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Curiosity-driven conversations
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89 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
6 episodes
since Feb. 20, 2026
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What does it actually take to understand China, beyond the headlines and the hot takes?
In this episode of Backpocket Pod, I sit down with China scholar Jabin T. Jacob to talk about the country most Indians have strong opinions on and very little first-hand sense of. We get into how China is govern…
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What does politics really look like for women in rural India, beyond the ballot box?In this episode of Backpocket Pod, I sit down with Rithika Kumar to unpack her fieldwork in high-migration Bihar. When men migrate for work, women step in to engage the state, chasing entitlements, dealing with ward…
Why do Indian voters elect candidates with criminal records? And what does it tell us about the health of the world's largest democracy?
In this episode of Backpocket Pod, I sit down with Milan Vaishnav, Senior Fellow and Director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for Internation…
Yamini Aiyar is one of India's most respected scholars of governance, state capacity, and public policy. She was President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) in New Delhi from 2017 to 2024, and in 2008 founded its Accountability Initiative, known for pioneering one of India…
Kanti Bajpai is one of India's most respected scholars of international relations and a leading authority on India-China relations. He served as the Wilmar Professor of Asian Studies at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore from 2011 to 2025, and is now Emeritus…
Ananya Vajpeyi is an intellectual historian and political theorist, and a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi. Educated at Jawaharlal Nehru University, the University of Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar), and the University of Chicago (PhD), her work bridges poli…
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