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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...
India hasn’t updated how political power is distributed across its states in five decades—and the consequences are mounting. At the heart of...
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...
Over the past several decades, the story of Silicon Valley has been deeply intertwined with the story of Indian immigrants—engineers, entrep...
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...
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...
Donald Trump’s return to the White House has once again altered the contours of international politics. For India, this evolving context rai...
Over the past two decades, Washington and New Delhi have drawn steadily closer—driven by shared concerns about China, expanding economic tie...
For decades, Bangladesh has long oscillated between competitive democracy and dominant-party rule. In 2024, mass protests brought an abrupt...
Just weeks ago, India hosted the 2026 AI Impact Summit, the latest chapter in a global process that began in 2023 in the UK. For India, the...
We tend to think of populist leaders around the world as disruptive—skeptical of international institutions, impatient for change, and prone...
Over the past year, Europe–India relations have entered a markedly upbeat phase. What was once a diffuse partnership—long on rhetoric, short...
After years of trade skepticism, India appears to be back in the deal-making business—signing new agreements, reviving stalled talks, and an...
Over the past few years, South Asia has witnessed a striking wave of mass protests toppling governments and upending long-standing political...
U.S.-India relations were once described as one of Washington’s MOST important strategic bets in the twenty-first century. But over the past...
2026 is shaping up to be a hectic political year in India. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appoi...
Grand Tamasha is Carnegie’s weekly podcast on Indian politics and policy co-produced with the Hindustan Times , a leading Indian media house...
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...
This year, the non-profit Educate Girls became the first Indian organization ever to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award —often called Asia’s...
India and the United Kingdom have spent decades trying to define their post-colonial relationship—part partnership, part rivalry, and often,...
Bihar has once again delivered a political drama worthy of its reputation—record turnout, sharp debates over the voter rolls, a decisive vic...
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...
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 ra...
As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia—India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar,...
A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India's Development Odyssey is a landmark new book by the scholars Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian . Th...
Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud was the fiftieth chief justice of India. An alumnus of Harvard Law School, he served as additional s...
Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced a stunning $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas—the main channel through which U.S. employe...
One of the most surprising developments in Washington, if you’re a South Asia-watcher, is the surprising turn in U.S.-Pakistan relations. Ha...
For a quarter century, Washington policymakers made a strategic bet on India premised on the belief that shared values, shared interests, an...
India’s once-flourishing ties with Washington have soured in Trump’s second term, marked by punishing tariffs and penalties over Russian oil...
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 mod...
Believer’s Dilemma: Vajpayee and the Hindu Right’s Path to Power, 1977-2018 is the much anticipated second volume of author Abhishek Choudha...
Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order slapping India with a 25 percent special tariff due to its purchases of Rus...
Two summers ago, Ashley J. Tellis published an essay in Foreign Affairs titled, “ America’s Bad Bet on India ,” which led to an extended, hi...
How and why did Hindu nationalism become popular among India’s diaspora after India’s independence in 1947? This is the central question of...
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...
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...
Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America is a new book by the author and journalist Meenakshi Ahamed. While many immigrant gro...
Anticolonial movements of the 20th century generated audacious ideas of freedom. After decolonization, however, the challenge was to give an...
At this point, you’ve probably read 1,001 post-mortem analyses of the India-Pakistan conflict, desperately searching for some new nugget or...
On Saturday, India and Pakistan announced a ceasefire, ending—at least for now—the latest bout of armed conflict between the two South Asian...
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World is the new book by the celebrated historian William Dalrymple . For listeners of Gr...
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 i...
In India today, so many political debates are focused on welfare and welfarism. It seems that state after state is competing to offer the mo...
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...
Over the last decade, election campaigns in India have undergone a dramatic shift. Political parties increasingly rely on political consulti...
A reactionary antidemocratic ethos born and bred in America has come to infect democracies around the world. This is the central thesis of a...
Kishore Mahbubani is widely regarded as one of Asia’s most well-known diplomats, commentators, and strategic analysts. Having grown up in po...
The Indus Valley Annual Report , published by Blume Ventures, is an annual deep-dive into the Indian macroeconomy, the Indian consumer, and...
Europe is not typically the focus of the Grand Tamasha podcast but recent developments involving Europe, the United States, and India raise...
Vishwa Shastra: India and the World is the new book by the scholar and foreign affairs analyst Dhruva Jaishankar . The book provides a compr...