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Grand Tamasha — 155 episodes
Inside Washington: Ami Bera on Shifting U.S.–India Ties
Bangladesh’s Political Reset
Populism and the Politics of India’s Foreign Policy
Europe’s Discovery of India
India’s Return to the Trade Game
How India Lost the Neighborhood
Can the U.S. Salvage Its Relationship with India?
The State of Indian Politics in 2026
Grand Tamasha’s Best Books of 2025
The Quiet Resilience of U.S.–India Defense Cooperation
Rewriting India’s Education Story, One Girl at a Time
Beyond the Raj: Recasting the India-UK Partnership
Interpreting the 2025 Bihar Verdict
Understanding South Asia’s “Ordinary Rebels”
How India’s Women Are Redefining Politics
The Forgotten Partitions That Remade South Asia
A Sixth of Humanity and the Dreams of a Nation
The Court and the Republic: A Conversation with Justice D.Y. Chandrachud
H-1Bs, India, and the Global Talent Wars
Why Washington Is Wooing Pakistan
From Convergence to Confrontation: Trump’s India Gambit
Can Europe be India's Plan B?
K.M. Panikkar and the Making of Modern India
Vajpayee and the Making of the Modern BJP
Trade Wars: Trump Targets India
What Kind of Great Power Will India Become?
Hindutva Politics in the Diaspora
A Reappraisal of Indira Gandhi’s Life—and Legacy
The Secret to Indian Americans' Success
Decolonization and India’s Constitutional Order
How This India-Pakistan Conflict Will Shape the Next One
Operation Sindoor and South Asia’s Uncertain Future
India’s Precocious Welfare State
Trade, Tariffs, and India's Silver Lining
A New Era of Electioneering in India
The Reactionary Spirit in America—and Abroad
Kishore Mahbubani and the Asian Century
India and the Reordering of Transatlantic Relations
How India Engages the World
The Precarious State of U.S.-India Ties
Trump and Modi, Part Deux
The Life, Death, and Legacy of Gauri Lankesh
Understanding the Delhi Education Experiment
Grand Tamasha's Best Books of 2024
Populism, South Asian Style
Party Instability and Political Violence in India
Muslims in the New India
The Truth About the "Foreign Hand" in India
The Past, Present, and Future of India’s Near East
The Indian American Vote in 2024
Taking on India's Patriarchal Political Order
The Future of India's Fiscal Federalism
Busting India's Demographic Myths
What Really Happened in India's 2024 General Election?
India’s 2024 Election—and its Aftermath
Decoding the 2024 Indian General Elections
The Lessons of Gujarat Under Modi
A Blueprint for India’s State Capacity Revolution
What Rahul Gandhi Wants
The Great Indian Poverty—and Inequality—Debate
Decoding the Indian Economy
The Citizenship Amendment Act's Next Chapter
Dalits in the New Millennium
The End of the Electoral Bond Era
A Fresh Look at India’s Neighborhood First Policy
Separating Fact from Fiction
Governing India's Digital Revolution
The Downfall of India's Princely States
The India-Canada Conundrum
India’s Pivot in the Middle East
What the Women's Reservation Bill Means for Women
What the Solar Revolution Means for India and the World
India's G20 Triumph
Ro Khanna on the U.S.-India Partnership
Rescuing the Indian Statistical System
Exploring Caste in America
Unleashing India’s Animal Spirits
The Democratic Dynamism of India's Slums
Opening the Black Box of India’s Internal Security State
Ramachandra Guha Revisits India After Gandhi
Is India’s Moment a Mirage?
The Aftermath of the Adani Affair
How Bureaucracy Can Work for the Poor
The Long and Winding Road of U.S.-India Relations
A Portrait of India’s Parliament
Grand Tamasha Unveils the Best Books of 2022
G20, State Elections, and the Future of the Congress Party
Previewing India’s G20 Agenda
Inside the COP27 Showdown
India’s Hidden Treatise on Statecraft
Congress Drama, Indian Diplomacy, and the Diaspora
South Asia’s Economic Turmoil
When and Why Do India and Pakistan Fight?
