“Country living” became the way Asian immigrants pictured the ideal American life, but the reality was more complex.
- Milan Vaishnav,
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Milan Vaishnav is a senior fellow and director of the South Asia Program and the host of the Grand Tamasha podcast at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His primary research focus is the political economy of India, and he examines issues such as corruption and governance, state capacity, distributive politics, and electoral behavior. He also conducts research on the Indian diaspora.
He is the author of When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics (Yale University Press and HarperCollins India, 2017), which was awarded the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay New India Foundation book prize for the best non-fiction book on contemporary India published in 2017. He is also co-editor (with Devesh Kapur) of Costs of Democracy: Political Finance in India (Oxford University Press, 2018) and (with Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Devesh Kapur) of Rethinking Public Institutions in India (Oxford University Press, 2017). His work has been published in scholarly journals such as American Journal of Political Science, Asian Survey, Governance, India Review, Journal of Democracy, Perspectives on Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, and Studies in Indian Politics. He is a regular contributor to several Indian publications.
Previously, he worked at the Center for Global Development, where he served as a postdoctoral research fellow, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an adjunct professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (currently on leave) and has previously taught at Columbia and George Washington Universities. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.
“Country living” became the way Asian immigrants pictured the ideal American life, but the reality was more complex.
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What is the state of India's nuclear strategy? Carnegie fellow Ankit Panda joins Milan Vaishnav to analyze key developments in India's missile program and where it stands in the new "missile age" of the Indo-Pacific.
Economist Pranjul Bhandari sits down with Milan Vaishnav to dissect the state of the Indian economy, from forecasting inflation to the minute details of India's annual budget.
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Historian Janaki Bakhle joins the show to explore the life of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and his lasting impact on Indian politics and ideological thought.
M. Mohsin Alam Bhat joins Milan Vaishnav to discuss the controversial exclusion of Muslims from India's Citizenship Amendment Act. What does this mean in terms of constitutionality and implementation?
Novelist Zac O'Yeah connects with Milan to share his insights from his culinary adventure across India and what the country's unique dishes reveal about its culture and people.
D. Shyam Babu appears on the show this week to share the immense changes that have occurred in the lives of Dalits, one of South Asia's most oppressed groups, within the last few decades.