The Indian Edit

Ever wonder how museums go shopping for art? What does a curator see when they look at a picture? What makes something special enough to spend a fortune on? Join me in this first mini-sode featuring Laura Weinstein, Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as she gives us a ‘behind the scenes’ look at two recent acquisitions for the museum’s collection. We chat about Indian art under the British, William Dalrymple, and adorable squirrels!

Hear our chat now on your favorite podcast app, Spotify or iTunes and please take a second to rate us wherever you’re listening so the voices of these inspiring women can be heard all over the world!

P.S. Laura was previously my guest on Ep. 18, so do catch her whole story there if you missed it, and let me know what you think of this shorter format focused on a single topic @theindianeditpodcast on instagram!

SHOWNOTES FOR MINI-EDIT 1:

Hear Laura’s story on Episode 18 of the podcast here

Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company

Empire Podcast on iTunes

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Special thanks to Sudipta Biswas, Aman Moroney, and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

Ready to re-evaluate what success looks like for YOU? To move toward a values-based career and life? My latest guest Rimi Chakraborty helps leaders create just that for themselves and their employees. Rimi shares how she took lessons from her MBA, her yoga studies, and her start-up jobs to overcome a difficult childhood and create new entrepreneurial ventures for herself (in the beautiful Azores!).

Listen in as Rimi shares some tips on how to approach the busy Fall season and what it’s like to live and work on a lush, volcanic island in the middle of the Atlantic! Hear our chat now on your favorite podcast app, Spotify or iTunes and please take a second to rate us wherever you’re listening so the voices of these inspiring women can be heard all over the world!

SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 85:

Read more about Rimi’s work and her books on her website

The Balanced Tree exercise Rimi mentioned on the show

Check out her book “Beyond Resilience to Rootsilience”

Stay at Minuvida Lodge

Follow Rimi on instagram

Books we discussed:

Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition

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Special thanks to Sudipta Biswas and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

I don't want to go look back at the end of my life and say “I wish I'd done this”!

But how does she do it!? We all wonder about people with full-time, demanding careers who manage to keep their creative flame burning. My latest guest Dr. Harini Nagendra is a Professor of Sustainability and now a best-selling mystery writer. Join me as Harini shares how she first ‘had a visitation’ from Kaveri, the heroine of her historical mystery series, and how she juggles her work in climate change with writing ‘The Bangalore Detectives Club’!

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SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 84:

Read more about Harini and her books on her website

Grab the latest in the series ‘Murder Under a Red Moon’ here and pre-order A Nest of Vipers Book 3 here

Cities and Canopies here (entertaining and engaging look at Bangalore’s trees - highly recommend, also on audio!)

Follow Harini on instagram

Books and other resources we discussed:

Sisters in Crime

Sujata Massey’s books (hear Sujata on Ep. 60 of the podcast here)

Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Silver series

Catriona McPherson’s books

Rhys Bowen’s books

Gigi Pandian’s locked room mysteries

Robin Hobb’s fantasy novels - fun post on where to start reading them here

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Special thanks to Sudipta Biswas and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

Innovating in an old industry that’s dominated by men, my latest guest Portfolio Manager Sweta Singh shares how her curiosity and sense of adventure led her to join the founding team of a new investment management firm based in (and inspired by!) Sante Fe, New Mexico. Sweta and I chat about the big picture of working in finance, especially as a woman, pros and cons of remote work, and how not projecting too much into the future can lead to some incredible opportunities! As always, we chat books at the end of the show, her secret to keeping it all together as a busy working mom, and more on Santa Fe if you’re considering a visit!

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SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 83:

Read more about Sweta and her firm City Different on their website

Books we discussed:

Darkness by Bharati Mukherjee

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell

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Special thanks to Sudipta Biswas and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

“If there's something you really love, you need to make time for it. I think that was the first step for me, deciding that I wanted to do something for myself, for no other purpose other than I just wanted to make myself happy, to do something creative for me.”

An absolute delight hearing the super-charged doctor and writer Rajani LaRocca talk about her love of literature and medicine! Join us as Rajani talks about growing up in Kentucky, attending medical school, and publishing so many books in so little time!

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SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 82:

Read more about Rajani and her books on her website including the Newbury Honor Award winner Red, White and Whole

Follow Rajani on instagram

Other Books we discussed:

Ouch!: All About Cuts and Other Hurts

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Horse by Geraldine Brooks

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

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Special thanks to Sudipta Biswas and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

My supercharged guest Kaamna Bhojwani helps people explore and express their sexuality by connecting more deeply with their inner selves. Are you ready for a shake-up of your relationship with your body (and hopefully your partner too)? Tune in to this chat where we explore South Asian attitudes toward sex, how to speak to your kids about it, and so much more!

