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 of the Covid-19 pandemic as well as its second wave that wreaked havoc on India’s peoples. Over two summers, India woke up to the same cycles of news: people falling sick in hordes; a shortage of beds, medicines, emergency wards, ambulances, testing kits, information, systems, oxygen, the list could go on. Bearing witness to this ongoing disaster that we are, likely, still in the middle of, the special wrap-up episode tries to make sense of an India that never went out of the SOS mode since March 2020.

Anoo Bhuyan is a journalist who covers health at Indiaspend.com; Soutik Biswas is India Correspondent and Features and Analysis Editor at BBC India, and Dr. Kalpana Swaminathan, who writes with Dr. Ishrat Syed under the pseudonym Kalpish Ratna is a writer and surgeon. Anoo, Soutik and Kalpana are also contributors, among others, to a publishers’ set of essays titled, The Dark Hour: India under Lockdowns, forthcoming in the fall of 2021 with Roli Books.

We will be back with more in the second season of Beyond the Lines; stay tuned.

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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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 tells India’s richly layered historical story through objects that have come to define its people, culture and society.

Vidya Dehejia is Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University. Awarded the Padma Bhushan by the government of India, she is one of the most prolific figures in South Asian art history.

Hosts and Executive Producers: Priya Kapoor and Chirag Thakkar.

Show Producer: Aria Nanji.

Produced by Roli Pulse, a digital initiative by Roli Books.

Follow Roli Books @rolibooks on twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Read more about Vidya Dehejia here.

You can find a copy of Vidya’s new book India: A Story in 100 Objects here (India) and here (US).

Check out books published by Roli and other leading international art, design and illustrated publishers at CMYK Bookstore. Use code BTL20 at checkout on cmykbookstore.com to get a 20 percent discount on your purchase.

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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, answers for which we all have sought for so long. Whether ghee is good for you, if diets work and are sustainable, what oil is good for desi cooking, why eating seasonal producce is directly tied to your wellbeing – all of this and a whole lot more on this episode. And oh, if she were a pickle or a chutney, Nandita thinks she’s likely to be a Punjabi mix pickle. Have you ever thought of what condiment or cocktail you would be?

Nandita is the author of several cookbooks, most recently of ‘Everyday Superfoods,’ and the forthcoming book ‘Thali: Vegetarian Wholesomeness from India’ to be published by Roli Books.

Hosts and Executive Producers: Priya Kapoor and Chirag Thakkar.

Show Producer: Aria Nanji.

Produced by Roli Pulse, a digital initiative by Roli Books.

You can follow Nandita Iyer on twitter @saffrontrail here, as well as on facebook, instagram and her blog.

Follow Roli Books @rolibooks on twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Check out books published by Roli and other leading international art, design and illustrated publishers at CMYK Bookstore. Use code BTL20 at checkout on cmykbookstore.com to get a 20 percent discount on your purchase.

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