Books & Authors with Upinder Singh, author of Ancient India; Culture of Contradictions
The idea that ancient Indians were non-violent is completely wrong." - Upinder Singh, author of Ancient India; Culture of Contradictions talks to @utterflea on godess worship and misogyny, Buddhism, t...
1 Okt 202155min
Books & Authors with Sid Mallya, author of If I'm Honest; A Memoir of My Mental Health Journey
Battling severe OCD, walking away from his father's business to strike out on his own in LA, and dealing positively with trolls, @sidmallya, author of 'If I'm Honest; A Memoir of My Mental Health Jour...
24 Sep 202142min
Books & Authors with Rajesh Kasturirangan, authors of Who Are We? An Enquiry Into The Indian Mind...
Cyborg India, the persistence and flexibility of caste, lynching as a form of messaging that marries social media spectacle and communal hatred, cognitive capitalism, and the idea of cosiety - @rangan...
16 Sep 202151min
Books & Authors with Martyn Rix, author, Indian Botanical Art; An Illustrated History
Zainuddin, Ram Das, Vishnupersaud and Rungiah were just some of the brilliant artists who worked with the surgeon-botanists of the East India Company to create exquisite scientifically accurate painti...
9 Sep 202144min
Books & Authors podcast with Ruth Vanita, who has translated Mahadevi Varma's My Family
Pre-modern Indian attitudes to animals, what the Mahabharata says about cruelty to bulls, factory farming and vegetarianism, and Mahadevi Varma's stories about animals and their relationships with eac...
3 Sep 202146min
Books & Authors with Vaibhav Purandare, author of Hitler and India; The Untold Story of His Hatred for the country & Its People
Nazi atrocities against Indians in Germany, Subhash Chandra Bose's unfruitful meeting with Hitler, and the strange amnesia that has led to Mien Kampf being a bestseller in India, @VaibhavP21, author o...
26 Aug 202152min
Books & Authors with Akash Kapur, author of Better to have gone; Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
Building a utopian community, the optimism and the bitter internal battles that were fought, the triumphs, great personal tragedies and philosophical struggles of the pioneers... @akashkapur talks to ...
12 Aug 202148min
Books & Authors with Lopamudra Maitra Bajpai, author of The Owl Delivered The Good News All Night
Shapeshifters, women who turn into tigers, drowned worlds, a son-in-law perplexed by his shadow... 'The Owl Delivered The Good News All Night Long' is a collection of fantastic folktales from across I...
5 Aug 202146min
