Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBeyond the Raj: Recasting the India–UK Partnership
Season 14 Episode 13
India and the United Kingdom have spent decades trying to define their post-colonial relationship—part partnership, part rivalry, and often, part cou…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Interpreting the 2025 Bihar Verdict
Season 14 Episode 12
Bihar has once again delivered a political drama worthy of its reputation—record turnout, sharp debates over the voter rolls, a decisive victory for …
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Understanding South Asia’s “Ordinary Rebels”
Season 14 Episode 11
How do non-state armed groups act when the state seeks not to crush them—but to tolerate their activities? This is the central question of a new book…
10 months ago
How India’s Women Are Redefining Politics
Season 14 Episode 10
For much of India’s democratic history, the woman voter has either been invisible or ignored – at times she has been spoken for, but very rarely list…
10 months, 1 week ago
The Forgotten Partitions That Remade South Asia
Season 14 Episode 9
As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia—India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain a…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
A Sixth of Humanity and the Dreams of a Nation
Season 14 Episode 8
A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India's Development Odyssey is a landmark new book by the scholars Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian.
The book is a…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The Court and the Republic: A Conversation with Justice D.Y. Chandrachud
Season 14 Episode 7
Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud was the fiftieth chief justice of India. An alumnus of Harvard Law School, he served as additional solicitor …
11 months ago
H-1Bs, India, and the Global Talent Wars
Season 14 Episode 6
Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced a stunning $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas—the main channel through which U.S. employers hire f…
11 months, 1 week ago
Why Washington Is Wooing Pakistan
Season 14 Episode 5
One of the most surprising developments in Washington, if you’re a South Asia-watcher, is the surprising turn in U.S.-Pakistan relations. Having larg…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
From Convergence to Confrontation: Trump’s India Gambit
Season 14 Episode 4
For a quarter century, Washington policymakers made a strategic bet on India premised on the belief that shared values, shared interests, and a share…
11 months, 3 weeks ago