# Episode 116 - Code, Sewed & Abode ft. Hari Krishna

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 20 Oct 2025, 49 min.

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Do you know what is the name of the debugging method used by programmers where they explain their code, line by line, to one specific thing? Do you know which silk saari in India is made by a loom which uses punched cards? Do you know who was the Indian author/diplomat who lived in Sujan Singh Park, Delhi's first apartment complex, which was built by the author's father, colloquially known as "aadhi nayi dilli ka maalik"? Tune in to the episode to find out!! Featuring our guest quizmaster, Hari Krishna! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/areyouquizzingme Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@areyouquizzingme/podcasts

## Transcript

[0:00] What is the name of the website that has become very popular
[0:04] especially since COVID times and it got its name from the
[0:10] practice used in the industry when transferring a format to
[0:16] another. What website in the
[0:19] entertainment space am I referring to?
[0:21] The name derives from transferring one format to
[0:24] another. For ease of viewing, this
[0:28] audience question will be answered at the end of the
[0:29] episode. And before we get to it, here's
[0:32] the intro. Welcome to RU quizzing me.
[0:36] I am Vineet Nair with my Co host Aditya Kashyap.
[0:39] This is a quizzing trivia podcast show.
[0:42] Join us as we dive deep into history, science, pop culture
[0:46] and so much more. Let's get quizzing.
[0:49] Welcome to episode 116 of RU Quizzing Me.
[0:54] And yet again we have another guest episode.
[0:57] HK, our most frequent guest, our saviour stepping in.
[1:04] Maybe not saviour but scapegoat at this point I think.
[1:07] Scapegoat. Let's not reveal trade secrets
[1:09] to everybody. Or trivia question.
[1:13] Or trivia questions. So this is an episode and after
[1:18] a while I believe and I think you have some great questions
[1:21] for us. So why not start us off with
[1:23] your first question? OK, I noticed one thing that
[1:26] amongst like, you know, as a team and maybe when Adi and I
[1:29] were talking about it just before the episode also like we
[1:31] don't have a good sense of like what kind of questions have been
[1:33] asked and are you quizzing me so far?
[1:35] They definitely think like, you know, textiles and fabrics and
[1:39] stuff like that. No, but I have been going down
[1:43] some rabbit holes recently. So here's a question and
[1:46] hopefully you'll be able to answer.
[1:47] Let's see, this word means to bind in several Malayo
[1:53] pollination languages. So you know in that region,
[1:56] Southeast Asia region, right? So it refers to a process of
[2:00] resist dyeing. So do you know what resist
[2:02] dyeing is? No idea, no idea.
[2:04] So what happens is you take the yarns of threads that you're
[2:08] going to weave and you tie like something over it, like in
[2:12] specific spots, and then you die.
[2:14] Right. When you unbind it, you have the
[2:16] colour in certain spots and not in others.
[2:18] So you can kind of imagine doing this in like, you know, complex
[2:21] ways and that's you can create different pattern.
[2:24] While the origin of this term may be Southeast Asian, this
[2:27] technique has kind of evolved independently in several other
[2:30] regions, including India. So kind of it's a 2 parter.
[2:32] The first part is what is this word?
[2:35] Singapore also, it's popular, but not so much.
[2:37] It's much more popular in Indonesia and Malaysia.
[2:39] Now this particular word you will see.
[2:42] Is this? Bhartic, no.
[2:44] Bhartic is also a form of resist dyeing, but it's a different
[2:48] thing. But there it's not the fabric.
[2:50] So in Bhartic what they do is they put wax I think, or
[2:52] something, and then you kind of create a negative imprint.
[2:55] This is happening on the thread itself, not on the finished
[2:58] fabric, on the finished V garden.
[3:01] But think words like Baathik. So there's another Baathik is 1.
[3:04] Then there's another word which also kind of like, you know,
[3:06] it's similar sounding to Baathik.
[3:08] Oh, sounds similar, like similar letters or rhyming or something
[3:12] like that. I'll tell you it's a four letter
[3:14] word. Baathik has all the letters in
[3:15] this word also, so I don't know how else to say similar
[3:18] sounding. Got it, got it.
[3:21] It's just going to be doing permutations over here. 4
[3:26] letters out of the five letters of Baathik.
[3:28] Yeah. None of them seem to be very
[3:33] familiar. OK sorry can I go back to so you
[3:37] said the thread is tie dyed. I guess the tie dyeing is not a
[3:41] different thing, but. Yeah.
[3:42] So this word means to tie, basically.
[3:45] Yeah. So this word means to tie.
[3:46] OK, So how you will hear it is you won't hear it of course, in
[3:49] this process, but there are many things that are made using this
[3:53] technique, right? So they're all classified as
[3:56] this fabrics, right? You know, for example, with
[3:59] Baathik, you will maybe hear like this style of pajama is a
[4:03] Baathik style pajama like. And in India also, there are
[4:06] several regions actually that have specialized in this resist
[4:09] dye. And I'm going to ask you the
[4:10] follow up questions actually about one specific.
[4:12] Region you have you have found niche, niche that we have not
[4:16] really tapped into. The one of the first few
[4:18] questions I remember from maybe our first or second episode had
[4:21] to do with the fabrics. But okay, I'm gonna say because
[4:27] it's a Thai, yeah, Thai car. I'm guessing I'm just getting
[4:32] guessing it now. It's so ikat is the word ikat.
[4:36] Never heard of the term. No, no, ikat needs to tie.
[4:40] And so they you hear ikat style. Got it.
[4:42] One famous this thing is called Pochampalli ikat in India, for
[4:45] example, like just go look it up.
[4:47] Very beautiful fabrics that you know, have this particular like,
[4:50] you know, very. So there's a very distinctive
[4:51] sort of pattern that comes with ikat.
[4:53] Right, right. The question I'm going to ask
[4:55] you, so this is another GI recognize woven art style from
[4:58] Gujarat. And this employs not a single
[5:01] but a EE cut. There's a term they use, they
[5:03] call it warp and the weft, it's like the coordinate axis of the
[5:07] weaves, right? Sure.
[5:08] One side is called warp, the other side is called weft.
[5:10] So in this you resist type both. So then you kind of create like
[5:14] this very intricate patterns by, you know, doing this.
[5:18] So this technique uses this EE cut.
[5:21] It's one of the probably the most like kind of expensive hand
[5:25] loom fabrics you can probably find at least the, you know, the
[5:27] handmade ones because it just takes a crazy amount of time to
[5:30] do this. Generally.
[5:32] It's a it's known for sarees. So like imagine a saree's size
[5:35] and you have to kind of trace out the 2D.
[5:37] It's like a 2D graph. Like that's how they start.
[5:39] Apparently they start with like grit paper kind of things that
[5:42] you see and then like someone like meticulously, like, you
[5:44] know, colors like or draws the pattern on these and then
[5:48] someone follows that and for all the threads, they will tie it in
[5:51] that appropriate places. Then they'll have to dye it in
[5:54] like, you know, not one, but like multiple colors.
