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Grand Tamasha

Each week, Milan Vaishnav and his guests from around the world break down the latest developments in Indian politics, economics, foreign policy, society, and culture for a global audience. Grand Tamas... Read more

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Modi’s Cabinet and Sajjid Chinoy on the Economic Choices Facing the New Government

Modi’s Cabinet and Sajjid Chinoy on the Economic Choices Facing the New Government

First, Milan sits down with Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute and the Wall Street Journal to discuss t... Read more

5 Jun 2019

39mins

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Corruption, Southern Politics, and Ruchir Sharma Reflects on 25 Years on the Campaign Trail

Corruption, Southern Politics, and Ruchir Sharma Reflects on 25 Years on the Campaign Trail

First, Milan sits down with Reuben Abraham, CEO and senior fellow at the IDFC Institute in Mumbai. A Kerala native who h... Read more

20 Mar 2019

41mins

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The Economist on Modi and Rahul Verma on Ideology in Indian Politics

The Economist on Modi and Rahul Verma on Ideology in Indian Politics

First, Max Rodenbeck and Alex Travelli of the Economist South Asia bureau join Milan to discuss the newspaper’s recent e... Read more

8 May 2019

48mins

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First Week of Campaigning and Hasan Minhaj on the Battle for the Soul of India

First Week of Campaigning and Hasan Minhaj on the Battle for the Soul of India

First, Milan sits down with Irfan Nooruddin, the Hamad bin Khalifa Professor of Indian Politics in the Edmund A. Walsh S... Read more

27 Mar 2019

52mins

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The BJP in Power and Ashley J. Tellis on India’s Foreign Policy Future

The BJP in Power and Ashley J. Tellis on India’s Foreign Policy Future

First, Milan sits down with Uttam Kumar of the Hindustan Times to discuss the state of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ... Read more

12 Jun 2019

43mins

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U.S.-India Trade Woes and Shereen Bhan on Modi’s Economic Agenda

U.S.-India Trade Woes and Shereen Bhan on Modi’s Economic Agenda

First, Milan sits down with Richard (Rick) Rossow who holds the Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at the Cente... Read more

19 Jun 2019

45mins

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Christophe Jaffrelot on the Modi Moment in Indian Politics

Christophe Jaffrelot on the Modi Moment in Indian Politics

This week on the Grand Tamasha podcast, we bring you some special bonus content--a conversation Milan recorded with pol... Read more

21 Aug 2019

33mins

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Congress Manifesto, Left Politics, and Shashi Tharoor on the Congress Vision in 2019

Congress Manifesto, Left Politics, and Shashi Tharoor on the Congress Vision in 2019

First, Milan sits down with Roshan Kishore, data and political economy editor at the Hindustan Times. They discuss the C... Read more

3 Apr 2019

40mins

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Kashmir, the Indian Economy, and the PM’s Independence Day Speech

Kashmir, the Indian Economy, and the PM’s Independence Day Speech

In the season premiere, Milan hosts an end-of-summer news round-up with Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Instit... Read more

21 Aug 2019

40mins

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Election Postmortem With Tanvi Madan

Election Postmortem With Tanvi Madan

Milan talks to Tanvi Madan of the Brookings Institution about the BJP's victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. We'll b... Read more

24 May 2019

22mins

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Salman Soz on what the abrogation of Article 370 means for Jammu and Kashmir—and for India

Salman Soz on what the abrogation of Article 370 means for Jammu and Kashmir—and for India

Last week on the podcast, Milan talked with journalist Rahul Pandita about the Indian government’s decision to abrogate ... Read more

4 Sep 2019

34mins

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Modi’s Enduring Popularity, Majoritarian Rhetoric, and Snigdha Poonam on Young Voters

Modi’s Enduring Popularity, Majoritarian Rhetoric, and Snigdha Poonam on Young Voters

First, Milan sits down with Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute and Wall Street Journal. In a recent col... Read more

10 Apr 2019

33mins

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Rahul Pandita on Kashmir: “You can leave Kashmir but Kashmir never leaves you”

Rahul Pandita on Kashmir: “You can leave Kashmir but Kashmir never leaves you”

Milan sits down with journalist Rahul Pandita to talk about the situation in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Rahu... Read more

28 Aug 2019

34mins

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The Mudslinging Campaign and Barkha Dutt on the “Fear” Election of 2019

The Mudslinging Campaign and Barkha Dutt on the “Fear” Election of 2019

This week on the Grand Tamasha podcast, Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute and Tanvi Madan of the Brook... Read more

24 Apr 2019

46mins

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A Conversation with India’s New CEA Krishnamurthy Subramanian

A Conversation with India’s New CEA Krishnamurthy Subramanian

This week we are doing something a little different. Milan Vaishnav sits down with the new Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) ... Read more

17 Apr 2019

52mins

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India’s Economic Woes and the Patchy History of Election Polling

India’s Economic Woes and the Patchy History of Election Polling

First, Milan Vaishnav sits down with Roshan Kishore (Data and Political Economy Editor, Hindustan Times) to discuss the ... Read more

13 Mar 2019

36mins

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Prashant Jha on Why We Missed the Modi Wave

Prashant Jha on Why We Missed the Modi Wave

Milan speaks with Prashant Jha, opinion editor at the Hindustan Times and author of the book, How the BJP Wins: Inside I... Read more

18 Sep 2019

29mins

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The End of the Never-Ending Campaign and Gilles Verniers on Data and Elections

The End of the Never-Ending Campaign and Gilles Verniers on Data and Elections

First, the new national political editor of the Hindustan Times Sunetra Choudhury joins Milan to round up this week’s ne... Read more

22 May 2019

42mins

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Notes from the Campaign Trail and Rukmini S. on Journalism and the 2019 Elections

Notes from the Campaign Trail and Rukmini S. on Journalism and the 2019 Elections

First, James Crabtree of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and author of the best-selling book, The Billionaire R... Read more

15 May 2019

48mins

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The Hindi Heartland Votes and Niranjan Rajadhyaksha on the Modi Economy

The Hindi Heartland Votes and Niranjan Rajadhyaksha on the Modi Economy

This week on the Grand Tamasha podcast, Neelanjan Sircar of Ashoka University and the Centre for Policy Research joins M... Read more

1 May 2019

38mins

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