Dartmouth College professor William Wohlforth talks about why he believes peer nations still have a long way to go to match American power.
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An Immigrant Parent’s American Dream Meets A Child’s Reality
Sabreet Kang Rajeev joins us to talk about understanding her parents’ journey, their hopes for their new life, and connecting those to her own story as a first-generation American.
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America Has A Caste System, Too
Isabel Wilkerson is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a National Humanities Medal and a National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and she joins us to talk about the categories Americans are born into that rank us and grade us through no action of our own.
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Looking For Love In The Indian Diaspora
Parul Bhandari is associate professor at the Jindal Global Business School in Delhi, India, and she joins us to talk about how the show, “Indian Matchmaking,” is teaching the world about Indian cultural practices
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What The Ganges Means To India
University of California, Davis history professor Sudipta Sen joins us to talk about the religious significance the Ganges River holds for Hindus – and the lifeline it provides to millions living in India. His new book is called “Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River.”
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Inside The Partition Of India And Pakistan
Veera Hiranandani joins us to discuss her novel “The Night Diary,” which is set during the Partition of India in the late 1940s.
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Inside The Partition Of India And Pakistan
Veera Hiranandani joins us to discuss her novel “The Night Diary,” which is set during the Partition of India in the late 1940s.
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Inside India’s Caste System
Sujatha Gidla joins us to talk about how an education helped her to rise above her lot in life – and about how in India, you can’t ever fully leave your caste behind.
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America’s Relationship With China And India
This hour, we’ll talk with former State Department strategist Anja Manuel about how America can extend its leadership in the world by partnering with Asia’s two largest populations.
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A Chat With Aasif Mandvi
This hour, we’ll talk to him about his journey from his native India to growing up in England to ultimately landing in New York City, which he writes about in No Land’s Man.
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Art From The East
Could an understanding of the beauty and diversity of South and Southeast Asian art inform and alter our perceptions of what art means today?
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