In the Nineties, match fees were fatter and the stakes higher, yet the temptations were darker. The match-fixing scandal exposed an underbelly of bookies, betting and sleaze. At the turn of the century, as heads rolled and reputations were sullied, the game weathered its darkest phase. In the decade of redemption that followed, captains and coaches employed analytics to decide match strategies. In Ganguly, India found an aggressive skipper who walked his talk. No one embodied leadership and team spirit like Dhoni, inspiring international espect for Team India that was buoyed by the dramatic 2011 World Cup victory. From the colourful radio commentaries that brought the game alive in the early days of Test Cricket to the elaborate theatrics of T20 in modern television broadcasting, cricket has travelled the distance. As it takes to the global stage at the 2028 Summer Olympics for the first time since 1900, we can say that the sport has truly come of age. Reliving these defining moments, Raghu and Giri hang up their gloves in this series finale of Well Caught. Thank you for listening. Credits: Akshay Ramuhalli, Bijoy Venugopal, Bruce Lee Mani, Narayan Krishnaswamy, Prashant Vasudevan, Seema Seth, Shraddha Gautam, Supriya Joshi and Velu Shankar Acknowledgements and Resources: YouTube: Zee TV Closedown (1997) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky5I81rYeVo Javed Miandad last ball sixer in sharjah cup final 1986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhYJqV-cbMI India Pakistan Cricket Classic SHARJAH PEPSI CUP 1996 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22QqFrlmkww Fmr cricket captain threatens to reveal match fixing names https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNy7IaJpwRo INDIA: CRICKET MATCH FIXING ALLEGATIONS: REPORT (V) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqMa1EIJwo4 Not Cricket ! - Match Fixing (Orig 2001) Pt1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVOmJVTeIEc Manoj Prabhakar presents a videotape on match-fixing in 2000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNYa2yuhNn8 deepanshu madan on match ka mujrim kon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu7YGK1a0bo Dadagiri ( Title treck ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjLJhCiDdvM Harbhajan Singh Rips Apart Australia | 15 Wickets in 1 Match | INDvAUS 2001 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_cfSOcOB8A Sourav Ganguly: The Courageous Captain | Ian Chappell, Sachin Tendulkar | Discovery Plus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4DY8iBQd5o Cricket Connected: Nasser Hussain on Sourav Ganguly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq3J-JEk9JA INDIA VS AUSTRALIA 2001 KOLKATA HIGHLIGHTS INDIA'S historic TEST MATCH WIN after followon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT2pMi3VhA8 1966 West Indies India Bombay (new footage) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWkSS2ZYcdE Books by Giri and Raghu: Mid-Wicket Tales — From Trumper to Tendulkar (Sage India, 2014) https://www.amazon.in/Mid-Wicket-Tales-Trumper-Tendulkar-Giridhar/dp/8132117387 From Mumbai to Durban: India’s Greatest Tests (Juggernaut, 2016) https://www.amazon.in/Mumbai-Durban-Indias-Greatest-Tests-ebook/dp/B0821B37QT

