Flight Through Independence

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Anaya is not your usual 12-year-old. She’s read enough about India’s history to know every major event and every freedom fighter by name. But she still feels a gap, because reading about independence and feeling it are two different things. On Independence Day, she wonders, how can she truly understand the struggle, the fear, the hope, when she wasn’t there to see it? That’s when her Nanaji steps in, with a gentle but life-changing surprise. Suddenly, Anaya finds herself in the very India she’s only imagined, walking the streets, meeting the people, and witnessing the moments that shaped India’s freedom movement. This is her journey. And maybe, it will be yours too. So, tune in, and step back in time with Anaya, to live the history you’ve only heard about. Visit our website to know more: https://chimesradio.com

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Episodes

  1. EPISODE 1

    When the Past Called Her Name

    For 12-year-old Anaya, Independence Day is just another school event with speeches, songs, and laddoos she’s had a hundred times. She knows all about India’s history, but she’s never truly felt its spirit. That’s when her Nanaji comes up with a plan and gift her something that will change everything. One tug on the string, and Anaya finds herself swept into a journey she never imagined, back to the India she thought she could only read about. Tune in now and take flight with Anaya, the past is waiting. Visit our website to know more: https://chimesradio.com

    4 min

  2. EPISODE 2 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    From Trade to Trouble

    Anaya’s first stop in the past lands her on a rooftop in Surat, but not the Surat she knows. This is the 1600s, where markets smell of spices, camels walk the streets, and the British are just polite traders in the East India Company. Or at least, that’s how they look. With her new friend Rafi, Anaya sees the Company’s first forts rise, sepoys being hired, and the slow shift from merchants to rulers. From Madras to Bombay to Calcutta, the game is changing, and so is India’s future. Join Anaya as she watches the first stones of the East India Company being laid. Visit our website to know more: https://chimesradio.com

    9 min

  3. EPISODE 3 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    The Battle That Was Bought

    Next, Anaya wakes up in the middle of a noisy street in Bengal, and nothing feels familiar - the clothes, the voices, and even the air smells different. Before she can figure out what’s going on, she’s caught between traders shouting prices, British soldiers marching past, and whispers about a place called Fort St. George. Everyone says the British are here for trade, but Anaya can see it’s turning into something more serious. This is where the story of their power really begins. Visit our website to know more: https://chimesradio.com

    8 min

  4. EPISODE 4 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    The Dying Fields of Bengal

    Anaya thought she’d seen enough of the British tricks to last a lifetime, from trading spices to quietly taking over kingdoms. But when the kite drops her in the heart of 18th-century Bengal, she realizes the real storm is just beginning. The air smells of gunpowder and damp earth, and whispers of war are everywhere. The Battle of Plassey is about to change everything, and Anaya is right in the middle of it. Visit our website to know more: https://chimesradio.com

    8 min

  5. EPISODE 5 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    The Fire That Wouldn’t Die

    The kite next carries Anaya to Bengal, where the year is 1770 and the air hangs heavy with grief. The British East India Company has tightened its grip — trade now feels like chains, and the land groans under their weight. Fields that once swayed with golden crops now lie cracked and empty, and famine walks the streets like a silent shadow. From the bustling port of Calcutta to the quiet villages beyond, Anaya sees how power is shifting, one unfair deal at a time. The fort walls rise higher, the Company’s coffers grow fatter, and the seeds of rebellion are quietly taking root. Visit our website to know more: https://chimesradio.com

    6 min

  6. EPISODE 6 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    The Blue Rebellion

    The kite drops Anaya into Bengal of 1859 but there are no cannons or battle cries here. Instead, the war is in the soil. Fields that once grew rice, now lie smothered under indigo plants, their blue beauty hiding a bitter truth. Farmers are forced to grow a crop that poisons their land, starves their families, and fills the coffers of distant masters. With no weapons but their voices, they rise in the Neel Bidroho, the Indigo Revolt, standing shoulder to shoulder, daring to say “No” to an empire. But history doesn’t rest. In a blink, Anaya finds herself in Calcutta, 1905, where a new wound has opened. Bengal has been split in two under the British “divide and rule” policy. Yet here too, the answer is unity. The Swadeshi Movement surges through the streets: boycotts, bonfires of foreign cloth, the hum of charkhas spinning khadi. This time, the fight is fought with thread, fire, and the refusal to be divided. Visit our website to know more: https://chimesradio.com

