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Travelling Time With Books

Travelling Time With Books

By: Kamini Gupta and Nidhi Mishra
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A passion for literature, history and culture brings together two old IIM batchmates Kamini Gupta, Award-winning faculty at Kings Business School, London and Nidhi Mishra, Founder of Bookosmia(smell of books)-India's largest publisher 'for kids, by kids' as they read, analyse and discuss with the author, books of history that take us back in time. But more importantly, realizing that the past itself is not past. It constantly feeds into our present and shapes our future and hence the need to know it from the right sources.


Traveling through the centuries is possible only in books and in this podcas.t #indianhistory #bookspodcast


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Episodes
  • Lords of the Deccan- With Anirudh Kanisetti

    Lords of the Deccan- With Anirudh Kanisetti
    Sep 30 2023

    Co-hosts Kamini Gupta and Nidhi Mishra talk with an award-winning history researcher and writer, Anirudh Kanisetti about his very well reviewed and acclaimed book Lords of the Deccan that caters to this massive unfulfilled need, bringing the deccan alive for us from the 6th century CE to the 12th century CE, allowing us a peek into the rise and fall of powerful rulers of the Chalukya, Pallava, Rashtrakuta and Chola dynasties, in all their splendor, action and glory.

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    53 mins
  • Feminism and Rashid Jahan , with Rakshanda Jalil

    Feminism and Rashid Jahan , with Rakshanda Jalil
    Jul 24 2023

    Kamini Gupta chats with from the acclaimed and prolific writer Rakshanda Jalil about the need for feminist writing broadly and Rakshanda's book A Rebel and Her Cause the Life and Work of Rashid Jahan.

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    16 mins
  • Urdu-Is the language Rest in Peace or Work in Progress, with author Rakshanda Jalil

    Urdu-Is the language Rest in Peace or Work in Progress, with author Rakshanda Jalil
    Mar 1 2023

    Kamini Gupta and Nidhi Mishra hear from the acclaimed and prolific writer Rakshanda Jalil about the past, present and future of Urdu as a language, documented in her book But You Don't Look Like A Muslim, its status in Bollywood and pop culture and fleetingly about what it is like to work with Gulzar Sa'ab! Is Urdu a dying language? Listen in to reach your conclusion.
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    31 mins
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