Beyond the Lines
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBeyond the Lines is a podcast by Roli Books that dissects Indian books and writing, diving into culture and things that inform it, and reflects on our times. Self-confessed bookworms Priya Kapoor and Chirag Thakkar chat up with your favourite writers, artists and creative heads on an episode each. Catch our guests tell their stories, talk about ideas that inspire them, their guilty pleasures and passions that drive them. With the right doses of the sincere and silly, the most urgent and leisurely, some gripping some ticklish, the featured guests here have enough food for thought for everybody at the table.
Hosts and Executive Producers: Priya Kapoor and Chirag Thakkar.
Show Producer: Aria Nanji.
Produced by Roli Pulse, a digital initiative by Roli Books.
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Episodes
Ep 09 Pandemic Tapes: India Under Lockdowns
July 22, 2021 06:23 - 48 minutes - 111 MBOn the finale episode of season one of Beyond the Lines, our co-host Chirag Thakkar gets on a call with Anoo Bhuyan, Soutik Biswas and Dr Kalpana Swaminathan to unpack the events spanning over a year of the Covid-19 pandemic as well as its second wave that wreaked havoc on India’s peoples. Over two summers, India woke up to the same cycles of news: people falling sick in hordes; a shortage of beds, medicines, emergency wards, ambulances, testing kits, information, systems, oxygen, the list c...
Ep 08 Ways of Seeing : India in 100 Objects with Vidya Dehejia
June 02, 2021 09:57 - 31 minutes - 73.1 MBOur co-host Priya Kapoor gets on a call with master historian and storyteller Vidya Dehejia to talk about her career and her new book titled India: A Story in 100 Objects. The richly illustrated book tells India’s richly layered historical story through objects that have come to define its people, culture and society. Vidya Dehejia is Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University. Awarded the Padma Bhushan by the government of India, she is one of th...
Ep 07 So You Think You Can Cook Featuring Nandita Iyer
May 26, 2021 08:12 - 28 minutes - 65.1 MBOur co-host Chirag Thakkar gets on a call with food writer and blogger Dr. Nandita Iyer, who takes on heavy-duty questions that get to the heart of what we eat and how and why we eat what we eat, answers for which we all have sought for so long. Whether ghee is good for you, if diets work and are sustainable, what oil is good for desi cooking, why eating seasonal producce is directly tied to your wellbeing – all of this and a whole lot more on this episode. And oh, if she were a pickle or a ...
Ep 06 Scindias and the Pulse of Indian Politics
May 19, 2021 09:42 - 23 minutes - 54.8 MBOur co-host Chirag Thakkar gets on a call with political commentator and writer Rasheed Kidwai to talk about one of India’s most popular political dynasties – the Scindias. With political intrigue, palace conspiracies, cut-throat rivalry, an ugly, public feud, betrayals and property wars fought in courts, and siblings that do not look eye to eye, the Scindias make tantalizing headlines. Weeks before India announced a total lockdown to combat the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, Jyotiraditya ...
Ep 05 Of Spies and World Wars with Shrabani Basu
May 12, 2021 12:26 - 25 minutes - 57.4 MBOur co-host Priya Kapoor gets on a call with bestselling writer Shrabani Basu to chat about being a journalist to transforming into a writer, historian and biographer. She takes a deep-dive into what it takes to recreate the life of Noor Inayat Khan’s – India’s first female wire-operator-turned-secret-agent in Europe during World War II – now celebrated and commemorated widely in the UK. Shrabani Basu is an Indian journalist and historian based in the UK, and the author of several books incl...
Ep 04 Gandhi, Art and the Historian with Sumathi Ramaswamy
May 05, 2021 09:42 - 31 minutes - 72.9 MBOur co-host Chirag Thakkar gets on a call with historian Sumathi Ramaswamy to chat about Gandhi as a muse to India’s modern and contemporary artists based on her new book Gandhi in the Gallery, the power of viral images in protests in India and the U.S., and speculate over what Sumathi and Gandhi are likely to talk about if they had a chance to have dinner. Sumathi is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of History at Duke University. Hosts and Executive Producers: Priya Kapoor and Chira...
Ep 03 The Notorious World of India’s Prisons with Sunetra Choudhury
April 28, 2021 05:20 - 27 minutes - 62.2 MBOur co-host Priya Kapoor gets on a call with Sunetra Choudhury to chat over writing about prisons and prisoners, doing news in print and television media, what it means to be a working mother in today’s India and a whole lot more. Sunetra is the author of bestselling books Behind Bars and Black Warrant that take a hard look at the sorry state of affairs inside India’s prisons. An award-winning journalist, she is currently national political editor at Hindustan Times. Hosts and Executive P...
Ep 02 Indian Jazz and Bombay, the Ticking Time Bomb with Naresh Fernandes
April 21, 2021 13:45 - 23 minutes - 53.8 MBOur co-host Chirag Thakkar gets on a call with newsman, music fanatic and Bombay historian Naresh Fernandes for the second episode of Beyond the Lines to talk about Indian jazz, statues and busts, and the pressures and joys of doing journalism in India today. As early as the 1930s, Jazz found its way into Bombay’s nightclubs, bars and cultural life and had a thriving career for the next three decades, influencing its cinema and music. Our guest tells this forgotten story of Bombay’s golden j...
Ep 01 Looking Back - Prison Writing, Politics and Activism with Kobad Ghandy
April 13, 2021 19:44 - 28 minutes - 64.9 MBOur co-host Priya Kapoor gets on a call with Kobad Ghandy for the first episode of Beyond the Lines. Born in the cradle of upper-middle-class privilege in a Bombay Parsi household and educated at one of India’s finest schools, Kobad Ghandy’s life and career could have scaled heights in the bustling world of corporate finance. Only it did not. Instead, he chose to declass himself to become a radical activist working for the oppressed of the country. This is the story of an honest man and his ...
Beyond The Lines - Trailer - Season One
April 04, 2021 21:00 - 1 minute - 3.51 MBBeyond The Lines is a podcast by Roli Books that dissects Indian books and writing, diving into culture and things that inform it, and reflects on our times. Self-confessed bookworms Priya Kapoor and Chirag Thakkar chat up with your favourite writers, artists and creative heads on an episode each. Catch our guests tell their stories, talk about ideas that inspire them, their guilty pleasures and passions that drive them. With the right doses of the sincere and silly, the most urgent and ...