Tanvi Madan

More recently, it's drawn nearer to the United States while confronting an increasingly powerful China, yet these relationships now seem to be shifting.

So, what explains India's distinctive approach to the world? How has its foreign policy evolved from Nehru and Indira Gandhi through to Narendra Modi? And what does India ultimately want from the international order? To discuss all this, I'm delighted to be joined by Dr Tanvi Madan, senior fellow at the Center for Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and author of Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped US-India Relations During the Cold War.

Hi, Tanvi.

Thanks so much for joining us.

We started this show as an experiment in the run-up to the 2019 general elections and Seven years and 299 episodes later, we're still around and no one is more surprised than I am.

While India has changed in many ways over the past seven years, one constant has been our occasional Grand Tamasha roundtable with my guest today, Sadanand Dume of The Wall Street Journal and the Council on Foreign Relations and Tanvi Madan of the Brookings Institution.

It only seemed natural that as we celebrate our 300th episode, we have them both on to discuss the latest in Indian politics and policy.

So once again, Tanvi, Sanan, welcome to the show.

Yeah.

That seems like a fitting note to end.

Tanvi Madan, Sadan and Dume, thank you guys for being such great, loyal stalwart fans and listeners and look forward to doing this again soon.

Congrats again.

The components, the auto anserities ecosystem was there.

So we really have to be completely shamelessly opportunistic and exploit our latent scale, which is why I had a small run-in with Tanvi Madan, a scholar who I otherwise respect today morning.

She was making fun of the former Indian army chief, saying that if we are not careful, US big tech like AI could end up becoming the next East India Company.

And then she juxtaposed it against Prime Minister Modi meeting some of these AI CEOs earlier.