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SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 81:

Learn more and support Kaamna’s work on her website

Follow Kaamna on instagram and YouTube

Books we discussed:

The Ethical Slut, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love (Revised)

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man

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Special thanks to Sudipta Biswas and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

“What we needed was somebody who was willing to fail, somebody who was willing to experiment, and somebody who wasn't afraid to build the plane and fly it at the same time.”

My latest guest Megha Desai brought her sense of adventure and decades of experience in the corporate world to her family’s foundation when she took the helm. She’s since propelled The Desai Foundation to new heights and heads the public foundation from New York where she’s based.

What does leadership in the non-profit world look like? What is The Desai Foundation doing to tackle period poverty? Hear from my inspiring guest who left her successful career in advertising to make a difference in people’s lives through dozens of high impact programs in India and the US.

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SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 80:

Learn more and support Megha’s work at The Desai Foundation website

Follow Megha on instagram

Pledge your period

Books we discussed:

8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go by Jay Shetty

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Special thanks to Sudipta Biswas and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

Growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, then living in London, Singapore and now India, my guest Bharti Lalwani believes her outsider status is key to ‘speaking truth to power’ - the job of an art critic. Now experimenting in art criticism through perfumery, Bharti brought Mughal and Rajput paintings to life through a study of their gardens, flowers, and scents with her collaborator Nicolas Roth. Join me in this (long but) fascinating chat with a young independent art critic, writer, perfumer, and artist as she criss-crosses the globe, and the art and academic worlds!

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SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 79:

Explore the exhibition on the Bagh-e-Hind website

Connect with Bharti at Litrahb Perfumery on the website and on Instagram

Opening Night: A fantastic Zoom through the exhibit and a wonderful discussion hosted by the curators

Books we discussed:

Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class by Catherine Liu

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Special thanks to Sudipta Biswas and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

So many of us think “Why hasn’t someone created this already?” yet so few go ahead and create it ourselves. My latest guest Jyoti Rajan Gopal is an educator who began writing picture books when she found frustratingly little diverse choices for her kindergarten class. Jyoti taps into her international upbringing and deep experience with young children to create these gems. Having published two beautiful books with loads more in the pipeline, Jyoti shares her publishing journey, starting modeling late in her career and lots more on this fun chat. A must listen, especially for writers and those with young kids in their lives!

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SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 78:

Find Jyoti on her website, on instagram and twitter

American Desi

My Paati’s Saris

Jyoti’s forthcoming books

Other Books we discussed:

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School by Carla Shalaby

The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship Between Parents and Children by Alison Gopnik

Kindergarten: A Teacher, Her Students, and a Year of Learning by Julie Diamond

Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community by Alfie Kohn a progressive educator

White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America by Khyati Joshi (“about the ways that Christianity permeates the American Constitution, American laws, American way of life”)

Take Joy: A Writer's Guide to Loving the Craft by Jane Yolen (a writing book Jyoti loves)

The Important Thing about Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett (“a fabulously written picture book about the author Margaret Wise Brown”)

The President Sang Amazing Grace by Zoe Mulford

Other Favorites:

Indian Raga Channel on YouTube

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Special thanks to Varun Dhabe and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

Growing up in Morocco, then studying in England, France and Spain have all shaped artist, writer, and illustrator Karishma Chugani Nankani in countless ways. Among the many stories she has shared is one of her widespread Sindhi clan which she tells through her art and her books. Karishma also guides others in connecting with their own stories and artistic expression through workshops in person and online. Join me in hearing how she works in different media and on different projects which all tie back to her childhood love of books.

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SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 77:

Find Karishma at her website, on instagram and her classes on Domestika

L’Ecole de Papier

Karishma’s course on the artistic process and sketchbooks

PODCASTS we discussed:

Listen to children’s media producer and Karishma’s cousin Sandhya’s episode here

Empire podcast with Anita Anand and William Dalrymple

BOOKS we discussed:

Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales

Artist Lynda Barry and her books

Leila Slimani’s In the Country of Others

Leila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account

Heirs to the Past by Driss Chraibi

Fatima Mernissi’s work and legacy

The Game of Forgetting

Arundhati Roy

Ben Okri

Hanif Kureishi

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Special thanks to Varun Dhabe and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!