Books and Authors

Rajinikanth's life as a porter and a bus conductor before he became a superstar, the subaltern fans who made him an icon in Tamil cinema, his close friendships, how his status threatened chief minister Jayalalithaa, and his decision to stay away from politics, Vaasanthi, author of Rajinikanth; A Life talks to Manjula Narayan about all that in this week's Books & Authors podcast. Learn more about y...

His open marriage with Protima, his torrid relationship with Parveen Babi, the swinging 70s, his career in Hollywood, Bollywood, his Wild success in Italy, and his great honesty in his memoir, Stories I Must Tell, Kabir Bedi talks to Manjula Narayan about all that on the Books and Authors podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

His open marriage with Protima, his torrid relationship with Parveen Babi, the swinging 70s, his career in Hollywood, Bollywood, his Wild success in Italy, and his great honesty in his memoir, Stories I Must Tell, Kabir Bedi talks to Manjula Narayan about all that on the Books and Authors podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part cookbook, part memoir, Indranee Ghosh's Spiced, Smoked, Pickled, Preserved presents vignettes from a family's history over three generations and from her own childhood in Shillong. She talks to Manjula Narayan about her great recipes and her reminiscences of a vanished world on the Books & Authors podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part cookbook, part memoir, Indranee Ghosh's Spiced, Smoked, Pickled, Preserved presents vignettes from a family's history over three generations and from her own childhood in Shillong. She talks to Manjula Narayan about her great recipes and her reminiscences of a vanished world on the Books & Authors podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The deeply intellectual nature of Hindustani classical music, the path of Indian modernity, and the new intolerance for beauty that arose in the 1980s and has led to the current hostility to nuance in every sphere... Amit Chaudhuri, author of Finding the Raga, talks to Manjula Narayan about all that on this week's Books & Authors podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...

The deeply intellectual nature of Hindustani classical music, the path of Indian modernity, and the new intolerance for beauty that arose in the 1980s and has led to the current hostility to nuance in every sphere... Amit Chaudhuri, author of Finding the Raga, talks to Manjula Narayan about all that on this week's Books & Authors podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...

The need to publish books of cultural and historical value, forging bonds with feminist presses across the world, and why its worthwhile to fight for bibliodiversity in publishing... Ritu Menon, founder of the feminist press, Women Unlimited, and author of Address Book; A Publishing Memoir In the Time of Covid, talks about all that on this week's Books & Authors podcast. Learn more about your ad c...

The need to publish books of cultural and historical value, forging bonds with feminist presses across the world, and why its worthwhile to fight for bibliodiversity in publishing... Ritu Menon, founder of the feminist press, Women Unlimited, and author of Address Book; A Publishing Memoir In the Time of Covid, talks about all that on this week's Books & Authors podcast. Learn more about your ad c...

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Biophilia, the tangible experience of gardening, forest bathing, and the plantdemic - Trisha Bora, author of How Not to Kill Your House Plants talks about all that on this week's Books & Authors podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Biophilia, the tangible experience of gardening, forest bathing, and the plantdemic - Trisha Bora, author of How Not to Kill Your House Plants talks about all that on this week's Books & Authors podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you bring about social change? Are influencers really all that influential? And can a small minority change the way society thinks? Touching on a range of subjects from Black Lives Matter to the Arab Spring, sociologist Damon Centola talks about how big ideas spread. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you bring about social change? Are influencers really all that influential? And can a small minority change the way society thinks? Touching on a range of subjects from Black Lives Matter to the Arab Spring, sociologist Damon Centola talks about how big ideas spread. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gossip, scandal and a perfect murder! Anuja Chauhan's whodunnit Club You to Death features a beautiful corpse, an unusual investigating officer in ACP Bhavani Singh, action set in Delhi's poshest club and a set of characters that gives the reader insights into everything from young love to privilege, politics and hypocrisy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gossip, scandal and a perfect murder! Anuja Chauhan's whodunnit Club You to Death features a beautiful corpse, an unusual investigating officer in ACP Bhavani Singh, action set in Delhi's poshest club and a set of characters that gives the reader insights into everything from young love to privilege, politics and hypocrisy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Written by Jahnavi Misra, The Punished; Stories of Death Row Prisoners in India is based on interviews with condemned prisoners and their families done by the criminal justice centre, Project 39A. Great poverty, torture, and mental illness are recurring themes in this collection that aims to make readers understand the people we want to kill.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...

Written by Jahnavi Misra, The Punished; Stories of Death Row Prisoners in India is based on interviews with condemned prisoners and their families done by the criminal justice centre, Project 39A. Great poverty, torture, and mental illness are recurring themes in this collection that aims to make readers understand the people we want to kill.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...

The man who befriends crocodiles, the fate of the blind Gangetic dolphin, the joy of a flock of rosy starlings on a semal, and the tragedy of the Indian elephant - conservationist Neha Sinha, author of Wild & Wilful talks about all that in the Books & Authors podcast this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The man who befriends crocodiles, the fate of the blind Gangetic dolphin, the joy of a flock of rosy starlings on a semal, and the tragedy of the Indian elephant - conservationist Neha Sinha, author of Wild & Wilful talks about all that in the Books & Authors podcast this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sunita Dwivedi, author of Buddha in Gandhara, travelled across Pakistan and Afghanistan to visit the numerous Buddhist sites there. In this episode of the Books & Authors podcast she talks about circumambulating a stupa in a burqa, staring in wonder at the architecture of the caves in Bamiyan, and of the great need to preserve Buddhist heritage sites across South Asia. Learn more about your ad cho...

Sunita Dwivedi, author of Buddha in Gandhara, travelled across Pakistan and Afghanistan to visit the numerous Buddhist sites there. In this episode of the Books & Authors podcast she talks about circumambulating a stupa in a burqa, staring in wonder at the architecture of the caves in Bamiyan, and of the great need to preserve Buddhist heritage sites across South Asia. Learn more about your ad cho...

Operation West End, match fixing, sting operations in public interest, and the current state of Indian journalism, Aniruddha Bahal, author of A Taste for Trouble; Memories from Another Time and editor-in-chief of Cobrapost discusses all that in this week's Books & Authors podcast with Manjula Narayan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Operation West End, match fixing, sting operations in public interest, and the current state of Indian journalism, Aniruddha Bahal, author of A Taste for Trouble; Memories from Another Time and editor-in-chief of Cobrapost discusses all that in this week's Books & Authors podcast with Manjula Narayan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices