The Sandip Roy Show
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What makes people tick? What are the stories they carry with them? In a world of shouting heads, veteran journalist, radio commentator and novelist Sandip Roy sits down to have real conversations about the fascinating world around us and the people who shape it. Catch these engaging interviews every other Sunday
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Do we really need a caste census? ft Anand Teltumbde and Yogendra Yadav
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Anuradha Roy on leaving city life for the mountains
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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How colonialism shoved India's queer history into the closet ft Sindhu Rajasekaran
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Indulge: Is fine dining in India going small? ft Gauri Devidayal, Yash Bhanage and Shuli Ghosh
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Rakshit Sonawane on the rarely told urban Dalit story
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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The history of rubber we would rather erase ft Vidya Rajan
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Is the Hindi heartland becoming India’s Hindu heartland? ft Ghazala Wahab
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Indulge: Is India the next cheese frontier? ft Namrata Sundaresan and Mansi Jasani
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Kunzang Choden on Bhutan beyond the tourist trail
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Why India needs to take sleep seriously ft Dr GC Khilnani
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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The underbelly of the gig economy ft Vandana Vasudevan
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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How we love the mango but know very little about it ft Sopan Joshi
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Lal Bahadur Shastri, India's forgotten PM ft Sanjeev Chopra
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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How Indians in America took on Indira Gandhi’s Emergency ft Prof Anand Kumar and Sugata Srinivasaraju
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Ruchir Joshi on the Calcutta you don’t know
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Pride Month Special: How has gayness evolved in popular culture?
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Forget Hindi or English, what about the other 777 languages? ft Ganesh Devy and Anvita Abbi
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May 11, 2025 |
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The Mystery of the Awadh 'Royals' of Delhi's Malcha Mahal ft Aletta André and Abhimanyu Kumar
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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The Urdu newspaper that dared to speak truth to power ft Chander Mohan and Jyotsna Mohan
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Manu Pillai on how Hinduism and Christianity transformed each other
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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How caste influences food—from cookbooks to public health ft Sylvia Karpagam and Sucharita Kanjilal
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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The holy cow and the dairy dilemma ft Yamini Narayanan
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Indulge: How is India's speciality coffee scene brewing?
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Lee Durrell on 100 years of Gerald Durrell
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Northeast India wants tourists. But is it ready?
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Mapping the story of new India through its working class ft Neha Dixit
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Indulge: The brave new world of Indian craft chocolate
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Devdutt Pattanaik on how Harappa changed India’s sense of self
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Ramachandra Guha on what India's forgotten environmentalists can teach us
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Nusrat Jafri on caste, conversion, and why India can't talk about it
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Indulge: Is India neglecting its indigenous spirits? ft Aniruddha Mookerjee and Hansel Vaz
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Breaking the glass ceiling in geology ft Dr Sudipta Sengupta
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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How attainable is equality in India? ft Saurabh Kirpal
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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The promise and peril of AI ft Madhumita Murgia
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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What RG Kar tells us about women’s safety ft Jhuma Sen and Amrita Dasgupta
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Can the BJP rewrite the Freedom Movement? ft Aditya Mukherjee
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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What actually sets Bengaluru apart ft Malini Goyal
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Is it Modi model or Gujarat model? ft Christophe Jaffrelot
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Grace Banu on how transgender lives have changed 10 years after NALSA
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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The puzzling questions of the Bhima Koregaon Case ft Alpa Shah
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Is AAP a game changer or has the game changed it? ft Ashutosh and Neelanjan Sircar
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May 26, 2024 |
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Why India is a magnet for crypto scams ft Mitali Mukherjee
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May 12, 2024 |
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Mridula Koshy and Rituparna Neog on India's missing libraries
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Why India lags behind its neighbours in human development ft Swati Narayan
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Getting kids to care about climate change ft Bijal Vachharajani and Rohan Chakravarty
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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How Congress PMs fueled the rise of Hindu nationalism
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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What should be done about India’s street dogs? ft. Abi T Vanak
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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The inner lives of Varanasi's corpse burners ft Radhika Iyengar
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Krish Ashok busts myths about the Indian thali
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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How colonial is our constitution? ft Arghya Sengupta
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Sanjay Patel on animating Indian myths for kids
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Is secularism still 'half-baked' in India? ft Rajeev Bhargava
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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The pop stars leading Hindutva's cultural revolution ft Kunal Purohit
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Does the BJP need Rahul Gandhi more than the Congress? ft Sugata Srinivasaraju
