Podcasts about Kolkata

2 Uddhava Gita-Learning to learn from life. Newtown, Kolkata. - Chaitanya Charan by Exploring mindfulness, yoga and spirituality

1 Uddhava Gita-4 contrasts with Bhagavad Gita. Newtown, Kolkata. - Chaitanya Charan by Exploring mindfulness, yoga and spirituality

4 Uddhava Gita. Two tools to learn from any pain. Newtown, Kolkata. Chaitnya Chaaran by Exploring mindfulness, yoga and spirituality

Hindi When good people do bad things-3 causes, 4 boundaries. Kolkata. - Chaitanya Charan by Exploring mindfulness, yoga and spirituality

QA podcast： Can career and bhakti go together？ Kolkata - Chaitnya Charan by Exploring mindfulness, yoga and spirituality

Muslims of Kolkata in Trauma | Big Actions by Suvendhu on Islam | PM Modi | Sanjay  Dixit Explains

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When photographer Shivam Pandey first began working as a fixer for visiting photographers in India, he was positioned on the edges of other people's stories—helping shape access, logistics, and connection without yet fully claiming his own photographic voice. Over time, that proximity to image-making became a catalyst for his own practice. Based in Kolkata, Pandey has since developed a distinctive photographic approach rooted in observation, street-based storytelling, and a deep sensitivity to the rhythms of daily life in India. What makes his journey especially compelling is how organically it has unfolded—from supporting international workshops to building his own voice as a photographer and educator. His work reflects an insider's understanding of place while also carrying the curiosity of someone still discovering it through the camera. In recent years, he has expanded his practice into leading photographic workshops through Kolkata Photo Tours, sharing both his knowledge of the city and his perspective on how to see it more deeply. Our conversation explores that evolution—how teaching, photographing, and living within the dense visual landscape of Kolkata continue to shape his work and identity as a photographer. Resources Shivam Pandey https://www.kolkataphototours.com/about Raghu Rai https://raghuraifoundation.org Raghubir Singh https://www.raghubirsingh.com/ Vineet Vohra https://www.instagram.com/vineetvohra/ Matt Brandon https://mattbrandonphoto.com/ Altadena Photographers https://www.altadenaphotographers.org/ Workshops & Upcoming Education with Ibarionex PerelloX-Pedition Hanoi A destination workshop centered on street photography, culture, and daily life in Hanoi, Vietnam. https://www.f8photographicworkshops.com/x-pedition-hanoi Websites The Candid Frame Support Page https://www.ibarionex.net/support Sponsors Charcoal Book Club https://charcoalbookclub.com Frames Magazine https://readframes.com Education Resources Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/ Candid Frame Resources The Candid Frame Newsletter & Substack Blog http://ibarionex.substack.com/welcome You can follow Ibarionex on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ibarionex/

VOV1 - Hôm nay (21/6), hàng triệu người dân tại Ấn Độ và nhiều quốc gia trên thế giới cùng tham gia các hoạt động hưởng ứng Ngày Yoga Quốc tế lần thứ 12.Phát biểu tại sự kiện quy mô lớn ở thành phố Kolkata, Thủ tướng Narendra Modi khẳng định yoga không chỉ giúp nâng cao sức khỏe thể chất và tinh thần mà còn là sức mạnh kết nối con người, các quốc gia và nền văn hóa trên toàn cầu.Thủ tướng Ấn Độ đã chủ trì sự kiện Ngày Yoga quốc tế lần thứ 12 trên tuyến đường Red Road nổi tiếng của Kolkata với sự tham gia của hàng nghìn người dân thuộc nhiều tầng lớp xã hội. Đây là hoạt động trọng tâm trong chuỗi sự kiện hưởng ứng Ngày Yoga Quốc tế năm 2026 được tổ chức trên khắp Ấn Độ và nhiều quốc gia trên thế giới.Phát biểu tại buổi lễ, Thủ tướng Modi nhấn mạnh yoga đã vượt ra khỏi phạm vi một phương pháp rèn luyện sức khỏe để trở thành cầu nối giữa các dân tộc và nền văn hóa trên toàn cầu: “Khi xã hội khỏe mạnh, quốc gia cũng trở nên vững mạnh, thịnh vượng và tự tin hơn. Hôm nay, cả đất nước và thế giới dường như được kết nối với nhau. Đó chính là sức mạnh của yoga. Yoga kết nối con người, đưa mọi người đến gần nhau hơn. Nhân dịp này, tôi cầu mong mọi người đều hạnh phúc; cầu mong mọi người đều không bệnh tật. Tôi xin gửi những lời chúc tốt đẹp nhất tới toàn thể nhân loại nhân Ngày Yoga Quốc tế.”Năm nay, Ngày Yoga Quốc tế được tổ chức với chủ đề “Yoga cho tuổi già khỏe mạnh”, nhấn mạnh vai trò của yoga trong việc nâng cao sức khỏe thể chất, tinh thần và chất lượng cuộc sống khi tuổi tác ngày càng cao.Thủ tướng Modi cho rằng mục tiêu của yoga không chỉ là kéo dài tuổi thọ mà còn giúp con người duy trì sự năng động, linh hoạt và khả năng chống chọi với bệnh tật trong suốt cuộc đời. Ông khẳng định yoga có thể giúp hạn chế các bệnh liên quan đến lối sống hiện đại, đồng thời cải thiện sức khỏe tinh thần và khả năng thích ứng với những thay đổi của tuổi tác.Người đứng đầu Chính phủ Ấn Độ cũng kêu gọi đưa yoga trở thành một phần trong cuộc sống hằng ngày của mỗi gia đình thay vì chỉ thực hành vào các dịp kỷ niệm. Theo ông, yoga không chỉ cần thiết cho sức khỏe cá nhân mà còn đóng vai trò quan trọng trong việc xây dựng một xã hội khỏe mạnh và bền vững hơn trong tương lai.Cùng với sự kiện chính tại Kolkata, các hoạt động hưởng ứng Ngày Yoga Quốc tế lần thứ 12 đã diễn ra sôi nổi trên khắp Ấn Độ, từ các thành phố lớn, trường học, doanh nghiệp, doanh trại quân đội cho tới những địa điểm di sản văn hóa nổi tiếng. Nhiều bang đã tổ chức các buổi tập yoga tập thể quy mô lớn nhằm lan tỏa thông điệp về lối sống lành mạnh và nâng cao nhận thức cộng đồng về vai trò của yoga đối với sức khỏe thể chất và tinh thần. Tại Odisha, chính quyền bang đã triển khai Tuần lễ Yoga, đồng thời đẩy mạnh ứng dụng công nghệ số để đưa yoga đến gần hơn với người dân ở khu vực nông thôn.Nhiều hoạt động yoga cũng được tổ chức tại các địa điểm mang tính biểu tượng của Ấn Độ như đền Mặt Trời Konark ở Odisha, các công trình di sản tại Agra hay các trung tâm văn hóa và tâm linh trên cả nước. Sự tham gia rộng rãi của các tầng lớp xã hội cho thấy yoga ngày càng trở thành một phần trong đời sống thường nhật của người dân Ấn Độ, đồng thời tiếp tục được Ấn Độ quảng bá như một đóng góp quan trọng của Ấn Độ đối với sức khỏe và phúc lợi toàn cầu.Yoga có nguồn gốc từ nền văn minh cổ đại của Ấn Độ và hiện đã trở thành một phong trào toàn cầu vì sức khỏe thể chất và tinh thần. Năm 2014, Đại hội đồng Liên Hợp Quốc đã thông qua nghị quyết lấy ngày 21/6 hằng năm là Ngày Yoga Quốc tế theo đề xuất của Thủ tướng Narendra Modi và lễ kỷ niệm đầu tiên được tổ chức vào năm 2015.Sau hơn một thập kỷ, Ngày Yoga Quốc tế đã trở thành sự kiện thường niên có sức lan tỏa rộng khắp, góp phần quảng bá các giá trị về sức khỏe, sự cân bằng và lối sống lành mạnh tới cộng đồng quốc tế./.Đình Nam/VOV-New DelhiĐông đảo người dân Ấn Độ tập Yoga. Ảnh: ANI

