Grand Tamasha is gifting listeners a bonus episode to close out season 12! Listen as Milan shares the top books of 2024 on Indian politics and policy, whose authors have also appea ... Read more
If there is one thing political scientists can agree on, it is that we live in an era of populism. With the recent election of Donald Trump, populism has returned to the United Sta ... Read more
Where and when ethnic violence breaks out is a question of longstanding concern to the India policy community. Previous work in political science has pointed to a diverse array of ... Read more
The discourse in India today on the issue of the Muslim community seems to swing between two contrary positions. According to the Hindu nationalist narrative, Muslims are a monoli ... Read more
Over the past twelve months, tales of spies and spycraft have complicated India’s relationships with key Western partners. In recent months, both Canada and the United States hav ... Read more
India’s Near East: A New History is an important new book by the scholar Avinash Paliwal. The book traces the history of how New Delhi has grappled with the twin challenges of for ... Read more
As American voters go to the polls, all indications point to a statistical dead-heat between Vice President and Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris and former Republican Preside ... Read more
The United States is fast approaching the end of a lengthy presidential campaign in which the issue of immigration has taken center stage. Former President Donald Trump has repea ... Read more
One of the most remarkable developments in Indian politics in recent years is the surge in female voter turnout. For the first several decades after Independence, women’s participa ... Read more
Indian federalism is encountering some of its biggest challenges since the early years of the republic. Relations between the union government in Delhi and the states are rocky, to ... Read more