In this Monologue, I share my thoughts on The Second wave of COVID-19. What has been the state of affairs as of now? How good is the government’s reaction? What role has social media and mainstream media played? How important ...
India is in the middle of its second wave and our social media feeds have morphed into SOS helplines with citizens running pillar to post to arrange medicines and oxygen cylinders. Amid this, the pack of foreign correspondents and their ...
In this podcast, Deepali Kulkarni and Debleena Biswas talk about the Genocide of Bengali Hindus. This is a story that is not discussed enough. We know it happened, but do we know the scale of the genocide? Do we know ...
In this podcast, we try to analyse the possible reasons for the defeat of India against the Turkic invaders. The analyses go into specific sociological causes and then delve into what impact that could possibly have had on the military ...
In this podcast, Aashish Chandorkar explains to us The State of Vaccination in India. There has been a lot of noise about the rate at which India is vaccinating its population as far as the COVID-19 pandemic is concerned. Some ...
In this podcast, I chat with Ganesh Swaminathan about his book ” From the Beginning of time”. Ganesh claims that Puranas make many claims that are compatible with modern science. He goes through different verses of the Puranas in his ...
It is a sunny afternoon when Ravi gets a call on his phone. The caller on the other side shares the sad news of his oldest colleague passing away due to a heart attack. Ravi goes silent for a moment; ...
In this podcast, I chat with Ram Prasad about the communication of risk and data. We are in the midst of a pandemic and we are bombarded on a daily basis with a lot of articles/tweets that talk about vaccines, ...
In this podcast, we chat with Shrikant Talageri about the various criticisms that are levelled against Indology as a field. We cover various criticisms that are levelled against various subsets of Indology like Linguistic Palaeontology/Comparative Linguistics. Are these criticisms correct? ...
Here is a small story/thought experiment. Imagine we have a nuclear holocaust sometime in the future. Mankind is completely obliterated and we are down to our last few millions scattered across the planet earth. All our technology is destroyed along ...