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Itihaas 2.0
Itihaas 2.0 is a podcast that looks at Indian history with a twist. It brings history out of boring textbooks and looks at things around us, tracing their evolution. From brands to elections and from media to public policy, this podcast explores why today's India is the way it is.
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Episode 59: The Radio Recap
On the occasion of world radio day, this episode traces the evolution of the earliest broadcasting medium- Radio. It features Dr. Ujjwala Barve in con...
History IN Cinema- I
This episode moves away slightly from any history of cinema. It talks of history as depicted IN cinema. In the first part of this three-way conversati...
The Doordarshan Diaries
Doordarshan (DD), India’s public service broadcaster is six decades old. And boy, what changes has Doordarshan seen during these years! From twice a w...
Foodie By-lanes: Then and Now
The Ramadan special food offered in Mumbai's old by-lanes of Bhendi Bazaar and Muhammad Ali Road is a part of personal history of many people. As this...
Shifting Cinema: The Rural-Urban Circle
Cinema is a ‘reflection of the society’, yes. And hence, it is also a moving document of our history. Indian cinema provides us innumerable glasses to...
Glocal Food: Outgoing Edition
Most of the food exchanges are so well assimilated that it is impossible to say that they once belonged somewhere else. In part two of the conversatio...
Glocal Food: Incoming Edition
Food is fluid. It moves with time, with people, with cultures. Food exchanges only enrich a culture and most of the food exchanges are so well assimil...
Living History: Vaccine Trials
History is not always past events. Sometimes you also live in truly historic times, much like the current pandemic. As the vaccine for CoVid-19 become...
The Red Terror
The issue of Naxalism has plagued India for more than the past five decades with no solution in sight. This episode features journalist Siddharthya Ro...
Notions & Nation through the Nineties-II
In the later half of the 1990s, the political situation in India became super unstable with no government being steady. India saw 4 elections in those...
Notions & Nation through the Nineties-I
The late 80s have a nation going through a major change where governance takes a back seat, political opportunism is ripe and social fabric is being c...
Indira Returns
The first non-congress government, rampant with factions, ego, and opportunism, could not even complete a full term.
This episode discusses the...
The Stormy Seventies-II
In the middle of the stormy decade, came an unprecedented political move- the emergency from 1975 to 1977. The democracy was almost dead for 19 long m...
The Stormy Seventies- I
The elections of 1971 happened on the backdrop of multiple major sociopolitical churnings. Indira era began a couple of years before that, decimating...
The Shifting Sixties II
The fourth general election of 1967 is brought a beginning of a new era. The grand old party in India getting more factionized,clear emergence of a po...
The shifting sixties-I
Moving to the 1960s, where Congress had completed a decade of power and other sociopolitical factors were playing a role in the electoral politics. im...
First Past The Post
That is the name of the system using which India has its election.
It is crucial to understand what it is as it can massively swing elections...
The birth of booth capture!
Did you know that the second general elections of India in 1957 is when the first incident of booth capturing was recorded?!
Listen to this epi...
Dial M for Mandal- II
The implementation of the Mandal commission's report had deep rooted repercussions, especially in the northern India.
What were these effects?...
Dial M for Mandal
1990s remain one of the most turbulent decades of the modern India, and one of the three Ms that caused this turbulence was 'Mandal'. The report of Ma...
Our Everyday Communalism- II
Part two of this wonderful conversation has Dr. Sajjan Kumar talk about why has communalism become an everyday phenomenon, and if at all, there is a h...
Our Everyday Communalism- I
The Demolition of Babri Masjid gave way to a new type of communalism in India. It is not a sporadic issue anymore, it has seeped into our daily lives....
The Parle G Nostalgia
Parle G is an iconic made in India story by all means.
A 90 year old biscuit brand,it boasts of being the world's largest selling biscuit! In t...
The IPL Extravaganza- II
BCCI was initially not happy with the IPL format, but the common man took to it in full force, and IPL became a hit product.
It did affect the...
The IPL extravaganza- I
The Indian Premier League began in 2008 and it changed the Indian cricket for good. In a country where cricket is no less than a religion, IPL emerged...
Chai Garram!
A cup of tea is omnipresent in our lives. And yet, tea does not belong to India.
It came here a couple of hundred years ago and got perfectly a...
Mirchi: It's hot!
Origins of a lot of food are very diverse. Yet they somehow manage to reach a country and get assimilated in the gastronomy and culture so well, that...
India Against Corruption: The Lokpal Drama
Voice Over: Sneha Gore Mehendale and Tanmay Kanitkar
India faced a sociopolitical storm in the year 2011, with almost the entire nation getting...
Decoding the Dragon-II
In this second part of the conversation with Parimal Maya Sudhakar, we explore how the Chinese perspective has changed over the years, where and how h...
Decoding the Dragon- I
The Sino-Indian war of 1962 remains one of the most landmark events in the post independence Indian history.
Not because we lost it, but 'coz i...
Pushing Polio Out- II
In this second part of the polio episode, Sneha and Dr. Sanjay Mehendale discuss what were the hurdles in successful implementation of the polio eradi...
Pushing Polio Out- I
In 2014, the World Health Organization declared India as Polio Free. For a poor,populous and diverse country like India, this is a huge achievement. I...
PVR: The Multiplex King
Starting with a single-screen theatre, PVR has become the undisputed king of multiplexes in India. We explore this story that is full of twists, is in...
A Wise Old Monk
This is a story of India's iconic tipple, a very old vatted rum, Old Monk. Despite not being considered as a very glamorous drink, it has millions of...
Patanjali: Indian FMCG game changer
hailing from Hardidwar, a small town on the Ganges, Baba Ramdev and his brand Patanjali has reached unprecedented heights. This episode of 'made in In...
Acing the Space- II
Continuing the story of India's space mission, Dr Chitnis speaks about various interesting details- how did they find the spot of launching station at...
Acing the Space: Story of India's Space programme
Despite being a poor nation, India launched a great space programme. In last 60 odd years, India has come a long way from being a beginner to making a...
How 'right' is this right?
The Right to Education, as seen in the last episode is a landmark legislation in India, shaping our future generations.
Are the provisions rea...
The Right to Education- I
It was really a historic decision by the Govt of India and draft and implement the basic right to education for all its citizens. What does it say? An...
The Aadhaar Story
The UID initiative by the Govt. of India was one of the milestone decisions in the last 70 years. And to say that it is significant would be an unders...