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Indicast #252: The solar eclipse saga
April 18, 2024

How does it feel to witness a solar eclipse? Aditya tells us his experience in this podcast where we dig into trivia and history of this beautiful astronomical phenomenon. Bangalore faces a water crisis. How can a country as big as India deal with water s

Indicast #251: India's Chess grandmasters rise
April 09, 2024

The Candidates Tournament is among the world’s most recognised Chess contests. This time round India has as many as five grandmasters competing for the top prize. That’s a big deal given that for around 30 years, it was Vishy Anand, the sole Indian grandm

Indicast #250: What social media does to our brains
April 07, 2024

Florida just passed a bill proposing to ban access to social media for kids under the age of 14. What does social media addiction do to our brains? We talk about the subject which is close to our hearts given that both of us have kids aged ten and five. T

Dennis Yi Tenen on his book Literary Theory of Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
March 27, 2024

In this podcast Prof Dennis Yi Tenen, a software engineer turned literary scholar, leans on history of computer programming to tell modern tales of Artificial Intelligence. How did robots learn to write so quickly? Is it a good thing? Do technologies like

Indicast #249: RIP Ameen Sayani
March 25, 2024

Its the end of an era. Ameen Sayani recently passed away. His voice lives on. In this podcast we talk a bit about how he started in the radio industry and made a mark for himself across four decades. And he is as humble as they come. Fali Nariman, a doye

Tom Wainwright on Facebook turning 20
March 02, 2024

In February this year Facebook celebrated its 20th birthday. Tom Wainwright, tech and media editor of The Economist has written a brilliant cover story on the company's evolution since it began in a dorm room at Harvard. With a market capitalisation of $1

Indicast #248: India's Supreme Court bans electoral bonds
February 17, 2024

India's Supreme Court vetoed a scheme that allowed folks to donate to political parties anonymously. Among the more popular vehicles was the electoral bond scheme introduced by the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2017. Whereas the BJP figured it might make the

David Bodanis on his book, “The Art of Fairness:The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean”
February 17, 2024

Do nice guys finish last? Not quite. David Bodanis brilliant book, The Art of Fairness:The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean is filled with anecdotes of leaders from various fields who may have been fair and firm to get the job done but never mea

Zeke Faux on his book, “Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall”
January 27, 2024

The cryptosphere is, well, cryptic. Even the best of the best find it hard to explain the whole thing without fumbling. Zeke Faux has managed to put it all together in his fascinating book, "Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall". Ze

Indicast #247: Deep fake is on steroids
January 20, 2024

Deep fake is a real and present threat to humanity. With India's general election round the corner, the government has urged both social media platforms and netizens to beware of such videos. The Ram Mandir is slated to open in January. And in sports, Ind