Crimes From The East

Deadly Delivery - Patnagarh Parcel Bombing

On a lazy afternoon in 2018, newlywed couple Soumya & Reema from Patnagarh, Odisha were trying to decide what to cook for lunch when a mysterious package was delivered to their home. Thinking it was a wedding gift Soumya opened it, unfortunately the package unleashed a deadly bomb & took the lives of Soumya & his grand aunt. Who had done this & why?

Bollywood Corner : Andhadhun

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Terror on Pan Am Flight 73 - Neerja Bhanot

On Sept 5th 1986, 4 hijackers held 379 people on board Flight 73 hostage in absolute terror for 16 long hours at the Karachi Airport before they erupted in reckless violence killing 22 people. 359 people survived thanks to the courage & calm shown by the brave 22 year old Flight Attendant Neerja Bhanot & her strong flight crew of 13. This is their story.

Bollywood Corner - Neerja

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Bangladesh Bank Cyber Heist

In 2016, a mysterious gang of cyber criminals carted off $81 million USD from Bangladesh Bank in Dhaka! It was no ordinary thievery & took nearly a year of infiltration & planning by these digital bandits. Listen up to a looong episode on this caper. Actual story starts around the 20 minute mark in case you wanna skip all our internet nostalgia talk.

Bollywood Corner - Chakra, Kannum Kannum Kollaiadithal

'Hacked' Docu on this story - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z829a7GyHyQ

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Chamber of Secrets at the Padmanabhaswamy Temple

In 2011 Indian Courts ordered the secret vaults of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala to be opened & the wealth inventoried. What emerged was a treasure worth a whopping $22 BILLION USD! This was from just 1 of 6 secret chambers. Vault B remains unopened! Come hear about the history & myriad rumors about this fascinating Temple in South India.

Source - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/30/the-secret-of-the-temple

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Killer Curry - Murderous Wives

We explore some killer tales of wives murdering their husbands and cooking them into a curry. It happens a LOT! We talk about Zainab Bibi from Pakistan & Nagaratha from Singapore, Alex talks a bit about Omaima from the US & Katherine Knight from Australia. When these women got fed up they got cookin!

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Masala News 05 - Flip Flops & Horse Cars

As usual it's a handy dandy collection of news clips you probably didn't even need in your life but now that you hear them you will question the direction human evolution might be taking. 

We got tales of $8000 flip flops for sneaky cheaters, Horse Cars, potential new bovine God & resin condoms. Yikes.

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Crimes from the East Trailer

Swanky new Trailer for this Podcast where you can hear us spill the Chai on True Crime & Strange Phenomenon from South Asia. Namaste!

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The Schoolboy Murder - Justice for Pradyuman Thakur

TW: Death of a minor

On 8th Sept 2017, The Ryan International School in Gurugram India was the scene of a most gruesome & tragic death of a 7 year old child, Pradyuman Thakur. He was found outside the bathroom gasping for breath as he bled from injuries to his neck. Who had done this unthinkable crime & WHY? The truth was so bizarrely mundane it was truly unbelievable. Listen in to find out. #justiceforPradyuman
Bollywood Corner: A big little Murder, 83

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Murder by Germs

Nearly 90 years ago India saw it's first case of Bioterrorism when an unscrupulous step brother tried not once but thrice to assassinate his younger brother Amarendra Chandra Pandey with the most unusual weapon of germs! Listen to this unique case that was featured in the 1935 edition of Time magazine.

Bollywood Corner - Race, Raat Akeli Hai

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UFO Hour - with Astrobiologist Pushkar Vaidya

Pushkar Vaidya is the Head Scientist(Astrobiologist) at the Indian Astrobiology Research Foundation Institute in Mumbai, India. We chat about the building blocks of Life in Space & on Earth, our possible Origins, their plans to collect space dust & also general UFO talk like the ridicule UFOlogists face, Roswell, Phoenix lights & of course our mutual love of The X Files!

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