Send us Fan MailWhat happens when one of India's most successful private equity investors walks away at the peak of his career to spend the rest of his life building the country's human capital? In this episode of Money Majlis, Suvo sits down in New Delhi with Ashish Dhawan – founder of ChrysCapital, Ashoka University, Central Square Foundation and The Convergence Foundation – to unpack a remarkable journey from Wall Street returns to nation-building outcomes.Ashish reflects on India's dramatic rise as a core allocation in global private equity, why buyouts and high-quality exits are finally deepening the market, and how global capital is rotating out of China and into India's growth story without diluting discipline. He explains what it takes to generate real alpha in a crowded PE landscape, why the best firms are now judged as much on governance and institution-building as on IRR, and how private capital can be a quiet force for better managed, more ambitious Indian companies. The conversation covers India's next frontier: deep tech and human capital. Ashish lays out why India cannot become a developed country on apps alone, why the new deep-tech fund-of-funds architecture could be as catalytic as Israel's Yozma moment, and which themes in biotech, semiconductors, AI and advanced manufacturing he finds genuinely investible over the next decade. In parallel, he argues that India's true superpower is its people – 23 million births a year – and explains why fixing foundational literacy and numeracy, expanding quality skilling, enabling labour mobility and unlocking women's economic participation will determine whether “Viksit Bharat” (or “Developed India”) becomes a reality or stays a rhetoric.Suvo and Ashish dive deep into the playbook behind The Convergence Foundation's portfolio approach to nation-building, Central Square Foundation's work on NIPUN Bharat and FLN at scale, and the bold experiment of Ashoka University as a collective-philanthropy, liberal arts-led “full university” rooted in Indian context yet globally benchmarked. Ashish is candid about the bumps on the road – from regulatory constraints in education and the debate over for-profit models to the tightrope of academic freedom and political reality – and shares the leadership lessons he would offer India's new billionaires as they design their own philanthropy.  Along the way, we also meet the Kolkata schoolboy, the Ivy League dealmaker, the would-be travel guide and the relentless optimist who believes India can sustain China-style growth while remaining grounded in ancient wisdom and a renewed sense of purpose. Produced by : PoddsterGiving partner: Goodworld Visit moneymajlis.com to join our giving movement and get your USD 50 complimentary GiveCard. 

What does it actually take to build a brand that survives the modern internet? In this episode, we sit down with Ankit, a seasoned marketing agency founder, to pull back the curtain on the messy, unglamorous reality of Indian business.Ankit Saraf is the Founder of Meraqi Digital, one of Eastern India's leading and fastest-growing independent digital marketing consulting agencies based in Kolkata. A visionary marketer, Ankit holds a Master's in Advertising and Design from the University of Leeds and brings over 13 years of cross-continental experience to the table. Before turning entrepreneur, he spent nearly a decade in London working with top-tier global agencies, leading highly impactful digital portfolios for iconic multinational giants including Budweiser, AB InBev Global, Sainsbury's, Procter & Gamble, and Olay. Driven by a desire to bring world-class marketing standards and international work culture to his hometown, he returned to India in 2016. Launching Meraqi Digital under challenging circumstances with an initial capital of just ₹20,000 in a small room, Ankit scaled the business rapidly, crossing ₹1 crore in revenue within 2.5 years. Today, he leads a robust, multi-award-winning team of over 40 digital natives, orchestrating digital transformations and growth strategy mandates for heavyweights like the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, WOW! Momo, Emami Group, and ITC Limited.From the toxic trap of chasing short-term viral trends to why legacy "boring" businesses quietly make the most money in India, this conversation is a masterclass for every modern founder, D2C marketer, and next-gen family business owner. If you are tired of surface-level startup advice and want real, data-backed insights on what actually drives sales and consumer sentiment, this episode is for you.Key Takeaways From This Episode:The Quick Commerce Illusion: Why the highly visible D2C brands you see all over social media are secretly bleeding money under the hood, while unsexy traditional businesses are booking massive profits.The Pan-India Scaling Trap: Why burning limited capital to target all of India on day one is a recipe for failure, and how to successfully build hyper-local validation first.Next-Gen Family Business Friction: A practical, zero-BS guide for young founders on how to introduce digital marketing to traditional parents without disrupting the legacy systems that already work.The "Fickle" Modern Marketer: Why chasing every single internet algorithm trend is ruining brand identity, and how legacy giants maintain deep consumer connections over decades.The Reality of AI in Agencies: How artificial intelligence is actively changing agency workflows, why it excels at boring data crunching, and why it will never replace raw human creative emotion.

It's the "controvery over public art" game show again, this time in Kolkata. Sandip Roy kicks it around for us.

Summers in Kolkata slide rather than blister, which is what happens when I visit Jhunjhunu. Both are experiences. There's no hiding place here because the humidity is omnipresent - but a shaded tree is enough to save you from the dry heat in Rajasthan. And then I go to a Delhi - where nothing can save you except an airconditioned room, because what does not melt you burns you down.   There's very little that's romantic about an Indian summer, except for a strange immersion. Much more than an attitude of mind-over-matter, it is an alignment which can save you - of deciding not to escape but just to be one with what the universe offers. It's surprising how quickly our bodies can get distracted from discomfort.   The important thing is to be alone in this battle inside, so we are not influenced by the opinions and incessant cribbing of others. And since this seeps into other things, I'm very careful about whom I go out for all experiences. Then I have the luxury of my flawed reactions - to let my emotions flow untouched by anything other than my own proclivities and prejudices.   I cannot overstate the pleasure of letting a morning sweep over us with all its intimations of fresh possibilities. Possibly nothing has changed in life's continuum, but there is still an incredible sense of renewal which can only sweep over us if we are alone with our feelings, untouched by anybody else's aura.   If you liked this poem, consider listening to these other poems on the magic of mornings -  A Morning Ramble on How Love is Rediscovered at the Bottom of  Mother's Ramble  Sipping Tea in a Rumi Morning Subscribe to my newsletter 'The Uncuts' Follow me on Instagram at @sunilgivesup. Get in touch with me on uncutpoetrynow@gmail.com   The details of the music used in this episode are as follows - This World (Instrumental) by Sascha Ende Link: https://filmmusic.io/en/song/this-world-instrumental Licence:  https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

 Gunjan Shah | MD & CEO at Bata India Limited Gunjan is an accomplished leader with extensive experience across geographies and diverse industries, including paints, telecom, and food. Prior to joining Bata India Limited, he served as the Chief Commercial Officer at Britannia Industries.Over the course of his professional journey, he has worked across multiple functions encompassing sales, marketing, and supply chain. He has played a key role in both turnaround and growth initiatives. At Britannia, he also led the International Business and was instrumental in architecting one of the company's most impactful strategy and business transformation initiatives.Gunjan holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kolkata.  

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode has mentions of self-harm, violence, and assault. Viewer discretion is advised.-----Hellloooo MOSSIES, another MOS day has come around and after much coaxing, pleading, and only a little bit of bribing, we have a very special much-requested guest gracing us with her presence in the studio! The most gorgeous MISS KAREEMA BARRY has returned and this time we actually gave her a chance to speak, we promise.Kareema got us reminiscing about the days of yore (early 20s, college, and singlehood) but the nostalgia soon turned into horror as we heard some of her tales of young online courtship. Our listeners too SHOWED UP when it came to relationship horror stories and we did a deep dive into our audience's experiences with Italian serial killers, middle-of-the-road abandoners and men that give a whole new meaning to being a cokehead. There was a short review of Netflix's new “Should I marry a murderer?” (spoiler: don't) and we then debated some of the most pressing questions of our times like - are the dating prospects better in delhi or mumbai or kolkata or bangalore? Are car fights actually the best kind of fights? Would you call your mom if your hookup tried to kill you? Who let the dogs out? Watch the episode to find out!PS - There is a mention of a certain ‘silk man' towards the end of the pod, which was related to a story we had to edit out of the final cut (sorry for the confusion but this is one secret we can never tell).And finally, we are once again asking you to get us to 100k by liking sharing commenting subscribing hyping. Chaptering: 00:00 – Did you just agree to that?00:44 – Meet Kareema Barry02:01 – Life plans, but make it a jigsaw puzzle06:38 – surviving during war07:52 – Tag that bestie who wants to be a masi08:55 – Horror dating story: BF keeps her hostage12:29 – Kolkata vs Mumbai: the lifestyle debate14:35 – Delhi University protests, but niche16:39 – Mumbai locals 17:40 – The Italian serial killer 19:40 – Do you tell your parents you're dating?22:28 – Movie recommendation 25:38 – Negotiating with your murderer28:12 – sensitive topic31:12 – Fighting with your BF in the car34:23 – A catcall leads to a breakup39:42 – The most common mistakes in love43:30 – Female friendship appreciation post49:01 – baby conversation52:54 – What is your purpose in life?56:58 – You know what to do… road to 100K subscribers Kareema Barry:https://www.instagram.com/kareemabarry/?hl=enhttps://www.youtube.com/@KareemaBarry27Follow MoS on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/momentofsilencepod/reels/?hl=enCredits:Naina Bhan - Co-host and certified overthinkerhttps://www.instagram.com/nainabee?ig...Sakshi Shivdasani - Co-host, balancing out Naina's overthinking with a healthy dose of not thinkinghttps://www.instagram.com/sakshishivdasani/?hl=enResearched by our very own curiosity engineer and director- Aashna Sharma https://www.linkedin.com/in/aashna-sharma-913146179Senior Producer- Amruta P. https://www.linkedin.com/in/amruta-bandivdekar-01879925Produced by "Vertical by Handmade" - Our personal cheering squad https://www.instagram.com/verticalbyhandmade?igsh=NG1vdXd5bWdsdWI3Creative direction by Tinkre, Keeper of MoS' signature “Pookie” energy Natascha Mehrahttps://www.instagram.com/tinkre.in/?hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/natascha.zip/?hl=en Reel Editor - Yug Vermahttps://www.instagram.com/bass_abhiyug?igsh=MnlibHdsbG56MjNl&utm_source=qr

