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Adding Up India's Budget
Grand Tamasha - February 08, 2023 02:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsLast week, India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her government’s Fiscal Year 2023 budget. As in years past, the entire analyst class has been working overtime to scrutinize the minister’s speech and the underlying budget spreadsheets to understand how this government plans to st...
The Congress Party's Quest for Relevance
Grand Tamasha - February 01, 2023 02:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThe Congress Party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra has spent more than 120 days traveling the length of India from the southern city of Kanniyakumari to the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. After traveling more than 3,500 kilometers, the march formally ended on January 30 in Srinagar. The yatra has g...
India's Tryst With Policymaking
Grand Tamasha - January 25, 2023 02:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsAfter a short holiday break, this week we kick off the ninth season of Grand Tamasha. Milan’s guest on the show is Pranay Kotasthane, author of the new book—Missing In Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy, co-authored with Raghu Jaitley. What is the Indian state? How does it work? H...
Grand Tamasha Unveils the Best Books of 2022
Grand Tamasha - December 21, 2022 02:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsOne of the blessings (though it sometimes feels like a curse) of hosting Grand Tamasha, Carnegie’s weekly podcast on Indian politics and policy, is that our host Milan Vaishnav ends up reading a ton of books and interviewing many authors. In what we hope will become an annual holiday tradition, ...
G20, State Elections, and the Future of the Congress Party
Grand Tamasha - December 14, 2022 02:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsTo commemorate the season finale of Season Eight of Grand Tamasha, Milan welcomes back show regulars Sadanand Dhume (American Enterprise Institute and the Wall Street Journal) and Tanvi Madan (Brookings Institution) to discuss the latest developments in the world of Indian politics and policy. ...
A Test of the BJP’s Dominance in Gujarat
Grand Tamasha - December 07, 2022 02:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThis past week, voters in the state of Gujarat went to the polls to select the 182 newest members of the state assembly. While the votes will be counted on December 8, there is an aura of inevitability around the result; journalists, pundits, and polls all point toward a decisive victory by the ...
Previewing India’s G20 Agenda
Grand Tamasha - November 30, 2022 02:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsIn December, India will assume the presidency of the G20, an international forum comprising the world’s twenty largest economies. It’s India’s first time chairing the group, and it represents a major diplomatic and political opportunity for the government to shape perceptions around India’s role...
Indian Media's Moment of Reckoning
Grand Tamasha - November 23, 2022 02:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsA recent controversy involving the online news site the Wire and the tech giant Meta has sparked a new debate on the media in India. The recent controversy has been something of a Rorschach test with some critics castigating digital media for playing fast and loose with the truth and others defe...
How Rising Powers Can Make—Or Break—International Order
Grand Tamasha - November 16, 2022 02:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsWhy do rising powers on the global stage sometimes challenge an international order that enables their growth, yet at other times support an order that constrains them? This is the core question motivating a big, new book on international order by political scientist Rohan Mukherjee. The book ...
Inside the COP27 Showdown
Grand Tamasha - November 09, 2022 02:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThis week, climate negotiators and world leaders from around 200 countries are descending on the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el Sheikh for COP27—the twenty-seventh gathering of the 197 nations that signed up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change back in 1992. As procee...
India’s Hidden Treatise on Statecraft
Grand Tamasha - November 02, 2022 01:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsRegular Grand Tamasha listeners will recall that Milan had the scholar Rahul Sagar on the podcast several months ago to talk about his new book, To Raise a Fallen People: How Nineteenth Century Indians Saw Their World and Shaped Ours. That book was a look at the nineteenth-century intellectual...
Southern Asia's Nuclear Future With Ashley J. Tellis
Grand Tamasha - October 26, 2022 01:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThe competitive and often antagonistic relationships between China, India, and Pakistan have roots that predate their possession of nuclear weaponry. Yet the significant transformation of the nuclear capabilities that is now underway in all three countries simultaneously complicates and mitigate...
Making the Indian Economy Work for Women
Grand Tamasha - October 19, 2022 01:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsShaili Chopra was a well-known business journalist, working for outlets such as NDTV Profit and ET Now, before she decided to leave prime-time journalism and become an entrepreneur, launching a new digital media platform—SheThePeople—dedicated to telling the untold stories of women in India and ...
Congress Drama, Indian Diplomacy, and the Diaspora
Grand Tamasha - October 12, 2022 01:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThese days, the world of Indian politics and policy appears to be moving at warp speed—even by Indian standards. To make sense of all the latest developments out of India, this week Milan is joined by Grand Tamasha regulars—Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute and the Wall Street ...
Rohini Nilekani on the Secret to Successful Governance
Grand Tamasha - October 05, 2022 01:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsRohini Nilekani is an author and philanthropist who has worked for over three decades in India’s social sectors. She is the founder of Arghyam, a foundation for sustainable water and sanitation, and she also co-founded Pratham Books, a nonprofit which aims to enable access to reading for million...
