The Y in History

By Ajay Kaul

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Analyzing events in history to understand why they happened. The factors that led to various events at different times in history. The show picks certain eras like post-World War II and tries to connect events that happened across the globe around that time.

Episode Date
Episode 107: Globalization - a history
May 10, 2025
Episode 106: 1914 - the Panama Canal
Apr 26, 2025
Episode 105: 2023 - the Israel Gaza War
Apr 12, 2025
Episode 104: 2023 - the HAMAS Oct 7 Attack
Mar 29, 2025
Episode 103: Espionage - the Moles
Mar 15, 2025
Episode 102: 1948 - the Marshall Plan
Mar 01, 2025
Episode 101: US Democracy and Oligarchy
Feb 15, 2025
Episode 100: Nuclear disaster - near misses
Feb 01, 2025
Episode 99: US Healthcare - a history
Jan 18, 2025
Episode 98: US Presidential Elections (1936 - 1996)
Jan 04, 2025
Episode 97: Bizarre Events from History
Dec 07, 2024
Episode 96: US Presidential Elections (1872 - 1932)
Nov 23, 2024
Episode 95: US Presidential Elections (1789 - 1868)
Nov 09, 2024
Episode 94: Vietnam War - the battles, bombings, accords and conclusion
Oct 26, 2024
Episode 93: Vietnam War - the origins and early days
Oct 12, 2024
Episode 92: Covert Ops - Hitler, CIA and Civil War
Sep 28, 2024
Episode 91: the history of Cinema
Sep 14, 2024
Episode 90: the physics of Dictatorships
Aug 31, 2024
Episode 89: Singapore - the Economic miracle
Aug 17, 2024
Episode 88: 1975 - Emergency in India
Aug 03, 2024
Episode 87: Explorers and Cosmonauts
Jul 20, 2024
Episode 86: Great Political Upsets
Jul 06, 2024
Episode 85: A history of Medicine
Jun 22, 2024
Episode 84: The Children of Dictators
Jun 08, 2024
Episode 83: A history of Tibet
May 25, 2024
Episode 82: Corporate Cheating - Boeing, VW and Wells Fargo
May 11, 2024
Episode 81: Putin and Xi - the powerful Authoritarians
Apr 27, 2024
Episode 80: Cricket - 1950s through 1980s
Apr 13, 2024
Episode 79: Cricket - early times to 1950s
Mar 30, 2024
Episode 78: 20th Century Political Assassinations
Mar 16, 2024
Episode 77: Silicon Valley
Mar 02, 2024
Episode 76: Financial Coups - Haiti, FDR and Guatemala
Feb 17, 2024
Episode 75: Patterns in History
Feb 03, 2024
Episode 74: 2016 - the Panama Papers
Jan 20, 2024
Episode 73: Artificial Intelligence - a history
Jan 06, 2024
Episode 72: The Spice Trade
Dec 09, 2023
Episode 71: Immigration across the globe
Nov 25, 2023
Episode 70: The Middle East Peace Accords
Nov 11, 2023
Episode 69: 1918 - World War I - key battles, the impact and conclusion
Oct 28, 2023
Episode 68: 1914 - World War I - the origins and early days
Oct 14, 2023
Episode 67: Cold War Era-Eastern Europe Uprisings
Sep 30, 2023
Episode 66: Hyperinflation - the worst cases in history
Sep 16, 2023
Episode 65: Nearshoring and China+1
Sep 02, 2023
Episode 64: Modern Engineering Marvels
Aug 19, 2023
Episode 63: 1980 - Iran - Iraq War
Aug 05, 2023
Episode 62: US Political Scandals
Jul 22, 2023
Episode 61: China's Territorial Disputes
Jul 08, 2023
Episode 60: Space Exploration - a history
Jun 24, 2023
Episode 59: A Multipolar World
Jun 10, 2023
Episode 58: Europe-a continent of wars
May 27, 2023
Episode 57: Most Impactful Inventions
May 13, 2023
