Manan Anwar
Hello there,
My name is Manan.
At my heart, I am a storyteller with a mission to build bridges: between people, countries, cultures.
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Manan Anwar
New Video Today. This one is a banger !
1 day ago | [YT] | 14
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What is dog meat called in North Korea?
4 days ago | [YT] | 7
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Today's video
1 week ago | [YT] | 16
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Reading the memoir of a former diplomat in North Korea and this stood out.
1 week ago | [YT] | 33
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Continuing the series of videos about ordinary lives in North Korea, today's video is about money.
What has money meant for North Koreans? How has it evolved over time?
And we tell the story from the beginning of DPRK to that fateful day when the North Korean government decided to decimate its entire middle class.
I hope you enjoy the video.
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 10
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When Soviet space program was considering designs for their manned space modules, they considered 5 different variations.
Including one that -I kid you not- would use helicopter style blade rotors with rockets on the tips of the blades !!! (Check variation D)
They definitely didn’t lack imagination !
Image from Asif A. Siddiqui, Challenge to Apollo.
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 18
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The Soviet Union operated a network of overseas hospitals including in Iran.
One of the Chief Surgeons in a hospital in Tehran needed a replacement surgeon and he wrote rather scathingly back home that 'phenomenon of the female surgeon is abnormal and unnatural’ and they should not consider sending female surgeons abroad.
The Soviet Red Cross committee flatly refused and sent a female surgeon.
Women constituted over 75% of the medical professional in the Soviet Union.
3 weeks ago | [YT] | 39
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Psychic Healers, Exploding TVs and the first ever live Transmission from Space. Check out today's video
3 weeks ago | [YT] | 8
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This is what I have been reading the last two weeks.
1. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
2. The Martian by Andy Weir (3rd Read)
3. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (2nd Read)
4. Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, by Asif A. Siddiqi (Halfway done)
5. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter (Just started)
6. Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim
7. The Real North Korea by Andrei Lankov (Just started)
3 weeks ago | [YT] | 18
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In Soviet Union, Stalin was extremely secretive about the Soviet Missile and ballistic program. So much so that when after his Stalins death, Khruschev visited the facilities in person, he was so amazed that he gawked 'like peasants in a market place' and did everything except 'licking the missiles'
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