In this episode, Monika takes listeners inside a recent meeting with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the newly inaugurated Kartavya Bhavan. What begins as a visit to present the latest editions and translations of her books becomes a broader reflection on policymaking, public service, and the government's focus on financial consumer protection. She shares her impressions of the transition from the historic North Block to the modern Ministry of Finance offices, describes conversations around financial literacy, mis-selling, and her new online education initiative, and offers a personal glimpse into the people and institutions shaping India's economic policy. Along the way, she reflects on the importance of fiscal prudence and why India's economic foundations remain stronger than many people realise despite current global uncertainty.She then turns to a question from Balaji in Bangalore about one of the biggest challenges in personal finance: planning for retirement in a world where future expenses, inflation, healthcare needs, and even lifestyle expectations are impossible to predict with certainty. Monika explains why retirement planning has been described as one of the hardest problems in finance, discusses the role of inflation targeting by the RBI, and outlines her own framework for managing retirement income through a combination of cash, debt, and equity. The conversation explores how investors can build resilience into their retirement plans without relying on precise forecasts and why flexibility often matters more than accuracy.In listener questions, Saahil from Kolkata asks whether passive investors should trust a single index fund or diversify across multiple fund houses, leading to a discussion about the legal structure of mutual funds, operational risks, AMC failures, and the role of diversification for young investors; and Rama from Pune raises the often-overlooked question of how to actually use accumulated wealth after retirement, prompting a conversation about withdrawal strategies, retirement corpus adequacy, balancing equity and debt in later life, and the importance of preparing not just for the accumulation phase of investing, but also for the decades that follow.Chapters:(00:00 – 00:00) Inside My Meeting with the Finance Minister: Books, Consumer Protection and Mis-Selling(00:00 – 00:00) Retirement Planning Beyond Inflation: Building a Corpus That Lasts(00:00 – 00:00) Index Funds, AMC Risk and the Simplicity of Long-Term Investing(00:00 – 00:00) Managing Retirement Withdrawals: When and How to Use Your Investments(00:00 – 00:00) Listener Questions on Wealth Preservation, Insurance and Financial Freedomhttps://x.com/monikahalan/status/2059623668616249611https://x.com/monikahalan/status/2059838775619145737If you have financial questions that you'd like answers for, please email us at ⁠mailme@monikahalan.com⁠ Monika's book on basic money management⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.monikahalan.com/lets-talk-money-english/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Monika's book on mutual funds⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.monikahalan.com/lets-talk-mutual-funds/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Monika's workbook on recording your financial life⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.monikahalan.com/lets-talk-legacy/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Calculators⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://investor.sebi.gov.in/calculators/index.html⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠You can find Monika on her social media @monikahalan. Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MonikaHalan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MonikaHalan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MonikaHalan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MonikaHalan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Production House: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.inoutcreatives.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Production Assistant:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Anshika Gogoi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

“The thirteen colonies that became the United States were not even half of the British colonies that existed in the eighteenth century. We need to think about why some colonies rebelled and others did not.” — Sarah Pearsall Earlier today, the historian Dominic Erdozain came on the show to argue that American patriotism has the same exceptionalist Puritan roots as British imperialism. But not all historians of the American revolution would agree. Take, for example, Sarah Pearsall, author of Freedom Round the Globe, who turns 1776 inside out to present the American rebellion as a kind of world revolution. 1776 as 1917. American patriotism as an explosion of borderless humanity. Pearsall argues that 1776 was as globally significant in its revolutionary promise as 1789, 1848 or 1917. She reminds us that there were at least 26, possibly as many as 32 British colonies in existence in 1775 — in the Caribbean, in Canada, in East and West Florida. And the radical ideas that drove the Declaration of Independence — security, happiness, respect — were being asserted simultaneously all over the world. So in Edinburgh debating clubs, Caribbean sugar plantations and West African castles, the American revolution was welcomed as a global revolution. Universal rather than exceptional. The Tea Party as the Storming of the Winter Palace. Five Takeaways •       32 British Colonies, Not 13: The Forgotten Empire: People talk about the thirteen colonies as if they were all the British colonies in North America. They weren't. There were at least 26, possibly as many as 32, depending on how you count groups of islands. British colonies in the Caribbean. In Canada. In East and West Florida. Each had its own relationship to the British Empire, its own internal tensions, its own calculations about the costs and benefits of rebellion. The question Pearsall asks — why did some rebel and others not? — is the question that opens up the global story. •       The Caribbean Undermines the Slavery Thesis: There is a popular argument that the American Revolution was primarily fought to preserve slavery — that the colonists feared British abolition and revolted to protect the institution. Pearsall's counter: if this were the main driver, the Caribbean colonies would have been the first to join. They were far more dependent on slavery than the mainland colonies. They did not join. The relationship between slavery and the revolution is genuinely complicated — not simple in either direction. The Caribbean story is the evidence that demands a more nuanced account. •       From St Kitts to Kolkata: The Declaration's Global Keywords: Pearsall's organising device: she takes thirteen key words from the Declaration of Independence and finds the spark of each in a far-flung location. Security in the Six Nations cornfields of upstate New York, where it meant something very different to the Haudenosaunee than to the Philadelphia delegates. Happiness in the debating clubs of Edinburgh, where women were demanding it alongside men for the first time. Respect in the streets of Kolkata. This device lets her write about the globe without losing the Declaration as her anchor. •       Americans Were Already Thinking Globally in 1776: One of Pearsall's more surprising findings: Americans in 1776 were far more aware of global events than we tend to assume. They were reading about events in India. The Boston Tea Party is unintelligible without knowing that tea was an Asian commodity and that the East India Company was simultaneously extracting profit from Asia and from the American colonies. Colonists compared themselves explicitly to Indians under the Company's thumb. They saw the connections. The isolation of American history as a subject of study is a modern academic choice, not an eighteenth-century reality. •       Read the Declaration, Not the Constitution: Pearsall's July 4 Prescription: Andrew asks Pearsall what she'll be doing on July 4 and suggests people should read the Constitution. Pearsall gently corrects him: the Declaration of Independence. Two very different documents from very different moments. The Declaration, published on July 4, 1776, is short, bold, and reaches toward universal ideals. The Constitution, ratified in 1788, is a compromise document about how to govern. On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration, Pearsall's prescription: read the Declaration. The IndyCar races and the UFC match at the White House can wait. About the Guest Sarah Pearsall is a prize-winning historian at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution (Knopf/Penguin Random House, May 2026). She previously taught at the University of Cambridge, where she was a colleague of Christopher Clark. She grew up in the United States and lives in Baltimore, Maryland. References: •       Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution by Sarah M. S. Pearsall (Knopf/Penguin Random House, May 2026). •       Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848–1849 — referenced in the conversation; Pearsall's former Cambridge colleague and friend. •       Episode 2924: Dominic Erdozain on To Love a Country — the morning's companion episode, directly referenced. •       Episode 2922: Alexandra Natapoff on America Unfinished — the week's America 250 series. About Keen On America Nobody asks more awkward questions than the Anglo-American writer and filmmaker Andrew Keen. In Keen On America, Andrew brings his pointed Transatlantic wit to making sense of the United States — hosting daily interviews about the history and future of this now venerable Republic. With nearly 2,900 episodes since the show launched on TechCrunch in 2010, Keen On America is the most prolific intellectual interview show in the history of podcasting. WebsiteSubstackYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotify Chapters: (00:31) - Introduction: Erdozain this morning, Pearsall this afternoon (01:57) - A meta vantage point: turning the revolution inside out

