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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September, 2017: A digital tripwire snaps in the dark servers of New Delhi. A $50,000 transfer from a high-risk node in the Gulf - The sender was a known financier for the Islamic State in Khorasan. The algorithm doesn't just see money; it sees a fuse being lit.

Tactical Brilliance. Strategic Catastrophe.

While the world looked away, Indian intelligence deployed "The Glass House"—an eighty-man surveillance dragnet designed to turn one man's life into a transparent cage.

In this episode, we step inside the van with Agent K, the chain-smoking veteran hunting a "White Collar" terrorist who hides in plain sight. And we walk into the lion's den with Ahmed, the deep-cover operative who must befriend a man building a suicide vest in the next room.

From the suffocating tension of a ground-floor trap house in Lajpat Nagar to the chaotic, narrow lanes of Old Delhi's Hawala markets, witness the anatomy of a perfect sting. Discover how R&AW supplied the chemicals to build a bomb just to prove a student was a killer, and how a surveillance team defused a massacre without firing a single shot.

But in the shadow world, there is no such thing as a clean victory.

They stopped the detonation in Delhi. They thought they had flushed the toxicity out of the system by sending the target to the black hole of Bagram Prison. They were wrong.

August 26, 2021. The US withdraws. The prison gates open. And the ghost returns to Abbey Gate to finish the job.

Listen now to the story of how a war won in the shadows was lost in the sunlight.

Disclaimer: This audio drama is a work of fiction inspired by real historical events, specifically "Operation Glass House" and the subsequent tragedy at Kabul Airport. While characters like "Agent K" and "Ahmed" are dramatisations of real operatives, and the tactical details of the surveillance operation are based on declassified methodologies, dialogue and specific interactions have been created for entertainment purposes. We do not claim that every word you hear is the absolute truth.

Then again, in the world of counter-terrorism, the "absolute truth" is often buried under a pile of redacted files. Only the handlers and the ghosts know what really happened in that safe house in 2017.

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May 14, 1987. Ten men in gas masks storm the Parliament in Suva. Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka tears up the constitution, declaring "Fiji for the Fijians." Democracy dies in paradise, and the shockwaves reach Canberra, London, and Washington. The world waits for Australia to act. But Australia freezes.

Nature abhors a vacuum. And so does geopolitics.

When the big powers stood down, New Delhi stood up. Invoking the "Indira Doctrine," India deployed a shadow force to the unlikeliest of battlegrounds: the suburbs of Western Sydney.

In this episode, we open the dossier on the shadow war. Meet the "Band of Three"—a textile baron, an academic, and a tourist—who infiltrated the highest levels of Australian society. And meet Meera, the bank teller turned spymaster, who orchestrated a revolution from a library in Australia.

From the backrooms of corrupt politicians to the gritty clubhouses of Bikie gangs, witness how R&AW built an invisible fortress right under the nose of ASIO. Discover how a fake media firestorm blinded a Western intelligence agency, how a hit squad walked into a trap in a scrapyard, and how a single cassette tape forced a dictator to rewrite a constitution.

It’s a story of arrogance, deception, and the "colonial blindspot" that allowed a team of "amateurs" to outplay the professionals at their own game.

Listen now to uncover the war that was never reported in the morning papers.

Disclaimer: This audio drama is a work of fiction inspired by real historical events, geopolitical rumours, and declassified fragments of the Cold War era. While characters, locations, and incidents are based on the tumultuous period of the 1987 Fiji Coups and the Indian intelligence response, dialogue and specific operational details have been dramatised for entertainment purposes. We do not claim that every word you hear is the absolute truth.

Then again, in the world of espionage, the "absolute truth" is classified. Only R&AW and ASIO know what really happened in Sydney ... and neither of them is talking.

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In the dusty, claustrophobic lanes of Akhtar Colony, Karachi, a middle-aged man sands wood. To his neighbours, he is Zahid, the humble furniture shop owner who makes excellent chai. To Indian Intelligence, he is Zahoor Mistry, code name 'Bhola'—the butcher who hijacked Flight IC-814 and murdered a newlywed on the tarmac in 1999.

This episode peels back the layers of a seven-year surveillance operation unlike any other. Forget Hollywood chases; this is the slow, suffocating grid of real espionage. It is a world of "invisible armies"—beggars, chai-wallahs, and phone credit sellers who watch without being seen. It is about the patience to wait for a digital slip-up, the art of social engineering, and the cold calculus of a "Checkmate" strategy.

A Note on the Story: This narrative is a blend of historical fact and dramatic fiction. While inspired by true events and real intelligence tradecraft, certain characters, conversations, and operational details have been fictionalised for dramatic purposes.

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