India Booked
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
India Booked | The Story of India's Most Popular Prayer
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An appeal to the Lord to arise and save the world, the Venkatesa Suprabhatam is the first of four recitations that are sung together every morning in ...
India Booked | Farm Income: Myths and Realities
23 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Green Revolution resulted in spectacular advancements in Indian agriculture. Having achieved food security for its citizens, the country has now b...
India Booked | Colaba: The Diamond at the Tip of Mumbai
16 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Colaba, the southernmost tip of Mumbai, is Mumbai's most iconic neighbourhood. This bustling locality—with the Gateway of India, the world-famous Ta...
India Booked | The Indian Banking Story with Madan Sabnavis
09 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do you often wonder— ‘Is my money safe in banks?’ India is grappling with its worst banking crisis ever, and we are still trying to figure out w...
India Booked | The Climate Story
02 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of India Booked, host Ayushi Mona talks to Rajat Chaudhuri about 'The Butterfly Effect', on how his work as a climate activist is refl...
India Booked | Waiting for the Dust to Settle
26 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of India Booked, host Ayushi Mona talks to Veio Pou, about his brilliant new debut novel, Waiting for the Dust to Settle, published by...
India Booked | Chronicling Lives
19 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of India Booked, host Ayushi Mona talks to Vikram Sampath, the best selling author of four acclaimed biographies, ‘Splendours of Roy...
India Booked | Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara
12 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
RAYA: Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara, written by author Srinivas Reddy, is the definitive biography of India’s first truly global leader and one of...
India Booked | Tales from the Himalayas
05 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of India Booked, journalist and children’s book writer Priyanka Pradhan takes us on a journey through the Himalayas by discussing st...
India Booked | Isolation in the aftermath of COVID-19
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of India Booked, Ayushi Mona discusses with social activist, writer and editor Ishmeet Nagpal, an array of essential topics ranging fr...
India Booked | Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines
28 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines’ is a rigorous investigation and a personalized narrative by Amandeep Sandhu about the matters of Panjab, an...
India Booked | Gujarat, Dhumketu, and Translations
21 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Writer, literary translator, book critic and a literary podcast (Desi Books) host herself, Jenny Bhatt speaks to Ayushi Mona how the themes of Dhumket...
India Booked | A Colonial Whodunnit
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘Twilight in a Knotted World’ is the third novel by journalist and historian Siddhartha Sarma that uncovers the many layers of the Phansigar probl...
India Booked | Women, Morality and Moral Strength
07 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘Bhairavi- The Runaway’, written by Shivani aka Gaura Pant, a pioneer of women’s fiction in India, is the story of a woman's life, her resilienc...
India Booked | The Shocking Lives of India's Teenagers
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stoned, Shamed, Depressed’ is an alarming reality check of the struggles faced by the teens of India, dealing with the evident but deliberately...
India Booked | Travelling Tales of Tibet
24 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘The ‘Other’ Shangri-La: Journeys through the Sino-Tibetan frontier in Sichuan’ is a narrative travelogue based on author Shivaji Das a...
India Booked | Jaipur and Japan: A Kindred Contrast
17 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 14th episode of India Booked, author Anukrti Upadhyay takes us through the deserts of Rajasthan and the hot springs of Japan through her n...
India Booked | Timeless Tales from Marwar
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries, Rajasthan has been a gold mine of oral traditions and histories, with Padma Shri Vijaydan Detha being one of the foremost storytellers ...
India Booked | Serenading Sound
03 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bringing in the 12th episode of India Booked on a high note! Shantanu Datta, in his 30-year-long journalism career, has interviewed such global icons ...
India Booked | Kolkata: A Literary Lens
26 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A prolific translator, the Books Editor at Scroll.in, and professor of creative writing and literary journalism; Arunava Sinha is one of India’s mos...
India Booked | The Baolis of India
19 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of India Booked, host Ayushi Mona speaks to Vikramjit Singh Rooprai, an educator, heritage activist and author. They discuss all thing...
India Booked | Art, Programming and Sanskrit Poetry
12 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 9 of India Booked, Ayushi Mona and bestselling author Vikram Chandra discuss his non fiction debut, Mirrored Mind: My Life in Letters and C...
India Booked | Courtesans in the Indian Imagination
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this eighth episode of India Booked, Ayushi Mona speaks to the stalwart academic and writer Ruth Vanita. They chat about her journey writing a...
India Booked | Delhi Childhood: Memory and Writing
29 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Essayist, short-story writer, and author of 'House of Nails', and 'Fire Girl', Sayantani Dasgupta speaks to Ayushi Mona about her childhood experience...
India Booked | Bulletproof Stories of the Northeast
22 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Bulletproof, journalist and author Teresa Rehman goes beyond statistics and looks at documentary evidences, and shows us how conflict impacts women...
India Booked | India's Highway Economy
09 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Truck De India!, journalist Rajat Ubhaykar embarks on a 10,000 km-long, 100% unplanned trip, hitchhiking with truckers all across India. On the way...
India Booked | Bad Money in the Indian Economy
08 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bad Money, the latest book of Vivek Kaul is an important title for the way its author discloses the history of the Indian Economy and Banking system w...
India Booked | Invisible Man
01 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Invisible Man, the seminal work (controversies and shortcomings included) talking about the Indian transmasculine network, is an important work for br...
India Booked | Food and Faith
25 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the second episode, travel through a Christian village in Meghalaya, meet the Kolkata-based Jewish community and feast on the 56-course feast...
India Booked | Understanding Akbar
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode, India Booked talks to Manimugdha Sharma, News Editor and author of Allahu Akbar: Understanding the Great Mughal in Tod...
India Booked Trailer
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
India Booked Trailer