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In the birth month of Satyajit Ray, we are dropping a very special episode.Where did Ray's unforgettable characters emerge from?Was he fundamentally an Indian filmmaker—or deeply, profoundly a filmmaker of Bengal and Kolkata?How did one artist move so effortlessly between stories of women, loneliness, urban anxieties, politics, childhood, fantasy, detective fiction, and even horror?What shaped Ray's gaze? Where did his extraordinary empathy, observation, and range of storytelling come from?In this expansive episode of The Artists Podcast, we explore the inner world of Ray with film scholar Ranjani Mazumdar—one of India's most respected voices on cinema, urban modernity, and visual culture.From Charulata and Mahanagar to Devi, Nayak, Akira Kurosawa, and Ritwik Ghatak—this is a journey into Ray's cinema, thinking, and world.03:15 Environmental & spatial aesthetics in Ray's cinema04:40 Habits that made Ray deeply cinematic07:16 Kolkata filmmaker or Indian filmmaker?08:15 Devi, Nayak, Charulata 12:00 Cinema & architecture — Charulata and Mahanagar 15:00 Creating psychological states21:00 Ray's ability to understand women & inner life28:00 Kurosawa & Ray29:00 Ray & Ghatak 38:00 Rejecting the popular — B&W to colour39:00 Three Ray films for Gen Z

In the birth month of Satyajit Ray, we are dropping a very special episode — “Satyajit Ray & His World”.Where did Ray's unforgettable characters emerge from? Was he fundamentally an Indian filmmaker — or deeply, profoundly a filmmaker of Bengal and Kolkata? How did one artist move so effortlessly between stories of women, loneliness, urban anxieties, politics, childhood, fantasy, detective fiction, and even horror?What shaped Ray's gaze? Where did his empathy, observation, and extraordinary range of storytelling come from?Join us for an expansive conversation on all things Ray with film scholar Ranjani Mazumdar, as we journey into the mind, cinema, and inner world of one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.Full episode dropping on Spotify, YouTube & Apple Podcasts.#SatyajitRay #TheArtistsPodcast #RanjaniMazumdar #IndianCinema #CinemaStudies #RayAndHisWorld #FilmPodcast #WorldCinema #AuteurCinema

In this episode of the show, Binksy, Baldy and Stu look back at the week that was in IPL 2026, discuss England's Test squad to take on the Black Caps and cover off some news from New Zealand, Australia and the World Test Championship. We start the show by trying to make sense of an increasingly murky IPL playoff picture after KKR's big win over the Gujarat Titans in the early hours of Sunday morning New Zealand time. With plenty set to change overnight, we looked at both Kolkata and Gujarat to investigate what's been going well for these two sides recently. There's praise for spinners Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine, seamers Kagiso Rabada and Kartik Tyagi, plus the powerful striking of Finn Allen. As the conversation continues, attention turns to the Punjab Kings, who at the time of recording were on an almighty slump. We spotlight the impact (or lack thereof) of their overseas seam-bowling contingent - particularly T20 World Cup standout Marco Jansen. We also take the time to chat about Virat Kohli's masterful hundred for RCB against KKR and the need to appreciate greatness when it's right in front of your eyes. In the second half of the show, we head to the UK to examine the newly announced 15-player England Test squad to take on the Black Caps (at least for the first Test). Zak Crawley has run out of chances and Emilio Gay & James Rew join, but it's the bowling attack which has seen the largest number of changes since The Ashes. There's a return for Ollie Robinson, talk of Ben Stokes opening the bowling and possible opportunities for Matthew Fisher and Sonny Baker. To round out the show, we cover off the news that the NZ20 has been officially delayed until December 2027, Devon Conway is keen for a central contract, Australia named a youthful looking white-ball squad featuring the likes of Cooper Connolly & Ollie Peake, and the ICC are set to discuss one-Test series in the World Test Championship. We'll be back in your feed again soon with more cricket news, including the charge to the IPL finals and the Black Caps' tour to England. Until then please take the time to give us a like, follow, share or subscribe on all our channels (@toporderpod on Twitter & Facebook, and @thetoporderpodcast on Instagram & YouTube) and a (5-Star!) review at your favourite podcast provider, or tell a friend to download. It really helps others find the show and is the best thing you can do to support us. You can also find all our written content, including our Hall of Fame series, at our website. You can also dip back into our guest episodes - including conversations with Mike Hesson, Shane Bond and Mike Hussey, current players such as Matt Henry, Sophie Devine and Ish Sodhi, coaches Gary Stead, Jeetan Patel and Luke Wright, as well as Barry Richards, Frankie Mackay, Bharat Sundaresan and many more fascinating people from all across the cricketing world. And if you'd like to reach out to us with feedback, questions or guest suggestions, get in touch at thetoporderpodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening. 0:00 Intro 1:00 IPL 2026: The playoff picture is murky 3:15 KKR enters the chat 5:45 Was Finn Allen robbed of POTM? 10:15 Punjab Kings losing streak 18:30 Virat Kohli appreciation 25:45 Fielding & scheduling 29:20 England Test squad v NZ 30:05 Changes to the bowling attack 43:15 Pitches and ball conditions 49:00 NZ20 delay, Devon Conway contract 54:35 Australia's youthful white-ball squads 1:01:10 ICC considering 1-Test WTC series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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On Friday, Adhikari was elected leader of the BJP Legislature Party, making him the next Chief Minister of West Bengal. He will be sworn in on Saturday in Kolkata, ending 15 years of Trinamool Congress rule in the state. Mamata Banerjee's fiercest political rival has now taken over the state's top post. Adhikari emerged as the defining figure of the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections, leading the BJP to 207 victories in the 293-seat Assembly. The Trinamool Congress managed only 80 seats.

