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Ep. 76: Say YES! Writer and academic Usha Raman on building a career on her own terms
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Ep. 76: Say YES! Writer and academic Usha Raman on building a career on her own terms

Such a delight to meet someone who continues to pursue a wide range of interests while specializing enough to be a University Professor! Usha Raman is Professor of Communication at the University of Hyderabad, Vice President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Editor of ‘Teacher Plus’ magazine, writer for ‘The Hindu’, and a core team member of the Hyderabad Literary Festival. Phew!

Usha shares her journalistic journey, her adventures in reading, writing, teaching and podcasting here on Episode 76. Her fantastic tips on what to listen to and read right now are not to be missed!

Listen now on your favorite podcast app, or at www.theindianedit.com and please take a second to rate us wherever you’re listening so the voices of these inspiring women can be heard all over the world!

SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 76:

Find Usha at her website, on instagram, her substack and Twitter: @usharaman

Usha’s Podcast Reading for our times and magazine Teacher Plus

The Hyderabad Literary Festival in late January

PODCAST TIPS:

How to Fail with Elizabeth Day - Usha recommends the Stanley Tucci and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie episodes

Empire podcast with Anita Anand and William Dalrymple

Amit Varma’s podcast The Seen and The Unseen: episode on with Urvashi Butalia is here

883 to Infinity (podcast by a Bombay and Karachi based duo)

BOOKS we discussed:

Sujata Massey’s Perveen Mistry books

Harini Nagendra’s books including the Bangalore Detectives Club

Siddhartha Mukherjee’s books

Agatha Christie’s And Then There were None audiobook read by Dan Stevens

Nora Ephron’s Heartburn read by Meryl Streep

Beloved read by Toni Morrisson

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett read by Tom Hanks

Questions? Comments? Get in touch @theindianeditpodcast on Instagram !

Special thanks to Varun Dhabe and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

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