The Podcast Compendium

I had never planned to listen to a podcast. To be honest, I had never heard about a podcast until in the middle of 2018, on a lazy mid-afternoon, I visited one of my cousins in downtown Mumbai. While I was appreciating the collection of books in his library, he mentioned that lately he had started spending more time listening to podcasts than devoting hours to reading. Initially I thought he was talking about listening to audio books, so I avidly nodded more like in an agreement, and named the latest one which I had been listening to at that time. He smilingly clarified that he was talking about podcast and not an audio book, and I was looking at his face wondering I should again nod, indicating we are in agreement on this too, or sheepishly admit that I didn't know what he was talking about. My cousin realized that this episode was becoming a little bit embarrassing for me, more so because I had always claimed to be in tune with the times, especially when it came to anything ...