Episodes

Friday Feb 14, 2025
India, Before It Was Cool
Friday Feb 14, 2025
Friday Feb 14, 2025
A new survey released by the Hoover Institution – part of Hoover’s Huntington Program on Strengthening US-India Relations – offers a window into a handful of challenges facing the world’s fifth-largest economy and emerging world power. Sumit Ganguly, the inaugural director of the Huntington Program, joins Hoover research fellow Dinsha Mistree in a wide-ranging conservation about India including the timing of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s White House visit (can he avoid a tariff war?), an Indian foreign policy that’s long on partnerships but short on alliances, India’s role in a growing AI industry, plus what the future holds for the world’s-largest population whose demographics are changing as well as its tastes in work, leisure, and family planning.