Recital of the Marathi poem, Majhya Manaa Ban Dagad, written by Vinda Karandikar, a legendary poet from Maharashtra. Voice over by Swapneel Mohite, you can contact me at, Email ID: swapneel@swapneelmohite.com Mobile: +91 8879 23 43 03 Background music: Tough Times (By David Renda) https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/…

Recital of the Marathi poem, Prem Kar Bhilla Sarkha by Kusumagraj. Voice over by Swapneel Mohite, you can contact me at, Email ID: swapneel@swapneelmohite.com Mobile: +91 8879 23 43 03 Music: "Juan Sánchez - Tolworth" is under a Creative Commons (CC-BY 3.0) license Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://bit.ly/bkc-tolworth…

Tayaas Manav Mhanave Ka, by Savitribai Phule. VO by Swapneel Mohite, Email ID: swapneel@swapneelmohite.com | Mobile: +91 8879 23 43 03. Song: Very Young Old Man, by Juan SánchezAutor: Swapneel Mohite

Recital of the Marathi poem, Kanaa written by the legendary poet, Kusumagraj. Voice over by Swapneel Mohite, you can contact me at, Email ID: swapneel@swapneelmohite.com Mobile: +91 8879 23 43 03 Music provided by "Vivek Abhishek" https://www.youtube.com/user/VivEKhsihbA/videosAutor: Swapneel Mohite

Recital of the Hindi poem, Koshish Karne Walon Ki, written by the legendary poet, Sohan Lal Dwivedi. VO by Swapneel Mohite, you can contact me at, Email ID: swapneel@swapneelmohite.com Mobile: +91 8879 23 43 03 Song: "Lakey Inspired - Blue Boi [Lofi]" is under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/wnOoqdcf7zU…

Recital of the Hindi poem, Atmaparichay, written by the legendary poet, Harivansh Rai Bachchan. Voice over by Swapneel Mohite, you can contact me at, Email ID: swapneel@swapneelmohite.com Mobile: +91 8879 23 43 03 Music: "Keys of Moon - The Epic Hero" is under CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://bit.ly/b-epic-hero…

Recital of the Marathi poem, Sab Ghode Bara Takke, written by Vinda Karandikar, a legendary poet from Maharashtra. Voice over by Swapneel Mohite, you can contact me at, Email ID: swapneel@swapneelmohite.com Mobile: +91 8879 23 43 03 Background music: Tough Times (By David Renda) https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/…

Recital of the Marathi poem, Denaryane Det Jaave, written by Vinda Karandikar, a legendary poet from Maharashtra.. Voice over by Swapneel Mohite, you can contact me at, Email ID: swapneel@swapneelmohite.com Mobile: +91 8879 23 43 03 Music by: "Starry Dream" by David Fesliyan https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/starry-dream/2…

Recital of the Marathi poem, Salaam, written by Mangesh Padgaonkar, a legendary poet from Maharashtra. Voice over by Swapneel Mohite, you can contact me at, Email ID: swapneel@swapneelmohite.com Mobile: +91 8879 23 43 03 Background Music: "Sappheiros - Memories" is under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY). Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https…

Topping off the polarities list is a brief recollection of the discussion on the chasm between science and the humanities begun by CP Snow. Prof Raghavendra Gadagkar saw the Einstein Tagore exchanges as a metaphor for taking these further, making the observation that disciplines have become ever more esoteric and no more prerogatives remain with sc…

Looking outside of the sciences, outside of the east-west or science versus art dichotomies, Prof Amrita Shah, visiting faculty at the centre for contemporary studies at the Indian institute of science, writer and former journalist ,looks at the political undercurrents of Tagore’s multifaceted engagements with the public sphere, within India and ac…

It is a fact of history that while being an important contributor to the idea of wave –particle duality, Einstein found it hard to accept the formalism of the uncertainty principle which introduced the idea of probability into the system. As a historical aside, professor Vijay Chandru, adjunct visiting professor of interdisciplinary sciences in bio…

The legendary exchanges between Einstein and Tagore, part conversations organised by Einstein’s son in law, Dmitri Marianov and part through letters, were brought to life at the Bangalore International center. In addition to the transcripts and text, and tone and diction that performers evoked, the discussants identified several polarities, each th…

In about a month’s time, add a few days, the BJP will complete three years in office at the centre. Three years is long enough for hidden agenda to assume concrete form. In taking stock, former finance minister P Chidambaram lists the things that have gone awry for the people of this country. In a dispassionate tone – shorn of political rhetoric - …

In the last three months, many economists have spoken on India’s experiment with demonetisation. Listen to this comment by Dr. Muhammed Yunus, the Bangladeshi Nobel laureate who has worked for the longest period with the informal economy. This was during an interactive session at the Synergia Foundation recently. The full podcast of his session at …

This is an inaugural podcast of the Synergia Foundation and we present Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammed Yunus. Dr. Yunus spoke and interacted with an invited audience in Bangalore at the foundation office, and as one would expect, spoke about the Grameen Bank that he founded, and his lifetime work with micro credit. But there was one other i…

Harini Nagendra speaks to Sunoh on her latest book, Nature in the City, in which she traces the natural history of Bangalore and dispels many myths surrounding the name of Bengaluru.Autor: Sunoh Station

What’s happening in Kashmir? That’s the question everybody’s asking. Murtaza Shibli, a writer and journalist, has sent us this ground report on why violence and unrest in the valley, following the encounter killing of Burhan Muzzafar Wani, a 22-year-old militant commander with Hijbul Mujahideen, has not abated. In this uncluttered narrative, he exp…

We spoke to Albert Lichtblau at the oral history conference in Bangalore. He is from Vienna, Austria, and has followed the life of a working class Jewish family that fled to Kenya. He also shares with us an uplifting tale of a concentration camp survivor. Here he is in conversation with M K Shankar, Cofounder of Sunoh.…