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Sunil Pant and Nepal's lessons for India's LGBTI movement
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Ujjal Dosanjh on the India-Canada tensions and the Khalistan gap
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Gautam Bhatia on the state of top courts under the Modi era
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Does India have a women in science problem? ft Aashima Dogra and Nandita Jayaraj
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Siddhartha Basu on taking India from Quiz Time to KBC
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Shubhra Gupta on what makes a crossover star from Irrfan to Priyanka
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Sudha Pai and Sajjan Kumar on the Dalit vote mystery in UP
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Hansal Mehta on making Scoop and using characters to confront his demons
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Why laws have not ended caste violence in India, with Manoj Mitta
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Hoshang Merchant, still a poster-boy for gay liberation at 75
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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Angela Saini on why there is nothing ‘natural’ about patriarchy
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Ujjal Dosanjh on how Canada became a haven for Khalistanis
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May 28, 2023 |
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on why a world without villains might be scarier
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May 14, 2023 |
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Writing Dalits back into history, with Yogesh Maitreya
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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Nilanjana Bhowmick on why men prefer wives in cages and daughters to fly
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Nilanjana Roy on writing crime, eating books, and falling for Delhi
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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The documentary won, when will our elephants? ft Vivek Menon and Alok Gupta
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Manil Suri on how mathematics saved his life
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Timepass or subversion? Ira Bhaskar and Ghazala Wahab on Pathaan's politics
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Why Shobhaa De Remains Insatiable at 75
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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No country for the elderly, with Himanshu Rath and Indira Jai Prakash
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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P Sainath on the freedom fighters India forgot
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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50 shades of Christmas in India, with Jerry Pinto and Madhulika Liddle
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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What Indian languages say about who we are, with Peggy Mohan
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Why Mallika Sarabhai isn't shy of taking the alternative path
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Changing the way we talk to kids about sex, with Reema Ahmad and Ramya Anand
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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How safe are the drugs we take, with Dinesh Thakur
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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Kuch meetha ho jaye, with Rajyasree Sen
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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Gopalkrishna Gandhi on how Bengal shaped the Mahatma
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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Shaili Chopra on why every woman doesn't need to be Indra Nooyi
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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Rohini Nilekani on why India's wealthy need to do more to boost civil society
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Rahul Sagar on the 19th century debates to make India great again
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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The unanswered questions about the Cheetah Project, with Ravi Chellam and Prerna Bindra
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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Seema Chishti on love, food and the challenges of diversity
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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Vauhini Vara imagines how a Dalit CEO shapes an algorithm to rule the world
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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Pride Month Special: A lesbian couple about life and love in India
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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The untold story of a slave rebellion in UP, with Laura T Murphy
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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Ramachandra Guha on 7 original 'anti-nationals' who fought the British
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May 29, 2022 |
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Estimating India's real Covid death toll, with Dr Bhramar Mukherjee
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May 15, 2022 |
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Aparna Piramal Raje on living (and thriving) with bipolar disorder
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May 01, 2022 |
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100th Episode Special – Usha Uthup on her unique musical journey
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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Making sense of India’s Ukraine strategy, with Krishnan Srinivasan
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Saeed Naqvi on why Hindutva needs the Indian Muslim
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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How Delhi’s street names reveal its history, with Adrija Roychowdhury
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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Using SRK to understand womanhood and the Indian economy, with Shrayana Bhattacharya
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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What we don’t understand about India’s data, with Rukmini S
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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A New Election Series by The Indian Express
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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Johann Hari on how our attention is being stolen
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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Mridula Ramesh on what it would take to solve India's water crisis
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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Why eating insects makes sense, with Srishtaa Aparna Pallavi and Tansha Vohra
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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Amitav Ghosh on whether a climate apocalypse is inevitable
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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How Nehru debated his adversaries, with Adeel Hussain and Tripurdaman Singh
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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Josy Joseph on how India's deep state is threatening our democracy
