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  • Shreyas Narla and Kadambari Shah on the 'The 1991 Project'

    July 30, 2026 · 1 hr 54 min

    Today my guests are my colleagues Shreyas Narla and Kadambari Shah. Shreyas is a research scholar and Kadambari is a research associate at the Mercatus Center with the India program. We talked about completing five years of the 1991…

  • M.R. Madhavan on Party Power and the Decline of India's Legislatures

    July 16, 2026 · 1 hr 36 min

    Today my guest is M.R. Madhavan, co-founder and president of PRS Legislative Research. We talked about the role and purpose of the Rajya Sabha, treatment of money bills in a Westminster system, how the anti-defection law and party whips…

  • Rahul Sagar on the Birth of Indian Nationalism

    July 2, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    Today my guest is once again Rahul Sagar, who is a Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science at New York University Abu Dhabi. We talked about his new book The Birth of Indian Liberalism, the recovery of the forgotten…

  • Sajjid Chinoy on Whether India Faces Another 1991 Moment

    June 18, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

    Today my guest is Sajjid Chinoy, managing director and chief India economist at J.P. Morgan. He is also currently serving as a part-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. Sajjid previously served on…

  • Ritam Chaurey on Placing the Firm at the Center of India's Structural Transformation

    June 4, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min

    Today my guest is Ritam Chaurey, who is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. We talked about structural transformation in India over the last three decades, how firm level behavior…

  • Pratap Bhanu Mehta on Liberalism, Nihilism, and the Collapse of Sincerity

    May 21, 2026 · 1 hr 47 min

    Today my guest is Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta, who is the Laurance Rockefeller Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton and former president and chief executive of the Center for Policy Research, New Delhi. He is the author of various…

  • Shruti Rajagopalan and Milan Vaishnav on India's Delimitation Dilemma

    May 6, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min

    Today we are releasing a webinar recording from April 24th where Milan Vaishnav and I had a conversation on delimitation in India. Milan is a senior fellow and the director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for…

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Through conversations with top thinkers in the social sciences and beyond, economist Shruti Rajagopalan explores the ideas that will propel India forward.