Books and Authors

From Uchchaishravas to Prithviraj Chauhan's Chetak and Ranjit Singh's Laili, horses were an integral part of the Indian landscape, myth, and history. Author of The Tale of the Horse, Yashaswini Chandra talks of the import of horses from central Asia and Arabia, of the indigenous breeds like the Kathiawari and the Manipuri, of Shah Jahan's favourite piebald horse, of expert Maratha women equestrian...

From Uchchaishravas to Prithviraj Chauhan's Chetak and Ranjit Singh's Laili, horses were an integral part of the Indian landscape, myth, and history. Author of The Tale of the Horse, Yashaswini Chandra talks of the import of horses from central Asia and Arabia, of the indigenous breeds like the Kathiawari and the Manipuri, of Shah Jahan's favourite piebald horse, of expert Maratha women equestrian...

The Sindhi community in India has been stereotyped as both enterprising and hardworking, and cutthroat and flashy. Saaz Aggarwal, editor of 'Sindhi Tapestry; Reflections on the Sindhi Identity', talks about Partition, cultural amnesia, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sindhi community in India has been stereotyped as both enterprising and hardworking, and cutthroat and flashy. Saaz Aggarwal, editor of 'Sindhi Tapestry; Reflections on the Sindhi Identity', talks about Partition, cultural amnesia, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CID, Pyasa, Kagaz Ke Phool, Chaudvin ka Chand, Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam are all classics... Guru Dutt's short, tragic life, his huge creative output, his doomed relationships with his phenomenally talented wife Geeta Dutt and with Waheeda Rehman, the leading lady of his most memorable films - Yasser Usman looks at all that in this book on one of the great auteurs of commercial Hindi cinema. Learn mor...

CID, Pyasa, Kagaz Ke Phool, Chaudvin ka Chand, Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam are all classics... Guru Dutt's short, tragic life, his huge creative output, his doomed relationships with his phenomenally talented wife Geeta Dutt and with Waheeda Rehman, the leading lady of his most memorable films - Yasser Usman looks at all that in this book on one of the great auteurs of commercial Hindi cinema. Learn mor...

The electoral origins of Hindutva, the Vajpayee-Advani relationship, Hindu Fevicol, and the inability of the opposition to really understand the BJP... Vinay Sitapati, author of Jugalbandi; The BJP Before Modi discusses all that in this week's Books & Authors podcast with Manjula Narayan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The electoral origins of Hindutva, the Vajpayee-Advani relationship, Hindu Fevicol, and the inability of the opposition to really understand the BJP... Vinay Sitapati, author of Jugalbandi; The BJP Before Modi discusses all that in this week's Books & Authors podcast with Manjula Narayan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sai Paranjpye, whose memoir of her creative life, A Patchwork Quilt, is just out, talks about the making of classic films Sparsh and Chashme Buddoor, her great appreciation of intelligent actors, and her irritation at being called a "woman director".   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sai Paranjpye, whose memoir of her creative life, A Patchwork Quilt, is just out, talks about the making of classic films Sparsh and Chashme Buddoor, her great appreciation of intelligent actors, and her irritation at being called a "woman director".   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Food and Faith, Shoba Narayan explores history, myth, identity, and the role of spirituality in her life by partaking of sacred food in shrines across India - from Puri's bhog to Amritsar's langar to Jewish halva in Mumbai, to Goa's feasts, and Jaipur's rabdi!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Food and Faith, Shoba Narayan explores history, myth, identity, and the role of spirituality in her life by partaking of sacred food in shrines across India - from Puri's bhog to Amritsar's langar to Jewish halva in Mumbai, to Goa's feasts, and Jaipur's rabdi!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim I Gurung, author of Ayo Gorkhali; A History of the Gurkhas, talks about the origins of the community, their contribution to the Allied victory in both world wars and the subsequent shabby treatment of war veterans, their role in saving lives during the Partition, and their fight for parity within the British army.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim I Gurung, author of Ayo Gorkhali; A History of the Gurkhas, talks about the origins of the community, their contribution to the Allied victory in both world wars and the subsequent shabby treatment of war veterans, their role in saving lives during the Partition, and their fight for parity within the British army.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Catch Manjula Narayan in conversation with Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi whose new book, Loss, is a memoir of grief that looks at the deaths of his father, his mother and a beloved pet. Lyrical, deeply insightful, and occasionally savagely funny, Loss examines the questions we all grapple with and leads the reader to an understanding of how death imbues life with meaning.  Learn more about your ad c...

Catch Manjula Narayan in conversation with Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi whose new book, Loss, is a memoir of grief that looks at the deaths of his father, his mother and a beloved pet. Lyrical, deeply insightful, and occasionally savagely funny, Loss examines the questions we all grapple with and leads the reader to an understanding of how death imbues life with meaning.  Learn more about your ad c...

Yudhishtira as a man who hasn't got his due, Karna as a tragic hero, Eklavya as a representative of the marginalised, the horror of Draupadi's cheerharan, Duryodhana's growth from a petty prince to a generous hero, and the Mahabharata as a complex text about good people who don't always do good things and bad people who are sometimes honourable - Arshia Sattar, who has retold the Mahabharata for C...

Yudhishtira as a man who hasn't got his due, Karna as a tragic hero, Eklavya as a representative of the marginalised, the horror of Draupadi's cheerharan, Duryodhana's growth from a petty prince to a generous hero, and the Mahabharata as a complex text about good people who don't always do good things and bad people who are sometimes honourable - Arshia Sattar, who has retold the Mahabharata for C...

"To be healthy, eat local, seasonal, traditional. Life is very simple unless we allow the weight loss and food industry to complicate things for us", says Rujuta Diwekar. Catch Rujuta Diwekar, celebrity nutritionist and author of Eating in the Age of Dieting, in conversation with Manjula Narayan, National Books Editor, HT, on this week's Books & Authors podcast.  Learn more about your ad choices....

"To be healthy, eat local, seasonal, traditional. Life is very simple unless we allow the weight loss and food industry to complicate things for us", says Rujuta Diwekar. Catch Rujuta Diwekar, celebrity nutritionist and author of Eating in the Age of Dieting, in conversation with Manjula Narayan, National Books Editor, HT, on this week's Books & Authors podcast.  Learn more about your ad choices....

The unhealed wound of 1984, the Green Revolution, Khalistan, Hindutva's attempts to coopt Sikhism and the double-bind that Punjab is in today... Amandeep Sandhu, author of Panjab; Journeys Through Fault Lines talks about all that to Manjula Narayan in this week's Books & Authors podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The unhealed wound of 1984, the Green Revolution, Khalistan, Hindutva's attempts to coopt Sikhism and the double-bind that Punjab is in today... Amandeep Sandhu, author of Panjab; Journeys Through Fault Lines talks about all that to Manjula Narayan in this week's Books & Authors podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Manjula Narayan, National Books Editor, Hindustan Times dialogues with Ananth Krishnan, author of India's China Challenge. Listen to this episode as Manjula discuss the complications that hurdled the author's way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Manjula Narayan, National Books Editor, Hindustan Times dialogues with Ananth Krishnan, author of India's China Challenge. Listen to this episode as Manjula discuss the complications that hurdled the author's way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Manjula Narayan, National Books Editor, Hindustan Times dialogues with RK Raghavan, former head of CBI and the author of 'A Road Well Travelled'. Tune in now and listen to the bone-chilling experiences of the former head of CBI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices