We've brought you an encore presentation of "The Devil's Nightcap" with added commentary and an update on a recent discovery in the ongoing investigation into Shastri's death. 

In 1966, the second Prime Minister of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri, died under mysterious circumstances in Tashkent, Uzbekistan a day after signing the Tashkent Agreement (a peace treaty to end the Indo-Pakistan War). Family and followers believed he was poisoned. To this day, the Indian Government keeps Shastri's post-mortem results sealed and confidential to the public. Did he die of natural causes, or is a geopolitical conspiracy afoot?

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Episode Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tashkent_Files
• https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/the-man-who-accompanied-shastri-to-tashkent-debunks-the-tashkent-files-119051001592_1.html
• https://www.dnaindia.com/bollywood/photo-gallery-the-tashkent-files-here-s-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-mysterious-death-of-dr-lal-bahadur-shastri-2730995
• https://www.dailyo.in/politics/lal-bahadur-shastri-tashkent-kgb-russia-rti-congress-pmo-mea-tn-kaul/story/1/8393.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aconitum
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/aconitum
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13596-021-00565-8

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