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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Rethinking the Indian Monsoon, with Dr Sulochana Gadgil
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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The battles of India's first women in medicine, with Kavitha Rao
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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What we don't understand about Gandhi's non-violence, with Jyotirmaya Sharma
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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How alternate realities really work (beyond Whatsapp forwards)
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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The story of India through 100 objects, with Vidya Dehejia
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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What a Pak-China-Afghan axis will mean for India, with C Raja Mohan
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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Shahrukh, Aamir, Salman: How the 3 Khans changed India, with Kaveree Bamzai
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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An intimate history of a changing Kashmir, with Farah Bashir
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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80: How China spun the COVID-19 narrative, with Manoj Kewalramani
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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79: Chinmay Tumbe on what we can learn from past pandemics
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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78: Nik Sharma on the science of taste and why we like the things we do
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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77: Dr Gagandeep Kang addresses the concerns around India's vaccine policy
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May 30, 2021 |
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76: Ghazala Wahab on what it means to be an 'Indian Muslim' today
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May 16, 2021 |
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75: Sharmila Tagore remembers Satyajit Ray on his 100th birth anniversary
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May 02, 2021 |
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74: Memories of food and what's missing on our plate, with Anumitra Dastidar and Shalini Krishan
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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73: The conundrum of BJP's meteoric rise in Bengal, with Neelanjan Sircar and Sajjan Kumar
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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72: Anuja Chauhan on the pleasures of murder and perils of romance
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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71: What's next for Bihar after Lalu and Nitish? – with Santosh Singh
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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70: Stephen Alter on what Uttarakhand tells us about fragility of Himalaya
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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69: Dr Gagandeep Kang on the mystery of India's declining COVID numbers
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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68: Harsh Mander on how India's Covid strategy forgot its most vulnerable
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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67: The A to Z of ghosts and monsters of India, with Rakesh Khanna
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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66: Why the BJP keeps winning, with Vinay Sitapati
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Dec 27, 2020 |
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65: Dr Shashi Tharoor on the gap between nationalism and patriotism in India
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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64: Why India's better placed to do a huge vaccine roll-out than most other countries, according to Dr Giridhar R Babu
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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63: The fascinating career of the actor and fitness icon, Mandira Bedi
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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62: Why life won't go back to normal even after a COVID-19 vaccine, with Dr Gagandeep Kang
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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61: The untold story of the unraveling of Parveen Babi's mind, with Karishma Upadhyay
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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60: Romila Thapar on dissent in India from Vedic Brahmanism to Shaheen Bagh
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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59: SSR case and why India's drug laws are out of date, with Ronny Sen
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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58: Apurva Asrani on whether Bollywood has changed 2 years after the 377 verdict
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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57: Comic books as art, protests and propaganda, with Paul Gravett
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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56: How to overcome anxiety in the middle of this pandemic, with Dr Sonali Gupta
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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55: The Cisco case and how Indians took casteism to the US, with Thenmozhi Soundararajan
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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54: What the Tiktok ban means for young India, with Snigdha Poonam
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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53: What India's environment ministry's been doing while we were preoccupied with COVID-19, with Kanchi Kohli
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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52: Angela Saini on Black Lives Matter and how 'race science' helped harden discrimination
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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51: How Cyclone Amphan warns us about the future of Sundarbans, with Nilanjan Ghosh
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May 31, 2020 |
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50: How to talk to your kids about the Bois Locker Room, with Tanu Shree Singh
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May 17, 2020 |
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49: The lockdown's toll on mental health, with Dr Pratima Murthy
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May 03, 2020 |
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48: What will it take for India to come out of lockdown? With Dr Giridhar Babu
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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47: Understanding how India migrates, with Chinmay Tumbe
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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46: When India locked up 3,000 Chinese-Indians in internment camps, with Dilip D'Souza
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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45: Getting a coronavirus reality check, with Dr Gagandeep Kang
