7 episodes
That Reminds Me That Reminds Me
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Reading Beyond the Lines
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004 – A Murder on Malabar Hill, Milk Teeth
Summary Aadisht Khanna and Ashish Kulkarni were joined by Nehaa Chaudhari to discuss two novels set in the Bombay and Mumbai of the past: Sujata Massey’s A Murder on Malabar Hill; and Amrita Mahale’s Milk Teeth. The conversation took its usual diversions, and covered television legal dramas, the deleterious effect of Kolkata on Parsis, the […]
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003 – Because Internet, Mothers Against Digital Danger
Summary Ashish Kulkarni and Aadisht Khanna discussed a book about language on the internet, and a podcast episode about what it would take for the internet to disappear. The book was Gretchen McCulloch’s Because Internet, and the podcast was the episode Mothers Against Digital Danger from Rose Eveleth’s Flash Forward. As always, Aadisht and Ashish […]
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002 – Locust
Summary Ashish Kulkarni and Aadisht Khanna talked about Locust, a book by Jeffrey Lockwood that discusses the science and history behind locust infestations in the United States of America more than a hundred years ago; and discovered that there’s much more to the book than locusts. This episode was recorded on 12 May 2020, about […]
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001j – Fat and Acid
Summary Aadisht Khanna had read Samin Nosrat’s cookbook Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, and also watched the TV show. In this episode, Amba Salelkar joins Aadisht and Ashish Kulkarni to talk not only about Fat and Acid as explored in Samin Nosrat’s book and television show, but their own favourite fats and acids to eat and […]
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001i – Jeeves and the King of Clubs; Coffee; The Siege of Paris 1870-71
Summary Aadisht Khanna and Ashish Kulkarni talked about Jeeves and the King of Clubs, a pastiche by Ben Schott which is an homage to PG Wodehouse; an In Our Time episode about the history of coffee drinking, and another In Our Time episode about the siege of Paris that followed the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. […]
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001e – Crimes in Space, Paleofantasy, and George Will
Summary Ashish Kulkarni talked to Aadisht Khanna about a Flash Forward episode about what happens when a crime is committed in space; Marlene Zuk’s book Paleofantasy, which discusses and debunks the idea that modern humans ought to do what their Stone Age ancestors did; and Russ Roberts’s EconTalk interview of George Will. What We Discussed […]