# Samanth Subramanian

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10 years of the long read: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands (2019)

As the Long Read turns 10 we are raiding the archives to bring you a favourite piece from each year since 2014, with new introductions from the authors. This week from 2019: For a century, the humble paper towel has dominated public toilets. But a new generation of hand dryers has sparked a war for…

The Great Indian Food Trip with Zac O'Yeah & Samanth Subramanian

'The Great Indian Food Trip' is an entertaining, erudite adventure of eating, drinking and travelling. This is how Swedish novelist, rock musician and author Zac O’Yeah has come to understand the Indian subcontinent, his home of thirty years. In this episode, listen to Zac in conversation with wr…

The cement company that paid millions to Isis: was Lafarge complicit in crimes against humanity?

The French cement giant started operating in Syria just before the civil war erupted. When Islamic State took over the region, Lafarge paid them protection money so it could keep trading. The consequences are still playing out. By Samanth Subramanian. Help support our independent journalism at <a h…

‘M International’: When a French legacy title publishes in English, plus the launch of ‘Equator’

We speak with Marie-Pierre Lannelongue, editorial director of ‘M Le magazine du Monde’ on the third issue of ‘M International’. Plus: Gavin Jacobson and Samanth Subramanian from the newly released ‘Equator’, a title taking a less Anglophone West-centric look at the world. See omnystudio.com/listene…

1998 (Part 1: Dil Se)

Welcome back to Brothers in Music: The A. R. Rahman Edition.  We’re in 1998 — the year Dil Se burst into our lives, our cassette players, and our television screens. The image is still impossible to forget: Shah Rukh Khan dancing atop a moving train to Chaiyya Chaiyya, while Rahman’s music thundere…

1998 (Part 2: 1947 Earth)

We’re still in 1998. But this time, we turn to 1947 Earth. If Dil Se was all motion and intensity, this album does the opposite. It slows us down. It asks us to sit with history, with fracture, and with the quiet that follows violence. 1947 Earth is one of Rahman’s most deliberate soundtracks: a tr…

Under the sea

What lies beneath the world's oceans? From the phenomenal infrastructure of telecoms cables to shipwrecked galleons and treasure and the sea creatures of the literary imagination - we explore the mysteries of the deep. Adam Rutherford chairs Radio 4's discussion programme which starts the week. His…

Samanth Subramanian on the Undersea Cables That Keep the Internet Alive

In 2006, then-Senator Ted Stevens coined an infamous term for how to understand the internet: It's a "series of tubes." The funny thing is, that's a fairly accurate description. Underneath the world's oceans, miles and miles of fiber optic-cables send packets of information from one location to the…

The Undersea Contest for Control of the Global Economy, ft. Journalist Samanth Subramanian

95 percent of global internet traffic travels through underwater fiber optic cables. They've never been more vulnerable. In this episode of One Decision, former MI6 Chief Sir Richard Dearlove and guest co-host Rosanna Lockwood are joined by journalist and author Samanth Subramanian. His latest boo…

Laura Tingle's Canberra and Quarterly Essay; JBS Haldane revisited

Australia and New Zealand are often considered close cousins. So why do we know so little about each other, and what can we gain by studying our trans-Tasman neighbour? And, we revisit our September interview with journalist Samanth Subramanian about the problematic polymath that was J.B.S Haldane.