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The Rearview

The Hindu

Jacob Koshy and Sobhana K Nair guide you on a scenic route through the history of science. Filled with fascinating anecdotes, deep archival dives, and a closer look at the quirky minds behind groundbreaking ideas.

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52 episodes

  1. The Nitrogen Bomb: How earth's most abundant gas is food and poison 43:39
  2. The Shy Nobel Laureate: Har Gobind Khorana and 'Total Synthesis' 34:51
  3. Where Have The Birds Gone? with Asad Rahmani 53:50
  4. Part 2 | The Bomb, the Faith, and the Country That Disowned Abdus Salam 23:21
  5. Part 1 | Abdus Salam: Nobel Laureate, Physicist and Heretic 37:53
  6. The Mathematics and Loneliness of DD Kosambi w/Prof. Ram Ramaswamy 1:00:22
  7. Part 3: How El Nino Choked Civilisations and Stirred Revolution 14:48
  8. Part 2 : El Niño: From Titanic to Monsoons—The Climate Story That Changed Everything 16:03
  9. Part 1: El Niño: How a Warm Patch of Pacific Water Came to Rule India’s Monsoon 20:56
  10. India's Dinosaurs | Part 3: The day it all ended 31:26
  11. India's Dinosaurs | Part 2: The Coal That Found a Lost Continent 30:44
  12. The Story of India's dinosaurs | Part 1 37:32
  13. Visvesvaraya, Cauvery and Karnataka’s Water Legacy 31:21
  14. Forgotten Heroes | Part 3: Yellapragada Subbarow - The forgotten alchemist 48:12
  15. Forgotten Heroes | Part 2: How India gave the world the first blood pressure drug 38:41
  16. Forgotten Heroes | Part 1: How two Indian mathematicians were denied credit for inventing fingerprinting 35:32
  17. India's First Computers | Part 3: How software won 27:02
  18. India’s First Computers | Part 2: TIFRAC & IBM’s Double Game 37:15
  19. India’s First Computers | Part 1: A Historian’s Tragedy 34:34
  20. PC Mahalanobis: India’s First Data Cruncher 40:48
  21. India's First 'Lady Doctors' 37:24
  22. The Vaccine Man: The Ukrainian who helped save India from cholera and plague 50:28
  23. TAILSPIN: How the 1974 'peaceful test' retarded nuclear power with Jairam Ramesh | Part 2 46:45
  24. SLOW BURN: India’s Chequered Nuclear Past with Jairam Ramesh | Part 1 41:03
  25. India’s First Bio-Startup: The Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose Botanic Garden 32:18
  26. Death of the Indian Science Congress 39:30
  27. India's Tryst with Cloud Seeding 28:08
  28. Half Cooked: How solar cookers became a tech disaster in free India 26:13
  29. Proof: How Ramanujan Tamed Maths’ Toughest Monster 46:11
  30. RAMAN VS SAHA: Indian Science's First 'Clash of Civilisations' 57:22
  31. How Nuclear Fission Almost Blew Kerala Away from India 30:02
  32. Sawai Jai Singh II - The Royal who was an Astronomy Geek 46:48
  33. Unravelling Malaria's Deadly Secret 48:16
  34. Measuring India | Part 2: George Everest and Measuring the World’s Highest Peak 46:20
  35. Measuring India | Part 1: William Lambton and the Trigonometrical Survey 39:37
  36. Jayant Narlikar Vs Big Bang 53:01
  37. India’s First Generation of Women Scientists 49:16
  38. The Great Himalayan ‘Golmaal’ 35:01
  39. The Tragedy of Dr Subhash Mukherjee 40:24
  40. Father of India’s Nuclear Program - Part 2 38:43
  41. Father of India’s Nuclear Program - Part 1 33:29
  42. Salim Ali: The Birdman of India 44:41
  43. J. B. S. Haldane: The Eternal Rebel - Part 2 47:32
  44. J. B. S. Haldane: The Eternal Rebel - Part 1 54:41
  45. Vikram Sarabhai: India’s Rocket Man 53:15
  46. Copouts at Climate Talks 37:58
  47. Indian Standard Time 48:29
  48. The Return of the Cheetah 36:12
  49. The Life and Times of Jagadis Chandra Bose 48:31
  50. Forecasting the monsoons 47:37