Travelling Time With Books

Co-hosts Kamini Gupta and Nidhi Mishra talk with an award-winning history researcher and writer, Anirudh Kanisetti about his very well reviewed and acclaimed book Lords of the Deccan that caters to this massive unfulfilled need, bringing the deccan alive for us from the 6th century CE to the 12th century CE, allowing us a peek into the rise and fall of powerful rulers of the Chalukya, Pallava, Rashtrakuta and Chola dynasties, in all their splendor, action and glory.

Kamini Gupta chats with from the acclaimed and prolific writer Rakshanda Jalil about the need for feminist writing broadly and Rakshanda's book A Rebel and Her Cause the Life and Work of Rashid Jahan.

Kamini Gupta and Nidhi Mishra hear from the acclaimed and prolific writer Rakshanda Jalil about the past, present and future of Urdu as a language, documented in her book But You Don't Look Like A Muslim, its status in Bollywood and pop culture and fleetingly about what it is like to work with Gulzar Sa'ab! Is Urdu a dying language? Listen in to reach your conclusion.

Co-hosts Kamini Gupta and Nidhi Mishra talk with liguistic historian Peggy Mohan about how language goes much beyond being a tool for communication today. Through it's evolution, it informs us of the past. Listen in to know how if there is such a thing as purity of language and race, migration of the Indo- Aryans, early Sanskrit and it's mutation and unknown aspects of India's social history.

Manu Pillai packs in 400 years of tumultous Deccan History in the fantastic book Rebel Sultans, giving us a much needed window to the this often and unfairly ignored pages in our history books. Listen in to how Manu's writing makes history palatable to the uninitiated and prepares us to be confronted by full civilizations of great antiquity and magnificence.

Why do we want to forget Razia Sultan, the first and last female emperor of the Delhi Sultanate? Why do we not know enough of this phenomenal woman hero? Time to make amends. Catch up on Razia's dramatic life in this podcast.

What can be more fun than reading a brilliant 600+ pages book? Discussing it with a good friend and finally getting to chat with the author! Kamini Gupta and I are really looking forward to our live podcast chat today on FLYX with the renowned author and documentary film-maker, Saba Dewan.