Distilled, a Firstpost podcast: Maya Tudor talks about nations and the surge of nationalism that is currently besieging the planet

Distilled is a new podcast series from Firstpost, which introduces us to innovative, cutting-edge thinking about our world, and the issues it confronts, through conversations with some of the most highly-regarded experts in India and the world. In each episode, Network18 Group Consulting Editor Praveen Swami will be discussing subjects ranging from geopolitics to culture and sport — trying to unpack the unpredictable, ever-changing forces that are shaping our times. In this first Distilled conversation, Praveen Swami speaks to Oxford University scholar Maya Tudor , author of the highly regarded book The Promise of Power: the Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan , on nations and the great tide of nationalism sweeping the planet.