    7 min

  7. EPISODE 7 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    The Day the Garden Bled

    The chants of “Vande Mataram” fade and Anaya next finds herself in Amritsar of 1919, where the air is heavy with fear. The Rowlatt Act has just been passed, a law so cruel that speaking out can land you in jail without trial. But the people are not silent. They march, they gather, they believe. And on April 13th, in a walled garden called Jallianwala Bagh, thousands come together, to celebrate the festival of Baisakhi and to protest silently with hope. What happens next will stain the soil forever. British soldiers block the only exit. General Dyer gives a single, cold command, and for ten minutes, bullets pour into an unarmed crowd. There is no escape. Mothers, children, elders - lives stolen in the blink of an eye. The garden bleeds, but in that blood, something unshakable is born: a roar that the British can never silence. Visit our website to know more: https://chimesradio.com

    7 min

  8. EPISODE 8 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Salt in the Hands, Fire in the Heart

    From the blood-stained memories of Amritsar, the kite carries Anaya to a quiet stretch of India’s coastline in 1930, where the air is sharp with salt. Here, she meets men and women in white khadi, walking with steady steps behind a man she instantly knows: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. What begins as a simple march for salt becomes something far greater, a defiance against an empire’s grip on even life’s most basic needs. Anaya walks beside them, hearing of injustice old and new, learning that freedom isn’t always won with weapons, sometimes, it’s built grain by grain, step by step. Visit our website to know more: https://chimesradio.com

    8 min

  9. EPISODE 9 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Quit India - By Will or Fire

    From the salty winds of Dandi, to the roaring streets of Bombay, Anaya is swept into a moment that pulses with urgency, August 8th, 1942. Gandhi ji’s voice thunders through the air: “Do or die.” The Quit India Movement has begun, and the British are moving fast to crush it. In the chaos, Anaya learns how war far away has Britishers dragged India deeper into the chains and how two very different leaders are fighting to break them. On one path, Mahatma Gandhi, holding fast to his principles of non-violence. While on the other is Subhas Chandra Bose, rallying the Indian National Army with fire and steel. Visit our website to know more: https://chimesradio.com

    6 min

  10. EPISODE 10 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    The Midnight Surprise

    It’s Independence Day eve, the night before freedom, August 14th, 1947. While Delhi glitters in tricolour lights, Lahore waits in silence, heavy with loss. Anaya’s kite takes her from the chaos of partition trains to the hushed halls of Parliament, where Jawaharlal Nehru will soon speak the words the world has been waiting to hear. But this midnight is bittersweet. For every cheer, there’s a tear. Gandhi ji chooses peace over celebration, trying to heal a country breaking apart even as it is born. And in the midst of history’s grandest moment, Anaya comes face to face with someone she never thought she’d meet. From the stroke of midnight to the first light of freedom, Anaya witnesses the birth of a nation. Visit our website to know more: https://chimesradio.com

    8 min

  11. 10 AUG

    Introduction

    Anaya is not your usual 12-year-old. She’s read enough about India’s history to know every major event and every freedom fighter by name. But she still feels a gap, because reading about independence and feeling it are two different things. On Independence Day, she wonders, how can she truly understand the struggle, the fear, the hope, when she wasn’t there to see it? That’s when her Nanaji steps in, with a gentle but life-changing surprise. Suddenly, Anaya finds herself in the very India she’s only imagined, walking the streets, meeting the people, and witnessing the moments that shaped India’s freedom movement. This is her journey. And maybe, it will be yours too. So, tune in, and step back in time with Anaya, to live the history you’ve only heard about. Visit our website to know more: https://chimesradio.com

    2 min

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Anaya is not your usual 12-year-old. She’s read enough about India’s history to know every major event and every freedom fighter by name. But she still feels a gap, because reading about independence and feeling it are two different things. On Independence Day, she wonders, how can she truly understand the struggle, the fear, the hope, when she wasn’t there to see it? That’s when her Nanaji steps in, with a gentle but life-changing surprise. Suddenly, Anaya finds herself in the very India she’s only imagined, walking the streets, meeting the people, and witnessing the moments that shaped India’s freedom movement. This is her journey. And maybe, it will be yours too. So, tune in, and step back in time with Anaya, to live the history you’ve only heard about. Visit our website to know more: https://chimesradio.com

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