Category: podcasts

Conversations with Scientists, Historians, Philosophers, Writers etc.

PRATIDHVANI – HUMANIZING SCIENCE

  1. Conversation with Aditi Sen (De)
  2. Conversation with Sutirth Dey
  3. Conversation with Seema Sharma
  4. Conversation with Nagaraj Balasubramanian
  5. Conversation with Saptarshi Basu
  6. Conversation with Amitabh Joshi
  7. Conversation with Ranjini Bandyopadhyay
  8. Conversation with E Arunan
  9. Conversation with Kaneenika Sinha
  10. Conversation with Arindam Ghosh
  11. Conversation with M.S. Santhanam
  12. Conversation with Biman Nath
  13. Conversation with Vishwesha Guttal
  14. Conversation with Sudeshna Sinha
  15. Conversation with Dibyendu Nandi
  16. Conversation with Kasturi Saha
  17. Conversation with Sourabh Dube
  18. Conversation with Srabanti Chaudhury
  19. Conversation with Nirmalya Kajuri
  20. Conversation with Jasjeet Singh Bagla
  21. Conversation with Angshuman Nag
  22. Conversation with Nirmal Raj
  23. Conversation with Neeldhara Misra
  24. Conversation with Ashish Arora
  25. Conversation with Shivakumar Jolad
  26. Conversation with Atikur Rahman
  27. Conversation with Susmita Adhikari
  28. Conversation with Suresh Govindarajan
  29. Conversation with B. Ananthanarayan
  30. Conversation with Akhlesh Lakhtakia
  31. Conversation with Anisa Chorwadwala
  32. Conversation with Deepak Dhar
  33. Conversation with Sandhya Koushika
  34. Conversation with Umakant Rapol
  35. Conversation with Jayant Murthy
  36. Conversation with Sudipta Maiti
  37. Conversation with Snigdha Thakur
  38. Conversation with Mayurika Lahiri
  39. Conversation with Sundar Sarukkai
  40. Conversation with Dibakar Roy Chowdhury
  41. Conversation with Arnab Mukherjee
  42. Conversation with Devapriya Chattopadhyay
  43. Conversation with Venu Gopal Achanta
  44. Conversation with Guruswamy Kumaraswamy
  45. Conversation with Pushkar Sohoni
  46. Conversation with Neeraja Dashaputre
  47. Conversation with Sreejith G.J.
  48. Conversation with Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty
  49. Conversation with Sivarama Krishnan
  50. Conversation with Pramod Pillai
  51. Conversation with Joy Mitra
  52. Conversation with Joyee Ghosh
  53. Conversation with Harinath Chakrapani
  54. Conversation with Sunil Nair
  55. Conversation with Urbasi Sinha
  56. Conversation with Anindita Bhadra
  57. Conversation with Anindya Datta
  58. Conversation with Subhankar Bedanta
  59. Conversation with Ganesh Bagler
  60. Conversation with Chinmay Tumbe
  61. Conversation with Gautam Menon
  62. Conversation with Chaitra Redkar
  63. Conversation with Aninda Sinha
  64. Conversation with Bhaskaran Muralidharan
  65. Conversation with Ayan Banerjee
  66. Conversation with Sangeeta Kale
  67. Conversation with Siddharth Tallur
  68. Conversation with Karishma Kaushik
  69. Conversation with Samrat Mukhopadhyay
  70. Conversation with Vivek Polshettiwar
  71. Conversation with Vinita Gowda
  72. Conversation with K. Sridhar
  73. Conversation with Bejoy Thomas
  74. Conversation with Vijaykumar Krishnamurthy
  75. Conversation with Shubashree Desikan
  76. Conversation with Vipul Dutta
  77. Conversation with Robert T. Pennock
  78. Conversation with Shivprasad Patil
  79. Conversation with Kollegala Sharma
  80. Conversation with Arka Banerjee
  81. Conversation with Aparna Deshpande
  82. Conversation with Amit Agarwal
  83. Conversation with Vijay Chikkadi
  84. Conversation with Jyotishman Dasgupta
  85. Conversation with A.R.Venkatachalapathy
  86. Conversation with Satish Patil
  87. Conversation with Chaitanya Athale
  88. Conversation with Srubabati Goswami
  89. Conversation with Krishnendu Sengupta
  90. Conversation with Siddhesh Kamat
  91. Conversation with Debarati Chatterjee
  92. Conversation with Renny Thomas
  93. Conversation with Sudipta Sarkar
  94. Conversation with Sanjit Mitra

