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Mar 30, 2022 • 46min

Russia, China, and Pivotal State Elections

Sadanand Dhume, “India Has a Lot to Lose in Ukraine,” Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2022.  Tanvi Madan, “India is Not Sitting on the Geopolitical Fence,” War on the Rocks, October 27, 2021.“India's High-Wire Act on Russia-Ukraine,” (with Raji Rajagopalan), Grand Tamasha, March 2, 2022.
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Mar 23, 2022 • 37min

How to Fix India’s Water Crisis

Chanpreet Khurana, “Mridula Ramesh: "Business leaders exist on a spectrum on 'water/climate awareness',” Moneycontrol, February 20, 2022.“What COP26 Means for India—and the World,” (with Navroz Dubash), Grand Tamasha, November 17, 2021.“How India Can Get to Net Zero Emissions,” (with Jayant Sinha), Grand Tamasha, October 13, 2021.
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Mar 16, 2022 • 36min

The Road to the 2024 Election Starts Now

Mirza Asmer Beg, Shashikant Pandey, and Shreyas Sardesai, “The BJP’s rock solid social coalition,” Hindu, March 12, 2022.Rahul Verma, “Grand Old Party and Its Grand Illusions,” Times of India, March 13, 2022.
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Mar 9, 2022 • 34min

How Will the Ukraine Crisis Impact India’s Economy?

Sajjid Chinoy, “Managing the crude price pressure,” Indian Express, March 4, 2022.Sajjid Chinoy, “4 choices, no free lunch: Budget attempted a balancing act in a complex domestic & global macro environment,” Times of India, February 3, 2022.“Breaking Down India’s Budget,” (with Roshan Kishore), Grand Tamasha, February 16, 2022.Sajjid Chinoy and Toshi Jain, “India’s 4Q21 GDP underwhelms, underscoring the pandemic’s scars,” J.P. Morgan, February 28, 2022.
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Mar 2, 2022 • 33min

India’s High-Wire Act on Russia Ukraine

Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, “Why Did Russian President Putin Visit India?” Observer Research Foundation, December 15, 2021.Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, “India’s Place in the New U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy,” Observer Research Foundation, February 24, 2021.Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, “Putin and Xi Frame a New China-Russia Partnership,” Observer Research Foundation, February 15, 2021.“The Looming Cloud of Sanctions Over U.S.-India Relations,” (with Sameer Lalwani), Grand Tamasha, September 29, 2021. 
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Feb 22, 2022 • 39min

Nehru’s Long Shadow Over India

“Episode 262: Nehru’s Debates,” (with Adeel Hussain and Tripurdaman Singh), The Seen and The Unseen (podcast), January 31, 2022.Tripurdaman Singh, Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment of the Constitution of India.“Madhav Khosla on India’s Founding Moment,” Grand Tamasha, January 29, 2020.
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Feb 16, 2022 • 33min

Breaking Down India’s Budget

Roshan Kishore, “Math of the economy: How to understand the Budget,” Hindustan Times, February 2, 2022. Roshan Kishore, “Three questions which capture India’s medium-term economic challenge,” Hindustan Times, February 3, 2022.Poonam Gupta, “Budget steers clear of drama in complex economic environment,” Economic Times, February 2, 2022.Rohit Lamba and Raghuram Rajan, “Don’t Mimic China’s Economic Model,” Times of India, February 15, 2022. 
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Feb 10, 2022 • 43min

How Shah Rukh Khan Inspires Female Empowerment

K.X. Ronnie, “Interview, Shrayana Bhattacharya, author, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh – “I’m a loud and proud feminist economist,” Hindustan Times, November 27, 2021.Devesh Kapur, Neelanjan Sircar, and Milan Vaishnav, “Introduction to e-Symposium: Urbanisation, gender, and social change in north India,” Ideas for India, December 6, 2021.Milan Vaishnav, “Women and work: How much does measurement matter?” Ideas for India, May 10, 2021.Ruth Pollard, “What a Bollywood Megastar Means for Women in India,” Bloomberg, December 9, 2021. 
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Feb 1, 2022 • 34min

India’s Future in a Changing Global Order

India’s Path to Power: Strategy in a World Adrift, Centre for Policy Research and Takshashila Institution.“The Biden-Modi Summit and the Future of U.S.-India Relations” (with Ashley Tellis), Grand Tamasha, September 22, 2021. 
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Jan 26, 2022 • 36min

Can India Beat COVID in 2022?

Sukumar Ranganathan, “In 2022, what India must do to learn to live with Covid,” Hindustan Times, December 11, 2021.“Anup Malani on India’s COVID Second Wave,” Grand Tamasha, April 27, 2021.“Niha Masih on Reporting on India's COVID-19 Crisis,” Grand Tamasha, June 16, 2021

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