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Of Jaws 3, Rat Curry and Diamonds on Snake Heads
Books and Authors - July 04, 2024 10:26 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating"Last year, when Anita Mani of Indian Pitta Books contacted me and asked if we could update Snakeman (1989), which was about Rom Whitaker and his exploits with reptiles and about our life after we got married, I had to laugh a little bit. I said, "You know, it's a bit odd for a divorced wife to b...
Masala Chai Magic and More
Books and Authors - June 27, 2024 10:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating"The history of drinking spices is older than the history of drinking tea, which is more recent in India. Drinking spices in hot water and in milk comes from the Ayurveda. As to when the marriage of these two happened, that's lost in history somewhere. In the West, people's palates are getting ...
Masala Chai, Magic and More
Books and Authors - June 27, 2024 10:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating"The history of drinking spices is older than the history of drinking tea, which is more recent in India. Drinking spices in hot water and in milk comes from the Ayurveda. As to when the marriage of these two happened, that's lost in history somewhere. In the West, people's palates are getting ...
6.25 Nitin & Nirmalya: Business Wars, Data Paradoxes, and the HiPPO Effect
Books and Beyond with Bound - June 25, 2024 14:30 - 57 minutesHow can data make or break a company? Is all data useful? And can data be “too much of a good thing”? In this episode of Books and Beyond, Tara speaks to Nitin Seth, CEO at Incedo and the author of Mastering the Data Paradox and Nirmalya Kumar, a Professor and former Strategy Head for the Tata ...
Women, Dalits and Contextualizing the Manusmriti
Books and Authors - June 21, 2024 07:05 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating"The general greater acceptance of reservations in India as compared to the US comes from the acceptance of a karmic world view, the principle that you can't escape the consequences of your actions. Therefore, if your actions have been evil, then it is better to own up and do something to correct...
6.24 Mitali Mukherjee: Why is India Falling for Crypto Scams?
Books and Beyond with Bound - June 18, 2024 11:30 - 42 minutesIn this episode of Books and Beyond, Tara speaks to Mitali Mukherjee about her book Cryptocrimes. Tara and Mitali dive into the chaotic world of cryptocurrency, and discover why Mitali compares it to a naughty child running amok in a classroom. Through engaging anecdotes and insightful conversa...
Books Boys Bonus: C.F. Dunn
Books Boys - June 15, 2024 06:46 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's time for another Bonus episode! Woohoo. The wonderful C.F. Dunn calls in as part of her book tour to chat with us about Book 1 from the Tarnished Crown series, Wheel Of Fortune. Let's delve into some 1400s fiction! booksboys.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...
The social and cultural evolution of the Indian Foreign Service
Books and Authors - June 14, 2024 07:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating"The problem of studying history is that we often think of history from today's point of view. When we look at history we must always look at the physical reality that existed at that particular time. The main reality of Nehru's time wasn't the threat from Pakistan or China or India's relations w...
Playboys Of Attica 3: Lysistrata
Books Boys - June 11, 2024 14:32 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's time to finally release our series of Greek Plays for free! These were on patreon a year ago. We begin with some comedies by Aristophanes. Join Dean & Alex as we review Lysistrata. Check out booksboys.com for links to our social media, merchandise, music, etc, as well as patreon.com/books...
6.23 Gigi Ganguly: A World Where Clouds, Crows and Cocoons Are One
Books and Beyond with Bound - June 11, 2024 12:30 - 55 minutesCan a corvid detective solve a murder? Why does the weather department need a singer? And how does a cloud herder take care of his flock? Find out the truth behind all these stories in Gigi Ganguly’s new book “Biopeculiar”. This is the first-ever book of Westland’s new speculative imprint ‘IF’...
Of guilt lit and suffocation by morality
Books and Authors - June 07, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating"It's very easy to criticise the BJP government or the Mamta government for censorship. What we don't realise is we are doing the same thing on social media without allowing a certain kind of freedom of speech that is in disagreement with what we feel. But it is disagreement that produces culture...
6.22 Liz Nugent: The Secret to Award-Winning Irish Crime Thrillers
Books and Beyond with Bound - June 04, 2024 12:30 - 1 hourSally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died. This is the basic plot of ‘Strange Sally Diamond’ whose author, Liz Nugent joined Tara and Michelle on this episode of Books & Beyond...
Episode 44: What We Read In May
Books Boys - June 01, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome back! We finally manage to make a short episode because Alex is off on his holidays! Dean checks out another Latin American book, Alex explores Nietzsche, and Simon Hayes calls in to talk about his upcoming book Zero Risk (zero-risk.com) Books reviewed include: - Zero Risk (Simon Haye...
Not a fraction but a whole
Books and Authors - May 30, 2024 08:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating"The book is about my story as somebody of mixed heritage. In many ways it's just the story of somebody trying to figure out who they are in a world that likes to separate and divide. the story of the book is about how, through discovering the origins of ideas, through discovering history, I disc...
6.21 Vibha Kagzi: Cracking the Code to MBA Admissions With the Best
Books and Beyond with Bound - May 28, 2024 12:30 - 51 minutesIn this episode, Tara and Michelle speak to Vibha Kagzi, author of ‘Break The MBA Code’ - a book that goes into detail about how to get into Ivy League colleges and what a person should do to make their admission application more appealing. They talked about the challenges of pursuing an MBA as...
