The Times Of India Podcast

For a country, which was being hailed as the world's answer to get everyone vaccinated, is today struggling to jab its own. TOI's diplomatic editor Indrani Bagchi weighs in.

Peter Piot, one of the world’s foremost public health experts and the man who co-discovered Ebola, on the roadmap ahead.

The river becomes the theatre for a morality play on Pandemic, politics and Hinduism. Uma Bharti  and Hinduism scholar Wendy Doniger weigh in.

Leading child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Amit Sen on how to help kids grappling with difficult emotions in the pandemic.

Leading clinical psychologist Sonali Gupta on how to build resilience and how to acknowledge difficult emotions in the time of a deadly second wave.

For a tenure that coincided with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Justice SA Bobde's term as CJI may not have been a remarkable one, but it was most certainly eventful. Migrants, Sabarimala, Habeus Corpus petitions, and constitutional matters were not heard but a Prashant Bhushan’s tweet was adjudged with alacrity...We take the temperature on the tenure of the 47th Chief Justice of India

Earlier this year, four tigers from one family went missing from the Ranthambore National Park. A tiger (T-64) tigress (T-73) and their two cubs, have not been spotted by forest officials for nearly a year, and are now thought to be confirmed missing. In this episode, we explain how and why tigers go missing, and what it says about conservation efforts in the country.

Former National Security Advisor, and unarguably one of India's finest thinkers on international affairs, Shivshankar Menon is just out with a new book called "India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present". In our interview of the week, Menon speaks to The Times of India's diplomatic affairs editor Indrani Bagchi about the implications of China's increasingly militarised politics and how India's own hyper nationalism will play out on the global stage.

Dr Ambarish Satwik a vascular surgeon at Delhi's Ganga Ram Hospital, calls the Indian capital the world's most distraught city at present. In this interview, he tells us what we to expect over the next few weeks, why one must mask even while indoors and to vaccinate urgently for the pandemic has left no safe spaces.

Bengal’s Bhadralok wields a disproportionately large clout in the Indian imagination. But as Kolkata, the bastion of this elite section goes to the polls today, find out who these Bhadraloks are, their rich legacy, and whether they still matter.