Grin
GrinEpisodes
Episodes of Grin
Mark All
Search Episodes...
In this episode, award-winning historian and author Hindol Sengupta speaks to Professor Gautam Desiraju, one of India’s most cited living scientists on Desiraju’s book Bharat: India 2.0 and why the scientist at the hallowed Indian Institute of
Award-winning historian Lavanya Vemsani strives to unravel old myths about ancient India and its culture and show what really happened and what colonial theories got wrong.
In this pathbreaking conversation Dr. Johannes Kleiner, a mathematician and physicist at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. He works at the cutting edge of an ever urgent question - is the universe conscious? It could well be.
How is the ancient science of well-being, yoga, being globalised, and is it working? The answers from Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya who was trained as a doctor at Cornell, Harvard and Columbia and has a PhD from the Benaras Hindu University.
In this episode the renowned professor of religious studies, Jeffery D. Long, talks about how the coronavirus pandemic has forced us to look within, and how, if we cared to, we could find true happiness within ourselves.
Turning away from the excesses of monotheism, more and more people are turning to ancient faiths which treasure openness and the environment. This is a very special episode from Iceland, on how it rediscovered its ancient faith which is now gro
Gabriella Burnel read Sanskrit, the language India’s most ancient Hindu philosophical texts, including its great epics, the Ramayan and the Mahabharat, at Oxford and has gone on to became one of the most loved Sanskrit singers in the world. But
Did the ancient world, Greek and Hindu, imagine robots and technology that are coming true today? Dr. Adrienne Mayor at Stanford University, a research scholar in classics, history and the philosophy of science, says yes. She has written a wo
Prof. Pankaj Jain at the University of North Texas is a renowned expert in philosophy and religion and especially in the philosophy of non-violence espoused by Jainism. In this episode he talks of how to eradicate every day acts of violence fro
Braja Sorensen is an Australian writer and poet. About 20 years ago, she moved to lived in the village of Mayapur in the eastern state of Bengal in India. Mayapur is the village which has been one of the most influential centres for the Vaishna
Dr. Abdus Salam is Pakistan’s first Noble laureate, a scientist of global repute. But he was ostracised and denounced as a heretic in his homeland. This tragic story forms the backdrop of Pureland, a beautiful allegorical book by the New York-b
The renowned Swiss teacher of meditation and scripture Acharya Vidyabhaskar talks about the enduring and eternal message of the Gita, the beloved book of sermon that has inspired people around the world including Mahatma Gandhi. What should we
Nirupama Menon Rao was the Indian Foreign Secretary and held some of the most important positions in Indian diplomacy around the world. She is now the innovative founder of the first South Asian Symphony Orchestra that aims to use music to brid
In this episode Prof. Lavanya Vemsani, Vice President of the Ohio Academy of History and Distinguished Professor of History at Shawnee State University, talks about the different approaches of feminism in the East and West and about India's mag
What connects research on artificial intelligence, the study of consciousness and the search for god with award winning scientist Prof. Subhas Kak.
India and Pakistan, the two nuclear-armed neighbours in South Asia, are at war again. But something has changed over the last few years in India’s strategic doctrine. Historian and best-selling author Hindol Sengupta explains why the Shishupala
Author Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley from Los Angeles talks about how financial failure made her homeless and devastated until she found ‘radical gratitude’ and god consciousness through meditation. She is the author of a lovely new book The Gift o
The Mahabharata is one of the world’s oldest and longest epics. At the heart of it is a dramatic and apocalyptic war, and a rousing philosophy of morality. In this podcast we talk about why this epic has never been studied, and why it should be
Dr. Gautam Sen taught political economy and strategy for more than two decades at the London School of Economics. He has been an advisor to the government of India. He talks about his lifelong research interest - understanding how to make peace
Trained in medicine at Cornell and Harvard, Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya turned to Ayurveda which changed her life. She went on to do a PhD in Ayurveda and talks about how the ancient system of medicine can change the way we look at health and how
Join Podchaser to...
- Rate podcasts and episodes
- Follow podcasts and creators
- Create podcast and episode lists
- & much more
Unlock more with Podchaser Pro
- Audience Insights
- Contact Information
- Demographics
- Charts
- Sponsor History
- and More!
- Account
- Register
- Log In
- Find Friends
- Resources
- Help Center
- Blog
- API
Podchaser is the ultimate destination for podcast data, search, and discovery. Learn More
- © 2024 Podchaser, Inc.
- Privacy Policy
- Terms of Service
- Contact Us