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Every once in a while, you read a book, watch a gripping movie or a TV show; and you ask yourself the question, “Was that a true story?”And then you spend hours googling the hell out of it. How great would it be if you could not find the answer and not be able to reach a conclusion!As every great storyteller knows, the better you tell a story the more you make it come to life. Conversely, even if you tell a real story poorly, it will not ring true.Let's meet a great storyteller now.My guest is author Sudipta Sen Gupta. She used to be a top level marketing executive turned academic, historian and author. Her debut novel is titled, Aasma-i-Noor. In Persian it loosely means A Sky of Light or even, a Universe of Light...depending on how expansive you're feeling today.Aasma-i-Noor is a diamond. It is a rare, red diamond that came from the Kollur mine in Golconda, the same mine that gave us the Koh-i-Noor (means Mountain Of Light) and Darya-i-Noor (meaning Sea Of Light). All great names…clearly all tributes to Total Internal Refraction.In Sudipta's novel, the history of this diamond is linked to the heart of the events surrounding the rise and fall of Siraj-ud-Daulah and his chief nemesis Robert Clive.And around this time is the last anyone heard of the Aasma-i-Noor, leaving the question: was this whole bloody pivotal point in the history of India caused by the fascination of a few men for a gemstone?Artfully, the story spills into the present day with a couple of treasure hunters in Kolkata finding clues from history to be able to locate this diamond. At this point, the novel suddenly takes on the rush of a Dan Brown thriller and I will leave the rest for you to read.As for separating history from historical fiction, I have rarely read this done in so deft a manner. It is every debut novelist's aspiration that their debut novel must set the world on fire. If Aasma-i-Noor doesn't do that, it is the fault of the world.That said, I am privileged to have Sudipta here as my guest today.ABOUT SUDIPTA SEN GUPTASudipta Sen Gupta is an associate professor in the School of Management at GD Goenka University. After completing her graduation in physics from Presidency College, Kolkata, and MBA from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University, she worked in senior corporate management roles for over 20 years. She helped build multiple well-known brands and powered multinational organizations to success, winning several national and global awards and recognitions along the way. In 2017, she decided to leave the corporate world and join academics, allowing her time to complete her PhD and return to her first love—Indian history. Aasma-i-Noor: The Cursed Jewel is the result of that love.Buy Aasma-i-Noor: https://amzn.to/3ASAYM4WHAT'S THAT WORD?!Co-host Pranati "Pea" Madhav joins Ramjee Chandran in "What's That Word?!",  where they discuss the word "WIT: and joining them is a guest from the United States.WANT TO BE ON THE SHOW?Reach us by mail: theliterarycity@explocity.com or simply, tlc@explocity.com.Or here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theliterarycityOr here:  https://www.instagram.com/explocityblr/

Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya was educated in politics and philosophy at Presidency College, Calcutta, and the University of Pennsylvania. His novels The Gabriel Club and The Storyteller of Marrakesh have been published in fourteen languages. He lives in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York.www.creativeprocess.info

Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya was educated in politics and philosophy at Presidency College, Calcutta, and the University of Pennsylvania. His novels The Gabriel Club and The Storyteller of Marrakesh have been published in fourteen languages. He lives in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York.www.creativeprocess.info

Subhash Chandra Bose returns to Calcutta. After being rusticated from Presidency College, his only hope is to get admitted into Scottish Church College - the other major college of it's time.

During his stay in Cuttack, post his rustication from Presidency College, Bose gets involved in the students' movement at Ravenshaw College.

After being rusticated from Presidency College due to the Prof. Oten episode, things get worse for Bose. He is not allowed to take admissions in any other college.

