You know you have narrated a story well if your least interested audience is on the edge of their seat by the end of the telling. Actor-podcaster Konkona Sen Sharma’s honeyed voice effects that purpose. Barefoot Boys — an aural recreation of Mohun Bagan Athletic Club’s first all-Indian side’s win against the British in 1911 — plays up a victory finely wrought amidst the Calcuttan milieu. Eleven Bengali players, from the same race which was touted as “effete” by the British, put their game on the global map that day. And they were all barefoot. With American audio entertainment platform Luminary launching in India recently, Sen Sharma’s nostalgic show certainly tops the content slate for South Asians.

Konkona Sen Sharma