Books & Authors podcast with Nilakantan RS, author, South vs North; India's Great Divide
"India's southern states have diverged to an impossible extent compared to the rest of the country. The problem in health, for example, is that the union government wants to centralise much of its pol...
30 Syys 202251min
Books & Authors podcast with Ravindra Rathee, author, True To Their Salt
"When the British decided to try the INA (Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army) soldiers at Lal Qila, it was the last nail in the coffin. Intelligence reports of the time are very clear that th...
22 Syys 20221h 3min
Books & Authors podcast with Bibek Debroy, author Inked in India
"Most people who use fountain pens today use foreign ones because they are not even aware that Indian fountain pens are made. We have a serious marketing and distribution problem," says Bibek Debroy, ...
16 Syys 202251min
Books & Authors with Dr Ekta Chaudhary, author, Garden Up
"Gardening is not about spending lots of money. You can basically start from your kitchen, and that's what I've tried to convey in this book. And don't be scared. Even if you fail, it's ok; you can tr...
9 Syys 202251min
Books & Authors with Renuka Narayanan, author, Learning from Loss
"The Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Srimad Bhagavatam, and the Buddhist epics like the Manimekalai all recognise that it's a random universe and that anything can go wrong at any time. What can a frai...
1 Syys 202256min
Books & Authors with Vaibhav Purandare, author, Shivaji, India's Great Warrior King
"What stood out for me about Shivaji is that a man who was believed to have no hope at all emerged as a giant killer. There are numerous instances when previous biographies have got it all wrong simpl...
25 Elo 20221h
Books & Authors with Saaz Aggarwal, author, Losing Home; Finding Home
"The Sindhi language of the common people, which encompasses wonderful ways of thinking, is now lost. For Sindhis in India, the language is gone, the culture is gone, and the history is also gone. Tha...
18 Elo 202255min
Books & Authors podcast with Pravin Sawhney, author, The Last War
"Since 2018, the Chinese have been preparing for an AI war. Today they are in the Tibet Autonomous Region and their robots also have real data sets which they have acquired from the operational area. ...
11 Elo 202255min