Swami Vivekananda was born on 12th January 1863 in Calcutta. His father, Vishwanath Datta was a barrister and a novelist and his mother were Bhubaneswari Devi. Swami Ji's birth name was Narendranath Datta. He was a very sharp student since his childhood. He was the only student to receive a first-division in the entrance examination of Presidency College. Apart from his subjects, he loved reading a wide range of subjects like philosophy, religion, history, social science, ancient scriptures like the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and the Puranas. Narendra also studied Western philosophies which he then translated into the Bengali language. Swami Vivekananda was known for his sharp memory and ability at speed reading.  In 1880, he came in contact with the Brahmo Samaj and that was the start and breakthrough of his spiritual journey. He met Ramkrishna, his Guru, in 1881 in Dakhineswar. Swamiji was highly influenced by the thoughts of his Guru. In 1886 Swamiji took monistic vows and that is when he became Swami Vivekananda from Narendranath Dutta. In 1888, he left to travel the whole country with only two books in his hand: the Bhagavad Gita and The Imitation of Christ. He decided to preach and uplift his country and the fellow countrymen. In 1893, after visiting Japan & China, he went to America where he participated in the Parliament of religions. In the Parliament of religion, he opened his speech with,” Sisters and Brothers of America” after which he received heavy applause and a standing ovation. The western media named him, “The Cyclonic monk from India”. His teachings focused on human development and he believed in compassion, morality, and spirituality. Listen to this episode of Famous Indian Personalities and other interesting kids podcasts on free Chimes Radio mobile apps. Available on Google and Apple App stores. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/chimesradio See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Principal James of Presidency College asks Bose to apologize to Prof. Otten, or be expelled from the college. Bose refuses to concede and continues to protest.

Subhash Chandra Bose is rusticated from Presidency College. This impacts a young Bose, who is a brilliant student. The college appoints a 5 member investigation committee, to look into the matter. Renowned Lawyer Ashutosh Mukherjee is also amongst the investigation committee members.

At the wake of the Prof Oten incident, the British administration feels Subhash Chandra Bose could be a real threat. The Oten episode is taken up very seriously.

Post the Professor Oten episode at Presidency College, the youth of Bengal select Subhas Chandra Bose as their leader.

This week, Cyrus is joined by bestselling novelist, filmmaker & comic book writer Samit Basu. Samit just released his latest book titled 'Chosen Spirit' in April 2020. Cyrus and Samit talk about Cyrus' Bengali pronounciations, publishing books in these times, and how the experience of releasing a book during such times was not that different for Samit from a release in regular times. They also get into how Samit became a writer, why Cyrus is to blame for it, Samit attending Presidency College in Calcutta, getting into IIM and what made him leave after a month, how he found confidence as a writer, going on to write and co-direct the movie 'House Arrest', and tons more!Follow Samit Basu on Instagram and Twitter @samitbasuDo send in AMA questions for Cyrus by tweeting them to @cyrussaysin or e-mailing them at whatcyrussays@gmail.comDon't forget to follow Cyrus Broacha on Instagram @BoredBroacha (https://www.instagram.com/boredbroacha)In case you're late to the party and want to catch up on previous episodes of Cyrus Says you can do so at: www.ivmpodcasts.com/cyrussaysYou can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the new and improved IVM Podcasts App on Android: https://ivm.today/androidor iOS: https://ivm.today/ios

Topic: "Exploratory Self Learning- A Scalable Grassroots Solution" Shuvajit Payne, presently the Head of Education at Barefoot College, leads its education initiatives comprising of a 400 student strong rural school in Rajasthan, 50+ non-formal digital night schools in 11 states of India and outreach programmes that train more than 4,000 government school children annually. He is working on transforming the digital night school model into an exemplary quality digital education solution for remote rural underprivileged communities who are outside the ambit of electricity access or connectivity, with a unique curriculum around gender, environmental sustainability and rights and citizenship. The work is supported by Apple, Oracle, Microsoft and was recognized as one of the top solutions for teachers and educators globally in MIT Solve, 2019. Previously, Shuvajit has had a diverse career graph ranging from process management in MNCs, to M&E, ICT, programme strategy in non-profits, filmography as well travel photography. He graduated from IIM-Lucknow and Presidency College with qualifications in Management, Economics and Statistics. He was worked with corporates like IBM, Shell UK, CSR wings of SBI, Reliance and with non-profits such as MS Swaminathan Research Foundation. Today, programmes that Shuvajit has undertaken with different NGOs and corporate foundations, such as the SBI Youth for India Fellowship, have achieved remarkable scale thereby authoring significant change at the grassroots. Shuvajit is recognized as one of the top 50 global educators as per The Varkey Foundation's 2020 list. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/future-school-leaders/message

Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya was educated in politics and philosophy at Presidency College, Calcutta, and the University of Pennsylvania. His novels The Gabriel Club and The Storyteller of Marrakesh have been published in fourteen languages. He lives in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York. www.creativeprocess.info

Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya was educated in politics and philosophy at Presidency College, Calcutta, and the University of Pennsylvania. His novels The Gabriel Club and The Storyteller of Marrakesh have been published in fourteen languages. He lives in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York. www.creativeprocess.info

