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  • Mission Impossible - Surveying Indian Languages And Dialects

    Mission Impossible - Surveying Indian Languages And Dialects

     The Intersection Season 2, Episode 1
    Aug 19 2019

    Mission Impossible: Surveying Indian Languages And Dialects-

    It took George A. Grierson about 30 years to finish his masterpiece - the Linguistic Survey of India, a monumental publication that documented 179 languages and 544 dialects across the extensive and diverse borders of India. Today these historic archives are available at the click of a mouse, but this compilation - of fables, songs, stories and epic poetry became a cornerstone of Indian language studies. Almost 100 years later, this epic work had a companion, when eminent Indian linguist Ganesh Devy’s People’s Survey of India was published. He identified 780 languages: some dead some in the process of dying some non-verbal and some that reflect the ones that Grierson recorded.

    Music by Josh Woodward and Chris Zabriskie
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    15 mins
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  • Vanishing Voices: What We Lose When We Lose A Language

    Vanishing Voices: What We Lose When We Lose A Language

     The Intersection Season 2, Episode 2
    Aug 19 2019
    The rich linguistic diversity of India is under threat, over 300 languages spoken by communities in geographically isolated areas have gone extinct and over a 100 more are endangered. As we move towards homogeneity in the name of progress, several indigenous languages across India are merging with more dominant ones. Meet V K Neelarao who concerned by the intrusion of Tamil in his original Saurashtrian language, made a film called ‘Hedde Jamoi’ to raise awareness for this dying language. Also on this episode, we talk to Dr. Arup Kumar Nath at Tezpur University’s Centre for Endangered Languages about how researchers and students are documenting and preserving disappearing languages and protecting a vital link with our past. Music credit: Josh Woodward and Chirs Zabriske
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    13 mins
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  • How We Are Failing To Respond To Climate Change

    How We Are Failing To Respond To Climate Change

     The Intersection Season 2, Episode 3
    Aug 19 2019
    Are the floods in Mumbai, Chennai, Assam and other parts of India related to the wildfires in North America? In his new book The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh argues that these calamities are a direct outcome of climate change and our response to this has been inadequate. He also suggests that the Indian media is conveniently ignoring these very serious events because it is more fixated with Bollywood, Cricket and Politics (as a circus). Music credit: Josh Woodward
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  • Yinmn - A New Kind Of Blue

    Yinmn - A New Kind Of Blue

     The Intersection Season 2, Episode 4
    Aug 19 2019
    A lot of what we see around is defined by its colour. When a new colour is added, there are exciting new possibilities in terms of shades that are possible and how they may be used. A new shade of blue was discovered in Oregon, USA which the makers called YInMn Blue, named after the elements it consists of - Yttrium, Indium and Manganese. This is exciting because it’s the first new blue in over 200 years. Padmaparna Ghosh speaks to Professor Mas Subramanian who developed this colour who tells us what makes the YInMn Blue so special. Music credit: Josh Woodward and Chris Zabriske
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  • Tinder For Vegetables? How Plants Communicate With Potential Mates

    Tinder For Vegetables? How Plants Communicate With Potential Mates

     The Intersection Season 2, Episode 5
    Aug 19 2019
    Communication is not limited only to the words we hear or the signs we see, it can go beyond that. Plants cannot speak, hear, see or move, so how do these plants communicate? Is their language made up of chemicals and signals? In this brand new episode, we cover the work done by scientists to study the relationship plants have with the complex ecosystem around them. Music credit: Josh Woodward and Chris Zabriske
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    13 mins
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  • A Cold-War Spy Story, From The Sixties

    A Cold-War Spy Story, From The Sixties

     The Intersection Season 2, Episode 6
    Aug 19 2019
    In 1965, Captain Manmohan Singh Kohli, an officer in the Indian navy, led a group of CIA and IB officials on an arduous trek across 125 kilometres, for a covert mission to spy on China’s nuclear capability. They changed course a month into this arduous trek after encountering a severe avalanche and the story was soon forgotten. The abandoned mission only came back into the news, after a leak in the 1970s, when questions were raised in parliament about the dangers of the lost plutonium. In this episode of The Intersection, Samanth Subramanian revisits the mission and speaks to Vinod Jose on his fascinating story. Music credit: Josh Woodward and Chris Zabriske
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    14 mins
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  • Measuring Happiness: My Gnh Is Bigger Than Yours

    Measuring Happiness: My Gnh Is Bigger Than Yours

     The Intersection Season 2, Episode 7
    Aug 19 2019
    Bhutan was the first country to take into consideration the happiness of its citizens by measuring GNH (Gross National Happiness). Other institutions in other countries have also tried to set-up similar parameters around the measurement of well-being. But how do you measure something that is so subjective and so difficult to quantify. Samanth Subramanian and Padmaparna Ghosh talk to researchers about the challenges with measuring happiness and its correlation with economic growth. Music credit: Josh Woodward and Chris Zabriske
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  • Aliens On The Radio #Wow, Via Big Ear

    Aliens On The Radio #Wow, Via Big Ear

     The Intersection Season 2, Episode 8
    Aug 19 2019
    39 years ago, a radio telescope called Big Ear in Ohio received a sudden burst of waves that were most likely from a source near Sagittarius. The signal, called the Wow signal, named after Astronomer Jerry Ehman’s reaction to it, has never been heard again. But a few astronomers hope to find the mystery behind the source of the signal in the next few years and (hopefully) probe the possibility of a life beyond our planet. Music Credit: Josh Woodward and Chris Zabriske Sound Credit: NASA
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