
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

Nov 21, 2022 • 32min
Will India finally take on the practice of female genital mutilation?
We Speak Out's Masooma Ranalvi talks to TOI's Sunil Baghel about their attempts to end the practice of female gential mutilation and why a recent recommendation at a UN body matters.

Nov 18, 2022 • 24min
Behind the Shraddha Walkar murder case is a familiar story
Dr Ranjana Kumari, director of the Centre for Social Research, on why the long-term domestic abuse Shraddha Walkar endured shouldn't be ignored.

Nov 17, 2022 • 22min
Modi-Xi meet but no end in sight to border dispute
Author and analyst Manoj Joshi explains why talks between India and China on the border dispute aren't going anywhere and why China's happy to keep India guessing.

Nov 16, 2022 • 25min
What it's like to live in Zero Covid China
As China refuses to abandon its Zero Covid policy, a Shanghai resident talks about what it's like to live with this policy when most of the world has moved on.

Nov 14, 2022 • 24min
What smells tell us about our cities
Gopal MS, who documents Mumbai's sights and smells, and sociologist Ishita Dey explain what the smell of cities tells us about them and also what it says about us.

Nov 11, 2022 • 29min
Ask Devdutt Pattanaik: The deep, forgotten links between India and Iran
The mythologist and author talks about the ancient cultural links between Iran and India and how the myths of the two nations diverge.

Nov 10, 2022 • 24min
The problem with the newest quota
Times of India's senior editor Shankar Raghuraman decodes the issues with the 10% economically weaker section quota in light of the Supreme Court's verdict saying it's not illegal.

Nov 9, 2022 • 24min
How companies should let people go
As Twitter muddles through layoffs and an employment winter looms, a person who was laid off and specialist staffing firm Xpheno's Kamal Karanth explain what companies should ideally do when letting people go

Nov 7, 2022 • 21min
Can the BJP be defeated in Gujarat?
Co-Director of Lokniti, Sanjay Kumar, and political columnist Radhika Ramaseshan on what's expected in the Gujarat state election and why.

Nov 4, 2022 • 28min
The man who conned Bollywood, India Inc and netas
How industrialists, actors and politicians fell for conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar's many schemes, including a Rs 200 crore fraud orchestrated from inside a jail