The Times Of India Podcast
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Latest episodes
Oct 9, 2023 • 22min
Ask Devdutt Pattanaik: How Indian religious myths differ in depiction of women?
Author and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik explains how Indian myths are different from other mythologies in the depiction of women and feminist themes in Indian myths
Oct 6, 2023 • 28min
Why ajinomoto is feared but still a quiet part of our diet
One of India's finest food writers, Vikram Doctor talks about how ajinomoto has always had a bad reputation that it didn't deserve and why we can't get enough of it in our food.
Oct 4, 2023 • 25min
Time to redraw India's electoral map?
The passage of the Women's Reservation Bill raised questions about delimitation which could re-organise the electoral map of India after half a century.Former IAS officer and founder of the Lok Satta movement, JP Narayan, talks to TOI's Alka Dhupkar about the need to reorganise India's electoral map and what needs to be done to ensure no region feels shortchanged.
Oct 2, 2023 • 21min
What to expect when the monsoons aren't normal
The monsoon this year has been below normal with some regions hit worse than others. Times of India's senior editor Vishwa Mohan and CareEdge's chief economist Rajani Sinha explain how a below normal monsoon could affect food prices and economic growth in the coming months.
Sep 29, 2023 • 44min
Bollywood's decade of glamour, goons, and garishness
TOI journalist and author of the book 'When Ardh Satya Met Himmatwala', Avijit Ghosh talks about why he takes a kinder view of 1980s Hindi films and why it was a decade marked by many big changes.
Sep 27, 2023 • 17min
Don't raise your blood pressure
Dr K. Srinath Reddy, who is honorary distinguished professor at the Public Health Foundation of India, decodes a WHO report on hypertension, or high blood pressure, which says Indians are largely undiagnosed and untreated for the condition.
Sep 25, 2023 • 21min
'If society has so much hatred it was bound to enter Parliament'
Former MP and vice president of the RLD, Shahid Siddiqui, talks with Harinder Baweja about BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri's abuse-filled speech in Parliament and why he feels the action taken is inadequate. He also reveals why he remains hopeful about the future of the Muslim community in India.
Sep 22, 2023 • 29min
India-Canada ties hit a new low, what next?
Former Indian ambassador Anil Trigunayat and Jeff Nankivell, President and CEO of Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, explain what to expect in India-Canada ties after they hit a new low.
Sep 20, 2023 • 25min
The implications of women's reservation in Parliament
Tushar Chakrabarty, Senior Analyst at PRS Legislative Research, talks about the history of the women's reservation bill. Then, political columnist Radhika Ramaseshan explains why previous attempts at passing the bill failed, the political gains from this move and whether it could change politics.
Sep 18, 2023 • 16min
A Mumbai icon rolls to a stop
The last of a generation of double decker buses has driven into the Mumbai sunset. Gopal MS, who chronicles the city on the social media handle Mumbai Paused, talks about the magic of the double decker. Then Vidyadhar Date, author and head of a BEST commuter group, talks about the larger problems the city's bus system is facing.