[5:56] So imagine like the complexity. You should go look at some of
[5:59] these patterns and then imagine how much effort went into making
[6:02] this, you know, in this particular technique.
[6:04] So do you know this GI tag style of weaving from Gujarat?
[6:09] No, you're asking the absolute wrong person.
[6:11] No idea, no knowledge in this sphere whatsoever.
[6:14] But Gujarat. Is it a city name then?
[6:17] I guess because GI tag. Is it a city name we're looking
[6:19] for? Just two words in this
[6:21] basically. So one is place name, I don't
[6:22] know whether it's a city now. The other one is basically again
[6:26] means like, you know, silk work effectively in like, you know,
[6:29] one language. Got it.
[6:30] It's an alliterative name. It's a kind of very nice
[6:33] sounding name also, one might say.
[6:34] And it's one of the most expensive hand loom fabrics.
[6:38] That's what say with royalty, like, you know, it's one of
[6:41] those things like, you know, if you have this, you will pass it
[6:42] down like as your, you know, inheritance sometimes because
[6:45] that's how expensive some of these can be.
[6:48] OK, so you said not necessarily a city, which makes you think it
[6:52] isn't like a Ahmedabad, Baroda, Surat, Gandhinagar type of
[6:55] thing. Yeah, something smaller and
[6:58] alliterative royalty. Nice sounding.
[7:03] And the word, the second word, which was to do with the dyeing,
[7:07] I believe, was it. Silk work, because it's
[7:08] typically made in silk. So I think, yeah, silk work,
[7:12] that's what it means. Silk work, that is a Gujarati
[7:14] word. Yeah, it is a Gujarati word.
[7:16] Yeah, my Gujarati is not that good because it's a Pochampally.
[7:21] I'm thinking Amrapali is coming to mind, but that's not Gujarat
[7:25] at all. Palli means it's like, you know,
[7:26] it's Andhra Pradesh most like, right?
[7:28] Correct, Correct. Some place in Tamil Nadu also
[7:30] have that name. We have mutual friend who has a
[7:33] middle name. Palli.
[7:36] Yeah, she told me this, her middle name, and she's over
[7:40] here. Stands for village or Town, I
[7:42] believe. See, so that's so that's
[7:44] probably the suffix, right? It's like it has a poacham
[7:46] palli. It's like poacham village
[7:47] probably, right. So it's like, yeah, it's the
[7:48] same, right? Yeah.
[7:50] Digestion society, like. Hey, what is a Gujarati word
[7:54] that I'm missing? Yeah.
[7:56] Wow. No, dude, this is this is not
[7:59] something I know at all. Give me a hint or something
[8:01] maybe? Again, one of the things you
[8:02] probably know it or you don't know it.
[8:03] OK, before you give me, before you give me the full name, give
[8:06] me one of the words. I'll see if I know the second
[8:08] one maybe. OK, I'll give you the not the
[8:10] place there. Maybe the place name you can
[8:12] find, it's Patola. Patola.
[8:14] Sorry. So something Patola.
[8:16] Have you ever heard that rings a bell or no?
[8:21] It was a proper patola, but that's a song.
[8:24] It's another word that starts with PE only.
[8:27] Oh yeah, I lived in Gujarat for a few years.
[8:29] I'm embarrassed. I don't even know this.
[8:32] Talk to your mom and ask her like I'm sure she'll be able to
[8:34] tell you a lot more about this then I.
[8:36] Will then my mom. My sister probably knows because
[8:38] she studied design in Ahmedabad. This sent this clip to her.
[8:44] How I'm letting her down P Patan code No that's.
[8:49] Not Patan Patola. So it's not Patan code, but it's
[8:52] Patan. Patan I have heard of this.
[8:56] I have heard of this. See see you have heard of this.
[8:59] So there they do this. Very fancy dying with the with
[9:04] the threads and. Double Ikat yeah, you should see
[9:07] like some videos on how they make it.
[9:08] It's crazy, you know, so basically they take individual
[9:11] yarns, right? So if you imagine how a saree is
[9:13] made, it's like, you know, these these two kind of cross sections
[9:17] knitted together, right? Imagine that.
[9:18] So you take kind of it's like every row literally of the sari
[9:22] can imagine it as like an individual groups of threads.
[9:25] You have to bind and tie and then do this for every the
[9:29] detail that is there in it. And then you can just see how
[9:32] it's made now. I love that.
[9:33] OK, great. That is, you know what HK a very
[9:37] unexpected question. It did not have anything to do
[9:39] with the, the Ottomans or the. Those are coming later for Delhi
[9:46] street names. This is not a space I was ready
[9:52] to go into, but I'm glad you took me there.
[9:54] Yeah, you know what? This is a good reminder of how
[9:56] many things there are still to explore in terms of trivia.
[10:00] Yeah. Though the first episode of the
[10:03] second episode question I was recalling earlier had to do
[10:06] with, and I think I've asked this in a quiz back in college,
[10:09] so you might have seen it then as well.
[10:11] A visual question back when I asked it in college.
[10:13] And was the map of the world and different points in the world
[10:16] were marked out. And you're supposed to say what
[10:19] connects all of these? And the answer was that all of
[10:22] these are places after which some sort of either a clothing
[10:25] item or or textile is named. Yeah.
[10:28] Muslim is in Iraq. So Muslim comes from there.
[10:30] Yeah. Yeah.
[10:31] Yeah. Kashmir is Kashmir.
[10:33] Kashmir is Kashmir. Yeah.
[10:35] Yeah. And I think the one that Vineet
[10:38] caught on to because I said a few other names, which he was
[10:40] probably not too sure of. When is it Calicut?
[10:42] Calico, is that as a Calicut, right?
[10:44] Yeah. Dungri, after which Dungri's are
[10:46] named. Yeah, yeah.
[10:48] Bermudas. Bermudas are named after the
[10:50] country. Yeah.
[10:51] Denim is named after a place in France.
[10:54] Names right? Jerseys are named after jersey
[10:57] in the UK. Yeah.
[10:59] Jeans Jeans is named after Genoa in Italy.
[11:02] So, yeah, and I think I had asked like very early about like
[11:04] broadcasting and like, you know, like how farming has like a lot
[11:07] of words in English language come from farming.
[11:10] Similarly, a lot of idioms and stuff come from weaving also.
[11:13] Because again, it's one of those activities that has been there
[11:15] for a very long time and kind of seeped into like, you know, so
[11:18] many things like the warp and the left, for example, I think
[11:21] is used as like idiom like, you know, it means like entirety.
[11:23] Garden, Garden. So maybe it's sometimes
[11:26] etymology you can go down for, you know, terms that come from
[11:29] weaving. Endless, endless rabbit hole
[11:31] there. But OK, coming back to our
[11:34] questions and since you took us to Southeast Asia, which regular
[11:39] listeners know both you and I have lived in for a while.