Episode 56: Iran, North Korea, Pakistan and Iraq - the race to Nuclear weapons
Apr 29, 2023
Episode 55: The British East India Company
Apr 15, 2023
Episode 54: Financial Scandals and Cons
Apr 01, 2023
Episode 53: Great Environmental Disasters
Mar 18, 2023
Episode 52: 1967 - The Arab-Israeli Six Day War
Mar 04, 2023
Episode 51: The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Feb 18, 2023
Episode 50: 2021 - US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Feb 04, 2023
Episode 49: 2022 - The Russia-Ukraine War
Jan 21, 2023
Episode 48: Great Spy Operations (Mossad, CIA, KGB)
Jan 07, 2023
Episode 47: Coffee and Tea - the global beverages
Dec 10, 2022
Episode 46: Taiwan - ROC vs PRC
Nov 12, 2022
Episode 45: 1962 - the India-China War
Oct 29, 2022
Episode 44: 1962 - the Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct 15, 2022
Episode 43: History of Democracy
Oct 01, 2022
Episode 42: History of Money
Sep 17, 2022
Episode 41: 1760 - the Industrial Revolution
Sep 03, 2022
Episode 40: 1978 China - the emergence of an Economic Power
Aug 20, 2022
Episode 39: Cold War Spies and Espionage - I
Aug 06, 2022
Episode 38: America's Political Parties
Jul 23, 2022
Episode 37: 1989 The Internet - from concept to global adoption
Jul 09, 2022
Episode 36: The United Kingdom, Great Britain and England
Jun 25, 2022
Episode 35: Economic Crises in modern times
Jun 11, 2022
Episode 34: 2021-The Global Supply Chain Crisis
May 28, 2022
Episode 33: Women's Rights - Obstacles, Wins and Challenges
May 14, 2022
Episode 32: 1991 Soviet Union - the political and economic collapse
Apr 30, 2022
Episode 31: 1958 Pakistan - the military as the government
Apr 16, 2022
Episode 30: The Geneva Protocol - the convention and the violations
Apr 02, 2022
Episode 29: Yugoslavia and Tito's defiance against the Soviet Union
Mar 19, 2022
Episode 28: Economic Sanctions-the history and effectiveness
Mar 05, 2022
Episode 27: 2016 Brexit - the politics, the economics and the physics
Feb 19, 2022
Episode 26: 1948 Balochistan - the Khan, the British and Pakistan
Feb 05, 2022
Episode 25: 1947 Kashmir - India, Pakistan and the UN
Jan 22, 2022
Episode 24: Ukraine and Putin's paranoia with NATO
Jan 08, 2022
Episode 23: Journey of Restaurants and Food
Dec 11, 2021
Episode 22: 1944 - Bretton Woods and the new Financial system
Nov 13, 2021
Episode 21: 1945 - The New World Order post WWII
Oct 30, 2021
Episode 20: The Refugee Crisis
Oct 16, 2021
Episode 19: The Climate Change Crisis
Oct 02, 2021
Episode 18: 1945 - the race to the Atomic Bomb
Sep 18, 2021
Episode 17: 20th Century Famines
Sep 04, 2021
Episode 16: 1917 Russia - the Revolution and the Coup
Aug 21, 2021
Episode 15: Olympics - the history, politics and inspiration
Aug 07, 2021
Episode 14: Afghanistan - from independence to the Taliban
Jul 24, 2021
Episode 13: 20th Century Dictators
Jul 10, 2021
Episode 12: 1949 - CHINA - the end of a brief tryst with democracy
Jun 26, 2021
Episode 11: 1945 - WWII - Germany and Japan's struggle for oil
Jun 12, 2021
Episode 10: 1941 - Petroleum (1930s through 1941) - the era of discovery and the quest for access
May 29, 2021
Episode 9: 1859 - Petroleum through WWI
May 15, 2021
Episode 8: 1918 - The Spanish Flu and a history of Pandemics
May 01, 2021