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South CentralSouth Central Ep 7 | Allu Arjun Controversy and why spaces like Cubbon park are regulatedIn episode seven, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna are joined by author Sowmya Rajendran, lawyer and activist Vinay Srinivasa, and journalist Rajeshwari Kalyanam.On the controversy surrounding Allu Arjun and the tragic stampede, Rajeshwari reflects on the shift in public sentiment: "Initially, there was a lot of sympathy for Allu Arjun, but that died down after the whole spectacle once he came out on bail.” Sowmya adds, “If he goes to a theatre, he knew very well what would happen. He knew that there would be a tsunami of people.”Sowmya also highli...2024-12-271h 09
TALRadioUnderstanding Menopause | Dont Pause Your Life - Episode 3Lina Mookerjee is a renowned researcher on menopause and mental health, who focuses on helping women overcome the challenges of this stage of life. With a particular emphasis on the impact of menopause on working women, Lina provides insights into the problems they face during menstruation and offers strategies for coping with them. Her work aims to improve women's quality of life during this transitional phase.
Host: Rajeshwari Kalyanam2023-04-1031 min
TALRadioFighting Against Hunger & Homelessness | Helping Hearts - 2West Valley Community Services Inc. is a private non-profit, community-based agency providing direct assistance and referral services to needy communities of various regions such as Cupertino, Los Gatos and Monte Sereno, Saratoga. Since four decades West Valley Community Services is providing basic needs such as food pantry, homeless services etc. Here is Sujatha Venkatraman, Interim Executive Director of West Valley Community Services representing the vision of her organization.
Host: Rajeshwari Kalyanam2023-03-1334 min
TALRadioA Home for Everyone | Special InterviewHabitat for Humanity is a volunteer based organization building affordable homes. With a vision for a world where everyone has a decent place to live, Habitat OC has built over 200 homes in Orange County for the families with good credit and work but are unable to purchase homes. Here is Monique Davis, President of the organization sharing her views about Habitat OC and its work so far.
Host: Rajeshwari Kalyanam2023-03-0632 min
TALRadioThe Midlife Crisis | Don't Pause Your Life - 2Menopause isn’t just a biological phenomenon. It changes life forever. The changes brought by Menopause can affect health and mood. Lina Mookerjee has focused on this crucial problem. Lina is a psychotherapist, supervisor, trainer, speaker and writer. With her immense experience and expertise she has been offering solace to women facing crisis due to menopause.
Host: Rajeshwari Kalyanam2023-03-0217 min
TALRadioJoy of Giving with Minoo Gupta | India Giving Day SpecialFoundation for Excellence has been doing great service to the needy students. It has been a catalyst between their dreams and their career. Thousands of talented youngsters have received financial support from FFE in completing their education. FFE is taking an active part in India Giving Day organizing by IPA to support non profits working for India. Here is what Minoo Gupta, President of FFE has to say about her organization and it’s participation in India Giving Day.
Host: Rajeshwari Kalyanam2023-02-2822 min
TALRadioDon't Pause Your Life | Episode 1After a decade as a professional electrical engineer, Lina spent much of the following 22 years as a Yoga teacher, trainer of Yoga teachers and a Accredited psychotherapist. During this time, much of her practice has involved working with clients presenting with anxiety, panic, PTSD and depression. Her expertise is working with trauma, stress, using menopause as a mid-life transition process and facilitating psycho-spiritual integration. Here is what she has to say about her initial days and the inspiration that led her to be a therapist.
Host: Rajeshwari Kalyanam2023-02-2318 min
TALRadioPartners in Success | Special InterviewReading isn’t just a timepass or a way to achieve better marks. Reading is a skill that helps you walk through difficulties of life, learn more about this world, peek into the past, travel into future, understand the society…! This is why, the work done by Reading Partners is so important. Reading Partners is a national nonprofit that mobilizes communities to provide students with the proven, individualized reading support they need to read at grade level by fourth grade. Let’s know more from it’s Silicon Valley branch executive director Felicia Webb.