[11:41] Another thing that we have shared that neither of us shares
[11:45] anymore, just like Southeast Asia and that has to do with the
[11:49] computer sciences that the technology space which you have
[11:53] still something to do I the only technology I do is record this
[11:56] podcast. Tell me the name of this
[12:00] particular technique in software engineering where a programmer
[12:05] explains their code step by step in natural language, either
[12:11] allowed or in writing to reveal mistakes and misunderstandings
[12:16] while explaining it to dash. OK Dash debugging is the
[12:22] debugging technique in software engineering where a programmer
[12:25] basically explains the code and as simplistic and natural
[12:28] language as possible to dash or to X, after which the debugging
[12:35] technique is named. What is this debugging
[12:37] technique? I mean, we didn't think I was
[12:39] thinking like something like pseudo code and whatnot, but
[12:41] that doesn't seem to make sense. So I mean, and, and there's like
[12:44] the more recent developments you can say it's like, you know,
[12:46] it's like you're talking to ChatGPT or one thing.
[12:48] So maybe if you're looking at it too recently, then is it like
[12:52] LLM decoding or debugging? But there you probably don't
[12:55] even need to explain it in plain text.
[12:57] I don't think it's either of those.
[12:58] So maybe it's like, you know, maybe you're talking to a
[13:01] mirror, you're explaining it to yourself.
[13:02] Or is it like, you know, some subconscious thing that you're
[13:04] trying to do? Well, you're you're warm in the
[13:08] sense that it isn't another person that you're talking to,
[13:11] if that makes sense. Oh, OK, yeah, wait, it's it's
[13:15] like bouncing ideas of the wall, right?
[13:16] It's something. Is it something like that?
[13:18] Because you're not talking to anybody else.
[13:19] It is, in the end of, at the end of the day, speaking to a wall.
[13:23] But I'm talking about a very specific X over here that you're
[13:26] explaining the code to, right? What is X?
[13:30] Clippy. Very nice.
[13:32] OK, so Clippy is a great guest. Think of something ridiculous
[13:37] would be my advice and I'll give you I'll give you a hint for
[13:41] this. On 1st April 2018, April Fool's
[13:45] Day, Stack Exchange a pretty popular website for for
[13:50] exchanging tech ideas. I guess they had an April Fool's
[13:55] joke called Dash Overflow, right?
[13:59] And let me clarify, Sorry, because the dashes might be
[14:01] confusing. When I said the X debugging
[14:03] style, this dash is Y. OK, so X is a debugging style
[14:07] where you explain it to X. Here they called it Y overflow.
[14:10] But Y&X are related. Y is basically as close to
[14:16] synonymous as it gets to X. OK, so you associate Y with X
[14:20] very very linearly. You know what, I I might have
[14:24] actually seen this go live on April 1st, 28 because I was
[14:27] still a programmer back then. So I and we used to discuss
[14:30] these things that are like start up a lot, probably something
[14:34] overflow interesting. And if if you know what that
[14:37] overflow always refers to, the common phrase buy rhymes with
[14:43] the word that is commonly used. Stack Overflow, right?
[14:46] That's what we see. Stack overflow, correct?
[14:48] Stack overflow. Yeah, yeah, right.
[14:51] That's the name of the website alsostackoverflow.com.
[14:53] Right. So This is why rhymes with
[14:56] stack. It's like something like needle
[14:58] in a haystack. Is that what we're looking for,
[14:59] Something like that? Needle in a haystack overflow.
[15:03] I love that. No, but it's not that.
[15:05] Oh, is it Jack and Jill kind of thing?
[15:07] Is it, is it like Jack overflow and Jill or something?
[15:10] But no but no but. You are.
[15:12] We are on the right track. You're thinking of rhyming.
[15:14] Is it a proper noun? It's not a proper noun.
[15:16] It's not a proper noun, I'll tell you.
[15:17] It's not even a fictional human character.
[15:21] OK. It's not even a fictional
[15:22] specific character. It's not a specific character
[15:25] we're looking at. Right, right, right, right,
[15:26] right, right. So when they had that April
[15:28] Fool's joke, this what would happen?
[15:31] X avatar appeared in the bottom right corner of the screen,
[15:35] listen to the user problems and pretended to type solutions only
[15:40] to respond with a simple. Y OK.
[15:43] And that is how X&Y are connected.
[15:45] Basically, Y is the sound that X would make.
[15:48] It's a rise with stack and it's like something whimsical.
[15:52] Effectively, that's the that's kind of what we're going for,
[15:54] right? Basically, yeah.
[15:56] And it's like, it's like kind of like, you know, you're talking
[15:58] to yourself, something like that.
[15:59] So. Why is the sound that X makes?
[16:03] If it's, is it a crack or something?
[16:05] Think of an animal sound. X is a type of.
[16:09] Animal, So what pet would they be talking to that like you
[16:12] know, like what pro that's programmers supposedly have?
[16:15] That's the other thing also, right, Like it's like it's a
[16:16] play at like what what you have in the yes.
[16:20] It is something that a programmer might be carrying
[16:22] around with them, so it's not an actual animal.
[16:25] Can I give you like what timeline?
[16:27] Like what it's a pop culture reference something in the sense
[16:29] like it's like something that is it something that programmers
[16:31] get even now or it's like one of those things that's like was
[16:33] popular at like in a particular Mileu or.
[16:35] No, no, no, no. I don't think every programmer
[16:37] or you definitely a meta programmer who carries it.
[16:40] People in an office setting might have it near them.
[16:42] Maybe it's kind of like a stress ball but in animal shape.
[16:48] What would they have that is animal shaped and that makes a
[16:51] sound OK? I'll give you one more hint.
[16:54] The reason in 2018 they probably used this was because in 2017
[16:58] this X had become a popular protest symbol in a lot of
[17:02] places across the world. Squeegee a duck is it?
[17:06] So what's the what's the sound? Quack, quack duck.
[17:10] OK, wow. OK, so so it's called duck
[17:14] debugging, is it? So it's called rubber duck
[17:17] debugging. Rubber duck.
[17:19] Ah, rubber. OK, but I remember this wasn't
[17:21] one of our recommended books. I don't think I ever read it,
[17:24] but it's called The Pragmatic Programmer and it's a popular
[17:27] book in college courses for software engineering, right?
[17:30] Where apparently there was a story of a programmer who used
[17:34] to carry a rubber around and explained the code to the duck
[17:38] every time line by line whenever they felt like they were not
[17:40] able to debug it. So they would hold the duck up
[17:43] to the screen and explain it to them and be like oh this is what
[17:46] this line does, this is what this line does.
[17:47] And till they found what the problem was, well, rubber duck
[17:51] debugging. And when they used it in Stack
[17:55] Exchange for an April Fool's joke, they called it a quack
[17:58] overflow. And the rubber duck avatar would
[18:01] appear and then you would tell it your problems that it will
[18:04] try to solve, like it show you the typing thing, but in the
[18:06] end, it'll just make a quack sound.
