Juggernaut: Indian Temple Or Unstoppable Force?

Science Diction by Science Friday and WNYC Studios

Nov 23, 202100:18:53Science & Medicine

In 2014, a grad student in Kolkata named Ujaan Ghosh came across an old book by a Scottish missionary. And as Ghosh paged through the book, he noticed the missionary kept using a word over and over: Juggernaut. But the m...

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