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Sadanand Dhume and Tanvi Madan on the political and foreign policy ramifications of India's COVID second wave
Grand Tamasha - June 02, 2021 01:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThis week on the show, Milan is joined by Grand Tamasha news round-up regulars Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute and the Wall Street Journal and Tanvi Madan of the Brookings Institution. This week, Milan, Sadanand, and Tanvi discuss the political state of affairs in India in ...
Rachel Brulé on Gender Quotas and Gender Inequality in India
Grand Tamasha - May 26, 2021 01:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsIn the early 1990s, India legislated sweeping new gender quotas in local government in the hopes that women’s political empowerment would help to rectify centuries-old social and economic inequalities. But, despite these moves, we know surprisingly little about whether and how quotas have undone...
Samanth Subramanian on India’s Vaccine Conundrum
Grand Tamasha - May 19, 2021 01:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsOne of the enduring puzzles about the tragic second wave of COVID is how India, the world’s largest vaccine producer, faces an alarming shortage of vaccines. A new essay by the journalist Samanth Subramanian for the online news organization Quartz argues that there’s no single answer, but rath...
Himanshu Jha on the Right to Information Act’s Long and Winding Road
Grand Tamasha - May 12, 2021 01:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsMore than fifteen years ago, India’s parliament passed a sweeping piece of legislation known as the Right to Information Act—a law that transforms the way ordinary citizens access the inner workings of government, offering them an unprecedented glimpse into how policy is made, how funds are allo...
Aditi Phadnis on India's Pivotal State Elections
Grand Tamasha - May 05, 2021 01:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsOn Sunday, the highly anticipated results from five state assembly elections across India were announced. These results come at a time of great uncertainty in India as the country is in the throes of a devastating second wave of the coronavirus, which is racking up nearly 400,000 new cases every...
Anup Malani on India’s COVID Second Wave
Grand Tamasha - April 27, 2021 01:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsIt has been a harrowing week for India. The country is reeling under the effects of a devastating second wave of the coronavirus, which is responsible for more than 300,000 new cases a day and more than 2,000 fatalities. And these official numbers are almost certainly a dramatic undercount. To...
Pradeep Gupta on What Makes the Indian Voter Tick
Grand Tamasha - April 21, 2021 01:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThis month, voters are going to the polls in five Indian states to select the members of their respective state assemblies. These polls are being seen as a test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity and the ability of the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to grow or further consolidat...
Christophe Jaffrelot on India’s First Dictatorship
Grand Tamasha - April 14, 2021 01:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsMost people who work on India regularly refer to India as the world’s largest democracy and the most enduring democracy in the developing world. However, they often have to footnote such statements with the caveat that India experienced a twenty-one-month period of Emergency Rule in the late 197...
Darshana Baruah on the Indian Ocean Imperative
Grand Tamasha - April 07, 2021 01:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsFew regions of the world have gotten more attention in the first few months of the Biden administration than Asia. And, within Asia, top leaders from Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to President Joe Biden himself have singled out the importance of the Indo-...
Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu on U.S.-India Relations in the Biden Era
Grand Tamasha - March 31, 2021 01:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThe Biden administration has been in office for just a little over two months but India has already emerged as an important foreign policy priority for the president and his new team. But what do the United States and India seek to do together? What is the significance of this month’s leadership...
Jairam Ramesh on the Many Lives of V.K. Krishna Menon
Grand Tamasha - March 24, 2021 01:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsRasputin, Lucifer, Evil Genius, Sombre Porcupine, The World’s Most Hated Diplomat. These are just some of the choice names that people have given for the former diplomat and politician V.K. Krishna Menon. Menon is, in many ways, one of the most consequential figures in post-Independence In...
Sadanand Dhume and Tanvi Madan on the Quad, Indian Democracy, and Modi's Economic Reforms
Grand Tamasha - March 17, 2021 01:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Milan is joined once more by Grand Tamasha “news round-up” regulars Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute and the Wall Street Journal and Tanvi Madan of the Brookings Institution. This week, the trio discuss three topics: last week’s heads-of-state summit ...
Myra MacDonald on the India-Pakistan Battle for Siachen
Grand Tamasha - March 10, 2021 02:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThe contested borders between India, China, and Pakistan render the Himalayas one of the world’s most dangerous geopolitical flashpoints in the year 2021. A new book by the journalist Myra MacDonald, White as the Shroud: India, Pakistan and War on the Frontiers of Kashmir, takes readers inside t...
Shoumitro Chatterjee and Mekhala Krishnamurthy on the Economics (and Politics) of India’s New Farm Laws
Grand Tamasha - March 03, 2021 02:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsIn September 2020, Indian lawmakers approved three controversial agriculture bills amidst an uproar on the floor of Parliament. That uproar would soon manifest outside of Parliament as tens of thousands of farmers took to the streets on the outskirts of Delhi to protest the passage of these laws...
Sonia Faleiro on Life and Death in India’s Heartland
Grand Tamasha - February 24, 2021 02:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsOne night in the summer of 2014, two teenage girls living in a remote village in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh went missing. Hours later, they were found dead and hanging from a tree in a mango orchard. A media frenzy ensued that propelled the case to the front pages of national newspa...