[18:10] Yeah. Rubber duck was a proper popular
[18:11] protest symbol. I don't know if you remember a
[18:14] few years ago, it was being used to.
[18:16] It was used in Belgrade. It was used in Brazil, in
[18:20] Moscow. So it was quite a few places in
[18:23] 2017. It was being used in Bangkok in
[18:25] 2020. I remember this in 2013, China's
[18:29] great firewall, they blocked searches for big yellow duck
[18:33] because Chinese activists, and I love Chinese activists for doing
[18:37] this, were photoshopping the rubber duck onto the tank.
[18:40] Man photo of the Tiananmen Square massacre, right, right.
[18:46] The in China it was blocked for a while.
[18:48] You couldn't even search for big yellow duck on on their Internet
[18:52] anymore. So it's like how probably Winnie
[18:54] the Pooh is also like, you know, similarly sort of.
[18:56] Another, another very famous example.
[18:58] Yeah. Yeah.
[18:59] Because of the resemblance to Xi Jinping.
[19:02] So yeah, that's rubber duck debugging.
[19:05] And if you ever decide to go back to tech, you have something
[19:08] to help you. Yeah, maybe to encourage you to
[19:12] go back to tech, it's another tech adjacent question like you
[19:15] know, so it just happened that way.
[19:16] I am glad, I'm glad. Please help me with it.
[19:18] So there's a 2 parter again, so you know, and it's another
[19:21] interesting sort of like, you know, 1 connect to the other
[19:23] sort of thingy. So this is a device that when
[19:26] fitted onto a loom, right? Like a weaving loom simplifies
[19:30] the process of manufacturing textiles with complex pattern.
[19:33] It revolutionized like viewing as well to something because it
[19:37] made like complex patterns a lot easier to do and also is set to
[19:41] inspired Charles Babbage's Analytical engine.
[19:44] OK, so you fit it onto a loom and it kind of makes the
[19:47] patterns easier. So what kind of device are we
[19:50] talking about? OK.
[19:52] So it has to do with the world of viewing, but also inspired
[19:58] Childs Babbage's first computer is it?
[20:01] Analytical Engine. A first analytical engineer.
[20:04] Like if you think about it, this is programming Like what you're
[20:07] doing when you do this device is in a way, it's like a
[20:11] rudimentary sort of like, you know, giving instructions and
[20:16] making the loom sort of repeat the instruction.
[20:18] That's kind of what you're doing.
[20:20] OK, right. In the most fundamental sense of
[20:22] what programming is, right. Makes sense.
[20:24] Yeah, right. And this is a word that I would
[20:26] know from the world of technology.
[20:28] Or would I note otherwise? Actually it's an inventor's
[20:31] name. So that's like what you know it
[20:33] by the process. Basically, it's like this
[20:35] person's process kind of like, you know, transform many things,
[20:38] including computing. And it also transformed weaving.
[20:42] It's like 18th century, like, you know, late 18th, early 19th
[20:45] century, sort of what one name comes to mind when you talk
[20:47] about weaving in that time? I I think I think you're
[20:52] overestimating my knowledge of history of 19th century weavers
[20:56] and the innovators in weaving. I'm not too sure if I know too
[21:00] many names. You hear it as something loom,
[21:03] but that it's technically sort of inaccurate.
[21:07] The only word that I can think of before loom is power loom,
[21:10] but I don't think that's named after a person.
[21:12] I think that's just power. A French person whose name is
[21:15] like, you know, associated with loom.
[21:17] No French person, Something loom and something through the tech
[21:24] world. No.
[21:24] Give me another hint maybe? Basically, it's like it's the
[21:27] earliest sort of punch card system effectively.
[21:29] So what you do is you punch the patterns onto like, you know,
[21:32] cards and then you attach them to the loom.
[21:34] And then like when you're weaving, you like the cards kind
[21:37] of I think appear on particular places and whatnot, and they
[21:39] kind of let you help guide the loom in like particular ways.
[21:42] And you? Know how punch cards became like
[21:45] the early IBM started off as punch cards and whatnot, So just
[21:48] like the one of the earliest sort of applications of punch
[21:50] cards in that sense. French sounding name so I
[21:54] always. So what's like the most?
[21:55] Stereotypical French name you can think of.
[21:57] Pierre. Not Pierre, but like the other
[22:00] like maybe English name and like the French equivalent of that I
[22:02] maybe like, you know, like what's this most stereotypical
[22:05] English name? Timothy Chalamet.
[22:09] No, no. Oh, I feel like I've heard this
[22:15] in this context. I don't know if I'm completely
[22:17] off the mark, though. Is it jacquard?
[22:20] Jacquard. I don't know how to pronounce.
[22:23] Yes, yes, it is Jacquard's loom or Jacquard's card.
[22:26] And then the the he had some modifier to basically control
[22:31] how the loom operated. And that's how Charles Babbage
[22:34] also was inspired. Yes.
[22:35] OK, vaguely remember it from some computing class.
[22:40] See. It's computing history.
[22:42] Yeah, OK, OK, Cool, cool, cool. Joseph Murray Jacquard in 1804.
[22:46] Now to link this to closer to home.
[22:49] Basically, like, you know, another GI tagged OK, typically
[22:54] uses the Jacquard loom to produce these silk saris.
[22:58] And this tradition dates back to at least 14th or 15th centuries.
[23:01] They are particularly well known for their gold and silver zari
[23:05] work. So you know what zari is, right?
[23:06] I think zari is like the yeah, yeah.
[23:08] So gold and silver zari work. So with GI tag product.
[23:14] Okay, I don't know about the loom part of it so much
[23:15] obviously, but I'm gonna take a guess because of the gold sari
[23:19] work. Is it Kanjivaram?
[23:20] So if you think of silk sarees in India, like on the top
[23:23] kanjivaram is 1, this is not kanjivaram.
[23:25] So what's the next sort of place that comes to mind?
[23:28] And the other one I can think of, the top of my head is
[23:31] Banarsi. Is it Banarsi sari?
[23:33] So it is Banarasi. Banarasi sari.
[23:36] Ah, okay. So Banarasi sarees are typically
[23:40] done with Jakart because like you see that kind of maybe those
[23:42] distinctive patterns, right? Like those motives, repeated
[23:45] motives like those are a lot easier to do with.
[23:48] Like a Shakart device that. Interesting, interesting.
[23:52] These products especially like, you know, we take a lot of it
[23:54] for granted, I guess, like, you know, sarees and it's just so
[23:57] fascinating. Think about like, once you start
[23:59] thinking about how they're made, oh, it's crazy.
[24:01] There's gonna be a visually rich episode.
[24:03] I'm gonna all of these displayed for anybody watching it.
[24:07] In case you aren't, this is incentive to go check us out on
[24:10] YouTube. Yeah, yeah.
[24:12] Well, you brought us close to home, so I'm going to continue
[24:15] right from there. And you have to tell me what
[24:18] competition was it that there were five finalists in and these
[24:23] were Nundita, Korea, Mehrotra, That's one person.
