Tatti tales: The things you can learn from animal poop
"Poop acts like social media for many herbivores. Besides, the droppings of whales tackle climate change, while elephant waste helps regrow forests. Wild animal poop is helping science and conservatio...
30 Jan 59min
From poffertjes to perad and pepper water
"I used to be very possessive of my recipes. I didn't want to give them away until a senior chef told me, "Listen, even if you give the recipe, everybody's hand is different; it will not be the same."...
22 Jan 1h 1min
Reading, writing, rocking
"The thing about being a writer is that we write from a sensitive, empathetic place but we are also ruthless in that when we are grieving, we take notes of our grief. Ruskin Bond told me that the best...
15 Jan 47min
On journeying through life
"To be alive is, in many ways, to travel; it's to journey through time. We tend to think of travelling as something that involves space or place or geography; moving from one place to another. But the...
9 Jan 1h 2min
Space operas, dystopias, and the perfect worlds of the far future
"Science and speculative fiction has always been about responding to the preoccupations of the time. I was attracted to the genre by the imaginative possibilities it offers by allowing the creation of...
6 Jan 50min
Train through India
"Trains in India are public sites and they are sites for social exchange and its a collective identity but what the smartphone has introduced is not only the private sphere into the public one, but al...
11 Dec 202545min
Irony, 'influenza', and Internet mythology in contemporary India
"I don't take the usual dystopian view of the Internet. I see it as a unit of society and use it to understand the self, the nation and politics. So, I didn't want to look at caste from the usual Dali...
4 Dec 20251h 4min
Jagat Murari & the FTII: art, argument and institution building in young India
"In my father's view, the making of a filmmaker wasn't just about teaching the art, craft, and science [of filmmaking], but also about allowing the filmmaker to find their own unique voice and have th...
28 Nov 20251h 2min