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This week on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast, we travel from Kolkata to Dublin. We go from pub brawls to Ragland Road. From a cat on a rooftop to the bog down in the valley. Fifteen artists. One incredible hour. Let's go. It's the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #755. Subscribe now at CelticMusicPodcast.com! Cedar Dobson and Debojyoti Sanyal, The Here & Now, Ryan McCombe, Faoileán, Celtic Conundrum, Pressgang Mutiny, Arise & Go, The Bilge Pumps, Stephen MacDonald, Duncan McLauchlan, Glaucia Carvalho, SeaStar, Dropkick Murphys, Release the Craicen, Leevy, Tara's Folk Marc Gunn, Cedar Dobson, Debojyoti Sanyal, Faoileán, Leevy, Tara's Folk, Dropkick Murphys, Arise & Go, Pressgang Mutiny, SeaStar GET CELTIC MUSIC NEWS IN YOUR INBOX The Celtic Music Magazine is a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Enjoy seven weekly news items with what's happening with Celtic music and culture online. Subscribe now and get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 FOR 2026 This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. You can vote for as many songs and tunes that inspire you in each episode. Your vote helps me create this year's Best Celtic music episode. You have just three weeks to vote this year. Vote Now! THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:06 - Cedar Dobson and Debojyoti Sanyal "Jimmy Ward's Jig" from From Kolkata to Dublin 1:46 - WELCOME 4:19 - The Here & Now "Madison Avenue" from Ladybird 9:27 - Ryan McCombe "Ragland Road" from single 13:16 - Faoileán "Cat on the Roof" from Why Should I Not 17:19 - Celtic Conundrum "The Land" from Lore 21:25 - FEEDBACK 28:09 - Pressgang Mutiny "Maggie May" from Departure 31:37 - Arise & Go "The Drowning At Bruckless / The Miller's Maggot" from Moments of Light 35:47 - The Bilge Pumps "Excursion Around the Bay" from Greatest Hits, Vols I - VII 38:45 - Stephen MacDonald "The Chords Wouldn't Play" from The Legend of John Lally 41:45 - Duncan McLauchlan and Glaucia Carvalho "The bog down in the valley" from McLauchlan's Celtic Brew 45:13 - THANKS 47:08 - SeaStar "The Fore Shadows" from The Treekeeper Awakens 52:13 - Dropkick Murphys "Fiending for the Lies" from For The People (Expanded Edition) 54:53 - Release the Craicen "Fisher's Hornpipe / Limerick Lasses / Mason's Apron" from Live! Songs on a Boat 57:42 - Leevy "Burn the Casket" from Baile Mhúirne or the Soldiers March the Paps of Anú 1:01:18 - CLOSING 1:02:06 - Tara's Folk "Everybody's old" from remember how we fall 1:05:52 - CREDITS Support for this program comes from Cascadia Cross Border Law Group, Creating Transparent Borders for more than twenty five years, serving Alaska and the world. Find out more at   www.CascadiaLawAlaska.com Support for this program comes from Hank Woodward. Support for this program comes from Dr. Annie Lorkowski of Centennial Animal Hospital in Corona, California. Support for this program comes from John Sharkey White, II. Support for this program comes from International speaker, Joseph Dumond, teaching the ancient roots of the Gaelic people. Learn more about their origins at Sightedmoon.com The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather and our Patrons on Patreon. The show was edited by Mitchell Petersen with Graphics by Miranda Nelson Designs. Visit our website to follow the show. You'll find links to all of the artists played in this episode. Todd Wiley is the editor of the Celtic Music Magazine. Subscribe to get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. Plus, you'll get 7 weekly news items about what's happening with Celtic music and culture online. Best of all, you will connect with your Celtic heritage. Please tell one friend about this podcast. Word of mouth is the absolute best way to support any creative endeavor. Clean energy isn't just good for the planet. It's good for your wallet. Solar and wind are now the cheapest power sources in history. Spring is a good reminder of what we stand to lose… and what we're fighting to protect. The science is clear. Human activity is driving climate change. Record heat. Rising seas. Disappearing seasons. And yet too many politicians would rather protect billionaire energy interests than help working families lower their bills. Real change starts when we stop letting the ultra - rich write our energy policy. Support clean energy. Reduce your waste. Talk to your elected leaders. Every choice moves us toward a future that's more affordable, more free, and a planet that can actually breathe. The power to fix this is ours. Let's use it. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/. WELCOME TO THE IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC PODCAST * Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. I am Marc Gunn. I'm a Celtic musician and also host of Pub Songs & Stories. Every song has a story, every episode is a toast to Celtic and folk songwriters. Discover the stories behind the songs from the heart of the Celtic pub scene. This podcast is for fans of all kinds of Celtic music. We are here to build a diverse Celtic community and help the incredible artists who so generously share their music with you. If you hear music you love, please email the artists to let them know you heard them on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. These musicians are not part of some corporation. They are small indie groups that rely on people just like you to support their music so they can keep creating it. Please show your generosity. Buy a CD, Album Pin, Shirt, Digital Download, or join their community on Patreon. You can find a link to all of the artists in the shownotes, along with show times, when you visit our website at celticmusicpodcast.com. SPRING CELTIC CHALLENGE You are two weeks into the Spring Celtic Challenge. That is no small thing. Two weeks of walking. Two weeks of music. Two weeks of picking up a little trash and leaving the world a bit cleaner than you found it. Week three is where it gets real. The novelty has worn off. Life has gotten in the way at least once. And you're still here. That matters. So here's your reminder. Step outside today. Twenty minutes. Let the music move with you. And if you spot something on the ground that doesn't belong there, pick it up. One piece. That's all. If you've been working on the community knotwork or sharing your challenge art, keep going. Tag it, share it, celebrate it. You're building something with this community, step by step. Two weeks down. Two to go. Let's walk. Let me know how it's going. Email me at follow@bestcelticmusic. I'd love to hear from you. THANK YOU PATRONS OF THE PODCAST! This show exists because of you. Every episode… the music, the production, the Celtic Music Magazine, the effort to find and support independent artists from around the world… it all runs on the generosity of our Patrons of the Podcast. Your support pays for audio engineering and graphics. It helps us buy music directly from independent Celtic artists. It keeps this community growing week after week. And in return, you get something good. Early access to episodes. Music - only editions. Free downloads. Exclusive content. And the power to vote for your favorite tracks. Which shapes the show in a real way. A special thank you this week to Maryjane Foos If you'd like to join Maryjane, here's how it works. Go to patreon.com/celticpodcast. Pick a tier that works for you. And become part of the reason this music keeps reaching new ears every single week. We'd love to have you. HERE IS YOUR THREE STEP PLAN TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST Go to our Patreon page. Decide how much you want to pledge every month, $4, $12, $25. Keep listening to the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast to celebrate Celtic culture through music. You can become a generous Patron of the Podcast on Patreon at SongHenge.com. TRAVEL WITH CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. Learn more about the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ #celticmusic #irishmusic #celticmusicpodcast I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? Send me a photo from your St Patrick's Day celebrations or any new audio recordings you got for the holiday. Email me at follow@bestcelticmusic. Ryan S. emailed back in January: "Hey Marc. On this week's Dan Savage podcast episode #1000, they mentioned the Irish and celtic music podcast!!! Woot! Keep up the good work!" Chelle Fiddler emailed: "Hi Marc!  I am also a long - time Celtic musician.  As a player, I love the pin idea.  As an audient (my invented word for one audience, ; - ) ) I probably wouldn't buy it.  But that's just me.... I'm not inclined to listen to Celtic music at home.  I'm more likely to go to a live show, or even hire the band to play a house concert. I'm running the Celtic series at the Old Brogue in Great Falls now... I adopted that baby from IONA this past Fall.  Hopefully I can beg your help promoting the shows?  We need all the help we can get. : - ). I'm so very green at promoting shows, and now I'm running two concert serieses... serii?  Like you, I'm all about keeping this music alive and vibrant, and building an audience for my brilliant colleagues. All the best," Metta RavenHeart messaged on Patreon about show #748: "Here here and there there.  Your authenticity far outweighs any difference of opinion. Please continue to march for freedom.  Here in New Mexico we know what it is like to stand up against tyranny and racism, and you inspire us to continue." Alexander Randall 5th emailed: "Whether you make better patter or not, I will listen to you until I die. I mentioned the Galacian Celtic music. I am so intrigued by this sound. Some of it is like obvious jigs and reels and marches, but it also sounds like Flamenco some of the time and sometimes muslim  creep in.  It is very "spanish" and yet not.   And when the bagpipes come in, you think you are in Ireland... Here are four that you will find interesting. This one is by the kind of national Galacian folk arts concert.  It opens with an almost middle eastern sound, the the voices com in singing in Spanish and then the bagpipes hit and it turns into a celtic party... in spain!   This one opens with cricket and turns into a dance. This one is a jig.  It says so in the title but then it turns into something else  -   -  The Muneira is like the Galacian national dance... It could be scots... What country did this dance come from? You pick up all kinds of odd ideas.  Fiddle around with this Galician celtic music…"  

