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Sadanand Dhume, “India Has a Lot to Lose in Ukraine,” Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2022.   Tanvi Madan, “India is Not Sitting on the Geopolitical Fence,” War on the Rocks, October 27, 2021. “India's High-Wire Act on Russia-Ukraine,” (with Raji Rajagopalan), Grand Tamasha, March 2, 2022.

Chanpreet Khurana, “Mridula Ramesh: "Business leaders exist on a spectrum on 'water/climate awareness',” Moneycontrol, February 20, 2022. “What COP26 Means for India—and the World,” (with Navroz Dubash), Grand Tamasha, November 17, 2021. “How India Can Get to Net Zero Emissions,” (with Jayant Sinha), Grand Tamasha, October 13, 2021.

Mirza Asmer Beg, Shashikant Pandey, and Shreyas Sardesai, “The BJP’s rock solid social coalition,” Hindu, March 12, 2022. Rahul Verma, “Grand Old Party and Its Grand Illusions,” Times of India, March 13, 2022.

Sajjid Chinoy, “Managing the crude price pressure,” Indian Express, March 4, 2022. Sajjid Chinoy, “4 choices, no free lunch: Budget attempted a balancing act in a complex domestic & global macro environment,” Times of India, February 3, 2022. “Breaking Down India’s Budget,” (with Roshan Kishore), Grand Tamasha, February 16, 2022. Sajjid Chinoy and Toshi Jain, “India’s 4Q21 GDP underwhelms, undersc...

Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, “Why Did Russian President Putin Visit India?” Observer Research Foundation, December 15, 2021. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, “India’s Place in the New U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy,” Observer Research Foundation, February 24, 2021. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, “Putin and Xi Frame a New China-Russia Partnership,” Observer Research Foundation, February 15, 2021. “The Loo...

“Episode 262: Nehru’s Debates,” (with Adeel Hussain and Tripurdaman Singh), The Seen and The Unseen (podcast), January 31, 2022. Tripurdaman Singh, Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment of the Constitution of India. “Madhav Khosla on India’s Founding Moment,” Grand Tamasha, January 29, 2020.

Roshan Kishore, “Math of the economy: How to understand the Budget,” Hindustan Times, February 2, 2022.  Roshan Kishore, “Three questions which capture India’s medium-term economic challenge,” Hindustan Times, February 3, 2022. Poonam Gupta, “Budget steers clear of drama in complex economic environment,” Economic Times, February 2, 2022. Rohit Lamba and Raghuram Rajan, “Don’t Mimic China’s Economi...

India’s Path to Power: Strategy in a World Adrift, Centre for Policy Research and Takshashila Institution. “The Biden-Modi Summit and the Future of U.S.-India Relations” (with Ashley Tellis), Grand Tamasha, September 22, 2021.  

Lant Pritchett, “Is India a Flailing State?: Detours on the Four Lane Highway to Modernization,” Harvard Kennedy School. Shruti Rajagopalan and Alex Tabarrok, “Premature Imitation and India’s Flailing State,” The Independent Review. Keshava Guha, “In Farmers vs Modi, A Big Lesson For Congress,” NDTV.com. Amit Varma, “Narendra Modi Takes a Great Leap Backwards,” Times of India. Amit Varma, “#9: Why...

K.X. Ronnie, “Interview, Shrayana Bhattacharya, author, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh – “I’m a loud and proud feminist economist,” Hindustan Times, November 27, 2021. Devesh Kapur, Neelanjan Sircar, and Milan Vaishnav, “Introduction to e-Symposium: Urbanisation, gender, and social change in north India,” Ideas for India, December 6, 2021. Milan Vaishnav, “Women and work: How much does measurement...

In September 2020, India’s Parliament passed three farm reform bills that the government claimed would radically change the way in which agriculture was practised in the country. Yet, just over twelve months later, the same government announced its intention to repeal those laws—a major concession to large-scale, dogged protests launched by farmers in northern India. The repeal of the farm reform...

We are nearly done with our sixth season of Grand Tamasha and we have been shamefully overdue in scheduling a news round-up for the Fall. To set things straight and to discuss the latest news coming out of India, Milan is joined on the podcast this week by Grand Tamasha regulars Sadanand Dhume of AEI and the Wall Street Journal and Tanvi Madan of the Brookings Institution. The three discuss the Mo...

Jayant Sinha, “How India Can Get to Net Zero Emissions,” Grand Tamasha, October 12, 2021.  Navroz Dubash, “Understanding India’s climate pledges,” Hindustan Times, November 12, 2021.  Navroz Dubash, “Unlocking climate action in Indian federalism,” Hindustan Times, August 11, 2021. 

