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In this podcast, National Books Editor Manjula Narayan tells you about books, authors and their journeys. This is a Hindustan Times production, brought to you by HT Smartcast

Episode Date
Fraud, fear and loathing from Jamtara to Sihanoukville
Oct 30, 2025
The ache of a phantom limb
Oct 23, 2025
Grip of a godman
Oct 17, 2025
Stories from the Seven Sisters+1
Oct 10, 2025
On the record
Oct 03, 2025
A desi love story: adventures with Indies
Sep 26, 2025
Of birds, bees and educated fleas
Sep 19, 2025
Hymn to Hanuman
Sep 11, 2025
Following her own beat
Sep 05, 2025
Brayed of tongue
Aug 29, 2025
Of public chaos and amateur Indians stranded on islands of privilege
Aug 21, 2025
Of Hawa Hawai and writing for his life
Aug 15, 2025
Homage to the fruit of the gods
Aug 08, 2025
Awe-inspiring ophiolatry
Aug 01, 2025
The Hymn to Nikkal, Einstein's violin, musical space odysseys and beyond
Jul 25, 2025
Of promises broken over centuries
Jul 17, 2025
Of anda halwa, taar gosht and more
Jul 10, 2025
Only connect
Jul 03, 2025
Much food for thought
Jun 27, 2025
The original mother of many tongues
Jun 21, 2025
Of raab, kadhi and more
Jun 13, 2025
Of unforgettable soundtracks and an emotional core
Jun 05, 2025
Greed, greenwashing, and the perils of convenience
May 30, 2025
Remembering not to forget
May 23, 2025
Of trances, theta states, and shamans
May 17, 2025
Of spiritual churning and identity umbrellas
May 09, 2025
Company Painting: A transformative moment in Indian art
May 02, 2025
Sojourn in South Korea: In the land of the morning calm
Apr 25, 2025
Of Bakharwals, Jonangis and more
Apr 18, 2025
Intrepid Americans in India
Apr 10, 2025
Delhi underbelly
Apr 03, 2025
Barking up the right tree
Mar 28, 2025
Delhi; tales of a city with multiple pasts
Mar 20, 2025
A sampling of some of the best Indian short fiction
Mar 13, 2025
The incredible story of the most successful escape of WW2
Mar 07, 2025
Exploring the multiple layers of truth
Feb 28, 2025
The power of absence to shape the world
Feb 20, 2025
Breaking up is hard to do
Feb 15, 2025
Breaking up is hard to do
Feb 13, 2025
The power and the glory
Feb 07, 2025
Battling alternate reality
Jan 31, 2025
Of flying yoginis, Trojan elephants, and kings who ghost their girlfriends
Jan 23, 2025
Tibetans: From Lhasa to Dharamsala and the wider world
Jan 16, 2025
In the land of the lotus eaters
Jan 10, 2025
Cosy Delhi crime
Jan 04, 2025
Cuba: Will the revolution endure?
Dec 12, 2024
Indian ink
Dec 06, 2024
Identity, consumerism and the Indian middle class
Nov 29, 2024
The man who thought with his eyes
Nov 22, 2024
A taste of heaven on the street
Nov 15, 2024
Recipes from Jahangir and Nur Jahan's kitchen
Nov 07, 2024
Speaking in many tongues
Nov 01, 2024
Terrorists, tawaifs and secret superstars
Oct 25, 2024
Theyyam: Parapsychology, Paradox and Folk Belief
Oct 17, 2024
An extraordinary intellect
Oct 11, 2024
Video Ga Ga: Excavating a forgotten cultural moment
Oct 04, 2024
The Less Remembered Bits of Modern India’s Origin Story
Sep 27, 2024
Fan Favourite | Medieval Dynasties of Southern India
Sep 25, 2024
Of belief and belonging
Sep 20, 2024
Inspirational flashback to the golden era of Hindi cinema
Sep 14, 2024
All about the sumptuous Onam sadhya
Sep 05, 2024
Of insiders, outsiders, and insiders outside!
