In this first SPECIAL, its all about the Olympic Games and the vast fount of indelible stories and anecdotes! Listen to the marathoner Dorando Pietri's herculean effort through words crafted by the legendary Arthur Conan Doyle, check out how a Olympic shooter managed to dodge an attempted murder rap and get to know Michael Jordan's greatest basketball game ever!! Joy and Rathin also share some of the great moments in Indian Olympic history as well as some of their most memorable and iconic...

In this episode, Rathin and Joy talk about spies in the White House, crazy World War plans, why Spanish flu might not be an appropriate name, Sunny Leone's association with a Kolkata University and a place Harsha Bhogle remembers in Hyderabad which gets its name from the word Quarantine. All this and the usual goofiness and banter mixed up desi style!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rathindra-basu/message

In Episode 3, we find out why some cosmonauts carry vials of pee, meet a guy who visited hell and came back safely, find out how a hood from San Francisco contributed to the English language and why some national flags are sometimes flown upside down!!

In episode 2, we unearth a small market in Peshawar that was home to three Bollywood film stars, explore Jinnah's family tree, chase alcoholic rat armies around India and figure out how Clark Gable is connected to a 15th century Indian sultan. All this spiced up desi tadka style with sections like Weird News, Cute Word Origins and Bare Naked Lies - the last one where they try and bluff each other!! And a special quiz question for listeners at the very end!!

In Episode 1, Rathin and Joy, two senior sports media professionals and avid quizzers from India have fun with facts on music, movies, arts, science, books, language - in short - anything under the sun! They talk about football matches decided by a coin toss, chase cake eating leopards around the countryside, find out about mad British soldiers in India and meet some ghosts in a medical college! All this spiced up desi tadka style with sections like Weird News, Cute Word Origins and Bared...