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Grand Tamasha

Grand Tamasha

Hindustan Times - HT Smartcast



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. And you are listening to Season 6.

This is a Hindustan Times production, brought to you by HT Smartcast.

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37:34
Sumitra Badrinathan, Devesh Kapur, and Jonathan Kay on How Indian Americans Live
EPISODE 34

This week, Sumitra Badrinathan, Devesh Kapur, and Jonathan Kay join Milan to discuss discrimination Indian Americans face in the United States, based on a new study of which the fo ... Read more

09 Jun38 MINS
53:32
Sadanand Dhume and Tanvi Madan on the political and foreign policy ramifications of India's COVID second wave
EPISODE 33

This week on the show, Milan is joined by Grand Tamasha news round-up regulars Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute and the Wall Street Journal and Tanvi Madan of th ... Read more

02 Jun54 MINS
45:57
Rachel Brulé on Gender Quotas and Gender Inequality in India
EPISODE 32

In the early 1990s, India legislated sweeping new gender quotas in local government in the hopes that women’s political empowerment would help to rectify centuries-old social and e ... Read more

26 May46 MINS
48:14
Samanth Subramanian on India’s Vaccine Conundrum
EPISODE 31

One of the enduring puzzles about the tragic second wave of COVID is how India, the world’s largest vaccine producer, faces an alarming shortage of vaccines. A new essay by the j ... Read more

19 May48 MINS
43:50
Himanshu Jha on the Right to Information Act’s Long and Winding Road
EPISODE 30

More than fifteen years ago, India’s parliament passed a sweeping piece of legislation known as the Right to Information Act—a law that transforms the way ordinary citizens access ... Read more

12 May44 MINS
47:09
Aditi Phadnis on India's Pivotal State Elections
EPISODE 29

Aditi Phadnis and Milan discuss the reasons behind Mamata Banerjee’s decisive victory in West Bengal, the Left’s historic showing in Kerala, the BJP’s win in Assam, and the DMK’s c ... Read more

05 May47 MINS
51:28
Anup Malani on India’s COVID Second Wave
EPISODE 28

This week on Grand Tamasha, Anup Malani joined Milan to discuss the coronavirus surge in India, including the effectiveness of lockdowns, the causes of the surge, and the role vacc ... Read more

03 May51 MINS
49:38
Pradeep Gupta on What Makes the Indian Voter Tick
EPISODE 27

This month, voters are going to the polls in five Indian states to select the members of their respective state assemblies. These polls are being seen as a test of Prime Minister N ... Read more

21 Apr50 MINS
49:24
Christophe Jaffrelot on India’s First Dictatorship--The Emergency 1975-1977
EPISODE 26

This week on Grand Tamasha, Christophe Jaffrelot joined Milan to discuss Emergency Rule in 1970s India and the parallels between the political structures then and now. Most peopl ... Read more

14 Apr49 MINS
39:45
Darshana Baruah on the Indian Ocean Imperative
EPISODE 25

Few regions of the world have gotten more attention in the first few months of the Biden administration than Asia. And, within Asia, top leaders from Secretary of State Antony Blin ... Read more

07 Apr40 MINS
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