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Interview: Srinath Raghavan on what we get wrong about the 1970s and Indira Gandhi
A conversation about Raghavan's new book that looks back at the 'long 1970s,' which he calls the hinge on which the contemporary history of India…
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Interview: The complex legacy of pioneering Indian scholar Irawati Karve
Urmilla Deshpande and Thiago Pinto Barbosa on 'Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve.'
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Interview: Avinash Paliwal on India's 'Near East' and history rhyming in Bangladesh
"The place where debates in India about citizenship, state building, and statecraft truly happened were actually in the east."
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The hyphen hovers over India
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Can Modi and Sitharaman convince businesses to invest in India?
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How will India solve its delimitation dilemma?
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Interview: Nikhil Menon on India's experiment in 'democratic' centralised planning
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Why South Indian states are up in arms against Modi and the BJP
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Interview: Swapna Kona Nayudu on non-alignment as 'civil disobedience' and Nehru's blind spots
"There's way too much discussion on when exactly non-alignment failed and also this idea that some things are obsolete and should stay in the past. If…
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Interview: Tariq Thachil on the challenges of studying India in the US
'I'd be hard pressed to find a book coming out of the US that offers us a great explanation of what might be the most significant political development…
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The Political Cycle: You Don't Mess With the Zohran*
Listen now | *Our producer wrote this episode name so credit or blame him. This week, we discuss Mamdani and the New York mayoral election.
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The Political Cycle: What the Israel-Iran conflict means for India
A conversation with Nicolas Blarel, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University.
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Why did the BJP take the 'all-party' route on Op Sindoor delegations?
Is this a shift in political tactics or a maneuver to blunt domestic criticism?
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The Political Cycle: Money vs Democracy?
Inside India’s cash handouts
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The Political Cycle: Polarized Poland
How did the far-right snatch victory from Poland's pro-Europeans?
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India Inside Out by Rohan Venkat
India Inside Out by Rohan Venkat
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