Host: Rajeshwari Kalyanam2023-02-1319 min
Handi TalksThe Cuisine Of Indian-Jews with Esther DavidEsther David- An artist | Jewish-Indian Author| Sculptor | In conversation with RK (Rajeshwari Kalyanam) on Handiology- An exclusive podcast edition by HandiTalks.2021-06-2635 min
Handi TalksThe Observer | Understanding Engineering Of Food.Krish Ashok
Author of Masala Lab - The Science of Indian Cooking| Engineer and Columnist. In conversation with RK (Rajeshwari Kalyanam) on Handiology - A exclusive podcast edition by HandiTalks.2021-06-1023 min
Handi TalksThe Innovator| Uplifting Millet Farmers of India.Vishala Reddy Vuyyala Founder, Millet Bank and Identicity| StartUp Mentor| Entrepreneur| In conversation with RK (Rajeshwari Kalyanam) On Handiology- A exclusive podcast edition by HandiTalks.2021-06-0120 min
Handi TalksThe Risk Taker | The guy who quit, Google to sell Samosas.Munaf Kapadia - Founder & CEO, The Bohri Kitchen | Forbes 30 under 30| Author of HOW I QUIT GOOGLE TO SELL SAMOSAS: Adventures with the Bohri Kitchen| In conversation with RK (Rajeshwari Kalyanam) on Handiology- A exclusive podcast edition by HandiTalks.2021-05-2021 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamIs Bloomsbury India In Trouble? // Senior Journalist, Author Kingshuk Nag On The Controversy Over The Book 'Delhi Riots'Bloomsbury India has refused to publish a book 'Delhi Riots 2020: The Inside Story' and has caught itself between devil and the deep sea. Journalist, author and former editor of Times of India, Kingshuk Nag speaks about how the UK based publishing house mishandled the situation. Gurugram based Garuda Publications will now be publishing the book.2020-08-2415 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamToshikazu Kawaguchi And Ruskin BondFamous playwright from Japan Tozhikazu Kawaguchi has written a novel based on his award-winning play 'Before The Coffee Gets Cold' and my search for a book less than 100 pages took me back to Ruskin Bond's novella 'Looking for the Rainbow' his memoir of the time he spent with his father.2020-04-1008 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamThe World Of Books - March 31, 2020Introduction to Aravind Adiga's book Amnesty, extract from Cricket 2.0 about the origin of the T20 format and more from today's world of books on special Lock down edition of Lit It Up with Rajeshwari Kalyanam2020-03-3109 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamWorld Of Books - March 30, 2020Manu S Pillais session on #readinstead, Taslima's sequel to Lajja and Hyma Goparaju's Abandoned Daughter in today's edition of Lit It Up with Rajeshwari KalyanamPicture Courtesy: Week2020-03-3008 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamEpisode 21 - News From The World of BooksA quick update on what's happening in the world of books ...stay tuned for regular updates and recommendations2020-03-2906 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamRuth Padel on Beethoven Part 2When at Jaipur Literature Festival you not just enjoy listening to the authors you know and have read; you also discover some new and brilliant ones. Ruth Padel and her poetry was such a discovery for me. In this second part of her interview on the biography 'Beethoven Variations' she speaks about the tragedy on Beethoven's life when he goes deaf at 29, how he makes some of the best music during the time and his obsession with Sanskrit text Shakuntala.2020-02-2211 minLit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamPoet Ruth Padel On Her Biography 'Beethoven Variations' Part1One of my best interviews from Jaipur Literature Festival 2020 was of Ruth Padel who comes up with her own version of lyrical tribute to one of the greatest composers Beethoven. She explores his life and through her book 'Beethoven Variations: A Life in Poems' she sketches a tragic life story that left behind some of the best music to the world. Ruth also recites her poetry making this one of my best interactions.2020-02-0511 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamKatie Hickman On British Women in IndiaYet another amazing interview from the Jaipur Literature Festival where author, travel writer Katie Hickman talks about her book 'She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India' that once again brings to light the forgotten entities in the pages of history - Women2020-02-0514 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamHistorian Frank Dikotter On ChinaFrank Dikötter, Dutch historian who specialises