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Books and Beyond with Bound
Welcome to India’s No. 1 book podcast where Tara Khandelwal and Michelle D’costa uncover the stories behind some of the best-written books of our time. Find out what drives India’s finest authors: from personal experiences to jugaad research methods, and insecurities to publishing journeys. And how these books shape our lives and worldview today.
Tune in every Wednesday!
Created by Bound, a storytelling company that helps you grow through stories. Get in touch with us at connect@boundindia.com.
Podcasting since 2020 • 161 episodes
Books and Beyond with Bound
Latest Episodes
8.5 Sanjana Ramachandran: Turning 90s Chaos into Literary Gold
What happens when the love of family feels more like a battlefield?In her debut novel Famous Last Questions, Sanjana Ramachandran explores the messy, painful, and sometimes beautiful struggle of growing up caught between paren...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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47:05
8.4 Jennifer Sundberg: How Smart Teams End Up Doing Dumb Things
Are the wrong people making the biggest decisions at your company?Tara and Michelle talk to Jennifer Sundberg—co-founder of Board Intelligence and co-author of Collective Intelligence—about why most leadersh...
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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52:05
8.3 Tara & Michelle: Can You Love a Book But Hate the Author?
Should we boycott problematic authors—or just read them with guilt? Tara and Michelle dive into the messy politics of author scandals, from cancel culture to complicity. Plus, what happens when AI writes a book? Would you read it? Should it ...
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Season 8
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Episode 3
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37:28
8.2 Puneet Sikka and Nayantara Alva: Finding Love In Unexpected Places, Two New Coming of Age Stories
What do a privileged student with a saviour complex and an ambitious outsider in Bollywood have in common? Debut authors Nayantara Alva and Puneet Sikka take us into two very different Indias—one set in a liberal arts coll...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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1:07:15
8.1 Atharva Pandit: On Fictionalising Crime Without Compromising Truth
Tara talks to journalist and debut author Atharva Pandit, whose novel Hurda is inspired by a real-life case that briefly made headlines in 2013, and then vanished.What begins as a mystery about three missing girls ...
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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40:53
