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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Dec 3, 2021 • 22min
Band, baaja, baraat
The pandemic crushed India's multi-crore wedding industry in 2020, but this year it's back with a bang. But the big Indian weddings have changed, perhaps forever
Dec 2, 2021 • 20min
How to be a mentor, the Gopichand way
Badminton legend Pullela Gopichand on what it takes to create winners and how he overcame his own challenges as a player and coach
Dec 1, 2021 • 20min
The Omicron factor
What does a new, possibly highly transmissible variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 mean for India just as it opens up? Eminent virologist Dr Shahid Jameel explains what to worry about and what we need to do.
Nov 29, 2021 • 31min
Mamata’s challenge
After the recent defection of 12 MLAs in Meghalaya to TMC — a look at how the party in Bengal is expanding its footprint. In this episode, editor Patricia Mukhim, political analyst Neelanjan Sircar and TOI's Sunando Sarkar weigh in.
Nov 26, 2021 • 29min
Fake influencers are harming you
Two deeply-researched reports reveal exactly how the narrative was influenced and controlled by social media on the farmers' protest and the Aryan Khan case
Nov 25, 2021 • 25min
Opportunities the ‘71 war still offers
Former diplomat Chandrashekhar Dasgupta attempts to set the record straight on what drove India's push to liberate Bangladesh in 1971.
Nov 24, 2021 • 27min
Working out your heart
How much is the right exercise for your heart? Professor of cardiology at AIIMS Dr G Karthikeyan and Preventive cardiology & rehabilitation specialist Dr Aashish Contractor explain.
Nov 22, 2021 • 31min
A step back to move forward
The repeal of three farm laws opens up new political spaces. We analyse them and who benefits.
Nov 19, 2021 • 27min
COP, coal and a pushback
India came out of COP26 accused of watering down a provision on power generated from coal. Decoding India's stand on emissions and how developed nations got off relatively easy.
Nov 18, 2021 • 27min
How to police crypto
The government seems set to come up with rules for reining in the booming cryptocurrency market. But what can it do and what does the industry want?
