Podcast Episodes

Simon Brodbeck, "Krishna's Lineage: The Harivamsha of Vyasa's Mahabharata" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Episode 31

While typically circulating as a separate text, The Harivamsha forms the final part of the Mahabharata storyline. Beyond this, it is rich storehouse …

6 years, 10 months ago

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Christopher Austin, "Pradyumna: Lover, Magician, and Scion of the Avatara" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Episode 30

This is the first sustained study of an important figure in Hindu narrative, one largely obscure to readers and scholars alike: Kṛṣṇa's son Pradyumna…

6 years, 10 months ago

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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)

Episode 42

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infogr…

6 years, 10 months ago

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