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Ramakrishnan M

Video: Remembering the launch of India’s first indigenously made satellite, Aryabhata

Named after the Gupta-era mathematician-astronomer, the satellite was heralded as India’s giant leap into the space age.

Ramakrishnan M
· Apr 19, 2018 · 11:23 am
Video: An untrained linguist travelled across India to document more than a thousand dying languages

The census of India says the country is losing its languages. But Ganesh Devy and his People's Linguistic Survey of India seem to think otherwise.

Ramakrishnan M
· Apr 07, 2018 · 07:00 am
Video: Did the idli originate within or outside the Indian subcontinent?

The dish is first mentioned in a 10th century Kannada text but could actually have been invented much earlier by Indonesian chefs under the Chola empire.

Ramakrishnan M
· Mar 30, 2018 · 07:00 am

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