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The Intersection

By: Padmaparna Ghosh, Samanth Subramanian
Narrated by: Padmaparna Ghosh
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  • The Intersection narrates stories that meld culture, science and history in India. Through interviews, anecdotes and original research, Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian bring alive the rich breadth of human imagination and knowledge, making for a riveting listening experience. The incessant punning - well, that's just a bonus.
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Episodes
  • How Metallurgy Is Helping Us Piece Together Our Past

    How Metallurgy Is Helping Us Piece Together Our Past

     The Intersection, Episode 30
    Jun 27 2019
    A few decades ago the curator of the Government Museum in Madras approached nuclear scientist Dr. Baldev Raj with a problem; bronze Chola idols that were stolen were being returned or retrieved but there was no way to identify if they were real. This posed a challenge not just to Dr. Raj but all other scientists in India: how to identify the origin of a historical artifact? How to tease out its ‘fingerprints’ and find out the era it belonged to? And can you use science to tell fake ones from real? Music by Chirs Zabriske and Josh Woodword
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    16 mins
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  • Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, Say Hello To The Doomsday Clock

    Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, Say Hello To The Doomsday Clock

     The Intersection, Episode 29
    Jun 27 2019
    How do you think the world will end? Nuclear war, zombie apocalypse or an alien invasion? While we may argue about the brutal method through which our race will perish, meet the 15 people whose job it is to debate the actual possibilities of total destruction of human kind, through a Doomsday Clock. This is an invention that measures symbolically how long our world will survive by taking into account various factors that threaten the world’s survival. On the latest episode, we tell you how very close we are to our own end. Tick-tock, tick-tock. Music by: Josh Woodward and Chris Zabriske
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    14 mins
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  • The Fault In Our Taj

    The Fault In Our Taj

     The Intersection, Episode 28
    Jun 27 2019
    It is said that the artists and craftsmen who built the Taj Mahal had their arms chopped off on the orders of Emperor Shah Jahan, so they could never build such a structure again. The Taj Mahal is known for its perfection, Rabindranath Tagore thought it was “a tear on the cheek of time” and for centuries the architecture of this monument has fascinated both experts and the lakhs of tourists who flock here every day. However Dilip Ahuja, a scientist, also made a startling observation — that the monument known around the world for its perfection, wasn’t actually perfect. Music: Josh Woodward and Chris Zabriske
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    15 mins
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