Of public chaos and amateur Indians stranded on islands of privilege
"I feel India's politics is the revenge of the poor; it's why things are the way they are. They might not look at it as a violent act but it emerges f...
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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
Of Hawa Hawai and writing for his life
"People know about what sometimes happens to girls growing up in the kotha; but no one knows what happens to boys. Nobody's written about it as such s...
Homage to the fruit of the gods
"In India, in the Philippines, and in the Caribbean, in places where the mango grows, it's viewed with universal adoration. We Americans are good at t...
Awe-inspiring ophiolatry
"If you look at primordial deities, they are serpents, eggs, the sun and the moon - early humans associated divinity with these things that they could...
The Hymn to Nikkal, Einstein's violin, musical space odysseys and beyond
"Music connects us with something deeper. We know there's stuff around us that science cannot explain. Consciousness, for example, is hard to explain ...
Of promises broken over centuries
Pastoral and indigenous communities in Nagarhole, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal, and the Van Gujjars in Uttarakhand are the ones who are p...
Of anda halwa, taar gosht and more
"Being able to experience the love of a grandparent is one of the most special things I've had in my life. It's the only selfless love you'll ever exp...
Only connect
"I wanted to make the case that here is a system that we all created together that allows for our exploitation through the prism of services that we a...
Much food for thought
"Our food has completely changed in the last 30 years. This has totally changed our gut physiology, our gut microbiome, and has caused silent inflamma...
The original mother of many tongues
"One thing that's become abundantly clear from the ancient DNA revolution of the last 10 years is how important migration has been in the history of o...