Meenakshi Ahamed on U.S.-India Relations from Truman to Trump
Grand Tamasha - February 17, 2021 02:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsAs a new administration takes office in Washington, followers of the U.S.-India relationship are eagerly anticipating what shape ties between these two nations will take under a new president. A new book by the journalist Meenakshi Ahamed, A Matter of Trust: India–US Relations from Truman to Tru...
Sumitra Badrinathan and Devesh Kapur on How Indian Americans View India
Grand Tamasha - February 10, 2021 02:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsIndian Americans are now the second-largest immigrant group in the United States. Their growing political influence and their courtship by the Indian government raises important—as yet unanswered—questions. How do Indians in America regard India, and how do they remain connected to developments ...
Sukumar Ranganathan on India’s Budget Breakthrough
Grand Tamasha - February 03, 2021 02:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsOn Monday, the Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented one of the most highly anticipated Indian budgets in recent memory. Facing a global health pandemic, a severe economic slowdown, and continued anxieties over inflation, some commentators argued that this budget was not simply th...
Vinay Sitapati on the Political History of the BJP Before Modi
Grand Tamasha - December 16, 2020 02:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThis week on the show, Milan sits down with Vinay Sitapati, political scientist and author of the blockbuster new book, Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi. Vinay’s new book gives readers the crucial backstory to understanding India’s current political moment and it is full of historical insights, c...
Ravinder Kaur on India’s “Brand New Nation”
Grand Tamasha - December 09, 2020 02:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsBy now, we are all familiar with the catch phrases, colorful billboards, and slick branding: Incredible India. India Shining. Make in India. New India. But these are not just the frivolous creations of marketing executives and tourist brochures—they are the stuff of 21st century nation bra...
Chinmay Tumbe on India's Age of Pandemics: Then and Now
Grand Tamasha - December 02, 2020 02:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsAlthough this history has largely been forgotten today, India was the epicenter of three major pandemics throughout the 19th and early 20th century. A new book by the economist Chinmay Tumbe, The Age of Pandemics: 1817-1920—How They Shaped India and the World, takes readers on a tour of thr...
Evan Feigenbaum on Asia's Fragmented Future
Grand Tamasha - November 25, 2020 02:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsOf the many questions being asked about U.S. president-elect Joe Biden’s foreign policy, chief among them is how the new president might handle relations with China. The future trajectory of U.S.-China relations matters not just for the U.S. and China, but it also has real implications for Ind...
Sadanand Dhume and Tanvi Madan on Biden, Bihar, and U.S.-India Bonhomie
Grand Tamasha - November 18, 2020 02:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsLast week, the world saw two highly anticipated elections come to an end. The never-ending 2020 U.S. presidential election finally came to a close—with Democratic challenger and former Vice President Joe Biden capturing the White House. On the other side of the world, tens of millions of vot...
Viral Acharya on India’s Quest for Financial Stability
Grand Tamasha - November 11, 2020 02:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThanks to the COVID-19 crisis, India’s economy is expected to shrink by at least 9 percent this fiscal year—a gut punch that comes on the heels of several years of continuously slowing growth. At the heart of India’s economic woes is a severe banking crisis that some have argued has sapped the v...
Rukmini on What Data Tells Us About India's COVID-19 Fight
Grand Tamasha - November 04, 2020 02:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsSince the onset of the novel Coronavirus, award-winning data journalist Rukmini has investigated the virus’ spread in India like very few people have. Twice a week since March, she’s been recording her thoughts on the pandemic in a short “mini-podcast” called The Moving Curve. In 100 b...
Pankaj Mishra on the Crisis of Liberalism in India and the World
Grand Tamasha - October 28, 2020 01:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsPankaj Mishra is the acclaimed author of numerous books of fiction and non-fiction. He is a frequent contributor to some of the world’s top publications the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Guardian, the New Yorker, and Bloomberg. His new book, Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and ...
Ananth Krishnan on What China’s Rise Means for India
Grand Tamasha - October 21, 2020 01:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsIn the summer of 2008, the journalist Ananth Krishnan moved to Beijing to pick up some Mandarin. Little did he know that this fateful decision would kick off a decade-long immersion in Chinese politics, economics, foreign policy, and culture. This week on the podcast, Ananth talks with Mila...
Sumitra Badrinathan and Devesh Kapur Decode the 2020 Indian American Vote
Grand Tamasha - October 14, 2020 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsAlthough Indians in America account for less than one percent of registered voters, this election season they have been actively wooed by both Democrats and Republicans in an unprecedented manner. Thanks to the increasing political influence of Indian Americans, the camaraderie between Donal...
Paul Staniland on the Surprising Decline in Political Violence in South Asia
Grand Tamasha - October 07, 2020 01:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThe political landscape of South Asia has changed dramatically in the last two decades. Insurgencies that were raging across the subcontinent in the 1990s and early 2000s have largely been contained and the heavy-hand of the state has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence. Why has this happened and wh...
Nidhi Razdan on the State of the Indian Media
Grand Tamasha - September 30, 2020 01:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsIf you’ve watched prime time television in India at any point in the last two decades, there is zero chance that you are not acquainted with Milan’s guest on the show this week. Since 1999, the journalist Nidhi Razdan has been reporting on the biggest news coming out of India--from politics to t...
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