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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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India’s Delimitation Dilemma
India hasn’t updated how political power is distributed across its states in five decades—and the consequences are mounting. At the heart of delimitat...
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 being realiz...
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, entrepreneurs, a...
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 40 millio...
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 discussed t...
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 raises severa...
Inside Washington: Ami Bera on Shifting U.S.–India Ties
Over the past two decades, Washington and New Delhi have drawn steadily closer—driven by shared concerns about China, expanding economic ties, and a g...
Bangladesh’s Political Reset
For decades, Bangladesh has long oscillated between competitive democracy and dominant-party rule. In 2024, mass protests brought an abrupt end to Pri...
India’s AI Moment?
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 stakes cou...
Populism and the Politics of India’s Foreign Policy
We tend to think of populist leaders around the world as disruptive—skeptical of international institutions, impatient for change, and prone to upendi...
Europe’s Discovery of India
Over the past year, Europe–India relations have entered a markedly upbeat phase. What was once a diffuse partnership—long on rhetoric, short on strate...
India’s Return to the Trade Game
After years of trade skepticism, India appears to be back in the deal-making business—signing new agreements, reviving stalled talks, and announcing a...
How India Lost the Neighborhood
Over the past few years, South Asia has witnessed a striking wave of mass protests toppling governments and upending long-standing political arrangeme...
Can the U.S. Salvage Its Relationship with India?
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 year, tha...
The State of Indian Politics in 2026
2026 is shaping up to be a hectic political year in India. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed the r...
Grand Tamasha’s Best Books of 2025
Grand Tamasha is Carnegie’s weekly podcast on Indian politics and policy co-produced with the Hindustan Times, a leading Indian media house. For six y...
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...