In this episode, Monika Halan simplifies one of the most misunderstood parts of personal finance—bonds and debt funds. She explains that a bond is essentially an “IOU,” where governments or companies borrow money and promise to pay interest along with the principal at maturity. Breaking down concepts like coupon, maturity, and face value, she highlights the single most important rule of the bond market—the inverse relationship between interest rates and bond prices. This foundational idea explains why bond investments behave the way they do.She then expands the discussion to debt mutual funds, which allow investors to access the bond market without directly buying individual bonds. She walks through different types of debt funds—ranging from liquid and short-duration funds to gilt and long-duration funds—along with their varying risk levels. The episode also explains the two key risks in debt investing: interest rate risk and credit risk. Using simple mental models, she helps listeners understand when to choose different types of funds and how they compare with fixed deposits in terms of returns, risk, liquidity, and flexibility.In listener queries, Ajay Sojitra from Surat shares his detailed financial plan and early retirement goal, where the advice focuses on increasing equity allocation, securing independent health insurance, and setting more realistic retirement expectations. Ananda Bhattacharyya from Kolkata asks about Macaulay Duration, which is explained as a measure of how long it takes to recover investment value from a bond and its importance in assessing interest rate risk. Raghavendiran Sudhakaran seeks clarity on international investing, where the guidance is to first build a strong domestic portfolio and limit global exposure to a small portion for diversification.Chapters:(00:00 – 00:00) Understanding Bonds, Interest Rates and Debt Mutual Funds(00:00 – 00:00) Types of Debt Funds, Risks and How to Choose Them(00:00 – 00:00) Planning Early Retirement, Asset Allocation and Health Insurance(00:00 – 00:00) What is Macaulay Duration and Why It Matters in Debt Funds(00:00 – 00:00) Should You Invest in International Mutual Funds?If you have financial questions that you'd like answers for, please email us at ⁠mailme@monikahalan.com⁠ Monika's book on basic money management⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.monikahalan.com/lets-talk-money-english/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Monika's book on mutual funds⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.monikahalan.com/lets-talk-mutual-funds/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Monika's workbook on recording your financial life⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.monikahalan.com/lets-talk-legacy/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Calculators⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://investor.sebi.gov.in/calculators/index.html⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠You can find Monika on her social media @monikahalan. Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MonikaHalan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MonikaHalan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MonikaHalan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MonikaHalan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Production House: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.inoutcreatives.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Production Assistant:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Anshika Gogoi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Sarthak Malani is not the runner next door who chases PBs.  Rather, he changes how running is viewed—he runs barefoot and backward. He is much liked by runners in the community and he inspired many others to take up running (backwards). In this episode, Vikas sits down with Sarthak to discuss what inspired Sarthak to take up running backwards:In this episode, they cover:• How Sarthak transitioned from shoes to barefoot running over 6 to 8 months• Why backward running works, how it gave relief to his runner's knee, and how he got back to running from 100 metres to over 60 km• Training without a coach, doing back to back long runs, and what actually helped him achieve a 1:29 half marathon• Running in Kenya and what Kenyan athletes taught him about truly slow running• His advice to beginners, fall in love first, ignore social media, and stop comparing and• A moment in Kolkata that reminded him why being able to run at all is the biggest privilegeThis one will make you want to take your shoes off and just run.About Vikas Singh:Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better.For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below:Instagram: @vikas_singhhLinkedIn: Vikas SinghTwitter: @vikashsingh101Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

If you've ever felt the pull of a new city and the desperate need to start over, keep listening.In this episode, Tara sits down with the award-winning author Rahul Bhattacharya to discuss his latest novel, Railsong.Writing about the freedom of a woman set in the 1970s, as a male author, is no small task. Rahul talks about Charu, a motherless daughter of a railway worker who flees to Bombay to build a life from scratch, on her own terms, in a country that's also figuring itself out.Together, Rahul and Tara explore the role of research in fiction to make the audience feel like it's their story. Rahul explains what it was like to navigate this Everywoman story and how the domestic and the political are never really separate, whether it's 1974 or now. He talks about why the computer undid his ability to go deep and how Toni Morisson's method inspired him to write his first draft of 133,000 words by hand. Whether you are stuck in the train or traffic, this episode will surely help you escape to another world. Books mentioned in this episode:The Rabbit Angstrom series by John UpdikeDesperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence by Shrayana BhattacharyaPundits from Pakistan by Rahul BhattacharyaThe Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya‘Books and Beyond with Bound' is the podcast where Tara Khandelwal and Michelle D'costa uncover how their books reflect the realities of our lives and society today. Find out what drives India's finest authors: from personal experiences to jugaad research methods, insecurities to publishing journeys. Created by Bound, a storytelling company that helps you grow through stories. Follow us @boundindia on all social media platforms. 

Anna and Annie discuss the news that Hachette has pulled the book SHY GIRL by Mia Ballard from publication after concerns it was written by AI.   Our book of the week is A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF by Megha Majumdar.  This follow-up to her novel A Burning is set in near-future, dystopian Kolkata.  A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF is full of ethical dilemmas, flawed characters and memorable food scenes - a good book club pick. It has been long listed for the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction.     Read-alikes: THE DIRECTOR by Daniel Kehlmann translated by Ross Benjamin (iykyk) LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND by Rumaan Alam   Coming up: HEART THE LOVER by Lily King   Follow us! Follow us! Email: Booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Substack: Books On The Go Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

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West Bengal is gearing up for assembly elections. Mamata Banerjee will face her toughest challenge, given the anti-incumbency factor of three terms. The BJP, in 2021, had cemented its position as the primary opposition, winning 77 seats to the Trinamool's 215 seats. This time, unusually, but no longer surprisingly, the Election Commission has become a key character in the political narrative. The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ended up deleting more than 60 lakh voters. And in many constituencies, the number of voter deletions is greater than the margins of victory in previous elections. Another issue is the mass transfers in the state bureaucracy, which are unprecedented, and were challenged in court by the TMC. Mamata has used these developments to frame the polls as a fight between a besieged Bengal and Bengali ‘asmita' on one side, and a BJP-led Centre on the other. The BJP has been playing the anti-migrant card to polarise voters, and has also sought to target the TMC on corruption and misgovernance. Whose narrative will gain the upper-hand? What is happening with the lakhs of voter deletions? How will the SIR impact the outcome? We speak with Shiv Sahay Singh, The Hindu's Chief of Bureau in Kolkata. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

India is not a country that eases you in gently. It doesn't really do gentle. It's a place of somewhere between 1.4 and 1.5 billion people, the most populous nation on earth, having overtaken China in 2023, and it carries that scale in everything: the noise, the colour, the traffic, the sheer press of human life happening all around you at once. It is the world's largest democracy, has a space programme, a film industry that dwarfs Hollywood, and somewhere in excess of twenty official languages. It's not a country so much as a civilisation that happens to have borders around it. In this special, we go to two cities. Kolkata, in the east, formerly Calcutta, and Varanasi, on the Ganges, which may well be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world and which confronts you, very directly, with questions about life and death that most of us spend considerable energy avoiding. Into all of this walked eight photographers, Anne, Bill, Fraser, Lloyd, Mercedes, Nicola, Owen and Peter, along with my travelling partner, in The Journey Beyond Lynn Fraser, and our Indian mentors and guides: Shivam, Shubh, Mohit and Arvind. What you're about to hear is an India special edition of the Photowalk Podcast, and honestly, as you'll hear, it affected us in ways we weren't expecting. It's a long episode, and for that I make no apology… but I hope that, with the music, the characters, the surprises, and the scenes described, you will feel you have photowalked there with us. Read more about our photographic adventures on our photography travel website, The Journey Beyond. Links to all guests and features will be on the show page, my sincere thanks to our Extra Milers, without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and Arthelper.ai, giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available here.

Dans son nouveau roman, l'auteur et cinéaste franco-afghan, Atiq Rahimi, raconte l'histoire d'un cinéaste afghan à Kolkata, en Inde, sur le point de se suicider, dévoré par une lassitude existentielle, notamment après un projet de film avorté. Au moment de passer à l'acte, il distingue au loin sur un bateau, une silhouette. Il reconnaît Kabuliwalla lui-même, le personnage qu'il devait filmer, et qu'il n'a pas su incarner. C'est l'histoire d'un homme aujourd'hui qui raconte celle d'un écrivain du passé et de son personnage de la projection de l'un dans l'autre, d'un dédoublement. Une mise en abyme « Kabuliwalla » c'était le terme qu'on donnait aux Afghans qui venaient en Inde pour travailler, à l'époque des Indes britanniques.  Dans « Kabuliwalla, c'est moi », Atiq Rahimi effectue une mise en abyme. Porté par une nouvelle de Rabindranath Tagore, l'écrivain franco-afghan met en scène le destin entrelacé d'un cinéaste et de son protagoniste et réfugiés à Kolkata pour raconter l'exil.  Un roman inspiré par une nouvelle de Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) est un poète, écrivain, philosophe et musicien indien. Il est la première grande figure littéraire asiatique à recevoir le prix Nobel de littérature, en 1913. Né à Calcutta dans une famille bengalie cultivée et engagée, il écrit très tôt poésie, théâtre, nouvelles et essais. Il fait partie des auteurs indiens les plus importants.  Kabuliwalla  - « l'homme de Kaboul »- est le nom d'un personnage tiré d'une nouvelle, Kabuliwallah publiée en 1892 et dans laquelle, Rahmat, un vendeur de fruits secs afghan exilé en Inde rencontre une jeune fille. "L'exilé est toujours dans un sentiment de culpabilité permanente." Atiq Rahimi développe un jeu de miroirs entre lui, l'auteur exilé afghan venu en France, et le vendeur de fruits secs, exilé en Inde.  Invité: Atiq Rahimi, né en 1962 à Kaboul, en Afghanistan est un écrivain, cinéaste et scénariste franco-afghan. Après avoir fui son pays en guerre, il trouve d'abord refuge au Pakistan avant de venir en France dans en 1984. Il étudie l'audiovisuel et commence une carrière de réalisateur de documentaires et de films de fiction. Il se fait d'abord connaître par ses romans écrits en persan, dont Terre et cendres, qui sera adapté au cinéma et présenté au Festival de Cannes. Naturalisé français, il poursuit une œuvre à la croisée de plusieurs langues et cultures, où se mêlent récit intime, histoire politique et mémoire de l'exil.  En 2008, Atiq Rahimi reçoit le prix Goncourt pour Syngué sabour. Pierre de patience, son premier roman écrit directement en français.   Programmation musicale :  L'artiste Camille avec le titre « La terre ». 