Aug 30, 2024
Fantastic tales about trees
Aug 22, 2024
The Millennial Hero Complex and other stories
Aug 16, 2024
Of khichdi, kheer and khayali pulao: Tales of Indian food
Aug 09, 2024
The Great Nicobar Island Project: Staring at Certain Disaster
Aug 02, 2024
Finding Moments of Tenderness in a Conflicted City
Jul 26, 2024
Mango Nation; On India's Favorite Fruit
Jul 19, 2024
Crossing Borders
Jul 12, 2024
Of Jaws 3, Rat Curry and Diamonds on Snake Heads
Jul 04, 2024
Masala Chai Magic and More
Jun 27, 2024
Women, Dalits and Contextualizing the Manusmriti
Jun 21, 2024
The social and cultural evolution of the Indian Foreign Service
Jun 14, 2024
Of guilt lit and suffocation by morality
Jun 07, 2024
Not a fraction but a whole
May 30, 2024
Of rose beds and avenues lined with amaltas
May 23, 2024
Magnetic women, Oxbeas accents, and 1980s Bombay and Delhi
May 16, 2024
A promoter and a patron
May 09, 2024
The story of a family; the story of a nation
May 03, 2024
Of rasa, Raja Ravi Varma, and Raza
Apr 25, 2024
Different stories about India
Apr 18, 2024
Of passportism and pseudiscovery
Apr 12, 2024
Refreshing retellings of traditional tales
Apr 04, 2024
On the complex Indian village
Mar 28, 2024
No last words in history
Mar 21, 2024
A word to the wise
Mar 14, 2024
Of carpets and memories
Mar 09, 2024
Sex and the Indian woman: It's complicated
Feb 29, 2024
Big tech, profit, loss, and AI
Feb 22, 2024
Detective fiction and the search for justice
Feb 16, 2024
By hook or by book
Feb 08, 2024
A Himalayan feast
Feb 01, 2024
Birds, bees, blinding fog and scorching sunshine
Jan 25, 2024
Journey to the End of the Empire
Jan 18, 2024
Keepers of the sacred fire
Jan 11, 2024
The mad genius within the flawed cop
Jan 04, 2024
The good poets society
Dec 15, 2023
Lessons from Rajasthan's camel herders
Dec 07, 2023
The trajectories of Buddhism in modern India
Nov 30, 2023
The stuff of food fantasies
Nov 23, 2023
The battle for your mind
Nov 17, 2023
14 Historic Walks of Delhi
Nov 09, 2023
The West, Indian gurus and the search for Enlightenment
Nov 03, 2023
A glimpse of the world behind bars
Oct 27, 2023
Doing heuristics & showing chutzpah
Oct 20, 2023
A taste of heaven on the street
Oct 12, 2023
Cutting for stone; the jali in India
Oct 05, 2023
Scents and sensibility
Sep 28, 2023
On women who have broadened our understanding of the natural world
Sep 22, 2023
Change and fluidity in rural India
Sep 16, 2023
Wounded by the Word
Sep 07, 2023
On the cusp of change
Sep 01, 2023
On chanelling Anandibai
Aug 25, 2023
The secular fundamentalist
Aug 18, 2023
Shaping India's Leadership
Aug 11, 2023
Borders of Diversity
Aug 04, 2023
The unflinching gaze
Jul 27, 2023
Change starts with mothers
Jul 20, 2023
Much food for thought
Jul 14, 2023
"Koi hai? Who's there?"
Jul 07, 2023
Dancing for her life
Jun 30, 2023
Seaweed as humanity's saviour
Jun 23, 2023
From the tiny shrew to the giant elephant
Jun 16, 2023
Of mistaken identity and police excess
Jun 09, 2023
The great contributions of tawaifs and devdasis
Jun 02, 2023
Swede dreams of masala dosa and wada sambar
May 25, 2023
Why cheetahs aren't exotic aliens - The Story of India's Cheetahs
May 20, 2023
Even Google maps can't beat this 1847 map of Shahjahanabad!
