Books and Stuff Podcast

In this episode of the 'Books and Stuff' podcast, the host discusses groundbreaking books with Dr. Pallavi Narayan, a writer, editor, and literature enthusiast. She shares her journey from being a young poet to an author of multiple books, including 'Singapore at Home, Life Across Lines' and 'Pamuk's Istanbul, The Self and the City'. Dr. Narayan offers profound insights...

A very simple question to you. Just take a piece of paper and pen or a your mobile device. Think of any authors or creators that come to your mind when I say the phrase science fiction. Just the top 3, 4, 5 names maybe. How many Indian science fiction writers popped up in your list? If you are anything like me, my best guess is you probably have none in your list. But Sumit Shetty from the Pune Wr...

Imagine you have 48 hours in a day and 14 days in a week. What all would you be able to achieve? Without changing your achievements, change the number of hours in a day and days in a week to the usual 24 and 7. Look through your list, you can achieve a lot more than what you think, correct? This is the kind of thinking that Pathik Mitra seems to have taught himself. He holds an engineering degree...

In the second episode of the Books n Stuff podcast, Parvathi Ramkumar and Medhavi Dhyani discuss the book "Legends and Lattes" by Travis Baldree. Bala Ramadurai quizzes the two readers and finds more about the book. The summary: This book is called Legends and Lattes. It's by Travis Baldree. It's also published by Tor, which is an imprint of MacMillan in the US. This book is abou...

Foundation is the first book in the Foundation series of books. There is a prequel to this book, but we're not gonna talk about that. We're just gonna focus on Foundation. So what we have here, the plot basically is that the 12,000 years there's been a galactic empire. Imagine that a 12,000 year old galactic empire, and this empire is dying, and one person called Harry Seldon, he's a psychohistori...

Introduction Welcome to the Books and Stuff Podcast Series. Krishna  likes to read books, but  Bala  doesn't. Bala likes to write, but Krishna doesn't. They both love to talk! So, Bala and Krishna decided to talk about what Krishna reads. And thus the idea of recording their chatter was born. The two friends will discuss books they love. This series of podcasts is for busy people. P...