
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

Feb 17, 2023 • 24min
How to get a blood test to cost just Rs 10
Professor Suman Chakraborty, recipient of the 2022 Infosys Prize, explains how their revolutionary low-cost blood test technology could also work with just a drop of blood.

Feb 15, 2023 • 26min
Ask Devdutt Pattanaik: How do Indian ancient texts celebrate love and desire?
Author and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik explains how Indian myths celebrated love and desire long before Valentine's Day, and love stories in our myths (including queer ones).

Feb 13, 2023 • 24min
Screening how much kids use devices
Prominent child psychiatrist Dr. Shekhar Seshadri explains the big concerns about children and device use, how to tell if a child is addicted and the help they need.

Feb 10, 2023 • 24min
Time to abandon tax-saving investments?
After Budget 2023 gave incentives to move to the new income tax regime, author and personal finance advisor M Pattabiraman explains why he supports the new tax regime and how to make it work for you.

Feb 8, 2023 • 30min
'Even a Narendra Modi wouldn't be able to solve Pakistan's terror problem'
Analyst, columnist and author Ayesha Siddiqa explains the challenges facing Pakistan in its war on terrorism and why the attack in Peshawar could be a worrying sign of things to come.

Feb 6, 2023 • 21min
How to get the Pakistan economy out of the ICU
Columnist Yousuf Nazar explains why the Pakistan economy is in trouble and the challenges in making things right again.

Feb 3, 2023 • 45min
Why Lata Mangeshkar's magic endures
Celebrating the glorious career of Lata Mangeshkar and decoding how she became the soundtrack of Indian lives.

Feb 1, 2023 • 22min
Why government is at war with higher judiciary
Supreme Court lawyer and author Chitranshul Sinha explains what's different about the criticism of the Supreme Court collegium this time and the problem with the proposals to alter it.

Jan 30, 2023 • 27min
The Sania Mirza era is ending
Anindya Dutta, the author of 'Advantage India: The History of Indian tennis', talks about the remarkable career of Sania Mirza.

Jan 27, 2023 • 18min
Bringing up the dead to face justice
Patna-based journalist Umesh Kumar Ray tells the story of how a woman brought a 'dead' man to life so that he could face justice.