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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Sep 23, 2021 • 24min
Quad goals
Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to the US with the Quad and newly-formed AUKUS in the spotlight. What to expect from the visit.
Sep 22, 2021 • 24min
T-20/20 Vision
Virat Kohli and a turn in the affairs of Indian cricket. Understanding what’s going on.
Sep 20, 2021 • 37min
‘Most people won’t even notice the changes on Central Vista’
Bimal Patel is the man executing architecturally PM Modi’s new Idea of India. In this rare interview, he says Central Vista will preserve Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker’s vision but inverse the iconography of power.
Sep 17, 2021 • 26min
A Curious Case At Calcutta Club
Writer Nirad C Chaudhuri’s son alleges memorabilia worth crores which he gave to the Calcutta Club has gone missing.
Sep 16, 2021 • 27min
Why we can't plug off social media
Randima Fernando, co-founder at the Centre for Humane Technology, talks about the impact of the film, Social Dilemma, and why well-being is not at the heart of Big Tech.
Sep 15, 2021 • 22min
All the PM’s men
Understanding the larger political manoeuvering behind four BJP chief ministers being axed in the last six months
Sep 13, 2021 • 22min
Beyond Hindutva
Author and former diplomat Pavan Varma explains why his new book is a counter to those who claim to protect Hinduism and to liberal scholars who he says have airbrushed history.
Sep 10, 2021 • 23min
20 years after 9/11: Is the world any safer?
US moves on after two wars lost in Afghanistan and Iraq; Bin Laden is dead but the ISIS is around and South Asia has just become inflammable. How will it all play out?
Sep 9, 2021 • 27min
Jihad is big business, and thrives in chaos
Journalist and author Adrian Levy on Afghanistan’s new government, New Delhi’s tight embrace of the US, Pakistan’s dilemmas, and what Ajit Doval might be thinking.
Sep 8, 2021 • 30min
The Indie film is dead
What awaits us at the movies once theatres reopen? Vikramaditya Motwane and PVR CEO Kamal Gianchandani weigh in.
