Can music change how we feel, think and heal?

Can music really be medicine?

In this episode, Suchitra Krishnamoorthi explores the extraordinary relationship between music, the mind and the body, and why sound can affect us far more deeply than we realise.

From shifting our moods and awakening memories to calming the nervous system and changing the way we feel in our bodies, music has an extraordinary ability to reach places that words sometimes cannot.

Drawing on her own life and experience with music, Suchitra looks at how we can listen more consciously and use music not simply as entertainment, but as a powerful everyday tool for emotional balance, connection and wellbeing.

Put on your headphones. Your medicine may already be playing.

If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On…

What happens when music meets food? From gloriously cheesy Bollywood lyrics about samosas, jalebis and nimboos to the strange science of how sound can actually change the way food tastes, this episode serves up a delicious mix of music, memory and appetite.

Suchitra explores why certain songs instantly make us crave the food of our childhood, how restaurants use music to influence the way we eat, and why musicians and kitchens may have more in common than we think. There are detours through Asha Bhosle’s cooking, A.R. Rahman’s recording diet, jazz and wine, Bollywood and spicy food, and that unbeatable combination: ice cream and breakup songs.

Funny, nostalgic and occasionally ridiculous, it’s a sensory feast for your ears. Press play. Preferably with snacks.

For centuries, women have made music, shaped sound and pushed artistic boundaries, yet history has often remembered their bodies, relationships and reputations more readily than their genius.

From India’s tawaifs and pioneers such as Jaddan Bai and Gauhar Jaan to Clara Schumann, Sylvia Robinson and the women transforming music production today, this episode explores how female creativity has been marginalized, appropriated and erased.

Why is genius so easily attributed to men while women are still judged by what they wear, who they love and how they look?

A journey through music, misogyny, power and reclamation, and a reminder that women weren't merely asking for a seat at music’s table. They helped build it.