The Times Of India Podcast

How industrialists, actors and politicians fell for conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar's many schemes, including a Rs 200 crore fraud orchestrated from inside a jail

Dr Indrajit Khandekar has been working to eliminate the invasive finger test for women for over a decade. He explains why the test should be junked and what the Supreme Court's latest order misses.

How the murder of two women, accompanied by allegations of cannibalism and torture, made national headlines. Journalist Anjana George walks us through the events so far

Mark Bergen, author of ‘Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination’, talks about the inner workings of video platform and its many controversies

What do Indian scriptures say about feasting, indulgence and detoxing during festivals? Mythologist and author Devdutt Pattanaik explains.

Ashwini KP, the first Dalit woman from Asia to become special rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council, explains what she intends to do and why being anti-caste isn't being anti-Hindu

Dhirendra Kumar, the CEO of Value Research, explains how to invest in the current economic climate and how to protect your savings

TOI's Aakash Ahuja and Kalyan Das explain how a raid to catch an alleged illegal mining mastermind resulted in the death of a woman and a war of words between two states.

Journalist Shakir Mir explains the effect of targeted killings in Kashmir while Prof Ankur Datta explains how best to rehabilitate the Pandit community.

As Xi Jinping stays on as China's president, CEO of think-tank Ananta Centre Indrani Bagchi makes sense of what it means for India and global politics.

US-based women's rights activist Elnaz Sarbar talks to TOI's Alka Dhupkar about the protests in Iran, growing up hating the hijab and what people in Iran want

Author and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik talks about what Indian mythology tells us about winning and losing whether it is to do with a game or life.

The Times of India's Hemali Chhapia explains the issues with India's oldest grading system of colleges and universities that has let smaller institutes get the same grade as prestigious ones.

Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi head and Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar on why Arvind Kejriwal should have backed his minister and why many Dalits continue to embrace Buddhism.

Former chief election commissioner SY Quraishi explains what the Election Commission should and shouldn't do when it comes to policing 'freebies'

Times of India's Alka Dhupkar and Bhavika Jain talk about the two Shiv Sena rallies on Dussehra and what they tell us about the political turmoil in Maharashtra

Former Maharashtra chief minister and G-23 letter signatory Prithviraj Chavan talks to Alka Dhupkar about the upcoming party president elections and the challenges that remain.

Dr Arun Gupta from think-tank Nutrition Advocacy in Public Interest talks about the problems with how India plans to warn people against eating junk food

University of Michigan researcher Joyojeet Pal uncovers the campaign against Bollywood on social media and journalist Kaveree Bamzai explains how much it has hurt an already struggling industry.

Mythologist and author Devdutt Pattanaik decodes our Navratri rituals and why the imposition of food choices isn't true to the festival's origins.

In light of the ban by the government, TOI's Rajeev KR from Kozhikode explains why, despite its growth, the Popular Front of India remained on the fringes.

TajSATS executive chief Arun Batra talks to Saurabh Sinha about the science and economics behind meals on flights and what he'll never serve a flyer

TOI Plus columnist Hasan Suroor and columnist Sunny Hundal talk about the possible impact of the Hindu-Muslim violence in the UK city of Leicester.

As the legendary fast bowler retires after a two-decade-long career, author Suprita Das explains just how much Jhulan Goswami changed Indian cricket.

Author of The Great Smog of India, Siddharth Singh talks about why he expects no reduction in air pollution this year and what needs to be done to improve the air thousands of Indians breathe every winter.