May 12, 2023
Aasheesh Pittie talk about the pleasures of birds and birdwatching
May 05, 2023
"The Panchatantra's animals are actually humans wearing animal masks" - Meena Arora Nayak
Apr 28, 2023
Charmaine O'Brien - "Women have been maintaining India's food culture forever!"
Apr 20, 2023
Books & Authors podcast with Ashok Gopal, author, 'A Part Apart; The Life and Thought of BR Ambedkar'
Apr 13, 2023
Books & Authors podcast with Anirudha Bhattacharjee, author, 'Basu Chatterji and Middle of the Road Cinema'
Apr 06, 2023
Books & Authors podcast with Avijit Ghosh, author, 'When Ardh Satya Met Himmatwala'
Mar 30, 2023
Books & Authors podcast with Aashima Dogra, co-author, Lab Hopping
Mar 23, 2023
Books & Authors podcast with Sudeshna Guha, author, A History of India Through 75 Objects
Mar 16, 2023
Books & Authors podcast with Srinath Rao, author, Meow Meow; The Incredible True Story of Baby Patankar
Mar 10, 2023
Books & Authors podcast with Sam Miller, author, Migrants; The Story of Us All
Mar 03, 2023
Books & Authors podcast with Rahaab Allana, editor, Unframed
Feb 23, 2023
Books & Authors podcast with Swapna Liddle, author, The Broken Script; Delhi Under the East India Company
Feb 16, 2023
Books & Authors podcast with Umesh Gaur, whose art collection is the subject of Paper Trails
Feb 09, 2023
Books and Authors podcast with Sara Rai, author, Raw Umber
Feb 02, 2023
Books and Authors podcast with Pratibha Karan, author, The Book of Dals
Jan 26, 2023
Books & Authors podcast with Colleen Taylor Sen, author, Ashoka and the Maurya Dynasty
Jan 20, 2023
Books & Authors podcast with Ruth Harris, author, Guru to the World; the LIfe and Legacy of Vivekananda
Jan 12, 2023
Books & Authors podcast with Annapurna Garimella, editor, The Long Arc of South Asian Art
Jan 07, 2023
Books & Authors podcast with Andrew Quilty, author, August in Kabul
Dec 15, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Nilosree Biswas, author, Calcutta On Your Plate
Dec 08, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Jitendra Dixit, author, Bombay After Ayodhya
Dec 01, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Abhay K, editor, The Book of Bihari Literature
Nov 25, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Nandita Iyer, author, The Great Indian Thali
Nov 17, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Manohar Shetty, Editor, The Greatest Goan Stories Ever Told
Nov 10, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Anirudha Bhattacharjee, coauthor Kishore Kumar; The Ultimate Biography
Nov 04, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with V Sudarshan, author, Tuticorin; Adventures in Tamil Nadu's Crime Capital
Oct 28, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Kavery Nambisan, author, Cherry Red Cherry Black; The Story of Coffee in India
Oct 20, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Aparajita Datta, co editor, At the Feet of Living Things
Oct 13, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Jubanashwa Mishra, author, 28 Jobs, 28 Weeks, 28 States
Oct 07, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Nilakantan RS, author, South vs North; India's Great Divide
Sep 30, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Ravindra Rathee, author, True To Their Salt
Sep 22, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Bibek Debroy, author Inked in India
Sep 16, 2022
Books & Authors with Dr Ekta Chaudhary, author, Garden Up
Sep 09, 2022
Books & Authors with Renuka Narayanan, author, Learning from Loss
Sep 01, 2022
Books & Authors with Vaibhav Purandare, author, Shivaji, India's Great Warrior King
Aug 25, 2022
Books & Authors with Saaz Aggarwal, author, Losing Home; Finding Home
Aug 18, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Pravin Sawhney, author, The Last War
Aug 11, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Dr Pallavi Joshi, author, Fast but Lost; Overcoming Depression in City Life
Aug 04, 2022
Books and Authors podcast with Meeti Shroff-Shah, author, The Death of Kirti Kadakia
Jul 28, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Kubbra Sait, author, Open Book
