Historychatter Podcast

Now that the Taliban has taken over Afghanistan, it is time to ask questions to why and how the American intervention proved such a total disaster. HistoryChatter addresses that question by revisiting...

23 Aug 202120min

Independence Day turns 75 on 15 August 2021. It has been so long that most Indians take the freedom, independence of Swaraj for granted. But how did those revolutionaries who knew they would perhaps n...

14 Aug 202132min

The quit India movement was the last great mass nationalist upsurge in India before partition and independence. As such, it offers an opportunity to take stock of what the nation looked like before th...

7 Aug 202153min

Will e-books or audiobooks soon overtake hardbound or paperback books in terms of sales and popularity? The first episode of season 2 of HistoryChatter answers this question. It offers a history of pa...

1 Aug 202134min

Past is often as diverse and flows in as many directions as the present.Yet, careful attention to the past also throws up new insights on the present and possibilities for the future.⏳ Time to explore...

30 Juli 20211min

Changing names sometimes causes major controversies, and sometimes it does not. HistoryChatter in this episode investigates the curious case of villages with embarrassing names. In rural India, mocker...

2 Dec 202031min

Roman emperor Nero’s name is often equated with ruthlessness and cruelty in popular memory. Most often, this image revolves around the assumption that he had been happily playing a stringed instrument...

26 Nov 202024min

HistoryChatter walks up to a review of the history of major Hill stations in India. Following the research of Prof. Queeni Pradhan as published in her 2017 book Empire in the Hills, the second part of...

18 Nov 202024min