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Books and Us: Senior Journalist Ranjit Monga interviews different authors of books in non-fiction category and discusses their key message. The focus is on issues relevant to people's lives and society as a whole.
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- Sep 27, 2026
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India's Forests - Revisiting Nature and History - S3 Ep 5 with Mahesh Rangarajan (opens the original)
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In this episode, Ranjit Monga sits down with Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan, one of India’s most respected environmental historians and co-editor of the new volume ' India’s Forests: Revisiting Nature and History'. ( https://link.amazon/B0bpNjfaR ) The book is a collection of research papers by eminent scholars and challenges the idea of forests as static, silent backdrops in human history. Instead, it reveals them as dynamic spaces — shaped by climate, economy, politics, migration, and watershed momen
Jantar Mantar: Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh's Observatory in Delhi (Part II) - S3 EP 4 with author Anisha Shekhar Mukherji (opens the original)
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In this episode, we return to the meticulously researched book Jantar Mantar: Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh’s Observatory in Delhi by conservation architect Anisha Shekhar Mukherji ( https://substack.com/@anishashekharmukherji?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5p71tv ). Host Ranjit Monga revisits the conversation from Season 2 and explores the architectural and scientific significance of Jantar Mantar, a set of astronomical instruments and buildings that have no parallel anywhere in the world. An
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