Jul 21, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Rajeev Shukla, politician, journalist and author, Scars of 1947: Real Partition Stories
Jul 15, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Deepti Naval, actor and author, A Country Called Childhood; A Memoir
Jul 09, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Simon Lamouret, author, The Alcazar
Jul 01, 2022
Books&Authors podcast Anita Bhogle, author, Equal yet Different
Jun 23, 2022
Books&Authors podcast with Meena Arora Nayak, author, Adbhut; Marvellous Creatures of Indian Myth and Folklore
Jun 17, 2022
Books and Authors podcast with Vidya Krishnan, author, Phantom Plague
Jun 02, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Nasreen Rehman, translator, The Collected Stories of Saadat Hasan Manto
May 26, 2022
Books& Authors podcast with Seema Chishti, author, Sumitra and Anees
May 19, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Aanchal Malhotra, author, In the Language of Remembering
May 13, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Vijay Mahajan, author, Digital Leapfrogs
May 06, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Jeet Thayil, editor, The Penguin Book of Indian Poets
Apr 28, 2022
Books and Authors podcast with Parvati Sharma, author, Akbar of Hindustan
Apr 22, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Parul Dave Mukherji, co-editor, 20th Century Indian Art
Apr 14, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Siddharth Sonkar, author, What Privacy Means
Apr 07, 2022
Books And Authors podcast with Satyabrata Rout, author, Scenography; An Indian Perspective
Apr 02, 2022
Books and Authors podcast with Nikhil Menon, author, Planning Democracy
Mar 24, 2022
Books and Authors podcast with Pallavi Nigam Sahay, author A Sip in Time
Mar 10, 2022
Books and Authors podcast with Nasreen Munni Kabir, author, Lata Mangeshkar... In Her Own Voice
Mar 03, 2022
Books and Authors podcast with Kavery Nambisan, author, A Luxury Called Health
Feb 24, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Aloke Lal, author, Murder in the Bylanes
Feb 17, 2022
Books & Authors with Tanuj Bhojwani, author, The Art of Bitfulness
Feb 10, 2022
Books & Authors with GN Devy, author Mahabharata; The Epic and the Nation
Feb 03, 2022
Books & Authors with Anirudh Kanisetti, author, Lords of the Deccan
Jan 27, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Rahul Rawail, author, Raj Kapoor: The Master at Work
Jan 20, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Nalin Mehta, author, The New BJP
Jan 13, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Sagarika Ghose, author of Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Jan 07, 2022
Books & Authors podcast with Anupama Chopra, author, A Place in my Heart
Dec 30, 2021
Books & Authors podcast with Manash Ghosh, author, Bangladesh War; Report from Ground Zero
Dec 09, 2021
Books & Authors podcast with Rukmini S, author, Whole Numbers and Half Truths
Dec 02, 2021
Books & Authors podcast with with Adrija Roychowdhury, author, Delhi, in Thy Name
Nov 25, 2021
Books & Authors podcast with Pranay Lal, author, Invisible Empire; The Natural History of Viruses
Nov 18, 2021
Books & Authors with with Ramya Ramamurthy, author, Branded In History
Nov 12, 2021
Books & Authors with Neema Shah, author, Kololo Hill
Nov 02, 2021
Books & Authors with Farhad Dadyburjor, author, The Other Man
Oct 29, 2021
Books & Authors with Tarun K Saint, editor, the Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Volume 2
Oct 21, 2021
Books & Authors with Mytheli Sreenivas, author, Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
Oct 14, 2021
Books & Authors with Jyotirmaya Sharma, author of Elusive Non-Violence; The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi's Religion of Ahimsa
Oct 08, 2021
Books & Authors with Upinder Singh, author of Ancient India; Culture of Contradictions
Oct 01, 2021
Books & Authors with Sid Mallya, author of If I'm Honest; A Memoir of My Mental Health Journey
Sep 24, 2021
Books & Authors with Rajesh Kasturirangan, authors of Who Are We? An Enquiry Into The Indian Mind...
