The Times Of India Podcast
Times Of India
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
Episodes
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Feb 11, 2022 • 29min
The Punjab Poll Puzzle
The Punjab elections have always been close but this year's polls could go down to the wire. Lokniti's Ashutosh Kumar and TOI's Chandigarh resident editor Sarju Kaul explain why.
Feb 10, 2022 • 38min
‘Protest movements are like monsoon rains’
Union minister and BJP national secretary Bhupender Yadav speaks on how the party welcomes dissent, unemployment and polarisation while his coauthor of a book on the BJP, economist Ila Patnaik, breaks down the party’s economic plank
Feb 9, 2022 • 32min
Pride and Prejudice roils Karnataka
Saba Hussain, author of Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods in India, senior advocate BT Venkatesh and TOI’s Deepthi Sanjiv on what the hijab controversy has unmasked about Karnataka.
Feb 6, 2022 • 44min
Her voice, our emotion
Celebrating Lata Mangeshkar’s glorious career and how she became the soundtrack of Indian lives.
Feb 4, 2022 • 21min
Delhi: on a wing and a prayer
A conversation with Shaunak Sen, whose new film All That Breathes, won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Grand Jury prize for Documentary this week. The film explores two brothers' quest to save kites set against a city battling pollution and polarisation
Feb 3, 2022 • 32min
How the pandemic wrecked our sleep
Sleep specialist Dr Manvir Bhatia and psychiatrist Dr Harish Shetty talk about the explosion of pandemic-hit sleep cycles and why the best solutions aren't pills or apps
Feb 2, 2022 • 20min
What crypto gained and lost in Budget 2022
Making sense of the Budget's proposal to grant legitimacy to cryptocurrency by taxing it and the plan to launch a digital rupee.
Jan 31, 2022 • 22min
Burning bogies, derailed dreams
Understanding the deeper malaise that led to the railway exam violence in Bihar and the role of popular coaching class teachers like Khan sir.
Jan 28, 2022 • 25min
In Goa, all bets are off
Author-journalist Sandesh Prabhudesai and Times of India's Goa editor Rajesh Menon explain why the Goa election will be closer than ever.
Jan 27, 2022 • 30min
History in the making
Ramachandra Guha on what it takes to write history, and how he sees his role in public life.
