Grand Tamasha

By HT Smartcast Origina

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 Tamas ...Read more

107 Episodes

What’s Happening to India’s Rohingya Refugees?

May 24, 2023 37 min 39 secs

The Rohingya people have suffered decades of persecution in Myanmar, most recently in 2017 when the country’s security forces launched a major crackdown on the minority group—causing more than a mill ...Read more

The Congress Comeback in Karnataka

May 17, 2023 46 min 08 secs

On May 13, the Congress Party notched a major election win—a decisive single-party majority in the southern state of Karnataka—earning the highest vote share of any party in the state since 1989. For ...Read more

Opening the Black Box of India’s Internal Security State

May 10, 2023 58 min 06 secs

Since Independence, the Indian state has grappled with a variety of internal security challenges—insurgencies, terrorist attacks, caste and communal violence, riots, and electoral violence. Their toll ...Read more

Demography, Democracy, and India’s Destiny?

May 3, 2023 45 min 12 secs

At long last, we come to that time in every Grand Tamasha season where Milan stops to round up the last news on Indian politics and policy with two longtime friends of the podcast—Sadanand Dhume of th ...Read more

The Mythmaking of Nehru’s India

April 26, 2023 46 min 08 secs

Nonalignment, secularism, socialism, democracy, high modernism—these are all ideas that students of India have long associated with India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. These elements have b ...Read more

Ramachandra Guha Revisits India After Gandhi

April 19, 2023 51 min 46 secs

Find a list of the defining books about India published in the last 75 years and there’s one book that will show up on list after list after list—Ramachandra Guha’s magisterial India After Gandhi.For ...Read more

Is India’s Moment a Mirage?

April 12, 2023 46 min 26 secs

India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today is a big new book on India by the economist Ashoka Mody. Mody is an economic historian at Princeton''s School of Public and International Aff ...Read more

The Aftermath of the Adani Affair

April 5, 2023 44 min 26 secs

Menaka Doshi, “India’s SEBI to submit report on Adani to Court-Appointed Panel,” Bloomberg, March 29, 2023.Menaka Doshi and Rajesh Kumar Singh, “Adani Total Gas Says Expansion and Spending Plans are I ...Read more

How Shah Rukh Khan Inspires Female Empowerment

February 10, 2022 43 min 06 secs

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, an ...Read more