India’s Public Finances, Explained
This week, host Milan Vaishnav is joined by Sarthak Pradhan and Pranay Kotasthane to discuss their new book, Fiscal Fables: A Citizen’s Guid...
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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. G...
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20 of 302 episodesHow India and Pakistan See Each Other—and the World
New data collected by the Pew Research Center offer a revealing snapshot of how people across South Asia view their neighbors, major powers...
Episode 300: India, Then and Now
This week, Milan, Sadanand Dhume, and Tanvi Madan discuss the political fall-out of this summer’s Gen Z protests, the political future of th...
The Three Weeks That Made India
Josy Joseph joins Milan on the podcast this week to talk about his best-selling new book, The Birth of a Nation: Twenty-One Days That Change...
The Truth About India’s Jobs Crisis
Vidya Mahambare joins Milan on the Season 16 premiere of Grand Tamasha to discuss the economic drivers of the Gen Z protests, the link betwe...
The Forgotten Origins of Indian Liberalism
This week, Rahul Sagar join Milan to discuss his new book The Birth of Indian Liberalism: Mama Parmanand’s Letters to an Indian Raja, which...
Whose Constitution Is It Anyway?
This week, Rohit De and Ornit Shani join Milan to discuss their new book Assembling India’s Constitution: A New Democratic History. Drawing...
The Dark Side of the H-1B Dream
Milan Vaishnav and Tanul Thakur discuss Tanul's new book "Wild Wild East: Exiled Americans, Enslaved Indians and the Systemic Abuse of the H...
What Do Indians Think About the World?
Discussing their new short book, Indian Public Opinion toward the Major Powers, Paul Staniland, and Aidan Milliff join Milan Vaishnav to dis...
India’s Nordic Connection
Milan and Ambassador May-Elin Stener discuss the outcomes of the India-Nordic summit, the Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA), a...
BJP Ascendant at Home, Tested Abroad
Milan Vaishnav, Sadanand Dhume, and Tanvi Madan discuss whether India is becoming a “one-party state,” the current state of the opposition,...
Rethinking India’s Growth Story
Abhishek Anand and Milan Vaishnav discuss the controversy over India’s GDP estimates, important reforms within India’s statistics ministry,...
Can India Keep Its Balance in West Asia?
For more than a decade, India has steadily deepened its ties with the Gulf while trying to balance competing interests across the region. Ho...
Flash Episode: India's 2026 Elections Explained
It’s safe to say that India’s 2026 state assembly elections have scrambled many of the assumptions that have long shaped our understanding o...
India’s Delimitation Dilemma
India hasn’t updated how political power is distributed across its states in five decades—and the consequences are mounting. Recently, Milan...
India’s Youth Boom Meets a Jobs Bust
For more than three decades, India’s growth story has rested on the promise of a large and youthful workforce—but whether that promise is be...
The Indian Who Helped Build Silicon Valley
Over the past several decades, the story of Silicon Valley has been deeply intertwined with the story of Indian immigrants—engineers, entrep...
India’s Middle Class Hits a Breaking Point
For decades, India’s growth story has rested on the spectacular rise of its middle class. But a new book argues that this very group—roughly...
Inside The Complex: Family, Power, and India in Turmoil
On this week’s show, Milan sits down with the novelist Karan Mahajan, author of a much-anticipated new novel, The Complex. Karan and Milan d...
Can India Thrive in Trump’s World?
Donald Trump’s return to the White House has once again altered the contours of international politics. For India, this evolving context rai...