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Pradeep Gupta on What Makes the Indian Voter Tick
Season 5 Episode 12
This month, voters are going to the polls in five Indian states to select the members of their respective state assemblies. These polls are being see…
5 years, 4 months ago
Christophe Jaffrelot on India’s First Dictatorship
Season 5 Episode 11
Most people who work on India regularly refer to India as the world’s largest democracy and the most enduring democracy in the developing world. Howe…
5 years, 5 months ago
Darshana Baruah on the Indian Ocean Imperative
Season 5 Episode 10
Few 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…
5 years, 5 months ago
Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu on U.S.-India Relations in the Biden Era
Season 5 Episode 9
The Biden administration has been in office for just a little over two months but India has already emerged as an important foreign policy priority f…
5 years, 5 months ago
Jairam Ramesh on the Many Lives of V.K. Krishna Menon
Season 5 Episode 8
Rasputin, Lucifer, Evil Genius, Sombre Porcupine, The World’s Most Hated Diplomat. These are just some of the choice names that people have given for…
5 years, 5 months ago
Sadanand Dhume and Tanvi Madan on the Quad, Indian Democracy, and Modi's Economic Reforms
Season 5 Episode 7
This week on the podcast, Milan is joined once more by Grand Tamasha “news round-up” regulars Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute and…
5 years, 6 months ago
Myra MacDonald on the India-Pakistan Battle for Siachen
Season 5 Episode 6
The contested borders between India, China, and Pakistan render the Himalayas one of the world’s most dangerous geopolitical flashpoints in the year …
5 years, 6 months ago
Shoumitro Chatterjee and Mekhala Krishnamurthy on the Economics (and Politics) of India’s New Farm Laws
Season 5 Episode 5
In September 2020, Indian lawmakers approved three controversial agriculture bills amidst an uproar on the floor of Parliament. That uproar would soo…
5 years, 6 months ago
Sonia Faleiro on Life and Death in India’s Heartland
Season 5 Episode 4
One 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, t…
5 years, 6 months ago
Meenakshi Ahamed on U.S.-India Relations from Truman to Trump
Season 5 Episode 3
As a new administration takes office in Washington, followers of the U.S.-India relationship are eagerly anticipating what shape ties between these t…
5 years, 7 months ago