We journey to the ancient, timeless city of Varanasi, its ghats washed by the river Ganga, to find ourselves enmeshed in the warp and weft of Kabir’s verse. Kabir the weaver venerates the Almighty without question, but equally, he scorns the hollowness of rituals in society that clutter the path to this sacred union. His poetry is simple and accessible, yet pungent with wit and incisive with insight. And though provocative, it resounds with wisdom and truth of a kind that many of his contemporaries, even his detractors, dared not confront. Within this city of brick and stone, which also goes by Benares and Kashi, is ensconced a place of dreams, a utopia where the working class is free and spared from taxation, and where society is not riven by caste or stigma. Begumpura (literally, a city without sorrow) is a realm in the imagination of another of Varanasi’s most illustrious sons — Ravidas the leather-worker. A famous parable, which engendered the phrase after which this episode is titled, goes that the saint-poet equated the water in his humble tanner’s bowl (kathauti) to the sacred waters of the Ganga. Join Amit Basole for the second episode of this series, in which we explore how the histories of the values enshrined in our Constitution find resonance in the poetry of the Bhakti tradition. Credits: Akshay Ramuhalli, Atif Anwar, Bijoy Venugopal, Bruce Lee Mani, Narayan Krishnaswamy, Prashant Vasudevan, Riju R Krishna, Seema Seth, Shraddha Gautam, Supriya Joshi and Velu Shankar Acknowledgements: YouTube: Tera Mera Manwa | Kaluram Bamaniya | Kabir Project https://youtu.be/O8uJ9Lr6E5I?t=80 Walking with Sunrise in Varanasi (Binaural Ambience Sounds) 4K ASMR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3yM_P39kZE 'Koi Nahin Apna' by Vishnu Khuprao Deshmukh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I77FQIhXYtw Soulful Kabir Bhajan | Kalaam-e-Kabir with Shabnam Virmani | Jashn-e-Rekhta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpGOMJP2ges Chadariya Jhini re Jhini | Mukhtiayar Ali | Kabir Project https://youtu.be/7z9dM2E1Zl8?t=169 Kabir by Abida Parveen Popular Kabir Songs 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNEh6TbkSYo Bhala hua mori matki phuti | Farid Ayaz, Abu Muhammad Qawwal and Party https://youtu.be/7GL0SqhQB3w?t=341 Interview with Farid Ayaz | Kabir Project https://youtu.be/ZBiHzjj-yBE?t=369 Documentary: Hans Akela - Kumar Gandharva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv4ynjy8m04 Kabir: Then and Now - Lecture by Purushottam Agarwal (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkULhmshsNg&ab_channel=AshokDaRanadeMemorialTrust Ravidas Guru | Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Qawwal and Party https://youtu.be/0wyhcdxDrjI?t=71 Begumpura | Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC5uwIbvRLk Pravachan on Sant Ravidas (video) https://www.youtube.com/live/Jdo7yPGhWGw?feature=share YouTube Shorts https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SLfcjvdDuhw https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KFiA7Hnlp_Y Books: Akath Kahani Premi Ki by Purushottam Agarwal https://www.amazon.in/-/hi/Purushottam-Agarwal/dp/9388933265 Seeking Begumpura - The Social Vision of Anti-caste Intellectuals by Gail Omvedt Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/seeking-begumpura-the-social-vision-of-anticaste-intellectuals Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/11970804 Amazon: https://www.amazon.in/Seeking-Begumpura-Social-Anticaste-Intellectuals/dp/8189059459 Kabir legends and Ananta-das's Kabir Parachai by David Lorenzen (PDF) https://archive.org/details/kabirlegendsanan0000lore/page/n7/mode/2up Ramaini, Beejak of Kabir - Nawal Kishore Press (PDF) https://archive.org/details/RamainiBeejakEtcOfKabirDasWithBrajBhashaProseTranslationPg49To568NavalKishorePress/mode/2up Kashi ka itihas by Dr Motichandra (PDF) https://archive.org/details/kashikaitihasmotichanda_202003_131_b/mode/2up

“If I make a paper plane using a piece of paper, and then unfold it, you will be able to fold it exactly as I did because there is a memory of folding left in that piece of paper,” says Prof. Divakaran. But, complains Shraddha, this does not apply to Kanjeevaram sarees! Where she’s going, Shraddha won’t need a saree. A kimono will do just fine. Our friendly mathematics professor and his eager student journey to Japan in their quest to unravel numbers. Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, is more than an aesthetic pursuit of hobbyists. It packs in its intricate folds many fascinating clues to understanding prime numbers and other mathematical concepts. Previously in this series, we visited ancient Greece, India, Egypt, and Babylon. Queue our past episodes and catch up on the playlist. Credits: Akshay Ramuhalli, Bijoy Venugopal, Bruce Lee Mani, Narayan Krishnaswamy, Prashant Vasudevan, Seema Seth, Shraddha Gautam, Supriya Joshi and Velu Shankar Discover more: Article: Tree-maker algorithm: https://langorigami.com/article/treemaker/ Book: Thomas C Hull | Project Origami: Activities for Exploring Mathematics, Second Edition (AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series) https://www.amazon.in/Project-Origami-Activities-Exploring-Mathematics/dp/1466567910 Book: Thomas C Hull | Origametry: Mathematical Methods in Paper Folding https://www.amazon.in/Origametry-Mathematical-Methods-Paper-Folding/dp/1108478727 Article: Miura Folding - Applying Origami to Space Explorations https://www.ijpam.eu/contents/2012-79-2/8/8.pdf YouTube video: DW News | The girl that became Hiroshima's icon for world peace - Sadako Sasaki and the 1000 paper cranes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzIB4LkVtUE YouTube video: The Smithsonian Channel | Language without Numbers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDM8G5tuHF8 Article: Recursion And Human Thought - Why The Pirahã Don't Have Numbers | A Talk With Daniel L. Everett | The Edge https://www.edge.org/conversation/daniel_l_everett-recursion-and-human-thought Website | Mathigon.org | Mathematical Origami https://mathigon.org/origami

Ep 1 - Separate Gates, Separate Dressing Rooms It’s a beautiful day for cricket. The turf is green. The radio is crackling. The scoreboard is ticking. The crowd is cheering. And the sun is beginning to set on the British Empire. We travel in time to an age when caste and class divide the pavilion. On and off the field, cricket reflects the discrimination that prevails in colonial societies. Players are segregated, teams assigned ethnic names, and coloured players docked their pay for using gates meant for white Englishmen. Yet, it is this golden age that gives us greats like Ranjitsinhji and Duleepsinhji, and later Griffith and Sobers. Many new flags flutter in the winds of change as the colonies assert their independence. A game designed to cement the British Commonwealth takes on a life of its own and engenders a new world order. Credits: Akshay Ramuhalli, Bijoy Venugopal, Bruce Lee Mani, Narayan Krishnaswamy, Prashant Vasudevan, Seema Seth, Shraddha Gautam, Supriya Joshi and Velu Shankar Explore further: Books: Mid-Wicket Tales — From Trumper to Tendulkar (Sage India, 2014) https://a.co/d/5HAhfbq From Mumbai to Durban: India’s Greatest Tests (Juggernaut, 2016) https://amzn.eu/d/8aOZa3F YouTube: Cricket Giants Of 1890s (0) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0KqQiurckQ Rare Footage of English and Australian Cricket Teams (1905) | Sporting History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChrFcjLJymU !972: Gavaskar, Venkat, Solkar visit Ranjitsingh's home in Nawanagar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu3wIJkz5lg Calypso Summer 1960/61 - Part 3 ABC Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFitqoB2B08 Shehnai Recital of Ustad Bismillah Khan | Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JeMR0RAHZg All India Radio Signature tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuS-UiaKiVk England & Australia 1948 | The Lord's Ashes Test | Classic Cricket Films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-xXMHXUMZg Maryan - Official Teaser 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V8iZBq0JPo

Ed Sheeran would have been very much at home among the ancient Greeks. Because they, too, were in love with the shape of…everything, actually. Shape. And area and volume. And angles. The ancient Greeks were on a quest for precise measurement and perfect shapes. If their architecture is anything to go by, they knew a thing or three about proportion. Using simple tools they measured to precision and constructed to perfection. What’s this got to do with math? For the Greeks, numbers were not abstract entities; they were tied to the measurement of geometric properties. If you could draw it, it existed. Probably why, as we discovered in Ep 2, it never occurred to them to think of zero. Journey back to the age of Pythagoras with Divakaran and Shraddha in this exciting episode. And tell us something: three episodes down, has Shraddha gotten better at math? Credits: Akshay Ramuhalli, Bijoy Venugopal, Bruce Lee Mani, Narayan Krishnaswamy, Prashant Vasudevan, Shraddha Gautam, Supriya Joshi and Velu Shankar