Sep 16, 2021
Books & Authors with Martyn Rix, author, Indian Botanical Art; An Illustrated History
Sep 09, 2021
Books & Authors podcast with Ruth Vanita, who has translated Mahadevi Varma's My Family
Sep 03, 2021
Books & Authors with Vaibhav Purandare, author of Hitler and India; The Untold Story of His Hatred for the country & Its People
Aug 26, 2021
Books & Authors with Akash Kapur, author of Better to have gone; Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
Aug 12, 2021
Books & Authors with Lopamudra Maitra Bajpai, author of The Owl Delivered The Good News All Night
Aug 05, 2021
Books & Authors with with Coomi Kapoor, author of The Tatas, Freddiw Mercury & Other Bawas; An Intimate History of the Parsis
Jul 29, 2021
Books & Authors with Vikram Sampath, author, Savarkar; A Contested Legacy 1924-1966
Jul 23, 2021
Books & Authors with Pallavi Aiyar, author of Orienting; An Indian in Japan
Jul 16, 2021
Books & Authors with Vidya Dehejia, author of India: A Story Through 100 Objects
Jul 09, 2021
Books & Authors with Ritu Menon, author of Zohra! A Biography in Four Acts
Jul 02, 2021
Books and Authors podcast with L Somi Roy, author of And That Is Why; Manipuri Myths Retold
Jun 24, 2021
Books and Authors with Kanti Bajpai, author of 'India Versus China : Why They Are Not Friends
Jun 18, 2021
Books & Authors with Aditya Gupta, author of 7 Lessons from Everest
Jun 11, 2021
Books & Authors with Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland; How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
Jun 03, 2021
Books & Authors with Vijay Gokhale, author, Tiananmen Square; The Making of a Protest | Part 2
May 28, 2021
Books & Authors with Vijay Gokhale, author, Tiananmen Square; The Making of a Protest | Part 1
May 28, 2021
Books & Authors with Yatindra Mishra, editor of Akhtari; The Life and Music of Begum Akhtar | Part 2
May 20, 2021
Books & Authors with Yatindra Mishra, editor of Akhtari; The Life and Music of Begum Akhtar | Part 1
May 20, 2021
Books & Authors with Esther David, author of Bene Appetit; The Cuisine of Indian Jews | Part 2
May 13, 2021
Books & Authors with Esther David, author of Bene Appetit; The Cuisine of Indian Jews | Part 1
May 13, 2021
Books & Authors with Samrat Choudhury, author of The Braided River; A Journey Along the Brahmaputra | Part 2
May 07, 2021
Books & Authors with Samrat Choudhury, author of The Braided River; A Journey Along the Brahmaputra | Part 1
May 07, 2021
Books & Authors with Vaasanthi, author of Rajinikanth; A Life | Part-2
Apr 22, 2021
Books & Authors with Vaasanthi, author of Rajinikanth; A Life | Part-1
Apr 22, 2021
Books & Authors with Kabir Bedi, author of Stories I Must Tell | Part-2
Apr 15, 2021
Books & Authors with Kabir Bedi, author of Stories I Must Tell | Part-1
Apr 15, 2021
Books & Authors with Indranee Ghosh, authorof Spiced, Smoked, Pickled, Preserved | Part-2
Apr 08, 2021
Books & Authors with Indranee Ghosh, authorof Spiced, Smoked, Pickled, Preserved | Part-1
Apr 08, 2021
Books & Authors with Amit Chaudhuri, author of 'Finding the Raga; An Improvisation on Indian Music' | Part-2
Apr 01, 2021
Books & Authors with Amit Chaudhuri, author of 'Finding the Raga; An Improvisation on Indian Music' | Part-1
