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  • Where Are The Birds Gone? with Asad Rahmani

    September 21, 2026 · 54 min

    Common birds are no longer common. Rural landscapes now host fewer Black Drongos and Indian Rollers; Nightjars call less frequently from the edges of forests; Black-shouldered Kites perch less often on telegraph wires; Eagles are scarcer…

  • Part 2 | The Bomb, the Faith, and the Country That Disowned Abdus Salam

    September 7, 2026 · 23 min

    Can a man work at the very frontier of physics and still hold a deep religious faith — and did Abdus Salam ever feel the two were at war? Did the world's first Muslim science laureate help build Pakistan's atomic bomb? Behind the…

  • Part 1 | Abdus Salam: Nobel Laureate, Physicist and Heretic

    August 31, 2026 · 38 min

    What does a borrowed cow have to do with a Nobel Prize? And how did a committed atheist set a devout Muslim on the path to becoming one of the great physicists of the twentieth century? This is the story of Abdus Salam born in 1926 in…

  • The Mathematics and Loneliness of DD Kosambi w/Prof. Ram Ramaswamy

    August 10, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

    Did Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi solve the Riemann Hypothesis - one of mathematics's greatest puzzles? Was Kosambi, who wrote one of the most influential books on studying Indian history, ignored by both mathematicians and historians? Is he…

  • Part 3: How El Nino Choked Civilisations and Stirred Revolution

    July 27, 2026 · 15 min

    Could a warm patch of water in the Pacific have influenced both the French Revolution and some of India's deadliest famines? In this concluding episode of the series, Jacob and Sobhana trace the extraordinary historical reach of El Niño…

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  • Part 2 : El Niño: From Titanic to Monsoons—The Climate Story That Changed Everything

    July 20, 2026 · 16 min

    What do the Titanic and a pair of ship's cooks have to do with one of Earth's greatest climate mysteries? In this episode, two remarkable stories become the gateway to understanding El Niño—one suggesting how the climate phenomenon may…

  • Part 1: El Niño: How a Warm Patch of Pacific Water Came to Rule India’s Monsoon

    July 13, 2026 · 21 min

    How can a patch of warm water thousands of kilometres from India determine whether its farms flourish or fail? And how did a mathematician help uncover one of the greatest hidden connections in the planet’s weather? In the first episode…

  • India's Dinosaurs | Part 3: The day it all ended

    June 29, 2026 · 31 min

    What if we told you that one of the most extraordinary dinosaur fossils ever found was in India — a snake caught mid-strike, coiled around dinosaur eggs, frozen in time for 67 million years? In this series, The Rearview, we have travelled…

  • India's Dinosaurs | Part 2: The Coal That Found a Lost Continent

    June 22, 2026 · 31 min

    What does coal have to do with a lost supercontinent? And how did one tiny Punjabi town give India both its dinosaur hunters and one of the greatest actors in its cinema? In 1840s Bengal, the East India Company wasn't hunting prehistory…

  • The Story of India's dinosaurs | Part 1

    June 15, 2026 · 38 min

    What did the world's greatest anatomist mistake a dinosaur bone for? And how did the man who hunted India's most feared serial killers end up discovering Asia's first dinosaur fossils? The first episode of Rearview opens in a cold Oxford…

  • Visvesvaraya, Cauvery and Karnataka’s Water Legacy

    June 1, 2026 · 31 min

    When people speak of Sir M. Visvesvaraya, they usually remember him as one of India’s greatest engineers. As Diwan of Mysore in the early twentieth century, he championed ambitious infrastructure projects that he believed would modernise…

  • Forgotten Heroes | Part 3: Yellapragada Subbarow - The forgotten alchemist

    May 18, 2026 · 48 min

    In the annals of modern medicine, few scientists have saved as many lives while remaining as profoundly overlooked as Yellapragada Subbarow. Born in colonial India and later working in the United States, Subbarow’s research laid the…

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About the show

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.