From The Marginlands

About From The Marginlands

From The Marginlands with Prem and Arati takes unabashed deep-dives into uncomfortable environmental issues. We converse with carefully curated guests on the art of telling stories about the environment and on climate change as it manifests around the world.

Publisher

Prem & Arati

Category

science · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Mar 2025

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

32 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   When The Fever Map Changes & Cures Stop Working: Talking Health & Climate with Ramanan Laxminarayan

   In this episode we talk to epidemiologist Ramanan Laxminarayan about what ails India's health. He makes the case that the biggest threat is the silent spread of noncommunicable disease, and that India is good at health events, but weak at the unglamorous, sustained work of public health. The conversation moves through eradication and elimination, dengue, climate extremes and heat, Nipah and bats, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It closes with his new book, Bacteria to Buddha, and an argum...

2. 

   9 Sept 2026

   Oceans Are Absorbing Heat Equal To 12 Hiroshimas Every Second: Implications are HUGE

   In this wide-ranging conversation with Arati (Prem was out sick, sadly), Dr. Roxy Koll explains why climate change is no longer a distant, gradual phenomenon but an accelerating cascade of interconnected risks. They discuss El Niño and monsoon dynamics to extreme rainfall, Himalayan hazards, sea-level rise, urban heat, forest-driven rainfall recycling, climate-sensitive disease, agriculture, and the communication gap between science, policy, and the public. SHOWNOTES: Dengue, rainfall and a c...

3. 

   18 Aug 2026

   Assam's Floods (once a boon) Are So Destructive Now - Why? Arupjyoti Saikia Explains

   Assam’s July floods were explained as a consequence of heavy rainfall. That is true, but incomplete. Historian Arupjyoti Saikia joins us to uncover the much longer history behind the catastrophe: the earthquakes that transformed the Brahmaputra, the failed embankment experiment, changing sediment, dams and extraction in the highlands, erased wetlands, and a political economy built around flood control and relief. We discuss why a single river basin is governed in fragments; whether climate ch...

Who has been a guest on From The Marginlands

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Raza Kazmi
• Vidya Athreya
• Kalyan Varma
• Manshi Asher
• Pranay Lal

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

56,949

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 39 / 100

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Quality

31

Social presence

0

YouTube

85

Engagement

32

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