Rearranging Marriage in Modern India
Grand Tamasha - September 28, 2022 01:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThe Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India is a moving account of love in contemporary India. The book’s author, Mansi Choksi, follows three couples across the heartland of India as they navigate boundaries—of caste, class, religion, and traditional gender norms. What follows is a tale ...
South Asia's Economic Turmoil
Grand Tamasha - September 21, 2022 01:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsIn country after country in South Asia, we are seeing worrying signs of economic turmoil and political upheaval. Earlier this year, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan lost a bruising no-confidence vote, resulting in his abrupt ouster. But now the new coalition government that took over from Kha...
When and Why Do India and Pakistan Fight
Grand Tamasha - September 14, 2022 01:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsSince their mutual independence in 1947, India and Pakistan have been locked into a fierce rivalry that shows no signs of abating anytime soon. But a new book by the political scientist Christopher Clary, The Difficult Politics of Peace: Rivalry in Modern South Asia, suggests that our traditio...
How China Sees India With Ambassador Shyam Saran
Grand Tamasha - September 07, 2022 01:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThis week we kick off the eighth season of Grand Tamasha with a very special guest. On the season premiere, Milan sits down with Ambassador Shyam Saran, former Indian foreign secretary and one of the most decorated Indian diplomats of his generation. Saran, currently a senior fellow at the Centr...
Season Finale: Where is Indian Foreign Policy Going?
Grand Tamasha - June 15, 2022 01:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThis season, in twenty episodes, Grand Tamasha has covered a lot of ground—from the war in Ukraine, to the UP elections, and India’s water crisis. We will be taking a little break to recharge our batteries, but we will be back in August with all-new Grand Tamasha content. To bring the curtains ...
How Five-Year Plans Shaped India's Economy—and Democracy
Grand Tamasha - June 08, 2022 01:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsIn 2014, soon after coming to power, the Narendra Modi government decided to abolish India’s decades-old Planning Commission, replacing it with a new government think tank meant to facilitate cooperative federalism. For years, the Planning Commission devised detailed, five-year, central plans me...
What Kind of World Power Does India Want to Be?
Grand Tamasha - June 01, 2022 01:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsWhat kind of world power does India want to be? Few questions have been asked as often or as intensely since India’s economic take-off in the early 1990s and the corresponding rise in its foreign policy ambitions. Many of our intellectual debates seek answers to this question by looking back t...
The Indo-Australian Vote and Milan’s Delhi Reunion
Grand Tamasha - May 25, 2022 01:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsOver the weekend, Australian voters elected a new government with the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and Anthony Albanese at the helm, ousting the ruling Liberal-National Coalition for the first time in a decade. Key to the ALP’s landmark victory was the vote of the Indo-Australians, now the secon...
Inside Sri Lanka's Economic Meltdown
Grand Tamasha - May 18, 2022 01:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsSri Lanka has been the site of dramatic economic and political upheaval over the past several weeks as years of economic mismanagement have resulted in rampant inflation, shortages of essential commodities, and the country’s first sovereign default in the post-independence era. The island’s di...
Mr. Modi Goes to Europe
Grand Tamasha - May 11, 2022 01:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently completed a three-country, whirlwind tour of Europe. The trip began in Germany, where Modi met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, then continued with a stop in Denmark, where he participated in the India-Nordic Summit, and wrapped up in Paris, where ...
Pakistan After Imran Khan
Grand Tamasha - May 04, 2022 01:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsOn April 11, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted from office, having suffered defeat in a dramatic no confidence vote in the national assembly. Soon after, Shehbaz Sharif—former chief minister of Punjab and brother of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif—was sworn into office as his rep...
U.S.-India Ties After the ‘2+2’ Summit
Grand Tamasha - April 27, 2022 01:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsTwo weeks ago, the foreign and defense ministers of the United States and India met in Washington for the fourth annual U.S.-India “2+2” Dialogue. The annual meeting has become an important focal point in the growing partnership between the United States and India, and this year’s edition receiv...
Making Development Work for the Poor
Grand Tamasha - April 20, 2022 01:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsOne of the most vexed questions in development studies is why the poor often receive such poor government services. The development literature is littered with hundreds—if not thousands—of examples of elite capture, weak state capacity, corruption, and subversion. But a focus on the failures o...
Religious Polarization in Karnataka
Grand Tamasha - April 13, 2022 01:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsOver the past two months, the southern Indian state of Karnataka has been the site of significant religious tensions as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government—and Hindu nationalist organizations associated with it—have advanced policies and issued statements that many believe have explicitl...
Democracy and Anti-Corruption Protests in India
Grand Tamasha - April 06, 2022 01:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsWhen Ideas Matter: Democracy and Corruption in India is the title of a new book by the author Bilal Baloch. The book provides a framework for understanding how governments respond to credibility crises. We all know that governments act in their own interests—but what are those interests? How a...
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