What is the mood in the streets of India on August 14, 1947? If you expected cheering crowds and processions of jubilation on the eve of Independence, here’s the sobering truth: not everyone is celebrating. For some princely states, accession to the Indian Union is not a natural choice. Punjab, Sind and Bengal, cloven by Partition, witness scenes of horrific violence and the displacement of millions. The birth of our nation, as the facts reveal, is not without its share of labour pangs. In the season finale of The India Project with Josy Joseph, we observe the awakening of India as an unstoppable idea whose time has come. With memorable sound-bites from the leaders of a newly free nation, we end Season 1 on a note of nostalgic introspection. Thank you for joining us on the journey so far. Stay tuned for Season 2 of The India Project. Acknowledgements: Thanks to Confluence Media for the letters in this episode: Letter from CP Ramaswami Iyer replying to Indore’s invitation to be the Prime minister performed by Narayan Krishnaswamy Letter from Mir Osman Ali, Nizam of Hyderabad, performed by Ranvijay Pratap Singh Letter from Hamidullah Khan, Nawab of Bhopal, to Viceroy Lord Mountbatten, performed by Kafeel Jafri Credits: Akshay Ramuhalli, Bijoy Venugopal, Bruce Lee Mani, Narayan Krishnaswamy, Prashant Vasudevan, Shraddha Gautam, Supriya Joshi and Velu Shankar Audio excerpts: YouTube | MyGov India: Sucheta Kripalani, Indian freedom fighter and later first woman chief minister of an Indian state, leads the singing of Saare Jahan Se Achcha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLTLgWzpxOY&t=25s YouTube | Prasar Bharati Archives: First President of India Dr Rajendra Prasad's Constituent Assembly speech on Aug 14, 1947 https://youtu.be/owDZcbIuZ1A YouTube | Akashvani AIR: Bande Mataram :The Song that Became a Mantra https://youtu.be/uPtXdJOWUsQ?t=131 YouTube | Prasar Bharati Archives: 1947 - First House Adjournment by Dr. Rajendra Prasad in Constituent Assembly https://youtu.be/65YKKEXOZYI YouTube | Prasar Bharati Archives: The Moment of Freedom at midnight on August 15, 1947 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjIpHDR2CFc YouTube | Prasar Bharati Archives: 1947 - Hansa Mehta's Constituent Assembly Speech on August 15, 1947 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFC6_5yqM-U YouTube | Prasar Bharati Archives: 1947 - Jawaharlal Nehru takes oath as Prime Minister of India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF-2S6Q6Dxk YouTube | Prasar Bharati Archives: 1947 - Lord Mountbatten takes oath as Governor General of India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o_3_5wE0NE YouTube | Films Division: India Wins Freedom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vepQwxc0ekk YouTube | PIB India: Mahatma Gandhi’s Discourse on Ahimsa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvEixJd2CPY YouTube | Prasar Bharati Archives: 1947 - Dr. Rajendra Prasad's Constituent Assembly Speech | Hindi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z-nbysVUJk YouTube | MyGov India: President Dr Rajendra Prasad administers the pledge to members of the Constituent Assembly, August 15, 1947 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juEhZGccukg

Remember that dreaded figure your teacher scrawled on the margin of your math test paper? It’s the hero of this episode. Our much-villainised zero has a fascinating history. The Babylonians, as we discovered in Episode 1, may have arrived at a placeholder for zero, but the actual symbol did not enter convention until the 7th century in the Indian subcontinent. It later became a foundational element of mathematical concepts during the Islamic Golden Age (the word algebra has Arabic roots). Later, it was adopted in Europe by Renaissance mathematicians. Long story short: Zero has come full circle. In this episode, Divakaran and Shraddha host you through the evolution of zero through the ages. Further reading: Book | Physics for Entertainment by Yakov Perelman Read online at OpenLibrary.org - https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8643229W/Physics_for_Entertainment Full text at Archive.org - https://archive.org/details/physicsforentert035428mbp Charles Seife: ZERO : THE BIOGRAPHY OF A DANGEROUS IDEA Book | Amazon India | https://www.amazon.in/Zero-Biography-Dangerous-Charles-Seife/dp/0285635948 YouTube | Full Audio Transcript: https://youtu.be/tgvd1zMtKt0 Credits: Akshay Ramuhalli, Bijoy Venugopal, Bruce Lee Mani, Narayan Krishnaswamy, Prashant Vasudevan, Shraddha Gautam, Supriya Joshi and Velu Shankar

