In this episode, I speak with Prof. Ramin Bahrani, director of his latest film The White Tiger based on Aravind Adiga's 2008 Booker-prize winner novel by the same name. The film stars Bollywood actors Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Rajkumar Rai, and in his debut role, the new actor Adarsh Gaurav.

In this episode, I interview Fowzia Karimi, an award-winning author of her illustrated debut novel, "Above Us the Milky Way." Fowzia Karimi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. She immigrated to the US in 1980, after the Soviet invasion of the country. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College, California. Her work explores the correspondence on the page between the written and the visual arts.She is a recipient of The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and has illustrated The Brick House by Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Vagrants and Uncommon Visitors by A. Kendra Green.

In this episode, I talk to Vijay Seshadri about his latest book "That Was Now, This is Then." As a winner of the Pulitzer prize in poetry, Seshadri has three other collections of poetry: Wild Kingdom (1996), The Long Meadow (2003), and 3 Sections (2013), which won him the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Seshadri has an MFA from Columbia University and teaches poetry and nonfiction-writing at Sarah Lawrence College.

In this podcast I interview Nitasha Kaul, a London based academic, writer and poet, about her new book "Future Tense". In addition to fiction, she writes and speaks about topics that cover the political economy, Bhutan, Kashmir, nationalism in India, gender and identity. Nitasha's first novel "Residue" was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. "Future Tense" is her second novel.

For this episode I had the pleasure of interviewing Indian American novelist Avni Doshi about her debut novel "Burnt Sugar" (also known as "Girl in White Cotton"). Born in New Jersey, Doshi received a BA in Art History from Barnard College in New York, and a master's degree in History of Art from University College London. "Burnt Sugar" has been shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.

In this podcast I talk to Fatima Bhutto (@fbhutto) about her brilliant new book "New Kings of World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop," where she discusses the rise of a new cultural movement sweeping across the world, displacing mass-produced, Western cultural products. https://www.amazon.com/New-Kings-World-Dispatches-Bollywood/dp/1733623701/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=new+kings+of+the+world&qid=1571179358&sr=8-1

In this episode I interview playwright and author Ayad Akhtar about his new book "Homeland Elegies: A Novel". Akhtar's writing covers various themes including the American-Pakistani experience, Islam, identity, immigration, nationalism, globalization, and economy. In 2013 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play "Disgraced."

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In this podcast I interview Fawzia Afzal-Khan, author of "Siren Song," which is an important and timely feminist intervention in the study of classical music and a cogent challenge to the prevailing anti-secular orthodoxy in the academy. In this complex and sensitive study...of the careers of artistes like Malka Pukhraj, Roshanara Begum, Reshma, and of the newer music and musical space offered by Coke Studio, Afzal-Khan shows us the multiple ways in which women performers negotiated and continue to negotiate their way through the numerous challenges thrown their way in the wake of the partitioning of the subcontinent and the multiple demands placed on them.

In this podcast, I talk to Japleen Pasricha, the founder-editor of "Feminism in India," the country's leading digital feminist media platform.

In this interview, I speak with Namita Gokhale, the founder-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival, about her latest novel Jaipur Journals.