Episodes
The fictional story of Nangeli depicts a Ezhava woman to have lived in the early 19th century in Cherthala in the erstwhile princely state of Travancore in India, and supposedly cut off her breasts in an effort to protest against a tax on breast. Credits: Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan. Show Producer: Karthick Raja Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat. Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.
Published 03/21/23
The Stonewall Inn, often shortened to Stonewall, is a gay bar and recreational tavern in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City, and the site of the Stonewall riots of 1969, which is widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States. Credits: Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan. Show Producer: Karthick Raja Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat. Podcast Network Head -...
Published 03/21/23
Vaikom Satyagraha, from 30 March 1924 to 23 November 1925, was a nonviolent agitation for access to the prohibited public environs of the Vaikom Temple in the Kingdom of Travancore. Credits: Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan. Show Producer: Karthick Raja Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat. Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.
Published 03/21/23
Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya (Africa) in 1940. The first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. Wangari Maathai obtained a degree in Biological Sciences from Mount St. Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas (1964). She subsequently earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1966). She pursued doctoral studies in Germany and the University of Nairobi, obtaining a Ph.D. (1971) from the University of Nairobi where she also taught...
Published 03/21/23
The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 that began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government. Credits: Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan. Show Producer: Karthick Raja Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat. Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.
Published 03/21/23
Credits: Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan. Show Producer: Karthick Raja Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat. Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.
Published 03/21/23
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. It encircled West Berlin, separating it from East German territory. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961. Credits: Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan. Show Producer: Karthick Raja Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat. Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.
Published 03/21/23
A hard-working man from a poor background, Bouazizi had been the main provider for his family since he was 10 years old, selling fruit at the market. He left school at 19 so he could support his younger siblings' education. Bouazizi died on 4 January 2011, at the age of 26, after setting himself on fire in protest against a system that kept him from making a decent living. He had often been a victim of the Tunisian law-enforcement agents, who would fine him, confiscate his produce and his...
Published 03/21/23
Credits: Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan. Show Producer: Karthick Raja Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat. Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.
Published 03/21/23
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. Credits: Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan. Show Producer: Karthick Raja Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat. Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.
Published 03/19/23
Occupy Wall Street was a protest movement against economic inequality and the influence of money in politics that began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district, in September 2011. It gave rise to the wider Occupy movement in the United States and other countries Credits: Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan. Show Producer: Karthick Raja Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat. Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.
Published 03/18/23
The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi. The twenty four day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly Credits: Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan. Show Producer: Karthick Raja Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat. Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.
Published 03/14/23
In this episode Writer explains about chipko Movement! The Chipko movement is a forest conservation movement in India. Today, beyond the eco-socialism hue, it is seen increasingly as an ecofeminist movement Credits: Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan. Show Producer: Karthick Raja Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat. Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.
Published 02/21/23
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is a permanent protest occupation site as a focus for representing the political rights of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people. Established in 1972, and celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2022, it is the longest continuous protest for Indigenous land rights in the world. First established in 1972 under a beach umbrella as a protest against the McMahon government's approach to Indigenous Australian land rights, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is...
Published 02/21/23