Books & Authors podcast with Siddharth Sonkar, author, What Privacy Means
The fact that we are losing control over our own sense of time, how we spend our money, and the decisional autonomy that we exercise on these social media platforms is worrying. That we don't have a l...
7 Apr 202249min
Books And Authors podcast with Satyabrata Rout, author, Scenography; An Indian Perspective
From the Natyashastra to now, there has been no theorizing of theatre in India. I don't know why people didn't try," says Satyabrata Rout, author, Scenography; An Indian Perspective, which is rich in ...
2 Apr 202258min
Books and Authors podcast with Nikhil Menon, author, Planning Democracy
The heady post-independence years of the 1950s when it was believed that democratic planning could take the nation from abject poverty to prosperity, India's Five-Year plans that grew out of the attem...
24 Mar 202245min
Books and Authors podcast with Pallavi Nigam Sahay, author A Sip in Time
"The idea is to mirror the flavour of snacks to tea and not to contrast it. Contrasting snacks can ruin the taste of tea, though it does work well with masala chai," says Pallavi Nigam Sahay, author A...
10 Mar 202256min
Books and Authors podcast with Nasreen Munni Kabir, author, Lata Mangeshkar... In Her Own Voice
"With Lata Mangeshkar went a huge, massive chunk of film history and film music history," says Nasreen Munni Kabir, author, 'Lata Mangeshkar... In Her Own Voice'. This book of conversations with the l...
3 Mar 202252min
Books and Authors podcast with Kavery Nambisan, author, A Luxury Called Health
"WHO has come out strongly against simple medicines like Ivermectin despite the fact that there is so much data showing that it is effective in treating COVID. This is because the vaccine lobby is ver...
24 Feb 202252min
Books & Authors podcast with Aloke Lal, author, Murder in the Bylanes
"Sometimes police action during riots is cramped because of the complicity of people who are ruling or those who want to rule - that is the politicians. They would like the situation to develop in a c...
17 Feb 202253min
Books & Authors with Tanuj Bhojwani, author, The Art of Bitfulness
Our toxic relationship with our devices, the negative impact of huge and very quick scaling up of businesses, the need to change the all-pervasive culture of lauding those sorts of practices, the bana...
10 Feb 20221h 6min