Apr 01, 2021
Books & Authors with Ritu Menon, author of Address Book; A Publishing Memoir in the time of covid | Part-2
Mar 25, 2021
Books & Authors with Ritu Menon, author of Address Book; A Publishing Memoir in the time of covid | Part-1
Mar 25, 2021
Books & Authors with Sanjay Gubbi, author of Leopard Diaries; The Rosette in India | Part-2
Mar 18, 2021
Books & Authors with Sanjay Gubbi, author of Leopard Diaries; The Rosette in India | Part-1
Mar 18, 2021
Books & Authors with Trisha Bora, author of How Not to Kill Your House Plants | Part-2
Mar 11, 2021
Books & Authors with Trisha Bora, author of How Not to Kill Your House Plants | Part-1
Mar 11, 2021
Books & Authors with Damon Centola, author of Change; How to Make Big Things Happen | Part-2
Mar 11, 2021
Books & Authors with Damon Centola, author of Change; How to Make Big Things Happen | Part-1
Mar 11, 2021
71: Books & Authors with Anuja Chauhan, author of Club You to Death | Part-2
Feb 25, 2021
70: Books & Authors with Anuja Chauhan, author of Club You to Death | Part-1
Feb 25, 2021
69: Books & Authors with Jahnavi Misra, author of The Punished; Stories of Death Row Prisoners in India | PART-2
Feb 18, 2021
68: Books & Authors with Jahnavi Misra, author of The Punished; Stories of Death Row Prisoners in India | PART-1
Feb 18, 2021
67: Books & Authors with Neha Sinha, author of Wild and Wilful; Tales of 15 Iconic Indian Species | PART-2
Feb 11, 2021
66: Books & Authors with Neha Sinha, author of Wild and Wilful; Tales of 15 Iconic Indian Species | PART-1
Feb 11, 2021
65: Books & Authors with Sunita Dwivedi, author of Buddha in Gandhara | PART-2
Feb 04, 2021
65: Books & Authors with Sunita Dwivedi, author of Buddha in Gandhara | PART-1
Feb 04, 2021
64: Books & Authors with Aniruddha Bahal, author of A Taste for Trouble; Memories from Another Time | PART-2
Jan 28, 2021
64: Books & Authors with Aniruddha Bahal, author of A Taste for Trouble; Memories from Another Time | PART-1
Jan 28, 2021
63: Books & Authors with Yashaswini Chandra, author of The Tale of the Horse; A History of India on Horseback | PART-2
Jan 21, 2021
62: Books & Authors with Yashaswini Chandra, author of The Tale of the Horse; A History of India on Horseback | PART-1
Jan 21, 2021
61: Books & Authors podcast with Saaz Aggarwal, editor of 'Sindhi Tapestry; Reflections on the Sindhi Identity' | Part-2
Jan 15, 2021
60: Books & Authors podcast with Saaz Aggarwal, editor of 'Sindhi Tapestry; Reflections on the Sindhi Identity' | Part-1
Jan 15, 2021
59: Books & Authors podcast with Yasser Usman, author of Guru Dutt; An Unfinished Story | Part-2
Jan 07, 2021
58: Books & Authors podcast with Yasser Usman, author of Guru Dutt; An Unfinished Story | Part-1
Jan 07, 2021
57: Books & Authors with Vinay Sitapati, author of Jugalbandi; The BJP Before Modi | Part-2
Jan 01, 2021
56: Books & Authors with Vinay Sitapati, author of Jugalbandi; The BJP Before Modi | Part-1
Jan 01, 2021
55: Books & Authors with Sai Paranjpye, author of A Patchwork Quilt: A Collage of My Creative Life | Part-2
Dec 23, 2020
54: Books & Authors with Sai Paranjpye, author of A Patchwork Quilt: A Collage of My Creative Life | Part-1
Dec 23, 2020