[24:29] Hitesh Padmashali, second person.
[24:32] The third one is Shibin KK, 4th person is Shahrukh J Irani and
[24:37] the 5th person is D Udaya Kumar. What competition?
[24:41] That these five people came with the finalist What Indian?
[24:46] Level competition Were these the five finalists for Is there
[24:49] always 5 every? Year kind of thingy, like are
[24:52] they competing against each other or is it one of those
[24:54] things where they're all independently done something and
[24:56] like no, they're being recognized for this was the
[24:58] first. And the only time that this has
[25:01] happened in India will Can it happen again or is?
[25:03] It like one of those like you know, it'll never happen again.
[25:07] I don't see it. Happening anytime in the
[25:08] foreseeable future, but hey, who knows?
[25:10] Uday Kumar and then. This is like, it's a pretty
[25:12] bunch of diverse names. There's not clearly one reason.
[25:15] It's like kind of like, you know, Pan.
[25:16] So I'm thinking, is it something to do with like, you know, some
[25:18] award that they're nominated for or something like that?
[25:20] No, no, no. Not an award that they were
[25:22] nominated for. It was a open competition to
[25:25] anybody and everybody I guess from India.
[25:28] I don't know if they're restricted to only Indians but
[25:31] well, given the finalists, I imagine it was Indian centric
[25:34] and it was a competition being held in India.
[25:37] Sounds like, you know, maybe a very.
[25:39] Facetious answer. Like, you know who's listened to
[25:40] the most episodes of Monkey Bap or something like that or?
[25:45] Who's listening to the most episodes of Are You Quizzing Me?
[25:49] That would be my father. No, my father is not one of the
[25:55] finalists. Government related is that?
[25:57] That's the other thing I'm thinking of.
[25:58] Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is like, you know, AIR.
[26:01] One for civil service exams, something like that.
[26:03] But that would not be a. One once only thing, right?
[26:05] That's true. That's true.
[26:07] Like, but five people perhaps like is a little unusual, I
[26:10] would say, but like you know, or within line for something or you
[26:14] know, like for some position or something like that.
[26:16] I I think right now, right? Now it's way too, way too
[26:19] open-ended for you to make a very good educated guess.
[26:22] So I'll help you out. First, I'll give you the
[26:24] timeline. The finalist was decided on 15th
[26:28] July 2010. OK.
[26:30] And that was D Udaya Kumar DU. Udaya Kumar was associate
[26:35] professor at IIT Guwahati. Maybe he has been promoted now,
[26:39] maybe he's moved, I'm not sure. But back in 2010, Udaya Kumar
[26:42] was an associate professor at IIT Guwahati.
[26:45] Oh, is this the rupee thing? Is this like the design of the
[26:49] rupee? Because I vaguely remember.
[26:50] Very impressive. I thought you'd need at least
[26:54] two more hints, but that was very quick.
[26:56] Well done, well done. Yes, this is the rupee symbol.
[26:59] These were the five finalists for the rupee design, but I.
[27:03] I think. The deserved design won the
[27:07] award, but the other finalists were also pretty great.
[27:11] Surprisingly, I think Hitesh, Padma Shali, their design is
[27:17] also quite similar. Quite similar.
[27:19] All. All of the designs are actually
[27:21] vaguely similar, so I think you can tell where the judges were
[27:25] sort of inclined towards. Deodhar Kumar's design is
[27:29] simple. It's beautiful.
[27:31] It is. It captures somehow both the
[27:34] English are and the Hindi or Dev Nagari has the line across the
[27:43] which is emblematic of a lot of currencies with the line either
[27:47] vertically through it or horizontally through it.
[27:50] So yeah, I think he managed to do something very impressive
[27:53] with the design. Previous one was the Hindi
[27:56] letter, right? That was, that's what it was, I
[27:58] think, I presume. Or was it never a official
[28:00] symbol? I don't think there was an
[28:01] official. Symbol.
[28:02] It was always Rs or RE for rupees and RE for rupee right?
[28:07] Yes, this was only made official in 2010.
[28:11] Like I mentioned, 15 July 2010 was when they decided on the
[28:14] winner. And it has an ISO symbol now.
[28:17] So you can use it in any technological communication as
[28:22] well. So that's where the rupee symbol
[28:24] comes from, from an open competition and which was won by
[28:27] an associate professor in IIT Guwahati, D Uday Kumar.
[28:30] And what a legacy to have left. Very impressive.
[28:32] That's true, yeah. Crazy.
[28:34] Yes, I get like 1 of this like 99% invisible things, right?
[28:37] Like, you know, that you don't think, pay attention to and then
[28:39] there's a story behind all of them.
[28:41] Yeah, I think we've recommended that enough times in this port.
[28:45] Can't recommend it enough. Can't recommend it enough.
[28:48] So moving. Away from India, because, you
[28:50] know, I think we spend a lot of time there.
[28:52] Let's go to somewhere like a little very different.
[28:54] So this person was a Swedish astronomer, physicist and
[28:58] mathematician who founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory
[29:03] in 1741. What he's most known for today,
[29:07] he proposed in a paper to the Royal Society of Sciences in
[29:10] Uppsala in 1742. So it became.
[29:16] What we think of now, you know, thanks to Carl Linnaeus, who if
[29:21] you know, is the one who kind of another did a lot of the work on
[29:24] taxonomy species. And I think it's the same
[29:26] Linnaeus, if I'm not mistaken, who a year after this person's
[29:30] death in 1745, so kind of relatively soon, he just
[29:34] proposed a simple correction. What this person had proposed
[29:39] was, you know, did not lend itself to practical measurement.
[29:44] So Carl Inez suggested that why don't we do this one thing And
[29:47] then like, that's kind of what we do now.
[29:49] So who and what? I mean, what am I talking about?
[29:52] South Upsala? Was founded by this person
[29:55] Upsala Astronomical. Observatory was founded by this
[29:58] person. Oh OK, got it.
[29:59] Got it. Got it.
[30:00] So that's an astronomical observatory this person founded.
[30:04] So does their work have to do with astronomy?
[30:07] So I said he's an. Astronomer, physicist and
[30:09] mathematician. And the change was proposed by
[30:12] Carl Linnaeus, who's a botanist, taxonomist.
[30:15] Like, you know, it's like, it's not really like an, I think he's
[30:17] an astronomer, maybe a big polymath.
[30:20] OK, so. Not, not an astronomy, probably
[30:24] something to do with maybe the physical sciences, the life
[30:28] sciences. And this is the 18th century,
[30:31] right? Yeah, early, like 17. 42 You can
[30:34] say that you know this person is kind of run out decisively in
[30:38] kind of most places except one. This feels like a SI unit kind
[30:44] of nonsense. Again.
[30:46] This feels like it's going to be those Americans ruining it for
[30:49] the rest of the world. Yeah, yeah, you're saying this
[30:53] person won out. So it's not one of those quirky,
[30:57] stupid foot inches yards # nonsense.
