Booksploring

Abhilash Gaur
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Booksploring digs out tidbits from books written long ago. It's not textbook history but interesting things you probably have not heard about

  1. 05/27/2022

    The plane that flew away without a pilot

    On the 16th of January, 1961, a plane belonging to the Lucknow Flying Club climbed into the air on its own from Safdarjung aerodrome. Find out more in this episode…

  2. 05/24/2022

    How scientists found monkeypox, and why it's not a big threat

    News of the monkeypox virus’s spread in Europe in 2022 has alarmed people everywhere, but it is not a new virus. It had lurked in the rainforests of central and western Africa for centuries before scientists identified it in 1958. And though it causes severe disease it never became an epidemic. Find out why in this episode. Also learn about the first confirmed case of monkeypox in a human, and the 2003 outbreak of the disease in America.

  3. 05/22/2022

    Did Nehru dislike Subhas Chandra Bose?

    There are some politicians today who question Nehru’s patriotism and insinuate that he slighted the memory of Subhas Chandra Bose. Had Nehru really disliked Bose, would he have paid such a moving tribute to him in his first speech from the Red Fort? Find out what he said in this short episode…Check out my latest episode!

  4. 05/22/2022

    The American nurse who became Maharani of Indore

    Yeshwant Rao Holkar, the young Maharaja of Indore, fell ill in Los Angeles sometime in 1938. Marguerite Lawler, the nurse who looked after him at Good Samaritan Hospital, stole his heart. A few months later he made her Maharani of Indore. Find out their story in this episode…Check out my latest episode!

  5. 05/20/2022

    Girmitiyas: India’s forgotten sugar slaves in Fiji

    The British empire was hungry for sugar, and its new colony in Fiji had the soil and climate for bumper sugarcane yields. All it wanted was cheap labour, and so the ‘girmitiya’ system of bonded labour was born. It was a brutal system that sold many thousands of poor Indian men and women into undeclared slavery between 1879 and 1916. This episode is based on a first-person account by one of them

  6. 04/30/2022

    Why rents were so high in Chandigarh in the 1950s

    By 1957, the government had allotted thousands of plots to individuals, but only a few hundred had been built. The resulting shortage of houses pushed up rents. But the plot owners had genuine reasons to delay construction. Find out in this episode…

  7. 04/29/2022

    What was Chandigarh like in 1957?

    It was a city of government employees, and a place where you saw far more men than women. But 6-year-old Chandigarh had one positive distinction -- the highest literacy rate in the country. Find out more in this episode...

  8. 04/28/2022

    Why Chandigarh’s private houses are built inside frames

    If you look carefully at a block of private houses in Chandigarh, you will notice that each house is built inside a box or frame. Adjacent houses can have very different designs but their frames are uniform. There’s a reason for this. Find out in this episode.

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Booksploring digs out tidbits from books written long ago. It's not textbook history but interesting things you probably have not heard about

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    Abhilash Gaur
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