53: Books & Authors podcast with Shoba Narayan, author of Food & Faith | Part-2
Dec 11, 2020
52: Books & Authors podcast with Shoba Narayan, author of Food & Faith | Part-1
Dec 11, 2020
51: Books & Authors podcast with Tim I Gurung, author of Ayo Gorkhali; A History of the Gurkhas | Part-2
Dec 04, 2020
50: Books & Authors podcast with Tim I Gurung, author of Ayo Gorkhali; A History of the Gurkhas | Part-1
Dec 04, 2020
49: Books & Authors podcast with Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, author of Loss | Part-2
Nov 26, 2020
48: Books & Authors podcast with Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, author of Loss | Part-1
Nov 26, 2020
47: Books & Authors with Arshia Sattar, who has retold the Mahabharata for Children | Part-2
Nov 19, 2020
46: Books & Authors with Arshia Sattar, who has retold the Mahabharata for Children | Part-1
Nov 19, 2020
45: Books & Authors podcast with Rujuta Diwekar, author of Eating in the Age of Dieting | Part-2
Nov 13, 2020
44: Books & Authors podcast with Rujuta Diwekar, author of Eating in the Age of Dieting | Part-1
Nov 13, 2020
43: Books and Authors with Amandeep Sandhu, author of Panjab; Journeys Through Fault Lines | Part-2
Nov 06, 2020
42: Books and Authors with Amandeep Sandhu, author of Panjab; Journeys Through Fault Lines | Part-1
Nov 06, 2020
41: Books and Authors with Ananth Krishnan, author of India's China Challenge। Part-II
Oct 29, 2020
41: Books and Authors with Ananth Krishnan, author of India's China Challenge। Part-I
Oct 29, 2020
40: Books & Authors with RK Raghavan author of A Road Well Travelled; An Autobiography। Part-II
Oct 22, 2020
40: Books & Authors with RK Raghavan author of A Road Well Travelled; An Autobiography। Part-I
Oct 22, 2020
39: Heart-to-heart with Manjiri Indurkar, author of 'It's All In Your Head, M'। Part-II
Oct 15, 2020
39: Heart-to-heart with Manjiri Indurkar, author of 'It's All In Your Head, M'। Part-I
Oct 15, 2020
38: Chetan Bhagat on his book 'One Arranged Murder' | Part-2
Oct 08, 2020
37: Chetan Bhagat on his book 'One Arranged Murder' | Part-1
Oct 08, 2020
36: In conversation with Luc Leruth, co-author of 'Rumble in a Village' | Part-2
Oct 01, 2020
35: In conversation with Luc Leruth, co-author of 'Rumble in a Village' | Part-1
Oct 01, 2020
34: In conversation with Aparna Karthikeyan author of "Woof! : Adventures by the sea" | Part 2
Sep 25, 2020
34: In conversation with Aparna Karthikeyan author of "Woof! : Adventures by the sea" | Part 1
Sep 25, 2020
33: In conversation with Puja Changoiwala, author of 'Gangster on the Run' | Part 2
Sep 17, 2020
33: In conversation with Puja Changoiwala, author of 'Gangster on the Run' | Part 1
Sep 17, 2020
32: In conversation with Shylashri Shankar, the author of Turmeric Nation; A Passage Through India's Tastes | Part 1
Sep 11, 2020
32: In conversation with Shylashri Shankar, the author of Turmeric Nation; A Passage Through India's Tastes | Part 2
Sep 11, 2020
31: In conversation with Parmesh Shahani on his new book, Queeristan Part 2
Aug 27, 2020
31: In conversation with Parmesh Shahani on his new book, Queeristan Part 1
Aug 27, 2020
30: Part 2 | In conversation with Ashutosh Bharadwaj on his new book, The Death Script: Dreams and Delusions in Naxal Country
