The Times Of India Podcast

CEO of Ananta Centre Indrani Bagchi decodes the impact of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's state visit to the US and what it means for ties between the two nations.

Senior journalist Anant Bagaitkar talks to Alka Dhupkar about why all journalists from language media outlets need to get access to Parliament, something many of them have been denied since 2020.

Political scientist and chief editor of Studies in Indian Politics, Suhas Palshikar, talks to Alka Dhupkar about his and Yogendra Yadav's campaign to have their names removed from re-edited NCERT textbooks. He also explains his concerns with how the textbooks were edited and why parents should also read their kids' textbooks.

Shahid Siddiqui - who has been an editor and lawmaker- was part of a group of Muslim community representatives who met with the RSS chief in 2022. He explains what that meeting, and subsequent dialogue, has achieved in terms of solving the issues affecting the Muslim community under the Modi government.

Gopal MS, who documents Mumbai under the social media handle @SloganMurugan, and sociologist Ishita Dey explain what smell can tell us about our cities and what it says about us.

Author and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik explains why he feels chat models and AI do a poor job of interpreting our myths and faiths.

Behishta Khairuddin talks to TOI's Manash Gohain about how she completed her masters in chemical engineering from IIT-Madras, which included making a lab at home using her sister's microwave and borrowed beakers.

TOI journalist and author of When Ardh Satya Met Himmatwala, Avijit Ghosh, talks about why he takes a kinder view of 1980s Hindi films, a decade marked by many big changes.

Subodh Jain, a former member of the Railway Board, and author-railway historian Arup Chatterjee join us to understand the issues raised by the train accident in Odisha that left 275 dead.

Prof Sanjay Kumar, co-director of Lokniti, talks about their latest survey that assesses what people think of the biggest issues. He also explains what opposition parties may still be getting wrong.