Podcast Episodes

The Outsourcer: The Story of India's IT Revolution

Episode 110

The rise of the Indian information technology industry is a remarkable economic success story. Software and services exports from India amounted to l…

3 years, 4 months ago

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Leela Fernandes, "Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State" (U Washington Press, 2022)

Episode 157

Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. …

3 years, 4 months ago

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Tania James, "Loot: A Novel" (Knopf, 2023)

Episode 92

Abbas is just seventeen years old when his gifts as a woodcarver come to the attention of Tipu Sultan, and he is drawn into service at the palace in …

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Douglas Ober, "Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Episode 99

Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten u…

3 years, 4 months ago

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