S2E28: The All-Women Hospitals During World War I
The UN has decided to celebrate February 11 as the International Day of Women and Girls In Science. In that context, this episode of history chatter recalls the pioneering role some women doctors had ...
6 Helmi 202218min
S2E27: Poor Diet To National Dish: Changing fortunes of Fish and Chips in Britain
Fish and chips would be usually described as the staple food of the labouring poor in the nineteenth century. Writers such as Dickens and contemporary newspapers and commentators connected it with pov...
30 Tammi 202231min
S2E26: Netaji Bose at the India Gate
The government of India has resolved to erect a statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose near the India Gate on 23 January this year. This is the 125th birth anniversary year of Netaji Bose. On this occas...
22 Tammi 202233min
S2E25: From Khichdi to Kedgeree
How food travels across time and place is a reflection of the relation of peoples and cultures over time. Khichdi had long been around in the subcontinent. But the attitude of foreigners to it kept ch...
16 Tammi 202217min
S2E24: When Bombay Ballooned
The city of Bombay really took off during the 1850s. Until then, it had been growing steadily as a major port city, but the 1850s saw the arrival of the modem machines and the textile mills. This is a...
9 Tammi 202216min
S2E23: Chembur Forest and Horse Trams of Mumbai
Mumbai or Bombay looked vastly different a hundred years ago. Salim Ali, the legendary bird watcher and ornithologist, grew up in the first decades of twentieth-century in south Bombay. He has left a ...
2 Tammi 202217min
S2E22: Christmas: Old and New
Did you know that Christmas celebrations did not begin until the fourth century AD? Or that St. Francis or Franciscans were not the first to make the crib popular? Or that the Carols were originally a...
24 Joulu 202141min
S2E21: How Rolls Met Royce
One was a thoroughbred patrician with an obsession with motor racing, while the other rose from a hardy farmer stock to become a self-taught mechanic and manufacturer of breakthrough technology cars a...
19 Joulu 20219min
