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For over 70 years, Bahrisons Booksellers has been connecting readers with the stories they love. Now, we’re taking the next step with The Reading List, a new podcast celebrating Indian authors and the vibrant voices shaping today’s literary landscape. Hosted by Aashna Malhotra, each episode brings thoughtful conversations with Indian authors about creativity, storytelling, and the heart behind every great book. If you love meeting the people behind the pages, you’ll feel right at home here. Follow along; your next great conversation starts here.
Aashna Malhotra hosts The Reading List by Bahrisons Booksellers, a arts show with 20 episodes published.
Every family has its own history, contradictions, and power dynamics. This week on The Reading List , we're joined by Karan Mahajan to discuss his new novel, The Complex, set against the backdrop of a changing India. Tog
BRB. Gone reading ️ The Reading List is taking a short summer break and returns on July 1st. Need a fix until then? Catch up on all 18 episodes of TRL. See you in July! #TheReadingListByBahrisons #ReadWithBahri #BookPodc
Do you ever stop to notice the birds, trees, and animal life around you? In this episode of The Reading List, Neha Sinha joins us to discuss her new book Wild Capital and the hidden ecological life of Delhi. From childho
Breakfast is often seen as the simplest meal of the day, but it carries stories of memory, migration, labour, and identity. In this episode of The Reading List, Priyadarshini Chatterjee joins us to discuss her debut book
How does one build a life within a system that never stops moving? This week on The Reading List, Rahul Bhattacharya joins us to talk about Railsong, a novel that traces the life of Charu within the vast world of the Ind
What does it mean to feel at home in a city, in a relationship, in your own life? In this episode of The Reading List, Sarnath Banerjee joins us to talk about Absolute Jafar, a deeply personal graphic novel shaped over s
What does it mean for a city to be haunted? In this episode of The Reading List by Bahrisons Booksellers, Aashna Malhotra speaks with historian Eric Chopra about his book Ghosted and the strange afterlives of Delhi’s mon
What does it mean to grow up in a world where you are always watched, always connected, and never quite logged out? In the Season 2 premiere of The Reading List by Bahrisons Booksellers, Aashna Malhotra sits down with Ri
When the British broke up the Indian Empire, they didn’t just divide land; they divided families, languages, and histories. Sam Dalrymple joins us to discuss his debut book, Shattered Lands, and how the borders of Britis
What happens when silence shapes who we become? In this episode, Bhavika Govil joins us to talk about her debut novel, Hot Water, and the private world of Indian families. We discuss children’s rush to grow up, the diffe
How does a towering personality become a mere footnote in national memory? In this episode of The Reading List, we sit down with historian and biographer Narayani Basu to discuss her new book, A Man For All Seasons: The
How does a towering personality become a mere footnote in national memory? In this episode of The Reading List, we sit down with historian and biographer Narayani Basu to discuss her new book, A Man For All Seasons: The
What happens when swiping right feels just as exhausting as sitting through another rishta? Author Radhika Agrawal’s Red Flags and Rishtas: A Desi Rom Com is a sharp, witty take on modern love, heartbreak, and the relent
From Punjab’s first encounters with outsiders to the upheaval of Partition, meet the women who defied tradition, colonial rule, and societal norms to shape history. In this conversation with Harleen Singh, author of The
As India races to modernise and liberalise its economy, who is left behind? In this episode of The Reading List, journalist Neha Dixit unpacks the unseen story of India’s working class through the life of Syeda, a home-b
What does it mean to inherit more than just money, like expectations, silence, and systems that need rethinking? In this episode, author Keshava Guha joins Aashna Malhotra to discuss The Tiger’s Share, a novel that explo
In this special episode of The Reading List, author Aanchal Malhotra steps into the spotlight for an intimate conversation with her sister and host, Aashna Malhotra. For the first time, she shares the creative journey be
In this episode of The Reading List, author Amitabha Bagchi joins Aashna Malhotra to talk about "Unknown City", an epistolary novel that explores memory, emotional growth, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we’v
In this episode of The Reading List, author and mental health advocate Amrita Tripathi joins us to discuss “The Other Sister”, a novel that gently explores the emotional weight of modern life—anxiety, identity, belonging
In this episode of The Reading List, author Anirudh Kanisetti takes us beyond kings and battlefields into the everyday rhythms of life under the Chola Empire. With rich research and vivid storytelling, he brings the past
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