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Why has US President Donald Trump turned on India?
Medium-term bets in a short-term world.
Oct 6
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August 2025
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…
Aug 11
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Rohan Venkat
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July 2025
Interview: The complex legacy of pioneering Indian scholar Irawati Karve
Urmilla Deshpande and Thiago Pinto Barbosa on 'Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve.'
Jul 28
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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."
Jul 21
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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…
Jul 14
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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…
Jul 7
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June 2025
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.
Jun 29
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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.
Jun 20
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Rohan Venkat
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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?
Jun 16
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The Political Cycle: Money vs Democracy?
Inside India’s cash handouts
Jun 14
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Rohan Venkat
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The Political Cycle: Polarized Poland
How did the far-right snatch victory from Poland's pro-Europeans?
Jun 9
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Rohan Venkat
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Operation Sindoor: Unpacking the 'military success, narrative failure' discourse
If Balakot and Ladakh represented tactical setbacks with little political cost, Operation Sindoor appears to be demonstrating the opposite.
Jun 6
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