The Rearview

By The Hindu

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Episodes: 47

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Jacob Koshy and Sobhana K Nair guide you on a scenic route through the history of science. Filled with fascinating anecdotes, deep archival dives, and a closer look at the quirky minds behind groundbreaking ideas.

Episode Date
The Mathematics and Loneliness of DD Kosambi w/Prof. Ram Ramaswamy
Aug 10, 2026
Part 3: How El Nino Choked Civilisations and Stirred Revolution
Jul 27, 2026
Part 2 : El Niño: From Titanic to Monsoons—The Climate Story That Changed Everything
Jul 20, 2026
Part 1: El Niño: How a Warm Patch of Pacific Water Came to Rule India’s Monsoon
Jul 13, 2026
India's Dinosaurs | Part 3: The day it all ended
Jun 29, 2026
India's Dinosaurs | Part 2: The Coal That Found a Lost Continent
Jun 22, 2026
The Story of India's dinosaurs | Part 1
Jun 15, 2026
Visvesvaraya, Cauvery and Karnataka’s Water Legacy
Jun 01, 2026
Forgotten Heroes | Part 3: Yellapragada Subbarow - The forgotten alchemist
May 18, 2026
Forgotten Heroes | Part 2: How India gave the world the first blood pressure drug
May 04, 2026
Forgotten Heroes | Part 1: How two Indian mathematicians were denied credit for inventing fingerprinting
Apr 20, 2026
India's First Computers | Part 3: How software won
Apr 06, 2026
India’s First Computers | Part 2: TIFRAC & IBM’s Double Game
Mar 30, 2026
India’s First Computers | Part 1: A Historian’s Tragedy
Mar 23, 2026
PC Mahalanobis: India’s First Data Cruncher
Mar 11, 2026
India's First 'Lady Doctors'
Feb 23, 2026
The Vaccine Man: The Ukrainian who helped save India from cholera and plague
Feb 09, 2026
TAILSPIN: How the 1974 'peaceful test' retarded nuclear power with Jairam Ramesh | Part 2
Jan 26, 2026
SLOW BURN: India’s Chequered Nuclear Past with Jairam Ramesh | Part 1
Jan 12, 2026
India’s First Bio-Startup: The Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose Botanic Garden
Dec 01, 2025
Death of the Indian Science Congress 
Nov 17, 2025
India's Tryst with Cloud Seeding
Nov 05, 2025
Half Cooked: How solar cookers became a tech disaster in free India
Oct 21, 2025
Proof: How Ramanujan Tamed Maths’ Toughest Monster
Oct 06, 2025
RAMAN VS SAHA: Indian Science's First 'Clash of Civilisations'
Sep 22, 2025
How Nuclear Fission Almost Blew Kerala Away from India
Sep 08, 2025
Sawai Jai Singh II - The Royal who was an Astronomy Geek
Aug 25, 2025
Unravelling Malaria's Deadly Secret
Aug 11, 2025
Measuring India | Part 2: George Everest and Measuring the World’s Highest Peak
Jul 28, 2025
Measuring India | Part 1: William Lambton and the Trigonometrical Survey
Jul 14, 2025
Jayant Narlikar Vs Big Bang
Jun 02, 2025
India’s First Generation of Women Scientists
May 19, 2025
The Great Himalayan ‘Golmaal’
May 05, 2025
The Tragedy of Dr Subhash Mukherjee
Apr 21, 2025
Father of India’s Nuclear Program - Part 2
Apr 07, 2025
Father of India’s Nuclear Program - Part 1
Mar 24, 2025
Salim Ali: The Birdman of India
Mar 10, 2025
J. B. S. Haldane: The Eternal Rebel - Part 2
Jan 06, 2025
J. B. S. Haldane: The Eternal Rebel - Part 1
Dec 23, 2024
Vikram Sarabhai: India’s Rocket Man
Dec 09, 2024
Copouts at Climate Talks
Nov 25, 2024
Indian Standard Time
Nov 11, 2024
The Return of the Cheetah
Oct 28, 2024
The Life and Times of Jagadis Chandra Bose
Oct 14, 2024
Forecasting the monsoons
Sep 30, 2024
The Gender Question in Sport
Sep 16, 2024
Introducing: The Rearview
Sep 13, 2024