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Neha Sahgal on Religion and Identity in Contemporary India
Season 5 Episode 22
Over the last two-and-a-half years, Milan and his guests have spent a lot of time on the podcast talking about some of the biggest questions facing I…
5 years, 2 months ago
Arora Akanksha on Her Unlikely Quest to Run the United Nations
Season 5 Episode 21
Note: Milan’s interview with Arora Akanksha took place on June 18. On June 19, the United Nations General Assembly formally approved a second term fo…
5 years, 2 months ago
Niha Masih on Reporting on India's COVID-19 Crisis
Season 5 Episode 20
In India, there are growing signs that the country is slowly exiting the second wave of the COVID crisis as people get back to work, localities lift …
5 years, 3 months ago
Sumitra Badrinathan, Devesh Kapur, and Jonathan Kay on How Indian Americans Live
Season 5 Episode 19
A troubling surge in hate crimes and discrimination targeting Asian Americans has hit the headlines in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The violenc…
5 years, 3 months ago
Sadanand Dhume and Tanvi Madan on the political and foreign policy ramifications of India's COVID second wave
Season 5 Episode 18
This week on the show, Milan is joined by Grand Tamasha news round-up regulars Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute and the Wall Stree…
5 years, 3 months ago
Rachel Brulé on Gender Quotas and Gender Inequality in India
Season 5 Episode 17
In the early 1990s, India legislated sweeping new gender quotas in local government in the hopes that women’s political empowerment would help to rec…
5 years, 3 months ago
Samanth Subramanian on India’s Vaccine Conundrum
Season 5 Episode 16
One 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 v…
5 years, 4 months ago
Himanshu Jha on the Right to Information Act’s Long and Winding Road
Season 5 Episode 15
More than fifteen years ago, India’s parliament passed a sweeping piece of legislation known as the Right to Information Act—a law that transforms th…
5 years, 4 months ago
Aditi Phadnis on India's Pivotal State Elections
Season 5 Episode 14
On Sunday, the highly anticipated results from five state assembly elections across India were announced. These results come at a time of great uncer…
5 years, 4 months ago
Anup Malani on India’s COVID Second Wave
Season 5 Episode 13
It has been a harrowing week for India. The country is reeling under the effects of a devastating second wave of the coronavirus, which is responsibl…
5 years, 4 months ago