Dans son nouveau roman, l'auteur et cinéaste franco-afghan, Atiq Rahimi, raconte l'histoire d'un cinéaste afghan à Kolkata, en Inde, sur le point de se suicider, dévoré par une lassitude existentielle, notamment après un projet de film avorté. Au moment de passer à l'acte, il distingue au loin sur un bateau, une silhouette. Il reconnaît Kabuliwalla lui-même, le personnage qu'il devait filmer, et qu'il n'a pas su incarner. C'est l'histoire d'un homme aujourd'hui qui raconte celle d'un écrivain du passé et de son personnage de la projection de l'un dans l'autre, d'un dédoublement. Une mise en abyme « Kabuliwalla » c'était le terme qu'on donnait aux Afghans qui venaient en Inde pour travailler, à l'époque des Indes britanniques.  Dans « Kabuliwalla, c'est moi », Atiq Rahimi effectue une mise en abyme. Porté par une nouvelle de Rabindranath Tagore, l'écrivain franco-afghan met en scène le destin entrelacé d'un cinéaste et de son protagoniste et réfugiés à Kolkata pour raconter l'exil.  Un roman inspiré par une nouvelle de Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) est un poète, écrivain, philosophe et musicien indien. Il est la première grande figure littéraire asiatique à recevoir le prix Nobel de littérature, en 1913. Né à Calcutta dans une famille bengalie cultivée et engagée, il écrit très tôt poésie, théâtre, nouvelles et essais. Il fait partie des auteurs indiens les plus importants.  Kabuliwalla  - « l'homme de Kaboul »- est le nom d'un personnage tiré d'une nouvelle, Kabuliwallah publiée en 1892 et dans laquelle, Rahmat, un vendeur de fruits secs afghan exilé en Inde rencontre une jeune fille. "L'exilé est toujours dans un sentiment de culpabilité permanente." Atiq Rahimi développe un jeu de miroirs entre lui, l'auteur exilé afghan venu en France, et le vendeur de fruits secs, exilé en Inde.  Invité: Atiq Rahimi, né en 1962 à Kaboul, en Afghanistan est un écrivain, cinéaste et scénariste franco-afghan. Après avoir fui son pays en guerre, il trouve d'abord refuge au Pakistan avant de venir en France dans en 1984. Il étudie l'audiovisuel et commence une carrière de réalisateur de documentaires et de films de fiction. Il se fait d'abord connaître par ses romans écrits en persan, dont Terre et cendres, qui sera adapté au cinéma et présenté au Festival de Cannes. Naturalisé français, il poursuit une œuvre à la croisée de plusieurs langues et cultures, où se mêlent récit intime, histoire politique et mémoire de l'exil.  En 2008, Atiq Rahimi reçoit le prix Goncourt pour Syngué sabour. Pierre de patience, son premier roman écrit directement en français.   Programmation musicale :  L'artiste Camille avec le titre « La terre ». 

Indian sitar master Purbayan Chatterjee performed at this month's Get Lit with All Of It event with author Megha Majumdar. This month's book selection, A Guardian and a Thief, takes place in Kolkata, a city for which Chatterjee wrote an anthem. Photo courtesy of the artist

The March Get Lit with All Of It selection was the novel A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar. The novel is set in a future version of Kolkata, India, that has been ravaged by climate change. One family thinks they are set to start a new life in Michigan, but when their visas are stolen, they discover how far they will go to retrieve them. Majumdar joined us for an event at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library. Cover art courtesy of the publisher

The low-budget movie, Adamya (The Unbroken), captures the life of a young Communist who chooses the barrel of the gun over the ballot box. Released on 13 February in limited theatres, the movie, directed by Ranjan Ghosh and presented by veteran director Aparna Sen, has become a regular favourite for the audience. Reviewers have critically acclaimed the movie, and a raging debate has started in West Bengal. Watch Author & ThePrint Columnist Deep Halder explain:   To Read: https://theprint.in/feature/naxal-film-adamya-political-buzz-west-bengal/2881975/

The US President has repeated his call for other nations, particularly Nato allies, to help secure the Strait of Hormuz. Donald Trump says he has been surprised more world leaders were not "eager" to be involved in securing the key oil shipping route. Meanwhile, India has secured the safe passage of tankers carrying liquified petroleum gas, or LPG. Street vendors and biryani restaurant owners in Kolkata tell us how the current fuel shortages are threatening their livelihoods. And the Israeli military has now confirmed it has begun what it calls "limited ground operations" in Lebanon, as 800 000 people have been forced to flee their homes.Also: amidst a near total fuel blockade by the US, Cuba has experienced an electricity grid collapse. New figures from Interpol show that AI-enhanced scams are now almost five times more profitable than traditional methods. Researchers in Scotland have developed a way to turn discarded plastic bottles into a key medicine used to treat Parkinson's disease. Chelsea Football Club has been fined more than $14m, the Premier League's biggest ever fine, for breaking financial rules. Margareta Magnusson, who popularised the Swedish practice of Death Cleaning, has died at the age of 92.

The 25th anniversary of the iconic 2001 Kolkata Test match, where India triumphed over Australia, serves as the focal point of our discussion. In this special episode, we are joined by esteemed guest Karthik Krishnaswamy, assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo, who provides invaluable insights into the match often heralded as a pivotal moment in Indian cricket history. Our conversation delves into the dramatic narrative of the Test, characterized by India's remarkable comeback and Harbhajan Singh's extraordinary performances, including a historic hat-trick. We explore the implications of this victory on the trajectory of Indian cricket and the enduring rivalry with Australia. Join us as we reminisce about this legendary encounter that captivated fans and significantly altered the landscape of cricket in India.

