Pranay Lal returns to BIC Talks and regales host Pavan Srinath with numerous stories from India and the World’s deep past.

Did you know that the granite slab in your kitchen is cut from a billion-year-old rock? Or that the ancestors of Whales lived in Kutch and the Himalayas? Or that ostriches originated in India, and even lived alongside humans?

Pranay Lal is a biochemist and author of Indica, A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent.