Ganatantra

Ganatantra


Latest Episodes

S02 E30: Season Finale and Wrap Up
April 07, 2020

This week on Ganatantra Sarayu Natarajan and Alok Prasanna Kumar discuss the second season of Ganatantra and how Covid19 has impacted the subjects they spoke about.

S02 E29: Policy in the shadow of Covid 19
March 31, 2020

This week on Ganatantra Sarayu Natarajan and Alok Prasanna Kumar discuss the impact of the Covid19 pandemic on public policy.

S02 E28: Politics in West Bengal (feat. Shaoib Daniyal)
March 24, 2020

This week on Ganatantra Sarayu Natarajan and Alok Prasanna Kumar welcome back Shoaib Daniyal to talk about the politics of West Bengal.

S02 E27: Federalism in India (feat. K K KAILASH)
March 17, 2020

This week on Ganatantra Sarayu Natarajan and Alok Prasanna Kumar talk to Dr. Kailash in their continuing series on Federalism in India.

S02 E26: Delhi Politics and the rise of the AAP (feat Dr Manisha Priyam)
March 11, 2020

In this week's episode, Dr. Manisha Priyam joins us to discuss Delhi politics. She walks us through her fieldwork and her prediction of the rise of the AAP, the new politics of Delhi post the violence at JNU and the deeply communal campaign, and th

S02 E25: India's new party system (feat Rahul Verma)
March 03, 2020

As a recent set of results shows, India's voters choose very differently in state and national elections. What explains this pattern across the country and what implications does it have for federal politics?

S02 E24: Caste, language and politics in Karnataka (feat. Chandan Gowda)
February 25, 2020

As a state with came into existence on the basis of a demand for linguistic reorganization, it's somewhat of a mystery that Karnataka has not yet seen a mass movement or major political party based on linguistic identity.

S02 E23: Fiscal Federalism- 2.5 lakh governments and how to fund them (feat. Pranay Kotasthane)
February 18, 2020

All governments need to raise and spend money but in India's complex three tier government, the process by which this money is raised and spent is a subject with serious political and constitutional implications.

S02 E22: Social Welfare and Political Violence in Kerala (feat. Prem Panicker)
February 11, 2020

The image of Kerala politics contains two dissonant and contrary images - that of a state with some of the best human development indicators in the world but also high numbers of targeted killings. In this week's episode, we're joined by journalist

S02 E21: Federalism and State Politics
February 04, 2020

In the third series of episodes of Season 2, we'll be discussing federalism and State politics in India going in-depth into the politics of certain states and some larger themes to understand politics at the state level. In this episode, Sarayu and Alok