The Times Of India Podcast

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• Why Mrs Funnybones no longer feels the need to always be funny

  November 25, 2025 · 27 min

  Twinkle Khanna's been writing the Mrs Funnybones column for a decade now and has a collection of columns from over the years compiled into a new book titled 'Mrs Funnybones Returns'.  In this episode she's in conversation with The Sunday…

• 'My job is to hold a mirror to what is happening on the ground'

  September 27, 2025 · 38 min

  Journalist-columnist Harinder Baweja talks about writing about conflict over four decades, terrorism in Punjab, her multiple trips to Pakistan, exposing Pakistan’s claims on Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and more that are documented in her new…

• 'Gen Z' forces out Nepal's political class, but what next?

  September 12, 2025 · 38 min

  The Prime Minister has resigned, political leaders were attacked in the streets, the Nepal Army is now in charge. Roman Gautam, editor of magazine Himal Southasian and resident of Kathmandu, explains why 'Gen Z' protests in Nepal…

• 'It is the number of idiots that give dignity to a stupid idea'

  September 5, 2025 · 32 min

  Poet, lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar was recently invited to a Urdu literature festival in Kolkata and then saw the invite withdrawn after Muslim groups objected to his presence, on the grounds that he is an atheist. In this…

• How much safer is flying in India after AI-171?

  July 19, 2025 · 51 min

  The preliminary report on the Air India flight’s crash in Ahmedabad has raised more questions instead of answering them. Captain Amit Singh, co-founder of aviation safety think-tank Safety Matters Foundation, explains the problems with the…

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