Ranked #1
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
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39mins
Ranked #2
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
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41mins
Ranked #3
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
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48mins
Ranked #4
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
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52mins
Ranked #5
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
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43mins
Ranked #6
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
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45mins
Ranked #7
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
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33mins
Ranked #8
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
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40mins
Ranked #9
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
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40mins
Ranked #10
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
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22mins
Ranked #11
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
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34mins
Ranked #12
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
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33mins
Ranked #13
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
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34mins
Ranked #14
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
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46mins
Ranked #15
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
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52mins
Ranked #16
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
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36mins
Ranked #17
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
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29mins
Ranked #18
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
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42mins
Ranked #19
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
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48mins
Ranked #20
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
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38mins