I do three podcasts: on Sanskrit, Birds and Wine. The Sanskrit Podcast— where the ideas of ancient India meet the modern world. Listen to the Sanskrit Podcast on Youtube here and iTunes here Bird Podcast here Indian Wine Podcast here
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Shashank Dalvi’s Big Year of Birding
Shashank Dalvi’s Big Year of Birding all over India.
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Interview with Dr. Jerry Jackson about Bird adaptation
Dr. Jerry Jackson is a legend in ornithology, for his life-long fascination with the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. I met him on a windy evening in Lakes Park, Fort Myers for a chat about the birds of Southwest Florida.
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The Peacock
This episode is about the peacock, not because it is the national bird of India, which it is. But because it gave rise to the second most important work in evolutionary biology. I speak of course of Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection.
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The Great Indian Bustard: can it be saved from the brink of extinction?
Can the Great Indian Bustard be saved from the brink of extinction?
Read MoreDestination Bharatpur
The Keoladeo Ghana National Park is arguably India’s most famous national park for birds. This episode offers you a bird’s eye view of the park
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Genius of Birds with Jennifer Ackerman
Jennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for 30 years. Her most recent book, The Genius of Birds (Penguin Press, April 2016), explores the intelligence of birds
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Profile: filmmaker and entrepreneur
This is the story of synchronicity in the lives of a snake-loving filmmaker and a bird-loving entrepreneur who joined hands to work for nature conservation
Shekar Dattatri (left), an award-winning filmmaker, and Ramki Sreenivasan, an entrepreneur and wildlife photographer.
Mirzapur and the Greater Coucal
Saw my first golden oriole of this season. Flew in and perched on a Millingtonia tree. We were in Mirzapur at the fabulous guesthouse of Obeetee Carpets. A highlight was the sighting of two Greater Coucals, two Hornbills, one Rufous Treepie; and tons of other birds I had seen: drongos, bulbuls, peacocks, wagtail, etc.
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Birds in culture– the last of the four part series that I hugely enjoyed writing.
I pontificate on the pleasures of bird watching in this audio podcast here Like Arabs and falcons; like Indians and peacocks; like Americans and their eagles, like the French and their…..I don’t know which bird sparks the French imagination…. birds and animals are the stuff of our dreams and subconscious. The eagle, the ‘hamsa’ and…
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