Andy and Rick are joined by Hannah Cox, who completed an extraordinary challenge: running 100 marathons in 100 days across India, despite only starting running five months earlier. In this episode, Hannah shares how she pushed through intense pain, the moment her crew forced her into a clinic mid challenge and the unforgettable landscapes she experienced along the way. She also explains how strength and conditioning helped prepare her body and how she recovered day after day to keep going. Inspired by her late father, Deric Cox - born in Kolkata before moving to the UK in 1953, Hannah's journey also became a powerful exploration of her Anglo-Indian heritage.Click here to learn more about Hannah's challenge and support her by donating through Givestar.The Running Channel Podcast tackles one big topic each episode, amongst helpful tips and light-hearted chat on the latest news in the running world. Hosted by Sarah Hartley (amateur runner) and Andy Baddeley (former pro runner) alongside Rick Kelsey (recovering runner), the TRC Podcast is friendly, jargon-free, and the perfect accompaniment to your runs.Join The Running Channel Club for exclusive additional podcast episodes, bite-sized courses, live Q&As and so much more! Head to The Running Channel ClubFor all enquiries contact podcast@therunningchannel.com .If you liked this, please subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. And leave us a 5* review and rating, it really helps us get discovered.We're on YouTube too, so check us out there: www.youtube.com/runningchannel .Mentioned in this episode:Run a Marathon.
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Portland Book Festival has been a proud partner of the National Book Foundation Presents program for many years now, and at the 2025 festival we featured a program called “The Cost of Hope,” moderated by National Book Foundation executive director Ruth Dickey, and featuring 2024 National Book Award in Nonfiction winner Jason De Leon, author of Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling, and 2025 National Book Award finalist in Fiction Megha Majumdar, author of A Guardian and a Thief. The intersections between Jason's book, in which he embeds with a group of smugglers moving migrants across Mexico over the course of seven years, and Megha's novel, about two families in a climate-ravaged near-future Kolkata, are abundant. In fact, the two authors share a background in anthropology, and talk about how that education has shaped the way they interpret the world. Their wide-ranging conversation starts with a discussion of how hope can be “snarling and aggressive,” and idea of hope as a refusal to back down. They also talk about the ways both of their stories connect climate change and migration, and how inescapable that connection is. In different ways; for Jason, through reporting, and for Megha, through fiction, both books are able to interrogate huge systems through the individual lives, making these incomprehensible forces in the world legible by finding the storytelling. This is a conversation between two artists thinking deeply about some of the most pressing issues of the day, and approaching them from places of care and, indeed, ultimately, from places of hope. Jason De León is professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies and Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also Executive Director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a 501(c)(3) research, arts, and education collective that seeks to raise awareness about migration issues globally while also assisting families of missing migrants reunite with their loved ones. He is a 2017 MacArthur Fellow and author of the award–winning books The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail and Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling, Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Megha Majumdar is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel A Burning, which was Longlisted for the National Book Award, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, and a finalist for the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. It was named one of the best books of the year by media including The Washington Post, the New York Times, NPR, The Atlantic, Vogue, and TIME Magazine. A 2022 Whiting Award winner, she was born and raised in Kolkata, India, and holds degrees in Anthropology from Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of Catapult Books, and lives in New York. A Guardian and A Thief is her second novel. Ruth Dickey has spent 30 years working at the intersection of community building, writing, and art, and is the Executive Director of the National Book Foundation. The recipient of a Mayor's Arts Award from Washington DC, and a grant from the DC Commission and Arts and Humanities, Ruth is the author of Our Hollowness Sings (Unicorn Press, 2024), and Mud Blooms (Harbor Mountain Press, 2019), and an ardent fan of dogs and coffee.   CW: The podcast version of this episode is uncensored and contains strong language. Listener discretion is advised!

Megha Majumdar's follow-up to her first bestseller is the new novel, 'A Guardian and a Thief.' It unfolds over one taut week in a near-future Kolkata reeling from climate disaster and food shortages. Two families—strangers to each other—are pushed into collision.

England managed to get over the line against a spirited Italian team in Kolkata to qualify for the Super 8s. Henry Moeran and Steven Finn review the action from Eden Gardens and we hear from player of the match Will Jacks, Italy Captain Harry Manenti, England captain Harry Brook plus England all-rounder Sam Curran and Italy opener Justin Mosca.

Daniel Norcross is alongside World Cup winner 2017 Alex Hartley and Aatif Nawaz for reaction to India's T20 World Cup victory over Pakistan in Colombo. Get the thoughts of both captains, Suryakumar Yadav and Salman Ali Agha, and player of the match Ishan Kishan who got India off to a flying start by scoring 77 off just 40 balls. Plus, the TMS team in Kolkata looks ahead to England's final group match against Italy.

An unbeaten 63 from Tom Banton took England to a 5 wicket win against Scotland. Henry Moeran is joined by former England fast bowler Steven Finn and Scotland spinner Kirstie Gordon to review the game in Kolkata. We hear from Banton plus the two captains as well as Scotland's Michael Jones and England's Liam Dawson. We also look ahead to the massive India v Pakistan game on Sunday.

Guest: Ivana Stradner. Russia employs "TV BRICS" and information warfare to control narratives in the Global South, aiming to undermine Western influence and establish a multipolar world order without using kinetic force.1865 KOLKATA

From Battlefield to Boardroom: A Global Legacy of Courage, Compassion & Leadership This week, the Team Never Quit Podcast welcomes a truly extraordinary guest: Dr. Sudip Bose — emergency physician, Iraq War veteran, entrepreneur, medical innovator, and one of the world's most dynamic voices at the intersection of medicine, military leadership, and business. Few leaders embody resilience and global perspective the way Dr. Bose does. His story spans continents, combat zones, emergency rooms, and corporate boardrooms—all shaped by deep heritage and a lifelong commitment to service. A Legacy Rooted in Courage and Heritage Born in the United States to parents who emigrated from Kolkata, Dr. Bose carries a powerful cultural heritage. Fluent in Bengali and proud of his lineage, he is a descendant of: ·         Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, legendary freedom fighter ·         Jagadish Chandra Bose, pioneering scientist ·         Satyendra Nath Bose, the physicist behind the concept of bosons Their spirit of bravery, intellectual curiosity, and innovation lives on in Dr. Bose's own journey. Leadership Forged in War Dr. Bose's leadership was tested early—on the front lines of Iraq as a U.S. Army physician under the most intense combat conditions. He earned the Bronze Star Medal for his service and was entrusted with treating Saddam Hussein after his capture. More than the accolades, the battlefield taught him the principles that guide his life: ·         Stay calm when others panic ·         Find clarity in chaos ·         Turn adversity into opportunity ·         Let heritage and values anchor global impact These lessons follow him into every trauma bay, boardroom, and keynote stage he steps into today. From the ER to the Global Stage After returning from combat, Dr. Bose transitioned into civilian life—continuing his work as an emergency physician while expanding his influence across medicine, media, innovation, and policy. His roles include: ·         Executive Producer of Desert Doc, the Telly Award–winning Amazon Prime docuseries revealing the realities of emergency medicine ·         Founder of The Battle Continues, a nonprofit supporting injured combat veterans ·         EMS Medical Director for the largest geographic hospital coverage area in the U.S.—19 counties and 38,000 square miles ·         Advisory Board Member for DrB.ai, a global digital health platform increasing access to affordable care ·         Trusted Advisor to the U.S. Congress on healthcare policy ·         Keynote Speaker for Fortune 500 companies and major financial institutions Across everything he does, Dr. Bose bridges healthcare, military discipline, and business strategy—helping leaders thrive in high-stakes environments. This is a masterclass in courage, clarity, service, and global leadership—told by a man who has lived it on every front line imaginable. In this episode you will hear: • [My sister] She's a CEO but sometimes she's the CEO of my chaos. (7:46) • I basically started med school at 21; I got my MD at 25. (8:59) • I remember sitting with my dad and asking him: “What can I do where I don't have to study?” (10:58) • Things that are just tragic and sad; they shape you later. You don't realize it at the time. (11:47) • I think if they had an award in high school for least likely to go in the military, I might have gotten that award. Guess what? In Junior high – 6th grade – I weighed 49 pounds. I was tiny. I didn't hit 5' tall until my sophomore year of high school. (12:33) • I'm in the books as the Illinois state champion in wrestling, because nobody could match my weight division. (13:11) • You don't realize how your world can change in a moment, and what seems like irrelevant work or homework or assignments later in life might save your life. (16:32) • In Iraq, I find myself cooped up in this ambulance. An armored 5-7-7 track medical vehicle with metal wheels, jostling to the next section of Bagdad or Fallujah and then the vehicle comes to a screeching halt, the back door opens and you hop out like a frog jumping out of a blender. And you find yourself on the front lines of the battlefield. (21:33) • There are the mental challenges of losing people you know. (22:52) • You love [life] saves where you can have them unite with their family. (27:11) • Within hours of getting there, there were two soldiers that came in and I had to pronounce dead. You just realize, wow, you are in it now. (31:19) • You cant take care of everyone, but by training my medics, I multiplied myself. (34:02) • [Marcus] You scored the number 1 in the nation on your medical exam board; You scored at the top of the Army physical fitness test; A Bronze Star; Recognized by CNN as a CNN hero; You're one of the leading physicians in the world; [You served] The longest combat tour since WWII; You treated Saddam Hussein. (52:26) • I evaluated [Saddam Hussein] shortly after his capture. (56:10) • You have to put your feelings, emotions, everything side, so you can focus. (57:45) • Somebody told me I might be the only person who has ben face to face with Saddam Hussein and shaken hands with George W. Bush. (58:38) • The people who gave their lives, their vision, their limb, made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. Those people wrote the blank check, up to and including the cost of my life. That's what keeps me motivated. 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