Historychatter Podcast

India’s atomic energy research took a new turn by the 1960s. On the one hand, the atomic scientists had to seek out a new challenge as the objective of nuclear power production was within reach. They ...

2 Apr 202338min

Atomic energy research in India made only modest progress in the early years. The cult of secrecy around it often provoked criticism. Indian atomic scientists were still years away from building a nuc...

19 Mar 202332min

Indian scientists and politicians carried out vigorous discussions on how to organize advanced scientific research on an industrial scale in India as a means of development between 1938 and 1948. This...

12 Mar 202347min

Science and technology were considered as the face of modernity in independent India. A mastery and application of technology on an industrial scale was perceived as the only means of delivering devel...

5 Mar 202328min

Atomic energy research in India started well before independence, but since independence, it has assumed an uncontested priority above all other branches of science and technology. Jawaharlal Nehru, t...

28 Feb 20232min

In the tenth and final episode of the series Bombay Born, I talk to Amrit Gangar, who has researching and writing on films and Bombay for over forty years now. A scholar, curator, archivist and the qu...

11 Sep 20221h 7min

The Bombay Chronicle emerged as the voice of Bombay by the early twentieth century. Between the 1910s and 1950s, but especially since the 1920s, it reflected the diverse interests of Bombay and yet al...

15 Aug 202228min

Bombay was transformed from a prosperous port city to a major industrial metropolis largely through the expansion of the cotton textile industry. The growing mill industry called for labor. The influx...

9 Aug 202221min