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Books and Authors

Books and Authors

Hindustan Times - HT Smartcast



In this podcast, National Books Editor Manjula Narayan tells you about books, authors and their journeys. This is a Hindustan Times production, brought to you by HT Smartcast

Books and Authors
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Available Episodes

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Books & Authors with Mytheli Sreenivas, author, Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
EPISODE 127

Indian feminists and the nation's family planning programme forced vasectomies during the Emergency and the idea of small families as a way to eliminate poverty @ProfMytheli author ... Read more

14 Oct51 MINS
52:04
Books & Authors with Jyotirmaya Sharma, author of Elusive Non-Violence; The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi's Religion of Ahimsa
EPISODE 126

Gandhi's introduction of non-violence as an Indian value by fabricating a tradition around it, his radical interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita, his exhortation to the Jews facing H ... Read more

08 Oct52 MINS
53:47
Books & Authors with Upinder Singh, author of Ancient India; Culture of Contradictions
EPISODE 125

The idea that ancient Indians were non-violent is completely wrong." - Upinder Singh, author of Ancient India; Culture of Contradictions talks to @utterflea on godess worship and m ... Read more

01 Oct54 MINS
40:57
Books & Authors with Sid Mallya, author of If I'm Honest; A Memoir of My Mental Health Journey
EPISODE 124

Battling severe OCD, walking away from his father's business to strike out on his own in LA, and dealing positively with trolls, @sidmallya, author of 'If I'm Honest; A Memoir of M ... Read more

24 Sep41 MINS
50:36
Books & Authors with Rajesh Kasturirangan, authors of Who Are We? An Enquiry Into The Indian Mind...
EPISODE 123

Cyborg India, the persistence and flexibility of caste, lynching as a form of messaging that marries social media spectacle and communal hatred, cognitive capitalism, and the idea ... Read more

16 Sep51 MINS
42:59
Books & Authors with Martyn Rix, author, Indian Botanical Art; An Illustrated History
EPISODE 122

Zainuddin, Ram Das, Vishnupersaud and Rungiah were just some of the brilliant artists who worked with the surgeon-botanists of the East India Company to create exquisite scientific ... Read more

09 Sep43 MINS
45:21
Books & Authors podcast with Ruth Vanita, who has translated Mahadevi Varma's My Family
EPISODE 121

Pre-modern Indian attitudes to animals, what the Mahabharata says about cruelty to bulls, factory farming and vegetarianism, and Mahadevi Varma's stories about animals and their re ... Read more

03 Sep45 MINS
51:11
Books & Authors with Vaibhav Purandare, author of Hitler and India; The Untold Story of His Hatred for the country & Its People
EPISODE 120

Nazi atrocities against Indians in Germany, Subhash Chandra Bose's unfruitful meeting with Hitler, and the strange amnesia that has led to Mien Kampf being a bestseller in India, @ ... Read more

26 Aug51 MINS
55:25
Books & Authors with Nirupama Subramanian, author Murder on the Menu
EPISODE 119

Lust, black magic, kidnapping, and murder feature in the story of P Rajagopal, founder of Saravana Bhavan. Murder on the Menu by Nirupama Subramanian shows us a man who stopped at ... Read more

19 Aug55 MINS
47:38
Books & Authors with Akash Kapur, author of Better to have gone; Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
EPISODE 118

Building a utopian community, the optimism and the bitter internal battles that were fought, the triumphs, great personal tragedies and philosophical struggles of the pioneers... @ ... Read more

12 Aug48 MINS
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