On journeying through life
"To be alive is, in many ways, to travel; it's to journey through time. We tend to think of travelling as something that involves space or place or ge...
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In this podcast, National Books Editor Manjula Narayan tells you about books, authors and their journeys. This is a Hindustan Times production, brought to you by HT Smartcast
Space operas, dystopias, and the perfect worlds of the far future
"Science and speculative fiction has always been about responding to the preoccupations of the time. I was attracted to the genre by the imaginative p...
Train through India
"Trains in India are public sites and they are sites for social exchange and its a collective identity but what the smartphone has introduced is not o...
Irony, 'influenza', and Internet mythology in contemporary India
"I don't take the usual dystopian view of the Internet. I see it as a unit of society and use it to understand the self, the nation and politics. So, ...
Jagat Murari & the FTII: art, argument and institution building in young India
"In my father's view, the making of a filmmaker wasn't just about teaching the art, craft, and science [of filmmaking], but also about allowing the fi...
On the multi-storeyed tower with no staircase and no entrance
"What I wanted to say about the global dimension of caste was to look at it from the subjectivity of its victim. So Dalit as a subject takes a central...
Things that go bump...
"Some call them ghosts but I look at them more as energies that coexist with us. In many ways, like the Buddhist and other Indian philosophies say, we...
Going with the mighty flow
"We travel on the river but the real traveller is the river, and to understand it one has to make a substantial effort" - Sanjoy Hazarika, author, Riv...
Fraud, fear and loathing from Jamtara to Sihanoukville
"I wanted to use fraud as a way to look at our society today. We have a fraud underworld industry that employs multitudes. If you have such a large nu...
The ache of a phantom limb
"I have my own history. I was evicted from Kashmir like many thousands of others. But when I went to Bastar and when I looked at other conflicts and w...