[31:03] No, no, no. An.
[31:04] SI Unit. That is named after a person.
[31:06] There are quite a few, Yeah, I think most of them.
[31:09] If I'm not mistaken, are probably named after people,
[31:11] yeah. Something that America.
[31:13] Does notably different from most of us is I'm trying to think of.
[31:17] Fundamental stuff. I'm not, I'm not trying to go
[31:19] into like pressure and and pressure is pretty fundamental.
[31:23] You can say but but yeah, I'm talking more.
[31:26] Yeah, I was. Thinking meters, second gram,
[31:29] but none of those. Yes, it is more.
[31:31] Fundamental than that. So gram is not named after a
[31:34] person? Not named after a person, yeah.
[31:36] Yeah, yeah. Anyway, the SI unit is kilogram,
[31:39] I believe. It's not a gram.
[31:40] I don't want to think too much of SI.
[31:41] Because technically SI unit is different I think but.
[31:45] Think along with the fundamental.
[31:46] Things like you said, yeah, wait, you're done.
[31:47] Like you know, length you've thought of length is also not a
[31:49] person not wait. Not time, not length,
[31:54] fundamental units. Apart from that, yeah.
[31:57] Oh, temperature. Oh, is it?
[32:01] So Kelvin would be the SI unit, but you're saying it's not SI?
[32:03] Yeah, so Kelvin is British. Then I'm assuming it's Celsius.
[32:06] Yeah, Celsius, yes, this is. Andes Celsius, so he originally
[32:09] proposed it as boiling .00 and. Freezing point is 100.
[32:15] Oh, I've read this piece of trivia.
[32:17] I've come across Visa trivia somewhere, and this guy, what's
[32:19] his name? This guy is a taxonomist.
[32:21] Carlenez. Carlenez.
[32:23] He invited it. Yes.
[32:24] Yes, yes, yes, yes. Though I think like the I.
[32:26] Think the other one Fahrenheit is I'm not sure where which
[32:29] country thing is. I'm not sure it's German or
[32:30] Dutch or something, but some people say that Fahrenheit scale
[32:33] is like better because in some sense, like, you know, it like
[32:36] it's more realistic in terms of, you know, how you observe
[32:39] temperatures. Like in the kind of the ranges
[32:41] that we think of. Like, you know, like 100 is
[32:44] warm, whereas like, you know, you'll never will like, count to
[32:47] 100°C. Like, you know, like that means
[32:49] you're probably like dead already at that point or dying
[32:52] or, you know, in agony. But like, yeah, then like 0
[32:54] Fahrenheit is still something that a person would experience,
[32:58] right? Right, right.
[32:59] Right, right. There's like argument to be.
[33:01] Made that Fahrenheit is more natural OK?
[33:03] The reason they kind of calibrated.
[33:04] That also is probably to be close to human temperature
[33:07] right? Which is 98.6 right Fahrenheit.
[33:11] Just a small. Bonus thing, so I said he was,
[33:13] you know, he founded in 1741. He died in 75.
[33:15] He died like relatively young. So what do you think he died
[33:18] from fever? Did he have a fever that.
[33:20] He died. I don't know why I'm laughing at
[33:22] this poor man's death. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[33:24] No, I thought because of Celsius.
[33:25] And Fahrenheit. And he died because of that,
[33:27] because it's a throwback to something.
[33:29] That we've actually discussed. So what?
[33:30] What do you think he died from? He died of something.
[33:33] That we have discussed, yes. Oh, didn't we discuss that?
[33:37] Tuberculosis I think. Yes, he died of TB.
[33:40] As well, everything is tuberculosis.
[33:41] The book Yes, Everything is tuberculosis.
[33:44] So Celsius died from tuberculosis as well.
[33:46] So I thought it was like a nice throwback to yeah, cool, since
[33:50] we were. Talking about something morbid.
[33:53] This person dying of TB? I'm going to ask you what is the
[33:58] very end? This is a dark question.
[33:59] If you're not in the mood to dampen a spirit, skip ahead to a
[34:02] listener. But what is the name given to
[34:06] the horizontal scar at the base of the throat which results from
[34:10] surgery to remove a thyroid cancer caused by a specific
[34:15] reason, with the specific reason I can think of?
[34:17] Is smoking or something like that or like chewing tobacco or
[34:20] what not smart? Guess not.
[34:22] The answer in this case, not the reason that I'm looking for, so
[34:25] it won't be the most common reason.
[34:27] Very few people would have encountered this, but boy or
[34:31] boy, from whatever I've read, it is a gruesome way to go.
[34:35] OK, people. Who?
[34:37] Have to undergo surgery to remove it from their throat.
[34:40] Have usually a scar there. What is both the reason I'm
[34:44] asking and what is it called? Perhaps the reason will be the
[34:47] first answer you'll get to and then you can figure out what is
[34:50] called. So the other thing I think.
[34:52] Of something like, you know, something to do workplace
[34:53] conditions. So like mining, that's the other
[34:55] thing I think of like there's something to inhalation of like,
[34:57] you know, like, you know, 'cause it's black lung.
[34:59] Very, very good guess. And also very close because it
[35:03] doesn't have to do with the mining specifically, but it does
[35:05] have to do with the occupational hazard, OK, occupational.
[35:08] Hazard. Interesting.
[35:10] OK, so we've started mining that.
[35:12] Is it just like millwork or something like that, Like, you
[35:13] know, plus flour inhalation. That's the other thing.
[35:15] I know it's like apparently very bad for you.
[35:17] Yeah, Yeah. But.
[35:19] Think of something. Think of something more way more
[35:21] modern radiation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[35:24] Yeah, OK, so I'll give it to you.
[35:26] The reason is a fallout from a nuclear accident, right?
[35:30] OK, so Chernobyl. So Chernobyl is in.
[35:33] The name What is the full name? Chernobyl Dash is the name given
[35:37] to the horizontal scar at the base of the throat.
[35:40] Oh, Chernobyl. Dash, is it OK what let we got
[35:43] then souvenir or something like that like they like, you know,
[35:47] call it like a very morbid way like it is it is.
[35:51] Very dark. It is, it is it is.
[35:56] It puts it into a very different life.
[35:58] That word was probably never used in such a dark torn text,
[36:01] except for like maybe this instance.
[36:02] Chernobyl gift close, close. Think of something more
[36:06] ornamental and specific to the location of this car necklace.
[36:12] It's a Chernobyl necklace. It is one of those things which
[36:16] is you. You perhaps don't realize it
[36:20] till you understand what it refers to because sounds at the
[36:24] outset sounds very nice. And the other one that I always
[36:27] think of is the Chelsea Grin. That's the.
[36:32] That's the Joker thing, right? It's also called a Cheshire.
[36:35] Green it's also called a Glasgow smile.
