Ep 05 Of Spies and World Wars with Shrabani Basu

Our 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 including Victoria and Abdul, also adapted into a Hollywood film.

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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Find Shrabani’s book Spy Princess here (India), here (UK) and here (US).     

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