Welcome to the Lessons Lost in Time Podcast. I’m Bill Murray. Here, with a few fellow misfits and sharp minds, we’re digging through the wreckage of history—looking at how real leaders dealt with real problems when the stakes were high and the playbook was blank.
If you’re the kind of person who likes to question things, pick at the edges, and think a little deeper about why the world is the way it is and what we can do about it, then pull up a chair. Because if we want new solutions, we need to discuss old problems.
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Welcome to the Lessons Lost in Time Podcast. I’m Bill Murray. Here, with a few fellow misfits and sharp minds, we’re digging through the wreckage of history—looking at how real leaders dealt with real problems when the stakes were high and the playbook was blank.
If you’re the kind of person who likes to question things, pick at the edges, and think a little deeper about why the world is the way it is and what we can do about it, then pull up a chair. Because if we want new solutions, we need to discuss old problems.
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You can smell the history here before you see it—dust, diesel, sweat, jasmine. It hangs in the air like a ghost that never got the memo to move on. Welcome to the Indian subcontinent: where time doesn’t just pass—it accumulates. And nowhere is that more brutally obvious than in the story of Partition and the fall out that still rains over the people in both India and Pakistan.
In 1947, a line was drawn—quickly, carelessly, and with the kind of arrogance only empires can afford. The British walked out, and what they left behind was not two nations, but a wound. India and Pakistan were born, not with celebration, but with slaughter, exile, and trauma passed down like a family heirloom.
But this story isn’t just about that catastrophic moment. It’s about everything that’s followed. The wars. The proxy conflicts. Kashmir. Kargil. The nuclear standoff. Terror attacks in Mumbai, soldiers in Siachen, political theater in Delhi and Islamabad—and the quiet, daily lives caught in between.
It’s about how a line on a map became a wall in the mind. How identity got weaponized. And how peace is talked about like a dream, but rarely pursued like a plan.
This episode, we’re not picking sides. We’re picking through the rubble. Through memory and myth, war and nationalism, and the strange, painful familiarity of two nations that still can’t look each other in the eye without flinching.
Because history didn’t end in 1947. In South Asia, it’s still being written—with fire, ink, and the silence of those who never made it home
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