Sudha Rajagopalan, historian of Russian culture at the University of Amsterdam, talks about how Bollywood films, Soviet books, and gestures of camaraderie shaped how Indians and Russians came to see each other as firm friends.

In this episode host Kiran Kumbhar discusses metrics, statistics, and numbers in public health and demography with Aashish Gupta who is a sociologist, demographer, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford.

A conversation with Aashique Ahmed Iqbal on India's early experiments with flying, why we haven't mastered manufacturing aeroplanes, and what the past can tell us about the future of aviation.

Public health researcher Indira Chakravarthi speaks about the private healthcare sector, public-private partnerships (PPPs), Ayushman Bharat, and right to health, with host Kiran Kumbhar.

In the last episode of this season exploring films, we speak with Prof SV Srinivas about the recent discussions surrounding hypermasculinity and violence in films like Kabir Singh and Pushpa. Prof Srinivas teaches at Azim Premji University in Bangalore, and is the author of two books on south Indian stars called Megastar and Politics as Performance.

In the third episode of our latest podcast season exploring films, Madhava Prasad discusses 'cinepolitics' in south India. Mr Madhava Prasad is a cultural theorist and film scholar, whose worked as a Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies in The English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad.

In the second episode of our fourth season exploring themes related to films, we speak with Ritika Kaushik about the state's role in film-making and distribution in India, specifically taking a deeper look at the histories of the Films Division of India and the National Films Archive. Ritika Kaushik is a doctoral scholar at the University of Chicago and her research interests include film history, documentary films, and archival practices.

In the first episode of our new season exploring films, we speak with Shrayana Bhattacharya about what film icons and fandoms can tell us about intimacy and women's independence. 

In this episode on finance and data privacy, Rohan Jahagirdar, an independent fintech consultant working with organisations specifically in the banking industry, discusses regulation of data collected by fintech companies, the recent introduction of the Account Aggregator system, as well as the Non-banking Financial Company–Account Aggregator Framework introduced by RBI in 2016.

In this week's episode on reproductive health surveillance, we’re joined by Ambika Tandon who is a researcher with the Centre for Internet and Society.