Beyond the Lines
Beyond the Lines is a podcast by Roli Books that dissects Indian books and writing, diving into culture and things that inform it, and reflects on our times. Self-confessed bookworms Priya Kapoor and Chirag Thakkar chat up with your favourite writers, artists and creative heads on an episode each. Catch our guests tell their stories, talk about ideas that inspire them, their guilty pleasures and passions that drive them. With the right doses of the sincere and silly, the most urgent and leisurely, some gripping some ticklish, the featured guests here have enough food for thought for everybody at the table.
Hosts and Executive Producers: Priya Kapoor and Chirag Thakkar.
Show Producer: Aria Nanji.
Produced by Roli Pulse, a digital initiative by Roli Books.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2021
Ep 09 Pandemic Tapes: India Under Lockdowns
On the finale episode of season one of Beyond the Lines, our co-host Chirag Thakkar gets on a call with Anoo Bhuyan, Soutik Biswas and Dr Kalpana Swaminathan to unpack the events spanning over a year…
Ep 08 Ways of Seeing : India in 100 Objects with Vidya Dehejia
Our co-host Priya Kapoor gets on a call with master historian and storyteller Vidya Dehejia to talk about her career and her new book titled India: A Story in 100 Objects. The richly illustrated book…
Ep 07 So You Think You Can Cook Featuring Nandita Iyer
Our co-host Chirag Thakkar gets on a call with food writer and blogger Dr. Nandita Iyer, who takes on heavy-duty questions that get to the heart of what we eat and how and why we eat what we eat, ans…
Ep 06 Scindias and the Pulse of Indian Politics
Our co-host Chirag Thakkar gets on a call with political commentator and writer Rasheed Kidwai to talk about one of India’s most popular political dynasties – the Scindias. With political intrigue, p…
Ep 05 Of Spies and World Wars with Shrabani Basu
Our co-host Priya Kapoor gets on a call with bestselling writer Shrabani Basu to chat about being a journalist to transforming into a writer, historian and biographer. She takes a deep-dive into what…
Ep 04 Gandhi, Art and the Historian with Sumathi Ramaswamy
Our co-host Chirag Thakkar gets on a call with historian Sumathi Ramaswamy to chat about Gandhi as a muse to India’s modern and contemporary artists based on her new book Gandhi in the Gallery, the p…
Ep 03 The Notorious World of India’s Prisons with Sunetra Choudhury
Our co-host Priya Kapoor gets on a call with Sunetra Choudhury to chat over writing about prisons and prisoners, doing news in print and television media, what it means to be a working mother in toda…
Ep 02 Indian Jazz and Bombay, the Ticking Time Bomb with Naresh Fernandes
Our co-host Chirag Thakkar gets on a call with newsman, music fanatic and Bombay historian Naresh Fernandes for the second episode of Beyond the Lines to talk about Indian jazz, statues and busts, an…
Ep 01 Looking Back - Prison Writing, Politics and Activism with Kobad Ghandy
Our co-host Priya Kapoor gets on a call with Kobad Ghandy for the first episode of Beyond the Lines. Born in the cradle of upper-middle-class privilege in a Bombay Parsi household and educated at one…
Beyond The Lines - Trailer - Season One