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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44: Viswanathan Anand on being a bad loser and why he admires John McEnroe
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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43: How Congress helped the BJP come to power, with Kapil Komireddi
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Feb 09, 2020 |
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42: What Ranbaxy and Indian Pharma don't want you to know, with Katherine Eban
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Jan 26, 2020 |
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41: 'Oh, but you don't look like a Muslim!' with Rakhshanda Jalil
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Jan 12, 2020 |
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40: The Best of Sandip Roy Show 2019
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Dec 29, 2019 |
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39: Trucking through India - A Hitchhiking Adventure with Rajat Ubhaykar
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Dec 15, 2019 |
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38: The politics of India's relationship with technology, with Arun Sukumar
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Dec 01, 2019 |
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37: Our plastic addiction and what we can do about it, with Bharati Chaturvedi
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Nov 17, 2019 |
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36: William Dalrymple on how a private company came to rule India
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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35: Why the sedition law still exists, with Chitranshul Sinha
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Oct 20, 2019 |
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34: On being Gandhi and why he still matters, with Paro Anand
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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33: Sex and other pleasures, a chat with Paromita Vohra
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Sep 22, 2019 |
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32: How much corporate India changed a year after 377, with Parmesh Shahani
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Sep 08, 2019 |
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31: Understanding depression, the invisible illness, with Amrita Tripathi
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Aug 25, 2019 |
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30: What we get wrong about Yoga, with Devdutt Pattanaik
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Aug 11, 2019 |
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29: What they cooked in Shah Jahan's Kitchen, with Salma Yusuf Husain
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Jul 28, 2019 |
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28: On migration, climate change and The Gun Island, with Amitav Ghosh
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Jul 14, 2019 |
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27: Afghanistan's first openly gay person, Nemat Sadat
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Jun 30, 2019 |
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26: A sanctuary for all creatures great and small, with Anjali Gopalan
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Jun 16, 2019 |
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25: Close to the Bone, with Lisa Ray
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Jun 02, 2019 |
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24: What it means to be secular in India today, with Harsh Mander
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May 19, 2019 |
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23: People with mental illnesses and their right to vote, with Ratnaboli Ray
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May 05, 2019 |
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22: Understanding the Indian Constitution, with Gautam Bhatia
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Apr 21, 2019 |
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21: Decoding Indian Elections, with Prannoy Roy
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Apr 07, 2019 |
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20: The BDSM scene in India, with the Kinky Collective
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Mar 24, 2019 |
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19: Ruskin Bond, The Man with the Golden Pen
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Mar 10, 2019 |
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18: Coming Out as Dalit, with Yashica Dutt
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Feb 24, 2019 |
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17: Discovering Shakespeare in Bollywood, with Jonathan Gil Harris
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Feb 10, 2019 |
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16: The Great Smog of India with Siddharth Singh
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Jan 27, 2019 |
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15: Feminism, writing and mythology in the age of #metoo, with Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
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Jan 13, 2019 |
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14: End the year by learning to build on your failures, with Shabnam Aggarwal
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Dec 23, 2018 |
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13: The close relationship between crime and politics in India
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Dec 09, 2018 |
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The twice born: Talking to Indian Brahmins with Aatish Taseer
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Nov 25, 2018 |
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11: The great Indian rope trick: A magical history of India with John Zubrzycki
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Nov 11, 2018 |
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10: Mapping food in India, through time and place, with Pushpesh Pant
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Oct 28, 2018 |
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9: The buffet edition: Extended excerpts from our best episodes
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Oct 14, 2018 |
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8: Shubha Mudgal on music, activism and more
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Sep 30, 2018 |
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7: Devdutt Pattanaik on mythology, tribalism and #377
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Sep 16, 2018 |
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6: Explore a fading community: Flower Silliman on the Jews of Kolkata
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Sep 02, 2018 |
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5: The Billionaire Raj with James Crabtree
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Aug 19, 2018 |
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4: Making it in Hollywood: Aseem Chhabra on Priyanka Chopra
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Aug 05, 2018 |
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3: Pawan Dhall on LGBT activism
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Jul 22, 2018 |
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2: Anusha Yadav on the Indian Memory Project
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Jul 08, 2018 |
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1: Welcome to The Sandip Roy Show
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Jun 23, 2018 |