The Times Of India Podcast

TOI's Vaibhav Purandare speaks with senior journalist Sagarika Ghose on why she decided to write a biography of AB Vajpayee, and his relationship with Advani and RSS

Will offices open this year or will waves of Covid-19 keep them shut? We look at how companies have tweaked how they expect their employees to work, perhaps for good.

As China builds a bridge over the Pangong lake in Ladakh, defence and international affairs expert Manoj Joshi joins us to decode the latest developments on India's eastern front.

2022 opens on a downer, with Covid-19 cases spiking across India. Epidemiologist and pulmonologist Dr Lancelot Pinto explains the risks the Omicron variant comes with and the precautions we need to take

As 2021 comes to a close, we take a look back at the year that's passed through some of the voices that featured on our show, making sense of a tumultuous time

As 2021 draws to a close, food writer Vikram Doctor and National Restaurant Association of India's Anurag Katriar decode food delivery trends and what it means for ghar ka khana

As the Hindu Vahini Sena’s Haridwar conclave casts its dark shadow over India, scholar Suhas Palshikar takes the political temperature and discusses the idea of a Hindu rashtra.

As the Omicron threat looms large, Padmapriya, one of the thousands of long-haulers, offers this harrowing account as a cautionary tale.

With Parliament concluding a day ahead of schedule, our two in-house political watchers Subodh Ghildiyal and Rajeev Deshpande weigh in on a session that saw Opposition protest, even though Lok Sabha clocked 82% productivity and Rajya Sabha 48%

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

Understanding the implications of the new Act that seeks to link Aadhaar to voter ids and how it impacts Indian democracy. Former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi, ADR's Maj Gen (retd) Anil Verma, and Access Now's Raman Jit Singh Chima weigh in.

Director Kabir Khan on ‘83', Ranveer Singh’s transformation and fanboy moments with Kapil Dev.

Dr Shashank Joshi in Mumbai explains what we need to worry about as the highly transmissible Omicron variant makes its presence felt, and Dr Rajeev Jayadevan explains why booster shots shouldn't be our biggest concern

A conversation with biographer Syed Badrul Ahsan on the political legacy of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and how India contributed in shaping the newly-formed country.

Journalist and author Pradeep Magazine talks about why Virat Kohli's removal as ODI captain was a raw deal, the highs and lows of Indian cricket over the decades and about the original legends of the game.

The Vicktrina wedding kept paparazzis at bay. How are Mumbai’s paps coping as more and more stars control access and narrative.

TOI's Chidanand Rajghatta, journalist Snigdha Sur and author-journalist Anita Raghavan weigh in on what Parag Agrawal's elevation to Twitter CEO reveals about Indians in the US and in the world of tech.

Retired Air Vice Marshal Manmohan Bahadur and defence analyst Rahul Bedi weigh in on the chopper crash that killed Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and 12 others and the tenure of India's highest-ranking military official.

TOI diplomatic editor Indrani Bagchi explains the significance of Vladimir Putin's visit at a time when India is moving closer to US and Russia to China, and why India-Russia relations need nurturing.

Nearly three decades after the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition, journalist and author Nilanjan Mukhopadhay explains how the event shaped the BJP's politics and why the building of the Ram temple won't alter its course.

The pandemic crushed India's multi-crore wedding industry in 2020, but this year it's back with a bang. But the big Indian weddings have changed, perhaps forever

Badminton legend Pullela Gopichand on what it takes to create winners and how he overcame his own challenges as a player and coach

What does a new, possibly highly transmissible variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 mean for India just as it opens up? Eminent virologist Dr Shahid Jameel explains what to worry about and what we need to do.

After the recent defection of 12 MLAs in Meghalaya to TMC — a look at how the party in Bengal is expanding its footprint. In this episode, editor Patricia Mukhim, political analyst Neelanjan Sircar and TOI's Sunando Sarkar weigh in.

Two deeply-researched reports reveal exactly how the narrative was influenced and controlled by social media on the farmers' protest and the Aryan Khan case