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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Jul 15, 2021 • 20min
The House is sitting
Parliament’s Monsoon session begins Monday—why you should be paying attention to it.
Jul 14, 2021 • 20min
Not kidding around
A law proposed in Uttar Pradesh to curb population growth plays into entirely inaccurate and deeply held notions on population. Is it a diversionary tactic or preventing a demographic disaster?
Jul 12, 2021 • 19min
General in the labyrinth
India’s most ambitious plan to transform its military under new CDS General Rawat has run into controversy. Defence expert Manoj Joshi decodes what’s going on and what’s at stake.
Jul 9, 2021 • 25min
State and the lost art of conversation
Stan Swamy’s death and the continued incarceration of Bhima Koregaon 15 suggests that political negotiations with inconvenient opponents is no longer an option.
Jul 8, 2021 • 23min
Thespian exits
Dilip Kumar’s death marks not just the passing of an actor extraordinaire but also that of an icon who spoke for a shared Hindu-Muslim south Asian heritage.
Jul 7, 2021 • 25min
‘We haven’t discarded our Hindutva ideology’
Shiv Sena leader and spokesperson Sanjay Raut addresses the rumours of split that dog the Maharashtra government and also the Sena’s very ambiguous feelings for the BJP.
Jul 5, 2021 • 36min
The Accidental Prisoner
A conversation with Mohamedou Slahi whom the Americans detained, interrogated and tortured for 14 years at Guantanamo Bay without ever charging him. His heartbreaking story is now a major motion picture.
Jul 2, 2021 • 19min
NFT and the reimagining of art
We put the spotlight on a series of high-value digital acquisitions that are revolutionising art world and indeed our notion of what art really is.
Jun 30, 2021 • 26min
Let’s make babies
Staring at a precipitous population decline, the Parsi community’s efforts to add to their numbers is bearing fruit.
Jun 28, 2021 • 39min
Only half-remembered
This June marks 30 years of India’s liberalisation and its architect PV Narasimha Rao’s 100th birth anniversary. We piece together the legacy of India’s first PM from the south, whom the Congress chose to forget
