{"podcast":{"title":"Grand Tamasha","slug":"grand-tamasha-340012","podcast_index_feed_id":340012,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/dJuLIw5J","website_url":"http://www.grandtamasha.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/115ebe2e-23ad-42ec-b051-9234726bbe19/7e6b8c58-9a5f-4940-9169-64b89abf73e1/3000x3000/gt-simplecast-new.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Carnegie Endowment for International Peace","episode_count":293,"summary":"Each week, Milan Vaishnav and his guests from around the world break down the latest developments in Indian politics, economics, foreign policy, society, and culture for a global audience. Grand Tamasha is a co-production of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Hindustan Times.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grand-tamasha-340012"},"episode":{"title":"Inside The Complex: Family, Power, and India in Turmoil","slug":"inside-the-complex-family-power-and-india-in-turmoil","published_at":"2026-04-08T01:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grand-tamasha-340012/inside-the-complex-family-power-and-india-in-turmoil","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grand-tamasha-340012","url":"http://www.grandtamasha.com","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/66964cde-241f-4fa2-b798-c30191bbadb8/503276c1-2266-428d-bc7e-2dffc1bda4f8/episodes/audio/group/092ed2d6-d35d-4a32-94dc-cd2b32cdbdf4/group-item/a042c1b3-a1cf-4154-995b-84324e3612b0/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=dJuLIw5J","summary":"On this week’s show, Milan sits down with the novelist Karan Mahajan, author of a much-anticipated new novel, The Complex. Karan and Milan discussed the book at our first ever live Grand Tamasha event at Carnegie headquarters in Washington, DC on March 16. Karan is an associate professor in Literary Arts at Brown University and the author of the books Family Planning and The Association of Small Bombs.","meta_description":"On this week’s show, Milan sits down with the novelist Karan Mahajan, author of a much-anticipated new novel, The Complex. Karan and Milan discussed the b…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3109,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grand-tamasha-340012/episodes/inside-the-complex-family-power-and-india-in-turmoil/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grand-tamasha-340012/inside-the-complex-family-power-and-india-in-turmoil.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}