The passage of this bill marks the culmination of a decade-long ...
India's G20 Triumph
Grand Tamasha - September 20, 2023 01:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsOn Saturday, September 9, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised observers by announcing on Day One of the G20 summit in New Delhi that all 20 member nations had achieved consensus on the New Delhi G20 Summit Leaders Declaration. The announcement capped nine months of frenzied activity w...
Ro Khanna on the U.S.-India Partnership
Grand Tamasha - September 13, 2023 01:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsRo Khanna is a Member of the United States Congress who has represented California's 17th congressional district since 2017. He also serves as co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans, and recently led a bipartisan delegation to India that coincided with India’s Indepen...
The Next Chapter in U.S.-India Defense Ties
Grand Tamasha - September 06, 2023 01:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsAfter a long summer break, we are excited to be back with the tenth season of Grand Tamasha. To kick off our brand-new season, this week Milan sits down with the U.S. government’s point person on the U.S.-India defense relationship to discuss the next chapter in U.S.-India defense ties. Lindsey...
Rescuing the Indian Statistical System
Grand Tamasha - July 06, 2023 01:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsProgramming Note: This is the very last episode of Season Nine of Grand Tamasha. As is our usual, we are going to take July and August off to recharge our batteries. We will be back in September with our tenth season of podcasts, and we’re excited about the conversations we have planned for the ...
A Realistic and Resilient U.S.-India Partnership
Grand Tamasha - June 28, 2023 01:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsLast week on the show, Milan sat down with the Carnegie Endowment’s Ashley J. Tellis to discuss his much talked about Foreign Affairs essay titled, “America’s Bad Bet on India.” In that piece, Ashley argues that if U.S. policymakers are expecting India to come to America’s aid in the event of a...
Reexamining America’s Bet on India
Grand Tamasha - June 21, 2023 01:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsIn a few days, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in Washington, D.C. to begin a historic state visit that is expected to further cement ties between the United States and India. Over the past two decades, this relationship has gone from awkward resentment during the Cold War to ful...
Exploring Caste in America
Grand Tamasha - June 14, 2023 01:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsLater this summer, California could be first American state to ban discrimination on the basis of caste. California’s move, and the moves by universities, cities, and towns across the country, to raise issues of caste discrimination has generated a massive controversy that is roiling the Indian ...
Unleashing India’s Animal Spirits
Grand Tamasha - June 07, 2023 01:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsLeaders come and go, but institutions stay forever. This is the central takeaway of a new book by Subhashish Bhadra, Caged Tiger: How Too Much Government Is Holding Indians Back. Subhashish is an economist whose career has straddled both the policy and corporate worlds. He has worked at a leadi...
The Democratic Dynamism of India's Slums
Grand Tamasha - May 31, 2023 01:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsIf you’ve spent any time reading books, watching movies about—or traveling to—India—chances are you’ve come across the depiction of an urban slum somewhere along the way. In most of these popular portrayals, slums are dens of inequity and deprivation. Citizens appear to be trapped in a vortex of...
What’s Happening to India’s Rohingya Refugees?
Grand Tamasha - May 24, 2023 01:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThe Rohingya people have suffered decades of persecution in Myanmar, most recently in 2017 when the country’s security forces launched a major crackdown on the minority group—causing more than a million Rohingya to flee the country. While the vast majority of Rohingya sought refuge in neighborin...
The Congress Comeback in Karnataka
Grand Tamasha - May 17, 2023 01:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsOn May 13, the Congress Party notched a major election win—a decisive single-party majority in the southern state of Karnataka—earning the highest vote share of any party in the state since 1989. For the Congress, which is starved of election victories, this result could not have come at a bette...
Opening the Black Box of India’s Internal Security State
Grand Tamasha - May 10, 2023 01:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsSince Independence, the Indian state has grappled with a variety of internal security challenges—insurgencies, terrorist attacks, caste and communal violence, riots, and electoral violence. Their toll has claimed more lives than all of India's five external wars combined. Despite this, we know ...
Demography, Democracy, and India’s Destiny?
Grand Tamasha - May 03, 2023 01:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsAt long last, we come to that time in every Grand Tamasha season where Milan stops to round up the last news on Indian politics and policy with two longtime friends of the podcast—Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute and the Wall Street Journal and Tanvi Madan of the Brookings Ins...
The Mythmaking of Nehru’s India
Grand Tamasha - April 26, 2023 01:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsNonalignment, secularism, socialism, democracy, high modernism—these are all ideas that students of India have long associated with India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. These elements have been so embedded in the Indian psyche that we regularly speak of a “Nehruvian consensus” without ...
Ramachandra Guha Revisits India After Gandhi
Grand Tamasha - April 19, 2023 01:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsFind a list of the defining books about India published in the last 75 years and there’s one book that will show up on list after list after list—Ramachandra Guha’s magisterial India After Gandhi. For years, historians approached India as if history more or less ended with the partition of the ...
Is India’s Moment a Mirage?
Grand Tamasha - April 12, 2023 01:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsIndia Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today is a big new book on India by the economist Ashoka Mody. Mody is an economic historian at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs and a longtime official at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. His new book ...
The Aftermath of the Adani Affair
Grand Tamasha - April 05, 2023 01:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsFew stories have captured more headlines in India this year than the saga of Gautam Adani. Adani is CEO of the Adani Group and a regular fixture on the Forbes list of Global Billionaires. He was at one point the third richest man in the world. In January, Adani and his companies were accused of...
How Bureaucracy Can Work for the Poor
Grand Tamasha - March 29, 2023 01:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsOver the decades, India has developed a reputation for having a strong society but a weak state. This bureaucratic, lumbering behemoth has especially struggled to deliver basic public goods like health, education, water, and sanitation. But a new book by the University of Oxford political sci...
The Untold Global Backstory of India's Nuclear Program
Grand Tamasha - March 22, 2023 01:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsIndia's nuclear program is often conceived as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. But a new book by the scholar Jayita Sarkar, Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War, challenges the conventional wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear...
The Long and Winding Road of U.S.-India Relations
Grand Tamasha - March 15, 2023 01:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThirty years ago, Seema Sirohi first moved to Washington as a journalist charged with covering India’s relationship with the United States. At the time, Washington saw India as a problem—rather than a useful part of its foreign policy solution—to big, complex global challenges. Today, the situ...
Age of Vice: When Art Meets Life
Grand Tamasha - March 08, 2023 02:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsAge of Vice is the blockbuster new novel by the author Deepti Kapoor. It’s a love story, wrapped inside a tale of capitalism run amok, wrapped inside a violent story of gangland politics. In nearly 600 pages, it transports readers from the badlands of eastern Uttar Pradesh to the five-star hot...
A Portrait of India's Parliament
Grand Tamasha - March 01, 2023 02:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThe decline of India’s parliament is a refrain that has often been repeated over the last seventy-five years of modern Indian democracy. A new book on India’s Parliament addresses the decline thesis head-on and provides a warts-and-all assessment of India’s legislative chamber. The book is call...
Can India Break Away From Russia?
Grand Tamasha - February 22, 2023 02:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsOn February 24, the world will commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The ongoing war has fueled considerable debate among foreign policy analysts about the long-term consequences for the nature and evolution of global order. In the wake of the ongoing conflict,...
Can India Lead From the Front?
Grand Tamasha - February 15, 2023 02:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsIn 2016, Ashley J. Tellis published an important paper in which he unpacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for India to become a leading, rather than a balancing, power on the global stage. This call reflected an important change in how the country’s top political leadership conceived of it...
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