[36:37] I don't know what's happening in the British Isles but something
[36:42] crazy. It's a wound cause by making a
[36:44] cut from the corners of a victims mouth up to the ears,
[36:47] leaving a scar in the. I'm sorry, I should have given a
[36:49] big content warning. Yeah.
[36:52] Yeah, that this is a little. Graphic.
[36:54] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's one of those words.
[36:56] That it just, it's so disturbing when you realize what it means.
[36:59] A Glasgow smile at the outset sounds very cute.
[37:02] And then you realize, oh, that's dark Chernobyl necklace.
[37:05] I will leave. Our audience with this question,
[37:09] at least with one last one, which is the Colombian necktie
[37:11] of only Google it. If you.
[37:13] Can stand something gory. Otherwise, don't do it HK.
[37:16] I know you don't like that stuff, so for you I'd recommend
[37:19] not Googling it. Is this what the gangsters?
[37:21] Used to do or something. Yeah.
[37:23] Yep, Yep. Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep.
[37:26] You. You don't want to Google it
[37:27] unless you have a stomach for it.
[37:31] But yes, this goes back to what I was saying about Columbia
[37:34] necktie. Glasgow smile.
[37:36] Back to the Chernobyl necklace, a very, very dark thing that has
[37:42] a deceptively pretty name. So that is shown over necklace
[37:46] for you HK. Do you have one last question
[37:48] for us before we wrap up this episode?
[37:51] OK, so. I like, you know, like I know
[37:53] I've kind of gone off base a bit with my questions and I'm going
[37:55] to bring it back home to my kind of turf.
[37:57] So this is the daily question of my set.
[38:01] Go for it. This person was.
[38:03] Kind of popularly known as Adi Naidilika Malik.
[38:07] So Annie, this is obviously a term not from recent times, but
[38:10] like, you know, from the 40s, fifties, when New Delhi was new,
[38:14] he got his start as a contractor.
[38:16] One of his first jobs was to transport the foundation stones
[38:20] of the Viceroy House in New Delhi.
[38:23] So in a way, he laid the foundation stone for New Delhi.
[38:26] Like, in a weird sort of way, right?
[38:29] He would go on to build. What is regarded as New Delhi's
[38:32] first apartment complex because again, like New Delhi had a lot
[38:34] of bungalows, which is called and it's probably the biggest
[38:37] hint is Sujan Singh Park. It still exists.
[38:40] It's in Kanye Khan market. So who is this person if you
[38:42] remember the the name and more importantly, who is his famous
[38:46] son who would go on to live and die in Sujan Singh Park?
[38:50] He'll probably one of the most famous residents of Sujan Singh
[38:52] Park so. You said Adi Dillika Malik and
[38:56] my my first instinct was to say Latin because Latin's Delhi but
[39:01] Latin's in own. Delhi So this person actually
[39:03] owned a bunch of land and now I gather is.
[39:06] Somebody Indian so doesn't make sense and his son is a famous
[39:12] Indian person I'm guessing who was lived and died in in Delhi.
[39:18] Very famous. Famous.
[39:20] Delhi person, son was a writer. Author, lawyer, diplomat,
[39:25] journalist and politician RK. Lakshman RK.
[39:28] Lakshman is not from Delhi, right?
[39:30] No, no, not Delhi. Malgudi is thinking of like
[39:33] that's not Delhi, Delhi, Delhi person like you know this
[39:37] mention the mention the. Qualification.
[39:38] Something is the back of my head.
[39:40] Author. Lawyer.
[39:41] Diplomat, Politician. Journalist.
[39:43] Diplomat. The only thing I can think of is
[39:47] this I remember from his memoir. I think you're talking about
[39:50] Khushwant Singh. Yes, this is Khushwant Singh.
[39:52] So the sign is Khushwant Singh. Khushwant Singh's father.
[39:55] Was this famous? Yes, yes.
[39:58] Oh, OK, OK, OK, OK. So it's called Adi.
[40:01] Naidilika Malik. So I guess you probably don't
[40:04] know the name. It was Sobha Singh.
[40:05] Sobha Singh. So one of his earliest.
[40:08] Contracts was basically to move the viceroy stones, the stones,
[40:12] the foundation stones from, you know, Kingsway to Risena Hill.
[40:17] So in 1912, right? So Viceroy Harding, this is not
[40:20] the thing where there was an assassination attempt on him.
[40:23] That's also a very famous sort of like, you know, Delhi story,
[40:25] like, you know, during, again, another one of these dead bars.
[40:27] So he was there nearby when that assassination had attempt
[40:30] happened. And then I think apparently when
[40:33] Bhagat Singh, I think in some Delhi court or something, he
[40:36] detonated the bomb. He was there again at that time
[40:38] because he was a lawyer. Wow.
[40:41] That, you know, he was part of. The British elite at that point,
[40:44] like apparently Gandhi used to stay at his house a lot and
[40:47] Jinnah used to walk around this. One of those things, like one of
[40:49] those people that is just Subha Singh, is like.
[40:52] The Forrest Gump of Indian is which is there at every iconic
[40:56] moment, more. Like, you know, involved then
[41:00] Forrest more consequential. In a way, yeah, that is true.
[41:04] Yeah. So.
[41:06] It's very interesting. Wow.
[41:07] I had no idea Khushan Singh came from such a storied history.
[41:11] Yeah, Adi Naidilika Malik's son is a is some sort of a stepping
[41:17] stone. Yeah, very.
[41:19] Cool history lesson. And Delhi lesson.
[41:21] I like it all rolled into one, right?
[41:23] Great. Notes to end.
[41:24] This episode on and before we do I have to ask or other answer
[41:30] the audience question that I asked in the beginning.
[41:32] So HK, any guesses as to what is the name of the website?
[41:36] And this website is specifically in the entertainment space that
[41:40] has been around for more than a decade but gained popularity
[41:43] especially during COVID as most of us were relying for online
[41:46] entertainment during that space during that phase.
[41:49] And it gets its name from a technique used in transferring
[41:55] from one format to another. I'm being very vague, but
[41:59] hopefully you can figure it out. I'm thinking like, you know,
[42:02] it's like the. But it's very tiny.
[42:04] Is it F FM, PG? But it's not a, it's not a
[42:06] website, it's a tool, I think YouTube Downloader.
[42:10] Right. I've never used it, I don't
[42:12] know. What you're talking about, you
[42:14] criminal. OK, so to be very specific, this
[42:20] is a website that has to do with films and it's it's probably the
[42:25] second or the third most important website and when it
[42:27] comes to films after IMDb and and Rotten Tomatoes, Right,
[42:31] right, right, right. And everybody's been.
[42:33] Talking about it for the last few years, there's rips and.
[42:36] Whatnot go back even further. I'm.
[42:38] Talking about like, if I made a film, I wanted to show it on TV,
[42:42] I would have to do this thing, OK?
[42:45] To be able to show that film on. TV.
[42:47] And that's where this website gets its name also.
[42:50] Oh, right. OK, so it's like that.
[42:53] What do you call it? It's it's like the the the tape
[42:57] is digitizing the tape effectively, right?
