The State of Indian Politics in 2026
2026 is shaping up to be a hectic political year in India. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed the r...
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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. And you are listening to Season 4. This is an HT Smartcast Original.
Grand Tamasha’s Best Books of 2025
Grand Tamasha is Carnegie’s weekly podcast on Indian politics and policy co-produced with the Hindustan Times, a leading Indian media house. For six y...
The Quiet Resilience of U.S.–India Defense Cooperation
Despite a year marked by tariff battles, confusion over Washington’s China policy, and the shock of the 2025 India–Pakistan war, one part of the U.S.–...
Rewriting India’s Education Story, One Girl at a Time
This year, the non-profit Educate Girls became the first Indian organization ever to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award often called Asia’s Nobel Prize...
Beyond the Raj: Recasting the India-UK Partnership
India and the United Kingdom have spent decades trying to define their post-colonial relationship part partnership, part rivalry, and often, part cour...
Interpreting the 2025 Bihar Verdict
Bihar has once again delivered a political drama worthy of its reputation record turnout, sharp debates over the voter rolls, a decisive victory for t...
Understanding South Asia’s “Ordinary Rebels”
How do non-state armed groups act when the state seeks not to crush them but to tolerate their activities? This is the central question of a new book ...
How India’s Women Are Redefining Politics
For much of India’s democratic history, the woman voter has either been invisible or ignored at times she has been spoken for, but very rarely listene...
The Forgotten Partitions That Remade South Asia
As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia—India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain an...
A Sixth of Humanity and the Dreams of a Nation
A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India's Development Odyssey is a landmark new book by the scholars Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian. The book is a...