Books & Authors podcast with with Adrija Roychowdhury, author, Delhi, in Thy Name
The lotus in the Kashmiri Pandit imagination, the falcon in the north Indian Muslim one, the growth of East Pakistan Displaced Persons Colony... @AdrijaRoychow, author, 'Delhi, In Thy Name' talks to @...
25 Nov 202155min
Books & Authors podcast with Pranay Lal, author, Invisible Empire; The Natural History of Viruses
Vaccine hesitancy, cannibalism and immunity to prion disease, viruses and depression, the streaked tulip crisis and the potyvirus, industrial foods and poor gut health... @pranaylal, author of Invisib...
18 Nov 202147min
Books & Authors with with Ramya Ramamurthy, author, Branded In History
Ordering a Rolls Royce through a catalogue, Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore endorsing products, companies advertising that their rivals use human waste to make soaps, the cachet of swadeshi goods in th...
12 Nov 202146min
Books & Authors with Neema Shah, author, Kololo Hill
In August 1972, the Ugandan government under Idi Amin decreed that all Ugandan Asians must leave the country in 90 days and that they must take only what they could carry. Thousands of Indians, many o...
2 Nov 202143min
Books & Authors with Farhad Dadyburjor, author, The Other Man
'The Other Man' is possibly India's first happy gay novel. Set in Mumbai, this is the story of good looking, rich and successful Ved Mehta who's about to be engaged to the perfectly suitable Disha Kap...
29 Okt 202155min
Books & Authors with Tarun K Saint, editor, the Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Volume 2
Speciesists on planets with three moons, pain merchants, murderous dolls in Calcutta, djinns in a future Dhaka, vengeful droids in Karachi, and othering and betrayal in Mumbai Prime - there's all of t...
21 Okt 202146min
Books & Authors with Mytheli Sreenivas, author, Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
Indian feminists and the nation's family planning programme forced vasectomies during the Emergency and the idea of small families as a way to eliminate poverty @ProfMytheli author of 'Reproductive Po...
14 Okt 202152min
Books & Authors with Jyotirmaya Sharma, author of Elusive Non-Violence; The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi's Religion of Ahimsa
Gandhi's introduction of non-violence as an Indian value by fabricating a tradition around it, his radical interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita, his exhortation to the Jews facing Hitler... Jyotirmaya ...
8 Okt 202153min
