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Ep. 80: Love, Olympic Glory and Death in Sarajevo
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - April 15, 2021 00:35 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsA city finds itself at the centre of the world's attention twice in a span of ten years, but for completely opposite reasons. In 1984, it became the first Balkan country to host the Winter Olympics. In 1992, it was home to the first televised war in human history. This week, in the third episode...
Love, Olympic Glory and Death in Sarajevo
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - April 15, 2021 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsA city finds itself at the centre of the world's attention twice in a span of ten years, but for completely opposite reasons. In 1984, it became the first Balkan country to host the Winter Olympics. In 1992, it was home to the first televised war in human history. This week, in the third episode...
One Man, 50,000 Bombs and Hope in Cambodia
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - April 08, 2021 00:35 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat would you do if you were forced to pick up a gun at a tender age of 10? And fight numerous wars for the next ten years, without ever having any choice? This isn't fiction, but the story of countless youth from Cambodia who grew up in the 70's. This week, in the second episode of Dark Touris...
Ep. 79: One Man, 50,000 Bombs and Hope in Cambodia
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - April 08, 2021 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat would you do if you were forced to pick up a gun at a tender age of 10? And fight numerous wars for the next ten years, without ever having any choice? This isn't fiction, but the story of countless youth from Cambodia who grew up in the 70's. This week, in the second episode of Dark Touris...
Ep. 78: Dark Tourism, Titanic Cruises and Graffiti
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - April 01, 2021 00:35 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSince 1993, the Kazimierz district in Kraków, Poland has seen a huge influx of tourists, thanks to the film Schindler's List, an uplifting story of how the Schindlers saved a thousand mostly Polish German refugees from the Holocaust. The phenomenon is not unique. Starting a new series, Dark Tour...
Dark Tourism, Titanic Cruises and Graffiti
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - April 01, 2021 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSince 1993, the Kazimierz district in Kraków, Poland has seen a huge influx of tourists, thanks to the film Schindler's List, an uplifting story of how the Schindlers saved a thousand mostly Polish German refugees from the Holocaust. The phenomenon is not unique. Starting a new series, Dark Tour...
Ep. 77: Mariana Trench, Mt. Everest and Depths of Travel
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - March 25, 2021 00:35 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOn January 23, 1960, at a little after one in the afternoon, two men seated on small stainless steel boxes inside a forged steel-alloy cabin, settled gently onto a patch of ivory-coloured silt on the floor of the Mariana trench. At a depth of 35,800 feet, they had achieved every explorers dream....
Mariana Trench, Mt. Everest and Depths of Travel
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - March 25, 2021 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOn January 23, 1960, at a little after one in the afternoon, two men seated on small stainless steel boxes inside a forged steel-alloy cabin, settled gently onto a patch of ivory-coloured silt on the floor of the Mariana trench. At a depth of 35,800 feet, they had achieved every explorers dream....
Venice, Finland and Stamps of the Future
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - March 18, 2021 00:35 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat does Venice, a floating city with an algae problem and Finland, a country battling climate change have in common? And what could it possibly have to do with stamps? This week, in the fifth episode of Currencies and Stamps, we explore the intersection of stamps and climate change, and how ar...
Ep. 76: Venice, Finland and Stamps of the Future
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - March 18, 2021 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat does Venice, a floating city with an algae problem and Finland, a country battling climate change have in common? And what could it possibly have to do with stamps? This week, in the fifth episode of Currencies and Stamps, we explore the intersection of stamps and climate change, and how ar...
Ep. 75: Bhutan, Talking Stamps and Elvis Presley in Burkina Faso
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - March 11, 2021 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhy would the sleepy Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan decide to suddenly issue talking stamps? Or the tiny West African nation of Burkina Faso issue stamps featuring the American singer and musician Elvis Presley? In fact, these were not frivolous pursuits by deluded monarchs or a tin pot dictator bu...
Bhutan, Talking Stamps and Elvis Presley in Burkina Faso
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - March 11, 2021 00:35 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhy would the sleepy Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan decide to suddenly issue talking stamps? Or the tiny West African nation of Burkina Faso issue stamps featuring the American singer and musician Elvis Presley? In fact, these were not frivolous pursuits by deluded monarchs or a tin pot dictator bu...
Ep. 74: Currency as Tragedy: Manipur, WW II and Memory
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - March 04, 2021 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat happens when a British civilian administrator in the Indian government, a graduate in math and physics from Cambridge, on a fatal mission to organize a guerrilla network against the Japanese disappears? And what does that have to do with currencies? This week, in the second episode of Curre...
Currency as Tragedy: Manipur, WW II and Memory
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - March 04, 2021 00:35 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat happens when a British civilian administrator in the Indian government, a graduate in math and physics from Cambridge, on a fatal mission to organize a guerrilla network against the Japanese disappears? And what does that have to do with currencies? This week, in the second episode of Curre...
Stanely Kubrick, Chess and Armenian Dram
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - February 25, 2021 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat does the Oscar winning iconic director Stanley Kubrick have in common with a Chess grandmaster? And what does it have to do with banknotes of Armenia? This week, in the second episode of Currencies and Stamps, we travel all the way to Armenia and uncover how banknotes can be used to trace t...
