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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Ashish and Aadisht discuss an In Our Time episode about St Augustine, the EconTalk episode where Tyler Cowen talks about his book, Big Business, and Kelsey Miller's book I'll Be There For You: The One About Friends.