Grand Tamasha Podcast
1) Grand Tamasha’s Best Books of 2025
To mark the end of 2025 and Grand Tamasha's 14th season, Milan reflects on some of hist most impactful conversations with authors and researchers this year, and their books.
2) The Quiet Resilience of U.S.–India Defense Cooperation
What is the state of the U.S.-India defense relationship? Sameer Lalwani joins Milan to analyze the success of these two countries' defense ties, even in spite of turmoil in their overarching relation...Show More
3) Rewriting India’s Education Story, One Girl at a Time
CEO of Educate Girls, a leading non-profit in India working to expand girls' education, joins Milan this week to discuss her organization's impactful work and the launch of the first Development Impac...Show More
4) Beyond the Raj: Recasting the India–UK Partnership
Are India-UK relations entering a new era? Their recent signing of a landmark trade agreement may signal a new chapter in the two countries' post-colonial relationship. Avinash Paliwal returns to the...Show More
5) Interpreting the 2025 Bihar Verdict
Data and political economy editor Roshan Kishore joins Milan on this week's episode to analyze the outcomes of Bihar's assembly elections results, including changing voter behavior and attitudes towar...Show More
6) Understanding South Asia’s “Ordinary Rebels”
Political scientist Kolby Hanson joins Milan Vaishnav on the show this week to discuss the behaviors and recruitment strategies of non-state armed groups, drawing on his research findings in "Ordinary...Show More
7) How India’s Women Are Redefining Politics
Journalist Ruhi Tewari joins Milan to explore Indian women's changing place in politics and the narrowing gender gap in voter turnout, drawing on her latest book "What Women Want: Understanding the Fe...Show More
8) The Forgotten Partitions That Remade South Asia
Author Sam Dalrymple sits down with Milan to explore the unknown story of how the Indian Empire was unmade, the focus of his new book "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia."
9) A Sixth of Humanity and the Dreams of a Nation
Scholars Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian return to the podcast to discuss their new book "A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India's Development Odyssey ," an in-depth look at how India undertook a ...Show More
10) The Court and the Republic: A Conversation with Justice D.Y. Chandrachud
Former Chief Justice of India's Supreme Court Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud joins Milan on this week's episode to assess the role of the court in India's political environment today.
The Court and the Republic: A Conversation with Justice D.Y. Chandrachud
1:03:59 | Oct 15th, 2025