EXPLOCITY PODCASTS presents THE LITERARY CITY With Ramjee Chandran. This literary podcast is devoted to books and authors. It features interviews with a stellar line up of authors, both world famous and also authors who are being discovered—the only criterion being the quality of the prose. Topics are generally literary and include history, biographies, literature and literary fiction. The Literary City podcasts celebrates authors, poets, playwrights, grammar police, literary lounge lizards...and, oh yes, a cunning linguist or ten.
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Signup to Generate a PitchEXPLOCITY PODCASTS presents THE LITERARY CITY With Ramjee Chandran. This literary podcast is devoted to books and authors. It features interviews with a stellar line up of authors, both world famous and also authors who are being discovered, the only criterion being the quality of the prose. Topics are generally literary and include history, biographies, literature and literary fiction.
Recent episodes include "The Soviets, Rajiv Gandhi And Delhi In The '80s - 'For No Reason At All' A Novel By Ramjee Chandran" (29 March 2025, 35 minutes), "Discovering The Lost Glory Of India With William Dalrymple And The Golden Road" (14 January 2025, 46 minutes), and "108 Reasons To Love Art and Alka Pande - A Conversation With Kamini Sawhney" (21 December 2024, 48 minutes).
The Literary City publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 43 minutes across 80 episodes.
Booking probability for The Literary City is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Literary City requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Literary City's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Literary City are Artists, Writers & Performers and News, Magazine & Book Publishing. The Literary City has an arts audience.
The Literary City is an arts podcast with 80 episodes published.
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Episode #79
Send us Fan Mail For No Reason At All is a thinly fictionalised version of a very interesting and a very real story. High stakes and high intrigue—the story follows a young, feckless lobbyist, Solly Nilla, who is tossed...
Episode #78
Send us Fan Mail We Indians often wear our heritage with pride, but how much of it do we truly understand? William Dalrymple’s latest book, The Golden Road , charts the extraordinary journey of Indian ideas, knowledge...
Episode #77
Send us Fan Mail This special edition of The Literary City is a conversation about the transformative power of the arts—particularly the visual arts. Often misunderstood or overlooked, the arts hold the potential to...
Episode #76
Send us Fan Mail As writers, we know that how we say something matters as much as what we say. The right words, arranged with care, can influence thought and stir emotion—or so we hope. The divide between creative prose...
Episode #75
Send us Fan Mail Much of what we understand about global trends is filtered through the lens of the United States. What happens there often shapes thought, culture, and society worldwide. And when it comes to shaping...
Episode #74
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Literary City, we embark on a journey with two distinguished guests—each bringing a unique perspective to our exploration of literature and language. Abhay K, a poet-diplomat, and...
Episode #73
Send us Fan Mail My guest today is a titan of Indian history, Ramachandra Guha. He is known for his monumental works on Gandhi and Indian history, but today we're taking a detour into the realm of literature. We'll be...
Episode #72
Send us Fan Mail My guest today, is an author from Turkiye, Firat Sunel. He is a career diplomat. He is currently the Turkish Ambassador to India. Firat is a demonstrably fascinating novelist. His latest novel, “The...
Episode #71
Send us Fan Mail You know how some people just seem to have that star quality? Winston Churchill, he was one of those. No matter how many books, documentaries you may have imbibed—or, speaking of imbibed, tales you may...
Episode #70
Send us Fan Mail In what is meant to be his quiet and reflective corridor of retirement, my guest today, Abhijit Sengupta grapples with a disquiet that lingers. A former senior IAS officer and therefore, you might say...
Episode #69
Send us Fan Mail The essence of historical fiction is telling stories set in a particular period of time. They transport us to a different place, offering insights into the past while exploring themes that are relatable...
Episode #68
Send us Fan Mail My guest today is the remarkable Mani Shankar Aiyar. If you haven’t heard of him, let’s simply admit that you’ve been living under a rock. If you've been anywhere near the worlds of diplomacy, politics...
Episode #67
Send us Fan Mail In an essay, published in a 1964 edition of The Times Literary Supplement, V S Naipaul wrote: "The language was ours, to use as we pleased. The literature that came with it was therefore of peculiar...
Episode #66
Send us Fan Mail Most of us do not colour code our threat levels. But nations do. Following 9/11, the Homeland Security Advisory System in America in 2002 came up with the warning system that we all know and love today...
Episode #65
Send us Fan Mail Good literature can help us navigate our own emotions and motivations, and it helps us see the world through the eyes of the writer. The best literature touches our hearts and our minds. It triggers our...
Episode #64
Send us Fan Mail As a curious and casual reader of linguistics, one of the first things I learned is that there is no monolithic object called a single language. Languages are like a living organism, they grow and...
Episode #63
Send us Fan Mail As part of Siddhartha’s awakening, he became aware of a spiritual energy in nature where trees had souls, birds had wisdom, and flowers bloomed no matter what the season. And snakes had the power of...
Episode #62
Send us Fan Mail Today I‘m excited to be speaking with Ahmed Naji, a writer who spent two years in prison in Egypt for writing what the authorities judged to be objectionable material. But while Ahmed Naji was in...
Episode #61
Send us Fan Mail Why were the 1980s pivotal in so many respects? Think the giddy days of glasnost and perestroika, the end of the cold war—of the whole Soviet Union in fact, liberalisation and globalisation, GATT and...
Episode #60
Send us Fan Mail A few weeks ago, I was reading LitHub, one of the many literary magazines I enjoy greatly, and I found an essay that caught my immediate fancy. It is titled, “Literature in the Bardo: Tenzin Dickie on...
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