All Episodes

Pratidhvani – Humanizing Science

(also on YouTube, Spotify, Apple podcast)

Namaste, Hola, & Welcome from G.V. Pavan Kumar.

Pratidhvani (ಪ್ರತಿಧ್ವನಿ/प्रतिध्वनि) means reflection or resonance (of sound). Here, the aim of the podcast is to resonate with knowledge & humanize science.
The podcast has two themes:
1) History & Philosophy of Physical Sciences & Technology,
2) Conversations with people related to their intellectual journey & themes mentioned in 1)
Below is the link to all the episodes. Italicized ones are solo episodes

  1. Pratidhvani – Introduction
  2. Inspirations from Japan
  3. Six Jugalbandis of Scientific Research
  4. Science, Rationality and Compassion
  5. Ashkin’s Story – no prize to Nobel prize
  6. Importance of Failed Experiments
  7. Two Chandrasekhars and their students
  8. Gripping History of Laser Invention
  9. Conversation with Aditi Sen (De)
  10. Conversation with Sutirth Dey
  11. Conversation with Seema Sharma
  12. Conversation with Nagaraj Balasubramanian
  13. Conversation with Saptarshi Basu
  14. Conversation with Amitabh Joshi
  15. Conversation with Ranjini Bandyopadhyay
  16. An Indian Prof’s 15 lessons
  17. Conversation with E Arunan
  18. Conversation with Kaneenika Sinha
  19. Conversation with Arindam Ghosh
  20. Conversation with M.S. Santhanam
  21. Conversation with Biman Nath
  22. Conversation with Vishwesha Guttal
  23. Conversation with Sudeshna Sinha
  24. Conversation with Dibyendu Nandi
  25. Conversation with Kasturi Saha
  26. Conversation with Sourabh Dube
  27. Conversation with Srabanti Chaudhury
  28. Conversation with Nirmalya Kajuri
  29. Conversation with Jasjeet Singh Bagla
  30. Conversation with Angshuman Nag
  31. Conversation with Nirmal Raj
  32. Let go… the ego!
  33. A call from Varanasi
  34. 6 reasons why I do Science
  35. Conversation with Neeldhara Misra
  36. Conversation with Ashish Arora
  37. Conversation with Shivakumar Jolad
  38. Conversation with Atikur Rahman
  39. Conversation with Susmita Adhikari
  40. Conversation with Suresh Govindarajan
  41. Conversation with B. Ananthanarayan
  42. Conversation with Akhlesh Lakhtakia
  43. Conversation with Anisa Chorwadwala
  44. Conversation with Deepak Dhar
  45. Leonardo, Rayleigh & Blue Sky research
  46. Conversation with Sandhya Koushika
  47. Conversation with Umakant Rapol
  48. Conversation with Jayant Murthy
  49. Heaviside को Maxwellian क्यों कहा जाता है?
  50. Conversation with Sudipta Maiti
  51. Conversation with Snigdha Thakur
  52. Conversation with Mayurika Lahiri
  53. Conversation with Sundar Sarukkai
  54. Conversation with Dibakar Roy Chowdhury
  55. Conversation with Arnab Mukherjee
  56. Conversation with Devapriya Chattopadhyay
  57. Conversation with Venu Gopal Achanta
  58. Conversation with Guruswamy Kumaraswamy
  59. Conversation with Pushkar Sohoni
  60. Conversation with Neeraja Dashaputre
  61. Conversation with Sreejith G.J.
  62. Sadi Carnot & Thermodynamics
  63. Masterpiece: The Book of Optics by al-Haytham
  64. CV Raman and Quantum Mechanics
  65. Conversation with Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty
  66. Conversation with Sivarama Krishnan
  67. Conversation with Pramod Pillai
  68. Conversation with Joy Mitra
  69. Conversation with Joyee Ghosh
  70. Conversation with Harinath Chakrapani
  71. Conversation with Sunil Nair
  72. Conversation with Urbasi Sinha
  73. Conversation with Anindita Bhadra
  74. Conversation with Anindya Datta
  75. Conversation with Subhankar Bedanta
  76. Conversation with Ganesh Bagler
  77. Conversation with Chinmay Tumbe
  78. Conversation with Gautam Menon
  79. Gerhard Herzberg – scientific life
  80. Conversation with Chaitra Redkar
  81. Conversation with Aninda Sinha
  82. Conversation with Bhaskaran Muralidharan
  83. Conversation with Ayan Banerjee
  84. Why Read Books in the age of the internet?
  85. Conversation with Sangeeta Kale
  86. Conversation with Siddharth Tallur
  87. Conversation with Karishma Kaushik
  88. Conversation with Samrat Mukhopadhyay
  89. Conversation with Vivek Polshettiwar
  90. Listening spell-bound to Prof. Raman
  91. Conversation with Vinita Gowda
  92. Science + History = ??
  93. GHoP 001 Engineering Civilizations
  94. GHoP 002 Physics Portal of Aristotle
  95. Conversation with K. Sridhar
  96. GHoP 003 Maths, Mechanics & Eureka
  97. Physics & Pratidhvani
  98. Conversation with Bejoy Thomas
  99. Conversation with Vijaykumar Krishnamurthy
  100. GHoP 004 Hero’s Journey in Mechanics
  101. Conversation with Shubashree Desikan
  102. Conversation with Vipul Dutta
  103. Conversation with Robert T. Pennock
  104. Conversation with Shivprasad Patil
  105. Conversation with Kollegala Sharma
  106. Conversation with Arka Banerjee
  107. Conversation with Aparna Deshpande
  108. Conversation with Amit Agarwal
  109. Conversation with Vijay Chikkadi
  110. Conversation with Jyotishman Dasgupta
  111. Conversation with A.R.Venkatachalapathy
  112. Conversation with Satish Patil
  113. Daniel Dennett on Criticism
  114. Conversation with Chaitanya Athale
  115. Icons of Science in India – some thoughts
  116. Conversation with Srubabati Goswami
  117. Conversation with Krishnendu Sengupta
  118. Conversation with Siddhesh Kamat
  119. Conversation with Debarati Chatterjee
  120. Conversation with Renny Thomas
  121. Conversation with Sudipta Sarkar
  122. Conversation with Sanjit Mitra

