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Age of Vice: When Art Meets Life
Season 9 Episode 7
Age 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…
3 years, 6 months ago
A Portrait of India's Parliament
Season 9 Episode 6
The 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 o…
3 years, 6 months ago
Can India Break Away From Russia?
Season 9 Episode 5
On February 24, the world will commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The ongoing war has fueled considerable debat…
3 years, 6 months ago
Can India Lead From the Front?
Season 9 Episode 4
In 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…
3 years, 7 months ago
Adding Up India's Budget
Season 9 Episode 3
Last week, India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her government’s Fiscal Year 2023 budget. As in years past, the entire analyst class…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Congress Party's Quest for Relevance
Season 9 Episode 2
The 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 nort…
3 years, 7 months ago
India's Tryst With Policymaking
Season 9 Episode 1
After 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 n…
3 years, 7 months ago
Grand Tamasha Unveils the Best Books of 2022
Season 8
One of the blessings (though it sometimes feels like a curse) of hosting Grand Tamasha, Carnegie’s weekly podcast on Indian politics and policy, is t…
3 years, 8 months ago
G20, State Elections, and the Future of the Congress Party
Season 8 Episode 15
To commemorate the season finale of Season Eight of Grand Tamasha, Milan welcomes back show regulars Sadanand Dhume (American Enterprise Institute an…
3 years, 9 months ago
A Test of the BJP’s Dominance in Gujarat
Season 8 Episode 14
This 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 coun…
3 years, 9 months ago