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Thanks for downloading the witness history podcast from the BBC World Service with me, Laura Jones.

We're going back to 1982, when nests of dinosaur eggs were identified for the first time in India,

paleontologist Professor Ashok Sani made the discovery.

So this is actually the rock in Jabalpur, where the first dinosaur

actions were recorded straight away, I didn't recognize them for what they were, but then suddenly

I was able to see that there were a number of rounded structures in a block of stone.

It occurred to me that these have to be dinosaur eggs.

The joy of discovery is just for that moment, so you don't forget that easily and you like to share it.

Born in Calcutta, India in 1941, Ashok Sani moved around a lot, from Mumbai known as Bombay,

to Lahore during partition, to look now before returning to Calcutta, now known as Calcutta.

But one thing was consistent, and that was being surrounded by a family of fossil enthusiasts.

His grandfather, uncle and father were all working in paleontology.

Every summer we'd go to the hills, on the way to our destination, you know,

he would show me a lot of rocks, and if they had fossils, he would point out those are

lively discussions. So from very early on, fossils were part of my life.

Ashok went off to the United States to study at the University of Minnesota,

being inspired by discoveries in the US and southern France, like this one in 1974.

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