10. Pandemics in Prose - a podcast by Bangalore International Centre

Samhita Arni and Gautham Shenoy discuss pandemic literature and what they reveal about the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, with host Pavan Srinath.

Stories set during pandemics reveal a lot about human society – from The Iliad, to UR Ananthamurthy’s Samskara, to recent science fiction books by Cory Doctorow, Emily St. John Mandel, James SA Corey and others.

Samhita Arni is an author and retells mythological stories. Gautham Shenoy is a columnist, and writes the SpecFix column in Bangalore Mirror.

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