The Times Of India Podcast

Sanjay Nirupam talks to TOI's Alka Dhupkar about the Shiv Sena's past strengths, its convenient embrace of Hindutva and the challenges it faces.

Gateway House's Amit Bhandari and Ananta Centre's Indrani Bagchi explain Pakistan's economic mess, the role China played and why the rescue will need more than reducing chai consumption.

Prominent child psychiatrist Dr. Shekhar Seshadri explains concerns over children and device use, how to tell if someone's addicted and the help they need.

In the first of a fortnightly Times of India podcast episode, mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik explains war in our scriptures and the gods our soldiers evoke before battle.

How a split in the Shiv Sena will affect the state's political parties and also have an impact on the national elections

Times of India's Ishani Duttagupta and immigration lawyer Poorvi Chothani explain why it's so hard to get a visa to the US and how it's affecting Indians working there.

India-born businessman Nitesh Pal explains how his life was upended by the Russian invasion, why he returned to Ukraine, and why he's not leaving again.

Sociologist Pushpendra Kumar Singh helps decode the anger over  'Agnipath' and why the schemes announced by the government may not cool tempers.

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

Lt Gen (retd) Satish Dua and Sushant Singh, Senior Fellow at Centre for Policy Research, explain how the 'Agnipath' recruitment scheme changes India's defence forces, their concerns and the path ahead.

The Times of India's K Shriniwas Rao and cricket analyst Joy Bhattacharjya make sense of the massive IPL broadcast rights auction and its implications.

Equality Labs' Thenmozhi Soundararajan talks about her cancelled talk at Google, caste-based discrimination in US companies and why critics are getting it wrong by terming her 'anti-Hindu'

Journalist and author of 'Sumitra and Anees', Seema Chishti explains how her parents' marriage shows what has changed in India and how food can be used to unite or divide.

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

Retired diplomat Talmiz Ahmad decodes why Islamic nations have reacted to a BJP spokesperson's statements and how it could affect foreign ties, and Indians working abroad.

As Covid-19 cases rise across states, Public Health Foundation of India's Dr K Srinath Reddy and Dr Anurag Agrawal at Ashoka University answer queries on what we should be concerned about.

TOI's Chandigarh resident editor Sarju Kaul makes sense of the singer's brutal killing, gangs in the state and what this incident means for the new state government.

Former Maharashtra chief minister and minister of state in the UPA government Prithviraj Chavan talks about how he thinks the Congress can revive itself, the reforms it should undertake and more.

Commentator and cricket analyst Joy Bhattacharjya explains how Hardik Pandya could change Team India and how the IPL could change the cricket calendar.

Journalist and author Rituparna Chatterjee talks about going through a school's shooter drill and TOI's Chidanand Rajghatta explains little may change after the horrific shooting in Texas.

ASHAs may have won a WHO award, but Usha Thakur, an ASHA in Delhi, explains what they'd prefer. Then, one of the initiative's founders, Dr T Sundararaman, explains the success of ASHAs and why they're essential for India.

India signs up for a new trade framework and the Quad comes up with new issues to tackle. Ananta Centre's Indrani Bagchi helps make sense of the developments.

Gurprriet Siingh from Russell Reynolds India talks about dealing with depression at work while Manasthali's Dr Jyoti Kapoor gives some tips on how to deal with it.

Times of India 'Swaminomics' columnist and economist Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar explains why there's no cure for high prices and the effects it will have.

K Shriniwas Rao decodes why two of the IPL's biggest teams crashed while Akaash Dasgupta makes sense of this year's biggest successes.