I cannot understand why, but the young men of this generation have developed a new sport---to go and spend a night in a haunted house. Every three months or four, I receive a group of guests. It goes the same way each time. They arrive after sundown, bringing hurricane lamps, candles, sleeping mats, snacks and bottles of water lovingly packed from home. They come in groups of four or five, almost always the atheist, sceptical students of the Presidency College who remind me of my own youth. They sweep aside dirt and rabble from the floor, unfurl their mats, light a hurricane lamp at the centre of their circle, and settle down to tell ghost stories. | Copyright 2019 by Mimi Mondal. Narrated by Pooja Batra. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I cannot understand why, but the young men of this generation have developed a new sport---to go and spend a night in a haunted house. Every three months or four, I receive a group of guests. It goes the same way each time. They arrive after sundown, bringing hurricane lamps, candles, sleeping mats, snacks and bottles of water lovingly packed from home. They come in groups of four or five, almost always the atheist, sceptical students of the Presidency College who remind me of my own youth. They sweep aside dirt and rabble from the floor, unfurl their mats, light a hurricane lamp at the centre of their circle, and settle down to tell ghost stories. | Copyright 2019 by Mimi Mondal. Narrated by Pooja Batra.

I spent five years of my life as a student in Kolkata’s College Street during the years 1992-1997. First at the Presidency College where I studied Sociology and then at the IISWBM where I did my MBA before I moved out to Mumbai. I returned to College Street two decades later in 2018 to go on a nostalgic food walk there. This time as a food writer and not a student. This podcast is about the places we visited and about what we ate there as well as about certain memories which one was unable to relive. You will hopefully at the end of the episode fall in love with College Street just as I once did.

Amit Bhaduri (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Council for Social Development, Pavia University) Discussant: Jerzy Osiatynski (Polish Monetary Policy Committee) Professor Bhaduri presents a demand determined model inspired by Keynes and Kalecki, in which the real and the financial commodity producing sector coexist. Their interaction is captured through stock and flow accounting in a macroeconomic model which accommodates the stock market to show how growth and financial catastrophe arise. The dynamic processes have a stock equilibrium that resembles the generic neoclassical growth model and the flow equilibrium the generic post-Keynesian growth model. The combined stock-flow dynamics has the unusual property of generating in some circumstances sudden and drastic change in the stock market like a ‘cusp catastrophe’ similar to financial meltdown. Spearker biography: Amit Bhaduri was educated in Presidency College, Calcutta; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Cambridge University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1967. He has taught in various universities around the world as professor/ visiting professor, including Presidency College and Institute of Management, Calcutta; Delhi School of Economics and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum; El Colegio de Mexico; Stanford University; Vienna and Linz University, Austria; Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Bremen University, Germany; and Bologna and Pavia University, Italy. He has been a fellow of various institutes of advanced studies in Austria, Sweden, Germany, and Italy; worked on various expert bodies of the United Nations; and served as member on some national and international commissions. Bhaduri has published more than 60 papers in standard international journals and is currently on the editorial boards of five of them. He has written: The Economic Structure of Backward Agriculture (London: Academic Press, 1982), Macroeconomics: The Dynamics of Commodity Production (London: Macmillan, 1986), Unconventional Economic Essays (New Delhi: Oxford University Press,1992), An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Liberalisation(co-authored with D. Nayyar) (India: Penguin, 1996), On the Border of Economic Theory and History (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999), and Development with Dignity (India: National Book Trust, 2006). Some of his books and articles have been translated into several European and Asian languages. Organised by the Money & Finance Research Cluster. Speakers: Amit Bhaduri (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Council for Social Development, Pavia University), Jerzy Osiatynski (Polish Monetary Policy Committee), Jan Toporowski (SOAS) Released by: SOAS Economics Podcasts

The Kellogg Biennial Lecture on Jurisprudence presents the most distinguished contributors to international jurisprudence, judged through writings, reputation, and broad and continuing influence on contemporary legal scholarship. The series has been generously endowed by Frederic and Molly Kellogg. This year's speaker is Amartya Sen, who lectures on "Justice: Disagreement and Objectivity." Nov. 7, 2013. Speaker Biography: Amartya Sen was born in India and educated at Presidency College, Calcutta and Trinity College, Cambridge. His research has included work on social choice theory and welfare economics (for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998), as well as development economics, causation of famines, theory of measurement, and moral and political philosophy. Sen has served as president of the Econometric Society, the American Economic Association, the Indian Economic Association and the International Economic Association. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6186