Researchers Ghazala Jamil from JNU and Qudsiya Contractor from TISS talk to Chandrima Banerjee about myths regarding Muslim-dominated areas in cities and why they are easy targets for demolition drives.
Author and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik explains how faiths view marriage and love as well as the stories that explain how to deal with marriage.
ATREE's Dr Sharachchandra Lele decodes the issues with the Forest Conservation Amendment Bill cleared by Parliament and why it may not do a very good job of protecting India's forests
Retired DIrector General of Police VN Rai and Common Cause's Radhika Jha explain the challenges police face in tackling communal violence and why their record at curbing such incidents isn't very good.
Hinan Manzoor, co-founder of Srinagar-based football club Downtown Heroes, talks about the larger aim of the club and the challenges of starting a football team in Kashmir during a pandemic.
The latest change by Elon Musk has seen a change in Twitter's logo. Joyojeet Pal, Associate Professor at University of Michigan, explains what could result in the death of the platform. He also explains why it's still surviving and how research into hate speech has been hit by Elon Musk's changes.
Hunter, storyteller and conservationist. Jim Corbett wore many hats and here's why his story remains relevant decades later.
Omar Abdullah, former J&K chief minister and National Conference vice-president, tells Harinder Baweja why he's still fighting against the repealing of Article 370 and how the national opposition alliance is shaping up
Patricia Mukhim, editor of the Shillong Times, explains why she feels the Prime Minister's statement wasn't enough, the potential effect of the viral video in violence-hit Manipur and the risk of violence spreading in the region.
Ajai Sahni from the Institute for Conflict Management talks about three recent deaths involving the leaders of separatist groups and how India needs to tackle the influence of Khalistani groups abroad
Author and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik explains how Indian myths and faiths view floods very differently from other religions. He also explains why we don't have any rituals that beg the gods to stop floods.
Jagdish Krishnaswamy, an ecohydrologist and dean of the School of Environment and Sustainability at IIHS, talks about the lessons from the floods in North India this year and what we need to do to prepare for future floods.
Do the latest political developments in Maharashtra indicate ideology is irrelevant for political parties? Political scientist and author Suhas Palshikar explains the importance of ideology for political parties and why parties would do well to have one in an election year.
Rohit Pawar talks to Bhavika Jain about his uncle's (Ajit Pawar's) decision to split the party, what it means for the Pawar family and how his granduncle Sharad Pawar is dealing with it.
Dr Lakshmi Lingam, who led a TISS study on women in Hindi films, talks about what Bollywood films continue to get wrong about women and what needs to change to reach out to a bigger audience.
Author and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik explains the origins of the kanwar yatra, the mythology at the centre of it and its significance.
Senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan talks to Alka Dhupkar about his experience of working with Ajit Pawar, how he sees politics in Maharashtra playing out and the challenge for opposition parties
Political commentator and analyst Sujata Anandan talks to Alka Dhupkar about whether Sharad Pawar could have prevented his nephew's rebellion, what this means for state and national politics and why the split could backfire on Ajit Pawar.
Ben Dalton from research group New America talks to Pinaki Chakraborty about Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny in Russia, what it means for Vladimir Putin and the future of the Ukraine war.
Author and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik explain the reasons behind the outrage over a recent film in which mythical characters speak in a more colloquial fashion. He explains why with some epics it's difficult to accept characters who speak like us.
Rehana Fathima was recently exonerated in a case of obscenity and child abuse that was filed against her over a video. She talks to Alka Dhupkar about why she protests for multiple causes, why she chooses unique ways of protest and the toll it's taken on her life.
CEO of Ananta Centre Indrani Bagchi decodes the impact of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's state visit to the US and what it means for ties between the two nations.
Senior journalist Anant Bagaitkar talks to Alka Dhupkar about why all journalists from language media outlets need to get access to Parliament, something many of them have been denied since 2020.
Political scientist and chief editor of Studies in Indian Politics, Suhas Palshikar, talks to Alka Dhupkar about his and Yogendra Yadav's campaign to have their names removed from re-edited NCERT textbooks. He also explains his concerns with how the textbooks were edited and why parents should also read their kids' textbooks.
Shahid Siddiqui - who has been an editor and lawmaker- was part of a group of Muslim community representatives who met with the RSS chief in 2022. He explains what that meeting, and subsequent dialogue, has achieved in terms of solving the issues affecting the Muslim community under the Modi government.
Gopal MS, who documents Mumbai under the social media handle @SloganMurugan, and sociologist Ishita Dey explain what smell can tell us about our cities and what it says about us.
Author and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik explains why he feels chat models and AI do a poor job of interpreting our myths and faiths.
Behishta Khairuddin talks to TOI's Manash Gohain about how she completed her masters in chemical engineering from IIT-Madras, which included making a lab at home using her sister's microwave and borrowed beakers.
TOI journalist and author of When Ardh Satya Met Himmatwala, Avijit Ghosh, talks about why he takes a kinder view of 1980s Hindi films, a decade marked by many big changes.
Subodh Jain, a former member of the Railway Board, and author-railway historian Arup Chatterjee join us to understand the issues raised by the train accident in Odisha that left 275 dead.
