Where Were You When
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Where Were You When
In this podcast series, listen to first-hand experiences of people from moments that changed India for better or for worse.
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2002 Gujarat Riots: Revisiting The Event Which Reconfigured India's Politics
Where were you on 27 February 2002 as India witnessed one of its bloodiest Hindu-Muslim riots in Gujarat over three days prompted by the burning of a...
RK Laxman: The Cartoonist Who Lives Through 'The Common Man'
RK Laxman, the legendary cartoonist spoke through his cartoons, about the concerns of The Common Man — a character that featured for almost half a cen...
20 Years of K3G: It's All About Loving the Good, the Bad, and Karan Johar
It's been 20 years since Karan Johar's cult-classic 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham' (or K3G as it's popularly known), captured our attention with a dazzlin...
Revisiting CAA: What Happened When The Citizenship Amendment Act Was Passed in 2019?
Two years have passed since the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act was passed in the parliament. In these two years, those who have protested aga...
10 Years of 'The Dirty Picture': What's So Dirty About This Picture?
How a film that was rejected by two lead actors and its director, went on to become a success? Why did the film's director, Milan Luthria had to initi...
5 Years of Demonetisation: How the Chaos of Note-ban Hurt the 'Aam-Aadmi'
PM Modi's supporters were quick to call the announcement banning the 500 and 1000 notes as his 'master-stroke' to tackle the black money, corruption,...
Explained: 'Loknayak' Jayprakash Narayan & How He Changed Indian Politics Post-Emergency
Jayprakash Narayan aka 'Doosra Gandhi' or the second Gandhi, is often held responsible for providing legitimacy to RSS and Jana Sangh. But some say th...
Triple Talaaq | The Law, The Women, Two Years on
The law against Triple Talaq or The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019, was passed two years ago amid protests from the opposit...
Uphaar Tragedy: Families Revisit The Day They Lost Their Children
Uphaar Cinema fire is a reminder of how the tragedy was a man-made disaster that killed 59 people - the youngest of them was just a month old. The fir...
Over 3 Lakh Lives Lost: Learnings From India’s COVID-19 Journey
12 March 2020. India saw its first COVID-19 death after a 76-year-old man from Kalaburagi succumbed to the virus. More than a year later, the country...
1983 World Cup Final: How India Played & Turned It Around?
Facing West Indies - the two-time world champions, in the world cup, and breaking them in their third was far-fetched before the great match of 83. Ho...
From ‘Jugaad’ on Sets To Making History: A Look at How KBC Started
More than two decades ago, Amitabh Bachchan made his debut on the small screen only to become the most successful host in the history of Indian televi...
Bhopal Gas Leak Tragedy: Survivors Recount Horrors of India's Worst Industrial Disaster
On the night of 2nd December 1984, tonnes of poisonous gas leaked from a factory that made pesticides. It not only killed thousands of people but cont...
What Happened on The Day Babri Masjid Was Demolished?
Ayodhya, a small temple town in Uttar Pradesh is loaded with medieval history and Hindu mythology.
There have been little skirm...
What It Felt Like to Be Queer The Day Section 377 Was Read Down
Around 157 years after Section 377 of the IPC, a law that criminalised homosexual acts between consenting adults, was introduced in British India, its...
Where Were You When The Partition Happened
'Burial binds you to the place', tells oral historian Aanchal Malhotra while narrating a story from the Partition. For more stories of the people who...
Where Were You When The Batla House Encounter Happened in 2008?
Nikhil Advani’s action thriller starring John Abraham — Batla House which is inspired by the real events from Operation Batla House is releasing on 15...
Indians Share Stories from First Republic Day
India is celebrating its 70th Republic Day on 26 January 1950, but where were you when India celebrated its very first Republic Day in 1950? For the f...
4 Journalists Recall the Violent 1990 Anti-Mandal Agitations Against Quota
Podcast | Where were you when the VP Singh's decision to provide 27% reservation for OBCs led to violent protests and self-immolations in 1990? Tune i...
Ravish, the Man Who Almost Became the 1st Indian In Space
A fighter pilot and a war veteran, Air Commodore (retd.) Ravish Malhotra nearly became the first Indian in space. But fate, rather the authorities in...
Mangoes Before Arrest for Kuldip Nayar during Emergency
The veteran journalist passed away on 23 August 2018. Around a year earlier, The Quint had interviewed Kuldip Nayar on his arrest during the 1975 Emer...