Books & Authors podcast with Abhay K, editor, The Book of Bihari Literature
"I took it as a mission to do this anthology because a lot of things are known about Bihar but literature is not one of them. This book is also an invitation to literary translators to explore the ric...
25 Marras 202243min
Books & Authors podcast with Nandita Iyer, author, The Great Indian Thali
"Looking at a cookbook should take the reader down memory lane and inspire them to recreate the dishes," says Nandita Iyer, author, The Great Indian Thali, which features vegetarian dishes from across...
17 Marras 202259min
Books & Authors podcast with Manohar Shetty, Editor, The Greatest Goan Stories Ever Told
"What's unique about this book is that it has stories originally written in English and ones translated from the Portuguese, Konkani and Marathi, but all of them are Goan." - Manohar Shetty, editor, '...
10 Marras 202241min
Books & Authors podcast with Anirudha Bhattacharjee, coauthor Kishore Kumar; The Ultimate Biography
"Unless you are a good mimic, you cannot be a good playback singer and Kishore Kumar used to mimic voices left, right and centre. He was a very good actor himself and was also very observant. He obser...
4 Marras 202257min
Books & Authors podcast with V Sudarshan, author, Tuticorin; Adventures in Tamil Nadu's Crime Capital
"The stories in the book are propelled by the character of retired DGP Anoop Jaiswal. They tell you how difficult it is to work within a system and what police jobs really are like. They straddle a gr...
28 Loka 202250min
Books & Authors podcast with Kavery Nambisan, author, Cherry Red Cherry Black; The Story of Coffee in India
"In the last decade there has been a greater stress on marketing. This is partly because of climate change, globalisation, and because other countries too produce coffee so there is competition. There...
20 Loka 202242min
Books & Authors podcast with Aparajita Datta, co editor, At the Feet of Living Things
"About the 'fortress approach' to conservation, many conservationists might feel that the end justifies the means because wildlife is so threatened and anyway most of the land is for people. But many ...
13 Loka 20221h
Books & Authors podcast with Jubanashwa Mishra, author, 28 Jobs, 28 Weeks, 28 States
"In India when someone does a menial job, he isn't respected. But I'm so inspired by Jodie Underhill who founded Waste Warriors in Himachal Pradesh and is cleaning the mountains. We have to kill the e...
7 Loka 202249min