How China Sees India With Ambassador Shyam Saran
Inside Sri Lanka's Economic Meltdown
Pakistan After Imran Khan
U.S.-India Ties After the ‘2+2’ Summit
Making Development Work for the Poor
Religious Polarization in Karnataka
Democracy and Anti-Corruption Protests in India
Russia, China, and Pivotal State Elections
How to Fix India’s Water Crisis
The Road to the 2024 Election Starts Now
How Will the Ukraine Crisis Impact India’s Economy?
India’s High-Wire Act on Russia Ukraine
Nehru’s Long Shadow Over India
Breaking Down India’s Budget
India’s Future in a Changing Global Order
The State, the Economy, and the Art of Podcasting
How Shah Rukh Khan Inspires Female Empowerment
Unpacking the Modi Government's Farm Law Reversal
Modi's Farm Law Reversal, India-China, and Trade Policy
What COP26 Means for India—and the World
The Rural Roots of Citizenship and Democracy in India
How the Pulwama Case was Cracked
Inside the Secret World of South Asia's Spies
Joanna Slater on the Pivotal Stories She Covered in India for the Washington Post
How India Can Get to Net Zero Emissions
Narendra Modi and India's New Political System
The Looming Cloud of Sanctions Over U.S.-India Relations
The Biden-Modi Summit and the Future of U.S.-India Relations
What the Taliban Takeover Means for India
Kanti Bajpai on Why China and India Are Not Friends
Neha Sahgal on Religion and Identity in Contemporary India
Niha Masih on Reporting on India's COVID-19 Crisis
Sumitra Badrinathan, Devesh Kapur, and Jonathan Kay on How Indian Americans Live
Sadanand Dhume and Tanvi Madan on the political and foreign policy ramifications of India's COVID second wave
Samanth Subramanian on India’s Vaccine Conundrum
Himanshu Jha on the Right to Information Act’s Long and Winding Road
Aditi Phadnis on India's Pivotal State Elections
Pradeep Gupta on What Makes the Indian Voter Tick
Christophe Jaffrelot on India’s First Dictatorship--The Emergency 1975-1977
Darshana Baruah on the Indian Ocean Imperative
Jairam Ramesh on the Many Lives of V.K. Krishna Menon
Myra MacDonald on the India-Pakistan Battle for Siachen
Shoumitro Chatterjee and Mekhala Krishnamurthy on the Economics (and Politics) of India’s New Farm Laws
20: Sonia Faleiro on Life and Death in India’s Heartland
19: Meenakshi Ahamed on U.S.-India Relations from Truman to Trump
18: Sumitra Badrinathan and Devesh Kapur on How Indian Americans View India
17: Sukumar Ranganathan on India’s Budget Breakthrough
15: Ravinder Kaur on India’s “Brand New Nation”
14: Chinmay Tumbe on India's Age of Pandemics: Then and Now
13: Evan Feigenbaum on Asia's Fragmented Future
12: Sadanand Dhume and Tanvi Madan on Biden, Bihar, and U.S.-India Bonhomie
11: Viral Acharya on India’s Quest for Financial Stability
10: Rukmini on What Data Tells Us About India's COVID-19 Fight
9: Pankaj Mishra on the Crisis of Liberalism in India and the World
8: Sumitra Badrinathan and Devesh Kapur Decode the 2020 Indian American Vote
7: Paul Staniland on the Surprising Decline in Political Violence in South Asia
6: Nidhi Razdan on the State of the Indian Media
5: Ashley J. Tellis on India’s China Conundrum
4: Sadanand Dhume and Tanvi Madan on India’s Triple Whammy: COVID, China, and the Economy
3: Scaachi Koul on the Collision of Indian Politics and Culture
2: The Life and Times of Amit Varma
1: Pratap Bhanu Mehta on Indian Democracy at 73