Well known Pakistani journalist, scholar and diplomat, Mr Husain Haqqani, on the future of India and Pakistan's relationship.

Yashwant Sinha and Aditya Sinha in conversation about their book, India Unmade: How The Modi Government Broke The Economy.

Tony Joseph on the first modern humans who reached the Indian subcontinent nearly 65,000 years ago.

Socialist and author Deepa Narayan on her book, Chup: Breaking the Silence about India's Women, where she brings to light the degree to which women internalise negative views about themselves, and how society further reinforces these views.

Author Parvati Sharma in conversation with journalist Supriya Nair about her latest book - Jahangir: An Intimate Portrait of a Great Mughal.

In this episode, author Varsha Adusumilli and columnist Aparna Piramal Raje discuss why India needs relatable role models.

Today on Talking Books, Ameya Nagarajan talks to Barun Aggarwal, air pollution expert and founder and CEO of Breathe Easy, about the gravity of India's air pollution problem, what we can do to fight it and how bleak our future will be if we do nothing about it.

The life and success of Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik with Ruben Banerjee, Jay Panda and Rajesh Mahapatra.

A discussion between Kevin Rudd, President of the Asia Society and former Prime Minister of Australia, and Shyam Saran, former Ambassador of India to Myanmar, Indonesia and Nepal, as well as former High Commissioner to Mauritius. They explore the shifting power balance between India, China and the US.

Swati Chaturvedi talks about her book, I Am A Troll, discussing India's online hate mobs and their connections to political parties.

The shocking story of a how a reputed antiques dealer was revealed to be a temple thief

Tune in to listen to Burmese historian Thant Myint-U talk about the historical religious and cultural relationship between India and Myanmar, as well as understand the roots of the Rohingya crisis and what we can all learn from Myanmar's experience. 

In this episode, publisher of Juggernaut, Chiki Sarkar, and editors Nandini Mehta and Sivapriya pool their collective experience of seeing what India reads and writes about to uncover a story of what Indians want to know about themselves and how it has changed in the past thirty years.

Publisher of Juggernaut is in conversation with entrepreneur and mother, Nazia Erum, talking about the struggles of raising a Muslims child in modern India, coping with the stereotyping of Muslims and how the regular violence against Muslims means even middle-class Muslims have to change the way they live. Tune in to find out the dark secrets in our playgrounds. 

On today's episode, Aseem Chhabra talks to Yasser Usman about his no-holds-barred unauthorised biography of Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt. With the release of the blockbuster film Sanju, Yasser tells us what the film got right, what it missed and all you need to know about Sanjay Dutt.

In this episode of Talking Books, Manu S Pillai is in conversation with Supriya Nair, talking about the history of the Deccan, its kingdoms and their wars, and Manu’s new book Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji.

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