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Loom to Lac, Six Days Through the Weavers, Farmers and Silversmiths of the Deccan (opens the original)
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About This Episode Sam and Taylor trace the full route of 5 Senses Tours' newest private trail, Loom to Lac, six days from Kalaburagi to Hyderabad that puts travellers inside a Guledagudda weaver's home, a Bidar silversmith's workshop, and a tur dal farming family's fields, before ending among the four hundred year old bangle makers of Hyderabad's Laad Bazaar. Along the way they unpack why this stretch of the Deccan holds four separate Geographical Indication crafts inside a single week long jou
Varahamihira: The Ujjain Astronomer Who Predicted Earthquakes, Catalogued 101 Comets and Found Underground Water 1500 Years Before Modern Science Knew How (opens the original)
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In the 6th century CE, in the city of Ujjain in what is now Madhya Pradesh, a scientist sat down to write an encyclopaedia. Not an encyclopaedia of abstract philosophy or sacred text. An encyclopaedia of the observable, physical world. Rainfall and cloud formation. Planetary movements and eclipse prediction. Earthquake precursors and the behaviour of animals before seismic events. Groundwater location using plants and insects as ecological indicators. Comet cataloguing and periodicity. Architect
Pune Ganesh Festival: The Five Pandals That Helped Birth a Nation and Why Lokmanya Tilak Was the Greatest Political Genius of Colonial India (opens the original)
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In 1893 the British colonial administration was watching Pune carefully. Large public gatherings were viewed with suspicion. Political meetings were monitored. Any organised assembly that could give voice to the growing feeling of nationalism was a threat to the colonial order. The freedom movement was still finding its form, largely confined to educated drawing rooms and English language newspapers, unable to reach the vast majority of ordinary Indians. Then Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak looked
Sushruta: The Ancient Indian Surgeon Who Pioneered Plastic Surgery (opens the original)
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Long before modern hospitals and plastic surgery clinics, an extraordinary tradition of surgical medicine was developing in ancient India. In this episode, we travel back more than two millennia to meet Sushruta , the ancient Indian physician traditionally associated with the Sushruta Samhita , one of the foundational texts in the history of surgery. Sushruta is particularly remembered for his detailed description of rhinoplasty — the reconstruction of the nose — using a skin flap. His work also
Malpe Fishing Community: The Original Fishermen of the Karnataka Coast and Why They Are Being Pushed Out of the Sea They Have Always Fished (opens the original)
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The boats leave before you are awake. By the time visitors arrive at Malpe harbour in the morning, the day's work has already been underway for hours. The fishing families of Malpe do not operate on tourist time. They operate on the rhythm of the sea, which means departures in the dark, returns determined by the catch, and the women at the harbour ready to receive, sort and sell before the sun climbs high enough to compromise what has been pulled from the water. Malpe is one of the most active f
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