The fictional story of Nangeli depicts a Ezhava woman to have lived in the early 19th century in Cherthala in the erstwhile princely state of Travancore in India, and supposedly cut off her breasts in an effort to protest against a tax on breast.

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Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan.

Show Producer: Karthick Raja

Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat.

Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.

The Stonewall Inn, often shortened to Stonewall, is a gay bar and recreational tavern in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City, and the site of the Stonewall riots of 1969, which is widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.

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Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan.

Show Producer: Karthick Raja

Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat.

Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.

Vaikom Satyagraha, from 30 March 1924 to 23 November 1925, was a nonviolent agitation for access to the prohibited public environs of the Vaikom Temple in the Kingdom of Travancore.

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Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan.

Show Producer: Karthick Raja

Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat.

Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.

Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya (Africa) in 1940. The first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. Wangari Maathai obtained a degree in Biological Sciences from Mount St. Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas (1964). She subsequently earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1966). She pursued doctoral studies in Germany and the University of Nairobi, obtaining a Ph.D. (1971) from the University of Nairobi where she also taught veterinary anatomy. She became chair of the Department of Veterinary Anatomy and an associate professor in 1976 and 1977 respectively. In both cases, she was the first woman to attain those positions in the region. Wangari Maathai was active in the National Council of Women of Kenya in 1976-87 and was its chairman in 1981-87. It was while she served in the National Council of Women that she introduced the idea of planting trees with the people in 1976 and continued to develop it into a broad-based, grassroots organization whose main focus is the planting of trees with women groups in order to conserve the environment and improve their quality of life. However, through the Green Belt Movement she has assisted women in planting more than 20 million trees on their farms and on schools and church compounds.

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Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan.

Show Producer: Karthick Raja

Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat.

Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.

The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 that began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.

Credits:

Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan.

Show Producer: Karthick Raja

Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat.

Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.

Credits:

Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan.

Show Producer: Karthick Raja

Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat.

Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.

The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. It encircled West Berlin, separating it from East German territory. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961.

Credits:

Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan.

Show Producer: Karthick Raja

Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat.

Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.

A hard-working man from a poor background, Bouazizi had been the main provider for his family since he was 10 years old, selling fruit at the market. He left school at 19 so he could support his younger siblings' education.

Bouazizi died on 4 January 2011, at the age of 26, after setting himself on fire in protest against a system that kept him from making a decent living. He had often been a victim of the Tunisian law-enforcement agents, who would fine him, confiscate his produce and his scales and, on the last occasion, even wrestled him to the ground. His family believe it was the humiliation, not the poverty, that led him to self-immolation after he went looking for justice only to have it denied to him. Bouazizi doused himself in fuel and lit a flame outside the gates of the governorate building in the small town of Sidi Bouzid. A popular man, known for giving away produce for free to poorer families, and whose plight struck a chord with many, his act prompted protests that quickly spread, with Tunisians from all walks of life taking to the streets against a corrupt government, high unemployment and restrictions on their freedom.

Credits:

Host: Writer A MuthuKrishanan.

Show Producer: Karthick Raja

Podcast Executive: Prabhu Venkat.

Podcast Network Head - Niyas Ahamed M.