Of rose beds and avenues lined with amaltas
Books and Authors - May 23, 2024 09:19 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating"If you look at late 19th century photographs or sketches of Delhi, it is empty and treeless. It's a historical fact that the city's greenery has come with the development of urban settlements... My favourite Delhi garden is Sundar Nursery because there are always new trees to discover there" – S...
Film Fellows 2: Nightmare On Elm Street
Books Boys - May 22, 2024 08:35 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAnother from the vault! Dean & PJ review one of their fav movies ever. Check out the latest episodes on patreon.com/booksboys Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
6.20 Aparna Sanyal: A Descent Into the Mind's Torture Chambers
Books and Beyond with Bound - May 21, 2024 12:30 - 56 minutesContent Warning: Discussions about torture, violence, and mental health issues. The most agonizing and horrifying torture devices from the medieval era - but with a twist! In this episode, Tara and Michelle speak to Aparna Sanyal, author of 'Instruments of Torture' - a book that explores moder...
Aparna Sanyal: A Descent Into the Mind's Torture Chambers
Books and Beyond with Bound - May 21, 2024 12:30 - 56 minutesContent Warning: Discussions about torture, violence, and mental health issues. The most agonizing and horrifying torture devices from the medieval era - but with a twist! In this episode, Tara and Michelle speak to Aparna Sanyal, author of 'Instruments of Torture' - a book that explores moder...
Magnetic women, Oxbeas accents, and 1980s Bombay and Delhi
Books and Authors - May 16, 2024 10:34 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating"Social comedy usually has a very short span because it gets dated. For people to laugh at the same silly jokes, for social comedy to survive means that it's hit some enduring spot. I was trying to write a literary novel. It was a take on the Gothic novel and was about the relationship between Pa...
Darkplace Dreamers Episode 18: Hammer Horror ep2
Books Boys - May 15, 2024 08:38 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe time has come to open our Patreon vault and release Darkplace Dreamers series 3: Hammer House Of Horror. Join Dean & Darkplace Robert for episode 2. Can a woman hide behind a wall? Also cannibals. Check out booksboys.com for links to our social media, merchandise, music, etc, as well as pa...
6.19 Anita Mani: Meet India's Brilliant Women Wildlife Conservationists
Books and Beyond with Bound - May 14, 2024 12:30 - 39 minutesWho is India’s first ‘Birdwoman’? Who is the ‘Turtle Girl’? How many of India’s women wildlife biologists can you name? In this episode, Tara speaks with Anita Mani, editor of ‘Women in the Wild’ - an anthology of stories of India’s pioneering women wildlife biologists. From the 1940s to the...
A promoter and a patron
Books and Authors - May 09, 2024 15:35 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating"As a writer and art critic Rudolf von Leyden was able to mentor artists in a certain capacity but for artists to live, to sustain a life as an artist, they need to sell their work. They need patrons. Because of his corporate job, Rudi was able to support the work of the artists he liked – Ara, H...
Playboys Of Attica 2: The Birds
Books Boys - May 08, 2024 08:35 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's time to finally release our series of Greek Plays for free! These were on patreon a year ago. We begin with some comedies by Aristophanes. Join Dean & Alex as we review The Birds. Check out booksboys.com for links to our social media, merchandise, music, etc, as well as patreon.com/books...
6.18 Appupen & Laurent: What If AI Falls Into The Wrong Hands?
Books and Beyond with Bound - May 07, 2024 13:30 - 55 minutesThis is the story of an entrepreneur who almost sold his soul to AI. In this episode, Michelle speaks with Appupen and Laurent Daudent, the illustrator-scientist duo that came together to create 'Dream Machine' - a graphic novel on AI! The book follows Hugo, who is on the verge of selling his A...
The story of a family; the story of a nation
Books and Authors - May 03, 2024 04:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating"You can't leave caste behind but you can change religion so why won't you get attracted to another religion for whatever reasons? We are now paying too much attention to religious conversions. There are so many histories which run parallel within this one big history of the country and that's wh...
Episode 43: What We Read In April
Books Boys - May 01, 2024 07:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Books Boys crew are just back from a trip to Venice, and ready to tell us about their April reads. Also happy birthday to Dean. It's time for the dreaded George Eliot, some great dystopian books, and a surprise call in from renowned scientist turned author George Paxinos (georgepaxinos.com.a...
6.17 Shinie Antony: Meet Lilith - Adam's First Wife, Or Demon Who Devours Babies?
Books and Beyond with Bound - April 30, 2024 13:30 - 54 minutesBefore Adam and Eve, there was Adam and Lilith. But who is Lilith and what happened to her? In this episode, Michelle speaks with Shinie Antony, author of ‘Eden Abandoned’, which tells the story of Adam’s first wife and the first woman ever - Lilith. When Lilith refused to submit to Adam, she ...
Playboys Extra 12: Tartuffe
Books Boys - April 27, 2024 07:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA year ago Dean & Alex went to see a performance of Tartuffe, read the play, and gave a joint review of both on patreon. Here it is now for free. Check out booksboys.com for links to our social media, merchandise, music, etc, as well as patreon.com/booksboys for the latest episodes of Play...
Of rasa, Raja Ravi Varma, and Raza
Books and Authors - April 25, 2024 10:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating"In 2010, I totally got wedded to Indian aesthetics. I decided to view art through the lens of the rasa theory. I went back to the Natya Shastra because that is where it all starts. When I look at art, I find a sense of immediacy, through emotion, through rasa. When you look at the work of Manjit...
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