Ideas of India Podcast
1) Sriya Iyer on the Economics of Religion in India
My guest today is Sriya Iyer, a Bibby Fellow and College Lecturer at St Catharine's College and Affiliated Lecturer and Janeway Fellow at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. Her ...Show More
2) Narayani Basu on K. M. Panikkar: India’s Impossible Man
Today my guest is Narayani Basu, who is a historian and the author of the latest book, A Man for All Seasons: The Life of K. M. Panikkar. Her last book was a biography of V.P. Menon: The Unsung Archit...Show More
3) Yamini Aiyar Schools Us on Education Policy in India
Today my guest is Yamini Aiyar, who is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown University and the author of the recent book Lessons in State Capaci...Show More
4) Rathin Roy on How India Slices the Fiscal Pie
Today my guest is Rathin Roy, who's a Distinguished Fellow at the Kautilya School of Public Policy and a Visiting Senior Fellow at ODI Global. His main research interests are political economy, public...Show More
5) Chitrakshi Jain and Prashant Reddy T. on the Dysfunction in India's District Courts
Today my guests are legal scholars Chitrakshi Jain and Prashant Reddy T, the authors of the recent book Tareekh pe Justice, Reforms for India’s District Courts. We talked about the dysfunction in Indi...Show More
6) M. R. Sharan Examines Decentralization and Local Representation in India
Today my guest is M. R. Sharan, an assistant professor in the department of agricultural and resource economics at the University of Maryland College Park. He is the author of numerous papers and the ...Show More
7) Rakesh Mohan Reflects on Dismantling the License Permit Raj
Today my guest is Rakesh Mohan, the is President Emeritus and Distinguished Fellow at Center for Social and Economic Progress in New Delhi. He has also served as Executive Director on the Board of the...Show More
8) Ramachandra Guha on the Origins of Indian Environmentalism
Today my guest is environmental scholar, historian and biographer Ramachandra Guha. He is the author of a number of books, including a two-volume biography of Gandhi and the award-winning book “India ...Show More
9) Rajmohan Gandhi on Revenge and Reconciliation in South Asia
Today’s episode is the second part of my conversation with Rajmohan Gandhi, a historian and biographer involved in efforts for trust-building and reconciliation and author of more than fifteen books, ...Show More
10) Rajmohan Gandhi Reflects on India's Founding Fathers
Today my guest is Rajmohan Gandhi, a historian and biographer involved in efforts for trust-building and reconciliation and author of more than fifteen books, of which the most recent is Fraternity: C...Show More