Juggernaut: Indian Temple Or Unstoppable Force?
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 missionary wasn\u2019t using it the way we do today\u2014to mean an unstoppable, overwhelming force. He\xa0 was using it to talk about a place: a temple in Puri, India. So Ghosh dug further, and as he grasped the real story of where the English word, juggernaut, had come from, he realized there was just no way he could keep using it.\nA transcript of this episode is being processed and will be available within a week.\nGuests:\xa0\nChris Egusa is an audio producer and 2020 KALW Audio Academy fellow.\nDylan Thuras is co-founder of Atlas Obscura, and host of the Atlas Obscura podcast.\nUjaan Ghosh is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.\nFootnotes & Further Reading:\xa0\nRead Ujaan Ghosh\u2019s article on the origins of the word \u201cjuggernaut.\u201d\xa0\nLearn more about Jagannath Temple in Atlas Obscura.\xa0\nListen to more episodes of the Atlas Obscura podcast. \nCredits:\xa0\nThis episode was a collaboration between Science Diction and Atlas Obscura. It was produced by Johanna Mayer and Chris Egusa, and edited by Elah Feder and John DeLore. Daniel Peterschmidt is our composer, and Danya AbdelHameid fact checked the episode. It was mixed by Luz Fleming.