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Imperial Receipts with Dr Shashi Tharoor is a 10-episode series that revisits the history and legacy of colonial rule. The ten episodes unpack how the British reshaped India’s economy, politics, and society, not through governance, but through extraction and exploitation. Each episode explores a different facet of this history, tracing how colonial rule left marks that remain visible even today.
Mainstream philosophy across the world is exclusively Eurocentric. But it was the land of Ancient India, where the human mind first experienced the genesis of reasoning and logic. It’s time to include Indian philosophies into the canon of mainstream philosophies. About the Speaker: Dr. Rajeev Kurapati MD, MBA, is a medical doctor, author and philosopher based in the USA. He also holds an MA in Sanskrit and speaks widely on Indian philosophies.
Shefali Vaidya narrates the story of horrors that Goa and the Hindus of Goa had to go through under Portuguese rule, the deceitful conversions to Christianity, the Court of Inquisition initiated by Francis Xavier, and the plight of Hindu residents of Goa to safer lands.
A hard hitting controversial documentary exploring the events that lead to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 in Amritsar and the subsequent effect on the country. The single most bloody event defining the British Raj, in which hundreds of innocent unarmed men, women and children were mowed down within ten minutes. Following closely after the massacre was the dehumanising curfew, crawling and flogging orders
Prof. Vasant Shinde is internationally renowned archaeologist and former Vice-Chancellor of the Deccan College, Pune. Prof. Shinde has been a pioneer in archaeological research for almost 40 years, specialising in the Protohistory of South Asia as well as Field Archaeology.
Dr. Niraj Rai is a senior scientist at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow. He did his PhD from Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad.
Hitler, a politician, a historical figure known for his diabolical character. He used a symbol for his political and racial ideology, under the symbol he did all the wrongdoings. The world today calls that symbol "Swastika", an Indian name to a symbol used by Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains for ages. But was it a Swastika? or Something else?
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