in modern China released his latest book 'How to be a Dictator' which is surely not a guide, but an insight into what makes a dictator. He traces the identity and similarities and contracts in a handful of chosen dictators of the modern world and it surely includes Mao. His other books include Maos Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation.2020-01-3114 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamKunal Basu On His New Novel Sarojini's MotherSarojini's Mother published by Penguin Random House is a novel set in Kolkata about a woman who comes to India looking for her biological mother and ends up with two women from two opposite ends of economic spectrum. Kunal Basu speaks about literary novel, how after his book Kalkatta, the city comes back into his novel and what makes the novelist in him.2020-01-2814 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamAnn Cleeves On Her New Two Rivers SeriesAnn Cleeves, popular for her crime fiction, who also has her Vera Stanhope and Shetland series adapted as hit television series...speaks about the new detective Mathew Venn and Devin, the new setting for her novels2020-01-2614 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamKR Meera In Conversation Part 2This is in continuation of KR Meera's conversation for this podcast at the Jaipurliteraturefestival20202020-01-2608 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamKR Meera In ConversationThe Sahitya Akademi award winning author of The Hangwoman from Kerala, one of the most translated authors and strong voices for women speaks about her books and experiences that make her what she is2020-01-2615 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamHoward Jacobson @Jaipur Literature FestivalThe fun to be with and fun to read author Howard Jacobson speaks about his latest release Live a Little and this whole business of book at JLF 20202020-01-2614 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamChristina Lamb On The Girl From AleppoJournalist, writer Christina Lamb speaks on her new book on Nujeen Mustafa, who made her way from Syria to Germany on a wheel chair and she calls this a story of hope2020-01-2511 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamConversation With Rafi Ul RehmanHe is from Assam, a Muslim who discovered his sexuality, found a way to deal with it and has turned an activist and started the Queer Muslim Project to tell stories from the community, and create an eco system for accepting the queer people as normal. I am at JLF, there's noise, there's distraction, glimpses of which you will see in my interviews, bit at the end of it all it is an enriching experience to say the least. And so has been my conversation with #rafiulalomrehman2020-01-2514 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamWilliam Dalrymple On His Book AnarchyOne of the fictions many of us have come to believe is that the British ruled India for almost two centuries. But after the Battle of Plassey (1757), all they consolidated their hold over was a part of Bengal. Similarly, you suggest that when people talk of British rule, they forget that until the middle of the 19 century, it was run by the East India Company, a joint stock company. Has the role of this private company, whose representatives often acted on their own, been downplayed or gotten too muddled up with that of the British government? Dalrymples book Anarchy traces thi...2020-01-2410 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamLola Kutty Aka Anu MenonLola Kitty of Channel V...now the Wonder Menon on Amazon Prime speaks with me at the beach side literature festival, KLF 2020, Calicut2020-01-2313 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamAshwin Sanghi on 'Vault Of Vishnu'Ashwin Sanghi will launch his book 'Vault of Vishnu' at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2020. He says with this book he is back to his storytelling form.2020-01-2312 min
Lit It Up With Rajeshwari KalyanamEpisode 4 - Christopher C Doyle Talks On 'The Mists Of Brahma' Part 2Myth, fantasy, adventure, suspense, science, history come together in Christopher Doyle's books to create what he calls Modern Day thrillers. After the successful launch of 'The Mahabharat Quest' he launched his second successful series published by Westland Publishers 'The Pataala Prophecy' with 'Son of Bhrigu'. With his second book in the series, 'Mists of Brahma' he managed to keep up the excitement with readers asking for more.2019-11-0214 min