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I really like this podcast.

If anyone is interested in podcasts from or about India (mostly history related), here I list some:

- Scroll & Leaves - https://scrollsandleaves.com/

- Incarnations: India in 50 lives - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05rptbv

- History of India - https://overcast.fm/itunes1041684187/the-history-of-india-po...

- Desi Stones and Bones - https://desistonesandbones.org

- Echoes of India - https://shows.ivmpodcasts.com/show/echoes-of-india-a-history...

There are two fine BBC podcasts on modern India (last colonial years and onwards) but those are in Hindi (ones I am aware of) and have pleasantly short episodes.

Then there’s the contemporary Seen and the Unseen (https://seenunseen.in) having pleasantly very long episodes.

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Kit Patrick's History of India Podcast is among my most favorites of all podcasts in any topic.

Really well thought, no overly dramatic narration or extravagant sound effects.

I like the calm, cool storytelling in Kit Patrick's History of India podcast. I highly recommend it.

In a similar, though less wide ranging, vein is Peter Adamson (LMU, Munich/KCL) and Jonardon Ganeri (NYU/KCL):

https://historyofphilosophy.net/series/classical-indian-phil...

Thanks for the recommendation. I checked it out and the list looks good.

I suggest everyone check out the skeptic and athiestic (Nirisvara- non-God) schools of Indian philosophy. Especially Samkhya and Vaisheshika.

Indian past is always painted as a religious golden age. That is simply not true.

Indian skepticism, logic, and athiesm is centuries and millenias old.

The 6th century Indian Buddhist logician Dignāga's ideas about evidence and deductive reasoning remind me a lot of the analytic philosophy of the early 20th century.

If you are interested in such things, I suggest Buddhist Logic and Epistemology: Studies in the Buddhist Analysis of Inference and Language, and Epistemology, Logic, and Grammar In Indian Philosophical Analysis, by Bimal Krishna Matilal and Lokayata: A Study in Ancient Indian Materialism and Science and Society in Ancient India by Debiprasad Chattyopadhyay.

The Advaita Vedanta school (non-dualism) is interesting too, IMO.

Not about India but on the topic of favorite podcasts, anything by Mike Duncan. Starting with the History of Rome series to the whole Revolutions series. Not too dramatic, but not 100% dry either.

Is there any service that transcribes podcast to text? I hate listening to podcasts and prefer reading something.

otter.ai is very good. $10/mo for 6000 minutes

can you share the link to Hindi BBC podcasts please

https://overcast.fm/itunes1245120783 विवेचना

https://overcast.fm/p686440-1S0rdQ बीबीसी हिंदी - seems defunct/dead but old episodes are still available and overlaps quite some with vivechna.

thank you!!

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