Aug 20, 2020
30: Part 1 | In conversation with Ashutosh Bharadwaj on his new book, The Death Script: Dreams and Delusions in Naxal Country
Aug 20, 2020
29: Part 2 | In conversation with Janaki Lenin on her new book, Every Creature Has a Story- What Science Reveals about Animal Behaviour
Aug 13, 2020
29: Part 1 | In conversation with Janaki Lenin on her new book, Every Creature Has a Story- What Science Reveals about Animal Behaviour
Aug 13, 2020
27: Part 2 | In conversation with Farrukh Dhondy on his new book Rumi; A New Collection
Aug 06, 2020
28: Part 1 | In conversation with Farrukh Dhondy on his new book Rumi; A New Collection
Aug 06, 2020
26: In conversation with Dhruv Bogra, author of 'Away - Seven Real Adventures in the Wilderness' (Part 1)
Aug 01, 2020
25: In conversation with Dhruv Bogra, author of 'Away - Seven Real Adventures in the Wilderness' (Part 2)
Jul 31, 2020
24: In Conversation with Shobhaa De, author of 'Lockdown Liaisons' (Part 2)
Jul 23, 2020
24: In Conversation with Shobhaa De, author of 'Lockdown Liaisons' (Part 1)
Jul 23, 2020
23: Ravinder Bhogal, author of Jikoni: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes from an Immigrant Kitchen
Jul 16, 2020
22: In conversation with Kavita Devgan, author of 'Fix It With Food'
Jul 10, 2020
21: In conversation with Akhil Katyal and Aditi Angiras, editors of " The World That Belongs To Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia" (Part-2)
Jul 03, 2020
20: In conversation with Akhil Katyal and Aditi Angiras, editors of "The World That Belongs To Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia" (Part-1)
Jul 03, 2020
19: In conversation with Ira Mukhoty, author of Akbar: The Great Mughal (Part-2)
Jun 25, 2020
18: In conversation with Ira Mukhoty, author of Akbar: The Great Mughal (Part-1)
Jun 25, 2020
17: TM Krishna, author of Sebastian & Sons (Part2).
Apr 27, 2020
16: TM Krishna, author of Sebastian & Sons (Part1).
Apr 27, 2020
15: Rajat Ubhaykar on his book 'Truck De India- A Hitchhiker's Guide to Hindustan' (Part-2)
Apr 21, 2020
14: Rajat Ubhaykar on his book 'Truck De India- A Hitchhiker's Guide to Hindustan' (Part-1)
Apr 21, 2020
13: In conversation with Sunil Gupta, Sunetra Choudhury on Black Warrant (Part-2)
Apr 16, 2020
12: In conversation with Sunil Gupta, Sunetra Choudhury on Black Warrant (Part-1)
Apr 16, 2020
11: In conversation with Shubha Mudgal (Part-2)
Apr 13, 2020
10: In conversation with Shubha Mudgal (Part-1)
Apr 13, 2020
9: In conversation with Namita Gokhale, author of Jaipur Journals
Apr 03, 2020
8: Amit Khanna on his new book Words, Sounds, Images
Feb 19, 2020
7: Books & Authors with Kaveree Bamzai, author of No Regrets
Feb 10, 2020
6: In conversation with music legend Usha Uthup at the JLF 2019- Throwback
Jan 20, 2020
5: Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World by Ramachandra Guha
Oct 17, 2019
4: The Untold Story of India's First Newspaper, Andrew Otis
Oct 17, 2019
3: Chidanand Rajghatta author of Gauri Lankesh and the Age of Unreason
Oct 17, 2019
2: Saba Naqvi, author, Shades of Saffron, talks about her tryst with gaumutra soap
Oct 17, 2019
1: Ira Mukhoty on her book, 'Daughters of the Sun'
Oct 17, 2019