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Pragya Agarwal

  • Behavioural and Data Scientist and Journalist, Freelance
Cambridge, United Kingdom
As seen in: The Waterstones Podcast, Forbes, Medium, MSN, MSN Ireland, MSN Singapore, MSN UK, O Globo, UOL, Nature and
Professor of Social Injustice and Inequities. Behavioural Data Scientist. Author of 4 books. Fellow @ Oxford, Cambridge, Fulbright, etc. Not really here
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WIDE ANGLE: MAPPING THE ODYSSEY

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By Pragya Agarwal
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Matt Damon as Odysseus in The Odyssey (2026) with a map of ancient Greece in the background | Universal Studios Homer’s Odyssey is a quest, following King Odysseus’ 10-year journey back home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. It is a tale with distinct geographic, spatial and temporal dimensions. It is no wonder that, for centuries, people have been intrigued by the places mentioned in the Odyssey, wondering how many of them were real.
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Tracing Odysseus’s journey shows myths and the real world overlapped in maps of the ancient world

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By Pragya Agarwal
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Homer’s Odyssey is a quest, following King Odysseus’s ten-year journey back home to Ithaca after the Trojan war. It is a tale with distinct geographic, spatial and temporal dimensions. It is no wonder that for centuries, people have been intrigued by the places mentioned in the Odyssey, wondering how many of them were real. A few historians and classical scholars argue that the Odyssey is only poetry.
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First House: a visceral story about the collapse of a ‘perfect’ life and the imagining of a new one

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By Pragya Agarwal
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Set in a suburban America, Avni Doshi’s new novel centres around an unnamed protagonist who thinks her world and her sense of self are stable. She knows herself and all that is to come in her life. She’s followed the pre-determined path of being a wife and a mother. She believes she has a marriage that is forever and a house that is safe. Hers is an identity that has already been carved in stone – or so she thinks.
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