After a short holiday break, this week we kick off the ninth season of Grand Tamasha. Milan’s guest on the show is Pranay Kotasthane, author of the new book—Missing In Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy, co-authored with Raghu Jaitley.
What is the Indian state? How does it work? How does it fail? And how can it evolve? These are just some of the questions that this important new book tries to tackle.
Unlike most books in this genre, it is written for the proverbial man or woman on the street, refraining from jargon and acronyms to educate, and possibly even entertain, readers interested in how policy is made.
Pranay, who serves as deputy director at the Takshashila Institution in Bangalore, and Milan discuss the difference between a democracy and a republic, the role of ideology in Indian politics, pro-business vs. pro-market policies, and the enduring weakness of the Indian state. Plus, the two discuss the shrinking of the “middle” space in public discourse and what that means for the future of Indian democracy.
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Scaachi Koul on the Collision of Indian Politics and Culture
The Life and Times of Amit Varma
Pratap Bhanu Mehta on Indian Democracy at 73
Vipul Mudgal on India’s Policing Challenge
Binalakshmi Nepram on the Realities of India’s Oft-Forgotten Northeast
Roshan Kishore on India’s flagging economy, the impacts of the lockdown, and the government’s policy response
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Former Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian on India’s Economic Response to the COVID-19 crisis
Shankkar Aiyar on the Proliferation of India’s “Gated Republics”
India’s Coronavirus Response, Anti-China Sentiment, and the Communalization of COVID-19
Amitabh Behar on How Coronavirus Aggravates Inequality in India
Pallavi Raghavan on an Alternative History of India-Pakistan Relations
Aarti Shahani on Her Indian-American Immigrant Story
Author Madhuri Vijay on Her Award-Winning Book, “The Far Field”
Tanvi Madan on the U.S.-India-China “Fateful Triangle”
Jessica Seddon on India’s Air Pollution Crisis
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