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  • Rubio’s Visit and India’s Strategic Choices

    October 28, 2026 · 43 min

    Rubio’s Visit and India’s Strategic Choices U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent visit to India comes at a moment of uncertainty about the future of U.S.-India bilateral ties—and the wider international order. As New Delhi…

  • India and China’s Uneasy Coexistence

    October 21, 2026 · 50 min

    China remains one of the most consequential—and most difficult—foreign policy challenges facing India today.  Even as tensions along the border persist, New Delhi is cautiously rethinking economic ties with Beijing. This rethink, in turn…

  • China, India, and the New Global Order

    October 14, 2026 · 46 min

    China and India represent two of the most important forces reshaping the global economy, but they have arrived at this moment having followed very different paths. China surged ahead through manufacturing, exports, and an activist, but…

  • Why Clean Air Is So Hard to Deliver in India

    October 7, 2026 · 57 min

    This week, Grand Tamasha is launching a new four-part series on energy and climate issues in collaboration with CASI—the Center for the Advanced Study of India—at the University of Pennsylvania. Over the next several months, we will be…

  • India’s Public Finances, Explained

    September 30, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    Few subjects are as central to the functioning of government—or as likely to make the average citizen’s eyes glaze over—as how governments collect and spend the public’s money. But public finance shapes nearly every interaction Indian…

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  • How India and Pakistan See Each Other—and the World

    September 23, 2026 · 42 min

    Nearly eight decades after the partition of British India, Indians and Pakistanis still view one another with deep suspicion—and their perceptions of the wider world are increasingly divergent as well.  New data collected by the Pew…

  • Episode 300: India, Then and Now

    September 16, 2026 · 52 min

    This week, Grand Tamasha commemorates the release of our 300th episode. We started this show as an experiment in the run-up to India’s 2019 general elections. Seven years and 300 episodes later, we’re still around, and no one is more…

  • The Three Weeks That Made India

    September 9, 2026 · 47 min

    The history of India’s independence is often told through a familiar set of stories: the end of the British Raj, the trauma of Partition, Nehru’s “tryst with destiny” speech, and the birth of two new nations at the stroke of midnight on…

  • The Truth About India’s Jobs Crisis

    September 2, 2026 · 48 min

    Over the summer, thousands of young Indians took to the streets to demand sweeping reforms of the higher education sector. This unexpected wave of Gen Z mobilization was catalyzed by the emergence of the Cockroach Janata Party, a satirical…

  • The Forgotten Origins of Indian Liberalism

    July 1, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

    Most conventional accounts of the origins of liberalism in India typically begin and end with the British. Indian thinkers are often depicted as encountering liberal ideas through colonial institutions, adapting them to local conditions…

  • Whose Constitution Is It Anyway?

    June 24, 2026 · 51 min

    The making of India’s Constitution is usually told as the story of the few hundred prominent lawyers, politicians, and intellectuals who comprised the Constituent Assembly—the body tasked with drafting this historic document between 1946…

  • The Dark Side of the H-1B Dream

    June 17, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

    For decades, the H-1B visa program has been the centerpiece of America’s high-skilled immigration system.  To its defenders, it is a vital pipeline that brings talented workers from around the world to power the U.S. economy. But, to its…

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About the show

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.