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A Times Special presentation in which Jaya Bhattacharji Rose speaks to personalities from the world of books and literature. We feature national and international authors, including Jnanpith and Padma awardees, Nobel laureates, Booker Prize winners, Pulitzer winners, diplomats, bestselling authors, debut writers, and legendary writers across genres and languages

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127 episodes

  1. Inside The End of Everything: M John Harrison on Fiction, Disaster and the Uncertainty of Reality 30:44
  2. Women, Climate and Resistance: Natasha Walter on Feminism in a World on Fire 35:12
  3. Omair Ahmad Reflects On Memory And Storytelling 33:18
  4. The Cables That Connect Us: Samanth Subramanian on the Undersea Network That Runs Our Lives 32:30
  5. Jenny Niven on Building a Festival Where Writers, Readers and Ideas Meet 34:49
  6. Crafting Fear: Neil D’Silva on Characters, Folklore and Indian Horror 35:59
  7. Mahmood Farooqui on Dastangoi, Multilingual Legacies and Theatre Behind Bars 38:07
  8. Rethinking Aurangzeb: Munis D Faruqui on History, Archives and the Mughal Empire 36:21
  9. In 'Uprising', Tahmima Anam Talks Collective Resistance and Giving A Voice to the Unseen 29:46
  10. Family, Memory, and Fiction: Nelio Biedermann on Writing Lazar 30:44
  11. Sunil Amrith puts Asia at the heart of the planet’s climate history 35:55
  12. Mothers and Memory: Tayari Jones on Kin 29:46
  13. Inside The Man From Kashmir: Muddasir Ramzan on History, Identity & Storytelling 28:03
  14. Tanul Thakur’s 'Wild Wild East' Uncovers the Human Cost of the American Dream 35:09
  15. Inside The Complex: Karan Mahajan on Delhi, Family and Political Fault Lines 34:49
  16. Assa Doron and Alex Broom Trace India’s Deep Dependence on Antibiotics 33:10
  17. Douglas Stuart Explores Faith, Masculinity, And Colour In ‘John of John’ 30:06
  18. Fighting the Digital Curse: How Babell Is Turning Porto Into a City of Books 31:46
  19. Mohammed Hanif On How A Childhood Memory Of Fear Sparked A Novel 30:41
  20. Beyond the Plaque: Hidden Labour, Power, and Art in The Artist 35:52
  21. Booker-Winning Duo Yang Tsang-zu and Ling King Trace Taiwan’s Multilingual Past Through Fiction, Food, and Form 19:13
  22. How A Character, A Village, And History Sparked Kavery Nambisan’s ‘Rising Sons’ 30:14
  23. Daniyal Mueenuddin Talks Ambition and Social Power in This is Where the Serpent Lives 31:02
  24. From 'Cha Cha Cha' to Novel: How An Image Became An Obsession For Rabih Alameddine 34:25
  25. Rewriting Myth from the Margins: Anand Neelkantan on Becoming the Character 35:56
  26. Robert Macfarlane on Rivers, Language, and the Living World 37:26
  27. Ravikant Kisana On Caste And The Making of Modern India 38:07
  28. Mirza Waheed Builds A Novel Around Motherhood, Surveillance, And Identity 39:32
  29. Anne Beate Hovind on Future Library, Deep Time and the Challenge of Writing for the Future 32:45
  30. Chess, Trauma, and Redemption in Danny Rensch’s ‘Dark Squares’ 39:34
  31. Fundamentally Funny: Nussaibah Younis on UN Satire, ISIS Brides, and the Politics of Belonging 33:14
  32. In ‘Flesh’, David Szalay Tracks A Life Through Migration and Change 35:27
  33. Cooking as Ecology: Memory, Tradition & The Planetary Crisis in Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost-Eye 30:06
  34. Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Why the Web Must Stay 'For Everyone' 30:06
  35. Fact, Myth and Murder: Archaeology as Crime-Solving in The Museum Detective 33:38
  36. Pallavi Aiyar On Breaking The Public-Private Divide In Writing 35:36
  37. Mapping the Forbidden Kingdom: Deepa Anappara on Tibet, Empire, and The Last of Earth 33:06
  38. Anuradha Roy on Lockdown, the Himalayas, and Her First Nonfiction Book 32:53
  39. Rudraneil Sengupta Talks Delhi, Crime & Police Procedure Through a Fictional Lens in The Beast Within 34:42
  40. Megha Majumdar Talks The Violence Of Love In A Climate Crisis 34:46
  41. From Nuremberg to Pinochet: Philippe Sands Explores the Complexities of Justice and Identity 43:15
  42. Phil Craig Discusses War, the Empire, and Historical Memory 31:41
  43. From Stone Age to AI: Dr Victoria Bateman On Women's Role in Shaping Economies 39:33
  44. Jason Roberts on the Forgotten Legacy of Buffon and Linnaeus 34:33
  45. Ken Follett Talks Conflict, Community, and Creation 39:34
  46. Sanjoy Roy Talks Life, Magic & Supernatural in His Debut Book ‘There's a Ghost in My Room’ 36:45
  47. Namita Devidayal On Her Journey Of Spiritual and Literary Discovery 35:40
  48. Memoirs of Survival: Manish Gaekwad on Writing, Identity, & Moving Forward 29:33
  49. Zahid Rafiq On The Many Realities of Fiction 30:36
  50. Between Worlds: Gautam Bhatia Talks Evolution & Future of Indian Sci-Fi Fantasy 34:43