The Times Of India Podcast
The Times of India podcast expands storytelling and reportage from India’s largest newsroom. We put the spotlight on ideas, people and stories that matter from Monday to Friday. To read views and analysis, please subscribe to TOI+ at https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-plus
Latest episodes
Jun 14, 2023 • 38min
Ask Devdutt Pattanaik: Will AI, chatbots influence our myths and religions
Author and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik explains why he feels chat models and AI do a poor job of interpreting our myths and faiths.
Jun 12, 2023 • 23min
Studying at IIT while in Afghanistan
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.
Jun 9, 2023 • 44min
Bollywood's decade of sex, disco and reality
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.
Jun 6, 2023 • 29min
Lessons from the Odisha train tragedy
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.
Jun 5, 2023 • 21min
What the nation thinks of PM Modi and his government's policies
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.
Jun 2, 2023 • 17min
'In my eyes the protesting wrestlers are already winners'
Olympian swimmer Nisha Millet talks about what the wrestlers' protest has achieved, her own experience of sexual harassment as an athlete and why she won't stay silent about the protest.
May 31, 2023 • 17min
How Chennai emerged Super Kings of IPL again
TOI's Akaash Dasgupta joins us to talk about the IPL season, that dramatic finale and what happens if Dhoni doesn't turn up to play next year.
May 29, 2023 • 28min
The man who designed India's new Parliament
Bimal Patel, the architect and urban planner behind the Central Vista project that includes the new Parliament building, talks about why most people will be pleasantly surprised by his work and the perils of working in polarised times.
May 26, 2023 • 18min
Freeing fishermen from government net
Journalist and activist Jatin Desai talks to TOI's Bhavika Jain about how hundreds of fishermen keep getting jailed for venturing into Pakistan and how things can be improved.
May 24, 2023 • 27min
Dealing with heatwaves
As India experiences heatwaves and prepares for more, Centre for Policy Research's Aditya Pillai discusses how good are our plans to deal with them.
