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The Congress Comeback in Karnataka
Season 9 Episode 17
On May 13, the Congress Party notched a major election win—a decisive single-party majority in the southern state of Karnataka—earning the highest vo…
3 years, 4 months ago
Opening the Black Box of India’s Internal Security State
Season 9 Episode 16
Since Independence, the Indian state has grappled with a variety of internal security challenges—insurgencies, terrorist attacks, caste and communal …
3 years, 4 months ago
Demography, Democracy, and India’s Destiny?
Season 9 Episode 15
At 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 l…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Mythmaking of Nehru’s India
Season 9 Episode 14
Nonalignment, secularism, socialism, democracy, high modernism—these are all ideas that students of India have long associated with India’s first pri…
3 years, 4 months ago
Ramachandra Guha Revisits India After Gandhi
Season 9 Episode 13
Find 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—Ram…
3 years, 4 months ago
Is India’s Moment a Mirage?
Season 9 Episode 12
India 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 P…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Aftermath of the Adani Affair
Season 9 Episode 11
Few 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 t…
3 years, 5 months ago
How Bureaucracy Can Work for the Poor
Season 9 Episode 10
Over the decades, India has developed a reputation for having a strong society but a weak state. This bureaucratic, lumbering behemoth has especially…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Untold Global Backstory of India's Nuclear Program
Season 9 Episode 9
India's nuclear program is often conceived as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. But a new book by the scholar Jayita Sarkar, Ploug…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Long and Winding Road of U.S.-India Relations
Season 9 Episode 8
Thirty years ago, Seema Sirohi first moved to Washington as a journalist charged with covering India’s relationship with the United States. At the ti…
3 years, 6 months ago