Today on Talking Books, Ameya Nagarajan talks to Barun Aggarwal, air pollution expert and founder and CEO of Breathe Easy, about the gravity of India's air pollution problem, what we can do to fight it and how bleak our future will be if we do nothing about it.

11: India’s terrifying air quality problem, with Barun Aggarwal

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Well known Pakistani journalist, scholar and diplomat, Mr Husain Haqqani, on the future of India and Pakistan's relationship.

17: The future of India and Pakistan, with Husain Haqqani

Yashwant Sinha and Aditya Sinha in conversation about their book, India Unmade: How The Modi Government Broke The Economy.

16: How the Modi government broke the economy, with Yashwant Sinha

Tony Joseph on the first modern humans who reached the Indian subcontinent nearly 65,000 years ago.

15: The story of our ancestors, with Tony Joseph

Socialist and author Deepa Narayan on her book, Chup: Breaking the Silence about India's Women, where she brings to light the degree to which women internalise negative views about themselves, and how society further reinforces these views.

14: 7 bad habits that women must unlearn, with Deepa Narayan

Author Parvati Sharma in conversation with journalist Supriya Nair about her latest book - Jahangir: An Intimate Portrait of a Great Mughal.

11: India’s terrifying air quality problem, with Barun Aggarwal

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