<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/81/3b/34/snehagore/3000x3000_15349078.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /> On the occasion of world radio day, this episode traces the evolution of the earliest broadcasting medium- Radio. It features Dr. Ujjwala Barve in conversation with Sneha Gore Mehendale where they do a succinct recap of the All India Radio (AIR). Dr. Barve talks about her own association with the AIR, its former glory, the challenges AIR faced on its way and its current, modern Avatar.

Itihaas 2.0

Episode 59: The Radio Recap

<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/81/3b/34/snehagore/3000x3000_15127101.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /> This episode moves away slightly from any history of cinema. It talks of history as depicted IN cinema. In the first part of this three-way conversation, a film-maker and a film scholar discuss various related issues. 'Historical fiction', the eternal struggle between the truth and artifice, when does a historical film become a historical film and much more.

History IN Cinema- I

<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/81/3b/34/snehagore/3000x3000_15117049.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /> Doordarshan (DD), India’s public service broadcaster is six decades old. And boy, what changes has Doordarshan seen during these years! From twice a week, educational broadcast to a 24- hour channels and a dense network of correspondents, DD has come a long way. This episode features ex-journalist and media academic Dr. Ujjwala Barve, talking of her memories of working with Doordarshan since early days, and the changes today.

The Doordarshan Diaries

<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/81/3b/34/snehagore/3000x3000_15036494.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /> The Ramadan special food offered in Mumbai's old by-lanes of Bhendi Bazaar and Muhammad Ali Road is a part of personal history of many people. As this area gets ready for massive renovation, we trace the memories of this place with a former resident and wonder how history will survive in this change.

Foodie By-lanes: Then and Now

<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/81/3b/34/snehagore/3000x3000_12327959.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /> Cinema is a ‘reflection of the society’, yes. And hence, it is also a moving document of our history. Indian cinema provides us innumerable glasses to look at the evolution of the society around us. This episode traces the evolution of settings of Hindi Cinema. From being village-centric to urban, to even being set in other countries, Hindi Cinema is slowly again becoming locally rooted, thereby completing a circle. Listen to the film critic and professor Ajit Duara discussing it.

Shifting Cinema: The Rural-Urban Circle

<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/81/3b/34/snehagore/3000x3000_15036494.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /> Most of the food exchanges are so well assimilated that it is impossible to say that they once belonged somewhere else. In part two of the conversation with Keertida Phadke, we talk of food that is native to India but is shining and getting assimilated other countries and their culinary cultures.

Glocal Food: Outgoing Edition

<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/81/3b/34/snehagore/3000x3000_15036494.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /> Food is fluid. It moves with time, with people, with cultures. Food exchanges only enrich a culture and most of the food exchanges are so well assimilated that it is impossible to say that they once belonged somewhere else. This episode traces food which is not technically ‘Indian’ in origin, but has been phenomenally ‘Indian’ized. In the first part of this two-part conversation Chef and food entrepreneur Keertida Phadke talks of some such items.

Glocal Food: Incoming Edition

<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/81/3b/34/snehagore/3000x3000_14985545.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /> History is not always past events. Sometimes you also live in truly historic times, much like the current pandemic. As the vaccine for CoVid-19 becomes the new global quest, we here talk about this facet of the current times and future history- what are vaccine trials and why do they matter. Featuring on this episode is Dr. Snajay Mehendale, a noted epidemiologist and public health researcher.

Living History: Vaccine Trials

<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/81/3b/34/snehagore/3000x3000_12347465.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /> The issue of Naxalism has plagued India for more than the past five decades with no solution in sight. This episode features journalist Siddharthya Roy in conversation with Sneha Gore Mehendale discussing the history, present and the relevance of Naxalism to contemporary India.

The Red Terror

<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/81/3b/34/snehagore/3000x3000_12327959.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /> In the later half of the 1990s, the political situation in India became super unstable with no government being steady. India saw 4 elections in those 10 years. We discuss the elections of 1996,98 and 99 in this episode.

Notions & Nation through the Nineties-II

<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/81/3b/34/snehagore/3000x3000_12327959.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /> The late 80s have a nation going through a major change where governance takes a back seat, political opportunism is ripe and social fabric is being churned and strained like never before. This episode talks about the elections of 1989 and 1991 and traces these changes.

Notions & Nation through the Nineties-I

<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/81/3b/34/snehagore/3000x3000_12327959.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /> The first non-congress government, rampant with factions, ego, and opportunism, could not even complete a full term. This episode discusses the situation in the Janata regime, the 1980 elections and how Indira returned to the power with a thumping majority.

Indira Returns

<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/81/3b/34/snehagore/3000x3000_12327959.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /> In the middle of the stormy decade, came an unprecedented political move- the emergency from 1975 to 1977. The democracy was almost dead for 19 long months. The 1977 elections, which came after this draconian rule, decimated the Congress for the first time. In this new episode, we discuss these elections and the complicated background of that one.

The Stormy Seventies-II

<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/81/3b/34/snehagore/3000x3000_12327959.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /> The elections of 1971 happened on the backdrop of multiple major sociopolitical churnings. Indira era began a couple of years before that, decimating the political opposition and cementing her position by the victory in 1971 Bangladesh war. Things were not at all cool though. The country was going through turbulent times. In this episode, Ranjeet Rane and Sneha gore Mehendale discuss the 1971 elections, a prologue to the stormy decade.

The Stormy Seventies- I

<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/81/3b/34/snehagore/3000x3000_12327959.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /> The fourth general election of 1967 is brought a beginning of a new era. The grand old party in India getting more factionized,clear emergence of a political opposition, and India still surviving as a single country, despite predictions of doom. Sneha Gore Mehendale converses with Neha Phadke Mahajan about all of it in this episode

The Shifting Sixties II

Itihaas 2.0 is a podcast that looks at Indian history with a twist. It brings history out of boring textbooks and looks at things around us, tracing their evolution. From brands to elections and from media to public policy, this podcast explores why today's India is the way it is.