[42:59] Like the real. I'm sure there were things that.
[43:01] They had to do in that space. I'm not talking about that.
[43:03] I'm talking about formats. When I said format, I meant, you
[43:06] know what, I'm going to break it on you further for you.
[43:08] Aspect ratio. Think aspect ratio, Right,
[43:10] Right, Right, right, right. The one which is very popular
[43:13] is. The wide format right which is
[43:16] extremely wide screen 69 or what not.
[43:19] Yeah. So the ratio. 16 is tonight you
[43:21] would do something to that white screen film to be able to show
[43:25] it on TV while maintaining that aspect ratio black bars, right
[43:30] so. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's like
[43:31] 2. So what do you call it?
[43:33] What is that called? That gives its name to the
[43:35] website in the entertainment space, which is something every
[43:39] cinephile knows, every random Twitter film critic knows.
[43:46] Like, they talk about it all the time.
[43:47] They are obsessed with it all the time.
[43:49] Is that where you store? Your you know that's letter box.
[43:52] That's the yes that is it letter.
[43:54] Boxed. Is it letter box?
[43:55] Oh. It's letter boxed.
[43:56] OK. OK.
[43:57] It is letter boxed. OK, so adding.
[43:59] Those black bars is called letter boxing.
[44:02] How? In a letter box, you have a slot
[44:03] that you put your letter through, right?
[44:07] Right, that's what it looks. Like so they called it
[44:09] letterboxing because you want to make the white screen appear as
[44:14] white screen but on TV obviously you need to add something.
[44:16] So they add the black bars on both the bottom, bottom at the
[44:19] top and that gives its name to the website which is letterbox.
[44:24] And do you know what you do? What is it called when say you
[44:27] have to add it on the sides of square format film, right?
[44:32] What would you do to show it on TV when ribboning or something
[44:35] like that? Pillar boxing.
[44:37] So letterbox, but you add pillars on the side.
[44:40] So it's called pillar boxing. Yeah, right.
[44:43] Pillar boxing letterboxing. And that's where Letterbox, the
[44:46] website gets its name. Hey, nice.
[44:48] Are you on letterbox or do you? Follow people on letterbox by
[44:51] any chance? No, I don't I.
[44:53] Keep up with it, I don't. Specifically follow it, but once
[44:55] in a while I'll go check. Martin Scorsese's letterbox
[44:58] account was at one point the most followed account on the
[45:00] website because everybody wanted to know what Martin Scorsese
[45:03] thinks about films. But yeah, that brings us very
[45:07] neatly to our pop culture recommendations.
[45:09] HK hit us quickly with what do you think is good that you've
[45:12] seen recently? I went and saw this.
[45:15] Anime movie or it's called the anime is called demon Slayer.
[45:18] So this is kind of the final arc of the movie.
[45:21] And then it's it's one of those movies that, you know, you feel
[45:25] like you have to see it like those things that even though
[45:28] it's anime like it's beautifully like, you know, animated.
[45:30] It's like I think CGI and hand drawn animations and yeah, on
[45:35] the big screen. Great experience.
[45:38] Another. Movie that I.
[45:38] Went and watched recently. Also was surprising.
[45:41] It's called Loca. I know that Vinita's mentioned
[45:43] it already. I'm not sure, but there's this.
[45:47] Yeah, it's this Malayalam movie. It's a part of a new sort of
[45:50] cinematic universe, sort of not the probably the most well known
[45:55] stars, at least like the leads, but it's a beautiful sort of,
[45:58] again, like one of those movies that you know, you want to
[46:00] watch. Their well shot and a very
[46:03] intriguing story. It's like Supernatural but set
[46:06] in the Indian context. Madam Cinema.
[46:10] Breaking expectations and setting the bar as they often
[46:15] end up doing. It is.
[46:17] It is. A very impressive film culture
[46:20] in India for sure. Malayalam films.
[46:22] I have to recommend another film.
[46:24] So I'm going to do a film recommendation and again, and
[46:27] that's going to be Humans in the Loop.
[46:29] And this is a Hindi Kuruk language film that is directed
[46:36] by Aranya Sahai and it follows an Adivasi woman who
[46:40] unexpectedly finds herself interacting with AI.
[46:42] And I'm going to leave it at that.
[46:44] This is from the Wikipedia page. That's what I'm going to leave
[46:46] it because it I, I don't know, maybe I thought it would be a
[46:50] little preachy or maybe it would be a little because I'm always
[46:54] curious as to how a director handles these topics which are
[46:57] not very often talked about in cinema.
[47:00] And kudos to any act director, by the way, trying it out.
[47:03] It's never easy, but this is a film which doesn't come across
[47:08] as either preachy or telling you either about the Adivasi culture
[47:12] in India or talking about AI with a very heavy-handed way.
[47:16] But it but it still just hits the right spot when it comes to
[47:19] good films. And so you have to check out
[47:21] Humans in the Loop. I believe it's not in theaters
[47:23] anymore. It was there briefly, of course.
[47:27] As good movies. Are they leave cinema very
[47:30] quickly, but as humans in the loop if you can catch it online
[47:33] do do that and that is the end of the pop culture
[47:36] recommendations, which brings us to my very quick and short plea
[47:41] to go check us out on any podcasting platform.
[47:43] If you're already listening to us, you could watch us on video
[47:46] podcasts on YouTube or on Spotify and we are on Reddit.
[47:51] So R slash arequising me you can e-mail us at
[47:53] arequising.me@gmail.com. You can also, so hit us up on
[47:56] Instagram where we are at. Are you quizzing me?
[47:58] Always love to hear from you if you have any thoughts, any
[48:00] feedback, any ideas, any suggestions and always, always
[48:03] send us trivia. Lovely to see fun If we are
[48:06] coming in from audience members and we do share it whenever we
[48:10] can and we need to once he's back, we'll be sharing some of
[48:14] the audience questions that I know he has received in the
[48:15] recent past because I can see the emails, but I obviously
[48:18] don't open it. So those questions coming soon.
[48:21] And yeah, I believe that's it. So recommend this podcast for
[48:26] anybody who likes trivia and who likes to know more about Delhi,
[48:29] about history, about now textiles.
[48:31] Also, I guess HK, I'm counting on the next episode having some
[48:34] coffee trivia. OK, I, I feel like you always
[48:36] trust to give us some fun coffee trivia.
[48:39] HK's promise to come back actually with a very fun format.
[48:41] So look forward to that guest episode.
[48:43] Once we need this back, we'll do a guest episode of HK where he's
[48:46] going to do a slightly different quizzing format.
[48:48] Looking forward to that. Cool.
[48:50] Thank you so much HK for joining us one more time.
[48:53] Any last thoughts? No, love it.
[48:57] There should never be a last thought.
[48:58] There will be more thoughts always.
[49:00] OK. See you guys next week.
[49:14] I will be very disappointed if you don't get this very soon.
[49:16] Yeah. So like, no.

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