Cohost Seetal joins expert Josy Joseph in conversation in this penultimate episode of The India Project. As they unravel the story so far, they bring on stage the key characters for a curtain call. What became of Travancore Diwan Sir C P ’s machinations in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on him? What were the moves being planned by the Nizam of Hyderabad? In the wake of the Japanese Army’s advance on the northeast, what were Governor Hydari’s options? As they tie up the loose ends, the clock races towards the final days preceding Independence. A nation awaits its tryst with destiny. Acknowledgements: Thanks to Confluence Media for the letters featured in this episode YouTube | The Quint: The Battle of Imphal: When World War II was fought in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH3kV5cOsSM Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer’s letter read by Narayan Krishnaswamy AI voice - Murf.ai Credits: Akshay Ramuhalli, Bijoy Venugopal, Bruce Lee Mani, Narayan Krishnaswamy, Prashant Vasudevan, Shraddha Gautam, Supriya Joshi and Velu Shankar

Babylon, as the story goes, is where applied mathematics took baby steps. “What, really?!” asks Shraddha. Remember the place value system that makes it easy to represent small and large numbers? That originated in Babylon, according to historical records that show that Babylonians had independently discovered the place value system as early as 2000 BCE to 1900 BCE. That’s more than a millennium before other civilisations. Another fun fact: The number 60 played a significant role in Babylonian mathematics, says Prof. Divakaran. To find out why (and more), listen to this episode. Further Reading: Ifrah, Georges: The Universal History of Numbers - from prehistory to the invention of the computer, published by John Wiley & Sons. PDF available at Internet Archive: https://ia600308.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUniversalHistoryOfNumbers/212027005-The-Universal-History-of-Numbers_text.pdf Where on earth is Babylon? Read this National Geographic Education article to know more: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/beautiful-babylon-jewel-ancient-world/#:~:text=The%20site%20of%20Babylon%20was,in%20what%20is%20now%20Iraq Credits: Akshay Ramuhalli, Bijoy Venugopal, Bruce Lee Mani, Narayan Krishnaswamy, Prashant Vasudevan, Shraddha Gautam, Supriya Joshi and Velu Shankar

In August 1947, as India took the final steps towards becoming an independent nation, numerous actors thronged the chessboard in the northeast of the country, contemplating their moves. Among them was the Governor of Assam, Sir Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari, who initiated talks with the respective princely states and ethnic dominions of the northeast, including the Naga Hills, Khasi Hills and Mizo Hills. Tracing various documents and correspondences, reporter and author Josy Joseph reconstructs the history of how the northeast states — present-day Tripura, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Manipur — were stitched into the fabric of the new nation. Listen to Ep 5 - The Northeast on The India Project with Josy Joseph Acknowledgements- Thanks to Confluence Media for the Letters in this episode. Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari Letter to Pt. Nehru performed by Ranvijay Pratap Singh Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech - Tryst with Destiny Tryst with Destiny | Jawaharlal Nehru https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrEkYscgbqE&t=58s Audios used from: https://ncaa.gov.in/repository/search/displaySearchRecordPreview/IGRMS-MINI_DV_1081-MDV/Nagaland-Tour-(Vol.-X) https://ncaa.gov.in/repository/search/displaySearchRecordPreview/CVI-SUR_R_4470-UMLB/Bamboo-Dance-of-Mizoram https://ncaa.gov.in/repository/search/displaySearchRecordPreview/CVI-SUR_R_1489-UMHB/Lifestyle-of-Khasi-Community-(Vol.-V) Tripura folk song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEVDCrEIRIk Credits: Akshay Ramuhalli, Beej, Bruce Lee Mani, Narayan Krishnaswamy, Prashant Vasudevan, Shraddha Gautam, Supriya Joshi and Velu Shankar