February 14th, 1998: The day the Manchester of South India lost its rhythm.

In the sweltering heat of Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore (Kovai) is a machine that never stops. The looms clatter, the markets roar, and the sirens wail. But at 3:50 PM, the machine breaks.

A single blast at the railway station triggers a domino effect of terror. Within forty minutes, twelve high-intensity explosions rip through the city’s heart, turning the industrial grid into a war zone.

This is Part 1 of the true story of the Coimbatore Blasts.

Ride shotgun with Agent Venkat, a rookie intelligence officer dropped from the sky into a burning city. He’s here to catch a killer, but what he finds in the ashes is a puzzle that doesn't fit.

• The Carnage: Witness the visceral horror of the Thirumal Street raid where a sniper's bullet changes history.

• The Silence: Feel the suffocating tension of the 70kg bomb that didn't go off.

• The Ghost: Discover the "Mathematical Impossibility"—the missing logistician who vanished while the city screamed.

Venkat is looking for a terrorist. He’s about to find a ghost.

"We caught the hands that lit the match. But the man who bought the powder? He just bought a ticket out of town."

Disclaimer: This audio drama is a work of fiction based on the real-world events of the 1998 Coimbatore Serial Blasts. While the timeline and the magnitude of the tragedy are historically accurate, the character of Agent Venkat and specific conversations are dramatisations created for entertainment purposes.

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April 6th. A flight lands in Kathmandu. A passenger vanishes.And his disappearance wasn't just a missing persons case.It was the opening move in a silent war.

One Man. Three Nations. Zero Rules.In the shadows of the Himalayas, Nepal is more than a mountain paradise—it's a "Grey Zone." A neutral chessboard where India, Pakistan, China and the US play out their deadliest feuds, and where the only law is plausible deniability.

In this episode, we follow Detective Rana of the covert Department 42, a man tired of his country being used as a playground for foreign spies.

From the rain-slicked alleys of Thamel to the digital ghost towns of the dark web, witness the anatomy of a perfect snatch operation.

Ride shotgun as Rana races against the monsoon to the chaotic, lawless "Zero Line" at the Indian border.

Was it an extraction? A defection? Or a betrayal?

Disclaimer: This audio drama is a work of fiction. While the geopolitical tensions and the concept of the "Grey Zone" in Nepal are based on real-world intelligence dynamics, the characters and the specific events of "The Lumbini Protocol" are dramatisations created for entertainment purposes. The depiction of Department 42 is a fictional representation of counter-intelligence operations.

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April 6, 1971. The telex machine in Dhaka didn't just send a message. It sent a suicide note.

"Moral Bankruptcy." "Genocide."

These are words you do not send to the President of the United States. But Archer Blood, the Consul General, didn't care about his career. He cared about the slaughter happening outside his window. He typed the truth, hit send, and waited for the axe to fall.

Diplomatic Suicide. Global War.

While Washington shredded the warning and the Oval Office dismissed the bloodshed as a "nuisance," the Indian intelligence machine began to move in the dark.

In this episode, we trace the signal from that forgotten telex machine to the brink of nuclear war. We step inside the "War Room" with R.N. Kao, the spymaster who discovered that his nation was surrounded by a secret axis of powers. We walk the halls of the Kremlin with the "Kashmiri Mafia" who brokered a checkmate against China without firing a shot.

From the rain-slicked streets of Dhaka where diplomats turned into dissidents, to the terrifying silence of the Bay of Bengal where a lone Soviet Admiral surfaced his submarines to stare down the US Navy, witness the history they tried to redact.

Discover how Golda Meir betrayed the Western alliance to smuggle mortars to Indira Gandhi , and listen as we play back the actual, declassified sentiments of the White House—where a President and his National Security Advisor wished for "mass famine" and hurled misogynistic slurs at the leader of the world’s largest democracy.

They thought they could bury the telegram. They thought silence was a strategy. They were wrong.

Listen now to the story of the document that shamed a superpower and the war that redrew the map of the world.

Historical Note & Disclaimer:This audio drama is a work of fiction inspired by real historical events surrounding the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.

While scenes inside the Indian PMO and the Kremlin are dramatisations based on historical outcomes, the depictions of the Nixon White House are drawn from the declassified and published Historical Documents Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976 published on https://history.state.gov/.

• The quotes attributed to President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger—specifically the wish for a "mass famine" in India and the derogatory references to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi—are verbatim historical records, not creative inventions.

• We do not claim that every word in this drama is the absolute truth, but the contempt you hear from the Oval Office is exactly as it appears in the official State Department archives.

Sometimes, the truth is darker than anything a podcaster could invent.

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