Ep. 73: Stanely Kubrick, Chess and Armenian Dram
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - February 25, 2021 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat does the Oscar winning iconic director Stanley Kubrick have in common with a Chess grandmaster? And what does it have to do with banknotes of Armenia? This week, in the second episode of Currencies and Stamps, we travel all the way to Armenia and uncover how banknotes can be used to trace t...
Ep. 72: Marie Curie, Jane Austen and Banknotes
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - February 18, 2021 00:35 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat could Marie Curie, a two time Nobel Prize winner and the famous poet Jane Austen possibly have in common? And what does that have to do with banknotes, an everyday object we scarcely pay any attention to? This week, starting a new series, Currencies and Stamps, we travel from the WW 1 trenc...
Marie Curie, Jane Austen and Banknotes
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - February 18, 2021 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat could Marie Curie, a two time Nobel Prize winner and the famous poet Jane Austen possibly have in common? And what does that have to do with banknotes, an everyday object we scarcely pay any attention to? This week, starting a new series, Currencies and Stamps, we travel from the WW 1 trenc...
Ep. 71: Blood Falls, Antarctica and Moons of Jupiter
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - February 11, 2021 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsErling Kagge, is no ordinary man. In 1992, skiing and walking 1300 kilometres, over 52 days, he reached the South Pole. Alone. A few hundred miles away, there is a waterfall known as the Blood Falls, after the red water which constantly flows out of its parent glacier. But what do Earling and th...
Blood Falls, Antarctica and Moons of Jupiter
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - February 11, 2021 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsErling Kagge, is no ordinary man. In 1992, skiing and walking 1300 kilometres, over 52 days, he reached the South Pole. Alone. A few hundred miles away, there is a waterfall known as the Blood Falls, after the red water which constantly flows out of its parent glacier. But what do Earling and th...
Ep. 70: Atacama Desert, Mars and Insignificance
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - February 04, 2021 00:35 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDeep into South America, lies a place which is considered barren and inhospitable. And for good reason - how can life flourish in a place which has less than 15 mm of rainfall every year. But its barrenness is its advantage, for it houses some of the most elite and far ranging scientific pursuit...
Atacama Desert, Mars and Insignificance
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - February 04, 2021 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDeep into South America, lies a place which is considered barren and inhospitable. And for good reason - how can life flourish in a place which has less than 15 mm of rainfall every year. But its barrenness is its advantage, for it houses some of the most elite and far ranging scientific pursuit...
Ep. 69: Svalbard and Syria: Lonely Together
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - January 28, 2021 00:35 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsExtreme temperatures, check. The harsh desert climate, check. One place is an arctic desert in the northernmost part on our planet, the other a hot desert country plagued by a brutal, seemingly unending civil war. Svalbard is a unique lonely place - you cannot be born, die or be buried there. Le...
Svalbard and Syria: Lonely Together
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - January 28, 2021 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsExtreme temperatures, check. The harsh desert climate, check. One place is an arctic desert in the northernmost part on our planet, the other a hot desert country plagued by a brutal, seemingly unending civil war. Svalbard is a unique lonely place - you cannot be born, die or be buried there. Le...
Ep. 68: Danakil Depression, Ethiopia: Secrets of the Cosmos
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - January 21, 2021 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat do the father of the nuclear age, the Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi and a young European traveller by the name of Mubarak Bin London have in common? And why would it lead you to one of the most inhospitable and inaccessible places on earth, a place which Fermi hadn't ever set foot...
Danakil Depression, Ethiopia: Secrets of the Cosmos
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - January 21, 2021 00:35 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat do the father of the nuclear age, the Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi and a young European traveller by the name of Mubarak Bin London have in common? And why would it lead you to one of the most inhospitable and inaccessible places on earth, a place which Fermi hadn't ever set foot...
Ep. 67: Underground Caves of Naica and Deep Time
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - January 14, 2021 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings58 degree celsius, 100% humidity and pitch dark. This is not Mars, but somewhere on our very own planet. While 2020 killed all our travel plans, I am sure even that would not make you go here. But there was a Spanish man who was waiting for the moment he could visit this place. A place where you...
Underground Caves of Naica and Deep Time
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - January 14, 2021 00:35 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings58 degree celsius, 100% humidity and pitch dark. This is not Mars, but somewhere on our very own planet. While 2020 killed all our travel plans, I am sure even that would not make you go here. But there was a Spanish man who was waiting for the moment he could visit this place. A place where you...
Superhuman Runners The Rarámuri, Mexico
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - January 07, 2021 00:35 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the 1928 and 1968 Olympics, Mexico participated in the marathon and failed to get a podium finish. The runners, who came in with a great reputation and a mystic halo around them felt that the 26-mile race was too short. In fact, in 1928, they had to be stopped to tell them that the race was a...
Ep. 66: Superhuman Runners The Rarámuri, Mexico
Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria - January 07, 2021 00:35 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the 1928 and 1968 Olympics, Mexico participated in the marathon and failed to get a podium finish. The runners, who came in with a great reputation and a mystic halo around them felt that the 26-mile race was too short. In fact, in 1928, they had to be stopped to tell them that the race was a...
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