Conversation with Vinita Gowda

Vinita is a botanist and an Associate Professor at IISER-Bhopal : https://treelab.wixsite.com/tree

She and her research group work on tropical ecology and evolution of plants. Her lab specializes in plant ecology and evolution, with a focus on Zingiberaceae and Gesneriaceae. Their research interests include floral evolution, community ecology, plant-pollinator interactions, and reproductive ecology.

In the episode, we explore her intellectual journey and find how she got interested in botany via explorations in fauna and flora.

Watch/listen as we humanize science.

References:

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[3]“Iiser Bhopal.” Accessed: Feb. 21, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://bio.iiserb.ac.in/Home/faculty_details/1383

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[7]“Episode 03: An Accidental Journey into the Sciences (Ft. Dr Vinita Gowda) by Scientifically Speaking,” Spotify for Creators. Accessed: Feb. 21, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/science-media-centre-iiser-mohali/episodes/Episode-03-An-Accidental-Journey-into-the-Sciences-Ft–Dr-Vinita-Gowda-e1l8v88

[8]Science Media Centre IISER Mohali, Science culture in India || Scientifically Speaking || Episode 03 (ft Dr Vinita Gowda), (Jul. 27, 2022). Accessed: Feb. 21, 2025. [Online Video]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXGHD3AH1pY

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