About Garima Garg

Garima Garg is a New Delhi based journalist and author.

Garima Garg is a New Delhi based journalist and author. Her most recent publication is Heavens and Earth: Story of Astrology Through Ages and Cultures, Penguin Random House India 2022. She is interested in culture and history.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Garima:

Nathan J. Murphy, "The Ideas That Rule Us: How Other People's Ideas Rule our Lives and How to Change it" (Prepolitica, 2024)

October 26, 2024

The Ideas That Rule Us

Nathan J. Murphy
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The Ideas That Rule Us: How Other People's Ideas Rule Our Lives and How to Change it (Prepolitica, 2024), political theory researcher, author, and ent…

J. C. D. Clark, "The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History" (Oxford UP, 2024)

September 28, 2024

The Enlightenment

J. C. D. Clark
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Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherents about its dates, its locations, and the contents…

Susan Greenhalgh, "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

August 31, 2024

Soda Science

Susan Greenhalgh
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Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where power…

Musa al-Gharbi, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (Princeton UP, 2024)

July 28, 2024

We Have Never Been Woke

Musa al-Gharbi
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How a new "woke" elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status--without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged. Society…

Pierre Sokolsky, "Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024)

July 5, 2024

Clock in the Sun

Pierre Sokolsky
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On the surface of the Sun, spots appear and fade in a predictable cycle, like a great clock in the sky. In medieval Russia, China, and Korea, monks an…

Bruce Watson, "Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age" (Bloombury, 2016)

June 1, 2024

Light

Bruce Watson
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From early myths to the latest LEDs, light has been "the magician of the cosmos." But what is light? Is it God? Truth? Particle or wave? This "rad…

Andriy Sodomora, "The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)

May 7, 2024

The Tears and Smiles of Things

Andriy Sodomora
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An evocative collection of vignettes and essays from Ukraine’s “voice” of classical antiquity, now available in English for the first time. Inspired …