Mukulika Banerjee, “Elections as Communitas,” Social Research, Spring 2011.  Mukulika Banerjee, “A small ‘feastie’ in a Republic’s anniversary,” Indian Express, January 26, 2020.  Pradeep K. Chhibber and Amit Ahuja, “Why the Poor Vote in India: 'If I Don't Vote, I Am Dead to the State,’” Studies in International Comparative Development, 2012.  Christophe Jaffrelot, “Narendra Modi and India's New P...

“Rahul Pandita on Kashmir: ‘You can leave Kashmir but Kashmir never leaves you,’” Grand Tamasha, August 29, 2021. Adrian Levy, “Inside the Secret World of South Asia's Spies,” Grand Tamasha, October 26, 2021. Rahul Pandita, “Kashmir’s New Insurgency,” Open Magazine, October 22, 2021. Rahul Pandita, “The Usual Suspects,” Open Magazine, September 10, 2021.

“What the Taliban Takeover Means for India,” Grand Tamasha, September 14, 2021. Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark, The Siege: The Attack on the Taj (Penguin, 2013). Aqil Shah, “How Will the Taliban Deal With Other Islamic Extremist Groups?” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, August 31, 2021.  

“Niha Masih on Reporting on India’s COVID-19 Crisis,” Grand Tamasha, June 15, 2021. Joanna Slater and Niha Masih, “The spyware is sold to governments to fight terrorism. In India, it was used to hack journalists and others,” Washington Post, July 19, 2021. Joanna Slater and Shams Irfan, “Inside a Delhi hospital, oxygen runs fatally short as covid cases mount,” Washington Post, April 24, 2021. Niha...

Chloe Farand, “Indian lawmaker submits private bill to achieve net zero emissions by 2050,” Climate Home News, March 18, 2021.  Jayant Sinha, “India's search for greener pastures should end in a climate change law,” Economic Times, March 10, 2021 Jayant Sinha et al., Getting to the Green Frontier, Observer Research Foundation, 2020. Jayant Sinha and Anshu Bhardwaj, “The many paths to a greener fut...

Christophe Jaffrelot and Pratinav Anil, India’s First Dictatorship: The Emergency, 1975-77 (Oxford University Press, 2021). Angana P. Chatterji, Thomas Blom Hansen, and Christophe Jaffrelot, eds., Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India (Oxford University Press, 2019). “Christophe Jaffrelot on India’s First Dictatorship,” Grand Tamasha, April 13, 2021.

Sameer Lalwani, “What India can do to avoid US sanctions over Russia,” Hindustan Times, September 22, 2021. Sameer Lalwani, “Strategizing to Exit Afghanistan: From Risk Avoidance to Risk Management,” War on the Rocks, March 29, 2021.  Sameer Lalwani and Tyler Sagerstrom, “What the India–Russia Defence Partnership Means for US Policy,” Survival (2021). Sameer Lalwani, Frank O’Donnell, Tyler Sagerst...

Evan S. Medeiros and Ashley J. Tellis, “Regime Change Is Not an Option in China,” Foreign Affairs, July 8, 2021. Ashley J. Tellis, “Well Begun Is Half Done? Managing U.S.-India Relations,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, April 27, 2021. Ashley J. Tellis interview with Karan Thapar, “Taliban Win Big Setback for India but India’s Importance for US Has Sharply Increased,”The Wire, Septemb...

Avinash Paliwal, “A strategic shock for the subcontinent,” Hindustan Times, August 25, 2021. Stephanie Findlay and Amy Kazmin, “Taliban cabinet shows west has little leverage over Afghanistan’s new rulers,” Financial Times, September 8, 2021. Devirupa Mitra, “India's New Visa Policy for Afghans Is in Limbo, Leaving Thousands Tense,” The Wire, September 7, 2021. Amy Kazmin, “Taliban mount charm off...

Grand Tamasha, “Darshana Baruah on the Indian Ocean Imperative,” April 6, 2021 Grand Tamasha, “Ananth Krishnan on What China’s Rise Means for India,” October 20, 2020 Grand Tamasha, “Ashley J. Tellis on India’s China Conundrum,” September 22, 2020 “Off the Cuff with Kanti Bajpai,” ThePrint Kanti Bajpai, “Why does China consistently beat India on soft power?” Indian Express, June 23, 2021

Over the last two-and-a-half years, Milan and his guests have spent a lot of time on the podcast talking about some of the biggest questions facing Indian society. What is driving an increase in religious nationalism? To what extent is religious intolerance on the rise? Is caste morphing from a marker of hierarchy to a marker of difference? And, what if anything, does it mean to be truly Indian? T...

Niha Masih, “My whole family was infected in India’s devastating coronavirus surge. Not all survived,” Washington Post Niha Masih and Taniya Dutta, “As India’s pandemic surge eases, a race begins to prepare for a possible next wave,” Washington Post Niha Masih, “India’s coronavirus crisis spreads to its villages, where health care is hard to find,” Washington Post Joanna Slater, Niha Masih, and Sh...