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Books and Authors

Books and Authors

Hindustan Times - HT Smartcast



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

Books and Authors
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Available Episodes

54:38
Books & Authors podcast with Pravin Sawhney, author, The Last War
EPISODE 166

"Since 2018, the Chinese have been preparing for an AI war. Today they are in the Tibet Autonomous Region and their robots also have real data sets which they have acquired from th ... Read more

11 Aug55 MINS
56:33
Books & Authors podcast with Dr Pallavi Joshi, author, Fast but Lost; Overcoming Depression in City Life
EPISODE 165

"Being female puts you at a much higher risk of depression. Typically, the challenges that women face in each decade are really different - from puberty to childbearing and menopau ... Read more

04 Aug57 MINS
44:34
Books and Authors podcast with Meeti Shroff-Shah, author, The Death of Kirti Kadakia
EPISODE 164

"Plotting is important in the murder mystery genre, but there have been times when my characters have done things I hadn't planned for them to do, and these have been the most rewa ... Read more

28 Jul45 MINS
54:04
Books & Authors podcast with Kubbra Sait, author, Open Book
EPISODE 163

"I felt I had the courage to own up to who I am and to my truest authentic self. And that is a superpower." - Kubbra Sait, actor and author, 'Open Book; Not Quite a Memoir', talks ... Read more

21 Jul54 MINS
39:56
Books & Authors podcast with Rajeev Shukla, politician, journalist and author, Scars of 1947: Real Partition Stories
EPISODE 162

Scars of 1947 is a book based on the real stories of India's Independence and everything it costed to the people of both the sides. The fears, the cries of help and a lot more that ... Read more

15 Jul40 MINS
57:16
Books & Authors podcast with Deepti Naval, actor and author, A Country Called Childhood; A Memoir
EPISODE 161

Growing up in Amritsar in the 1960s, watching jets flying overhead during the 1965 war, being struck by Hindi film lyrics, domestic tragedies, the contrasting milieu at home and at ... Read more

09 Jul57 MINS
49:48
Books & Authors podcast with Simon Lamouret, author, The Alcazar
EPISODE 160

"Construction workers are highly invisibilized. Their world is a small world within our world and at points, I thought of the construction site as a metaphor for a growing India wi ... Read more

01 Jul50 MINS
42:36
Books&Authors podcast Anita Bhogle, author, Equal yet Different
EPISODE 159

"For women to stay the course, you need to have better infrastructure and better support systems because, really, that is the reason most women seem to not be able to manage. We ne ... Read more

23 Jun43 MINS
48:43
Books&Authors podcast with Meena Arora Nayak, author, Adbhut; Marvellous Creatures of Indian Myth and Folklore
EPISODE 158

"Myth is not fictitious. It is actually truer than real life because it talks about an internal deep reality, which is truer than truth." - Meena Arora Nayak, author, Adbhut, Marve ... Read more

17 Jun49 MINS
47:45
Books and Authors podcast with Vidya Krishnan, author, Phantom Plague
EPISODE 157

"Antibiotics don't work on Drug-Resistant TB, which should worry all of us. The post-antibiotic era is dawning on us." - Vidya Krishnan, author of Phantom Plague; How Tuberculosis ... Read more

02 Jun48 MINS
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