Past Imperfect
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Podcast: Shrimp in banana cake, saravle, macroli and Bombay Duck everywhere – Mumbai’s world of food
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Podcast: Why the ‘end of capitalism’ is being debated yet again
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Podcast: Women lead the charge in a mysterious photo album of the Civil Disobedience movement
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Podcast: South Asia’s five tectonic partitions
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Podcast: Why Ireland’s Great Famine matters
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Podcast: Indira Gandhi’s disastrous legacy that defined Indian democracy
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Podcast: The radical legacy of the 19th century ‘Young Bengal’ movement
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Podcast: In the history of modern Hindu identity, the failure and triumph of Hindutva
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Podcast: In Amrita Shah’s book about the voyages of one family, a tale of migrating Indians
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Podcast: In the life and times of Victor Sassoon, an uncanny resemblance to today’s world in flux
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Podcast: British imperialism, Bombay business – the India-Ireland connection through time
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Podcast: How can India fix its deep-seated economic and political problems?
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Podcast: Child widow to single mother, political icon – how Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay blazed a trail
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Podcast: How an Indian’s Swadeshi Steam knocked the wind out of a British shipping giant’s sails
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Podcast: What does history say about how Mumbai changed and stayed the same over the past 200 years?
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Podcast: The myths of Jawaharlal Nehru’s India
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Podcast: What does the rise and fall of the Swatantra Party mean in the era of Narendra Modi?
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Podcast: Why BR Ambedkar thought – and worried – deeply about democracy in India
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Podcast: Pre-Partition stories, filmi music made Radio Ceylon a household name in India and Pakistan
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Podcast: The bitter truth about the sugar industries of pre-modern India and their global legacy
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Podcast: Why engaging with the ideas of VD Savarkar is important to counter Hindutva
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Podcast: The indispensable royal women of the Sikh empire
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Podcast: From sea channels to gas-powered lights – 300 years of ambitious, unbuilt Mumbai projects
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Podcast: Why it is important to remember the Sassoons – Jewish-Iraqi refugees who made Mumbai home
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Podcast: Aliens, Lata Mangeshkar and other tales of India’s second Five-Year plan
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Podcast: What explains rising global authoritarianism? The history of constitutions has some answers
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IIT Kharagpur 2022 calendar on ancient India is an exercise in propaganda – not rigorous research
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Why an IIT Kharagpur calendar aiming to highlight traditional Indian knowledge has irked experts
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For many of the post-'92 generation, Yakub's hanging has prompted a look back at recent history