Grand Tamasha
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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 Tamasha is a co-production of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Hindustan Times.
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The Quiet Resilience of U.S.–India Defense Cooperation
Despite a year marked by tariff battles, confusion over Washington’s China policy, and the shock of the 2025 India–Pakistan war, one part of the U.S.–...
Rewriting India’s Education Story, One Girl at a Time
This year, the non-profit Educate Girls became the first Indian organization ever to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award—often called Asia’s Nobel Prize...
Beyond the Raj: Recasting the India–UK Partnership
India and the United Kingdom have spent decades trying to define their post-colonial relationship—part partnership, part rivalry, and often, part cour...
Interpreting the 2025 Bihar Verdict
Bihar has once again delivered a political drama worthy of its reputation—record turnout, sharp debates over the voter rolls, a decisive victory for t...
Understanding South Asia’s “Ordinary Rebels”
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...
How India’s Women Are Redefining Politics
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 liste...
The Forgotten Partitions That Remade South Asia
As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia—India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain an...
A Sixth of Humanity and the Dreams of a Nation
A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India's Development Odyssey is a landmark new book by the scholars Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian.
The boo...
The Court and the Republic: A Conversation with Justice D.Y. Chandrachud
Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud was the fiftieth chief justice of India. An alumnus of Harvard Law School, he served as additional solicitor g...
H-1Bs, India, and the Global Talent Wars
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 fo...
Why Washington Is Wooing Pakistan
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 large...
From Convergence to Confrontation: Trump’s India Gambit
For a quarter century, Washington policymakers made a strategic bet on India premised on the belief that shared values, shared interests, and a shared...
Can Europe be India's Plan B?
India’s once-flourishing ties with Washington have soured in Trump’s second term, marked by punishing tariffs and penalties over Russian oil. This tur...
K.M. Panikkar and the Making of Modern India
A Man for All Seasons: The Life of K.M. Panikkar is the new book by the author Narayani Basu. It documents the life and times of one of modern India’s...
Vajpayee and the Making of the Modern BJP
Believer’s Dilemma: Vajpayee and the Hindu Right’s Path to Power, 1977-2018 is the much anticipated second volume of author Abhishek Choudhary’s biogr...
Trade Wars: Trump Targets India
Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order slapping India with a 25 percent special tariff due to its purchases of Russian oil....
What Kind of Great Power Will India Become?
Two summers ago, Ashley J. Tellis published an essay in Foreign Affairs titled, “America’s Bad Bet on India,” which led to an extended, highly charged...
Hindutva Politics in the Diaspora
How and why did Hindu nationalism become popular among India’s diaspora after India’s independence in 1947? This is the central question of Hindu Nati...
The Decline and Fall of an Indian Ed Tech Empire
India’s celebrated education technology company Byju’s went from being one of the world’s most hyped start-ups to being sued for fraud in a Delaware c...
A Reappraisal of Indira Gandhi’s Life—and Legacy
Indira Gandhi’s ascent as prime minister of India in 1966 seems obvious with the benefit of hindsight, but it was entirely unforeseen at the time.
The Secret to Indian Americans' Success
Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America is a new book by the author and journalist Meenakshi Ahamed.
While many immigrant groups...
Decolonization and India’s Constitutional Order
Anticolonial movements of the 20th century generated audacious ideas of freedom. After decolonization, however, the challenge was to give an instituti...
How This India-Pakistan Conflict Will Shape the Next One
At this point, you’ve probably read 1,001 post-mortem analyses of the India-Pakistan conflict, desperately searching for some new nugget or data point...
Operation Sindoor and South Asia’s Uncertain Future
On Saturday, India and Pakistan announced a ceasefire, ending—at least for now—the latest bout of armed conflict between the two South Asian rivals. T...
Recovering the Lost Indosphere
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World is the new book by the celebrated historian William Dalrymple. For listeners of Grand Tamasha...
Terror, Trade, and Trump’s India Policy
It’s been a typically busy few months in the world of Indian politics and policy.
To roundup all the latest developments from India, Milan is jo...
India’s Precocious Welfare State
In India today, so many political debates are focused on welfare and welfarism. It seems that state after state is competing to offer the most elector...
Trade, Tariffs, and India's Silver Lining
On April 2nd, the U.S. government announced a host of sweeping tariff hikes with every single one of America's trading partners. The aim of the so-cal...
A New Era of Electioneering in India
Over the last decade, election campaigns in India have undergone a dramatic shift. Political parties increasingly rely on political consulting firms,...
The Reactionary Spirit in America—and Abroad
A reactionary antidemocratic ethos born and bred in America has come to infect democracies around the world. This is the central thesis of a timely ne...
Kishore Mahbubani and the Asian Century
Kishore Mahbubani is widely regarded as one of Asia’s most well-known diplomats, commentators, and strategic analysts. Having grown up in poverty in S...
The Indian Economy's Many Possible Futures
The Indus Valley Annual Report, published by Blume Ventures, is an annual deep-dive into the Indian macroeconomy, the Indian consumer, and the innovat...
India and the Reordering of Transatlantic Relations
Europe is not typically the focus of the Grand Tamasha podcast but recent developments involving Europe, the United States, and India raise fresh ques...
How India Engages the World
Vishwa Shastra: India and the World is the new book by the scholar and foreign affairs analyst Dhruva Jaishankar. The book provides a comprehensive ov...
The Precarious State of U.S.-India Ties
There are two narratives doing the rounds about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Washington to break bread with U.S. President Do...
Trump and Modi, Part Deux
The news from India has been coming fast and furious.
On February 1, the finance minister revealed the latest Indian budget amidst a backdrop of...
The Life, Death, and Legacy of Gauri Lankesh
On September 5, 2017, the journalist Gauri Lankesh was shot and killed outside of her house in Bangalore by armed assailants traveling on a motorbike....
Will India's Budget 2025 Turn the Economic Tide?
On February 1st, India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her eighth Budget of the Modi era. This year’s budget was tabled at a precariou...
Sri Lanka's Peaceful Revolution
2024 was widely hailed as the year of elections with 73 countries holding elections in and more than 1.5 billion voters exercising their franchise. On...
Understanding the Delhi Education Experiment
One of the most talked about policy experiments in India in recent memory is the reform of government schools in the city-state of the National Capita...