In this world of colors, Blue is a color that is abundantly seen but rarely captured. A color that dominates our every waking moment by the sky and covers the 70% area of our planet through oceans.

Rightly our planet itself is called The Blue planet.

The story of colors is a fascinating one. Wherever our eyes go they appear seamlessly on everything.

From the speck of dust on the ground to our clothes and things and to the sky everything is colored.

As readily available they are naturally, that much difficult it is to obtain them synthetically for our use.

Even though colors are available abundantly, colors, like rare precious minerals or stones, are rare. As we will see in the episode later, even as expensive as gold itself.

The elusive color blue is the rarest of them all. Black, white, red, yellow and green all came to us in the early days of our civilization, Blue, however, evaded the grasp of man up until 6000 years ago and in a way until the recent modern history of the Industrial Age.

Blue is said to be so rare that even a word for it didn’t exist until the recent Human history, up until the Egyptians. Lazarus Geiger, a linguist noted that the modern European words for ‘blue’ are derived from black and green, which existed as words for colors in Ancient times.

Blue is a color that symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, royalty, wealth and heaven. It also as history sees it is a remarkable color that leads to trade and trade wars, slavery, marketing gimmicks, scientific discoveries, and world-renowned art movements, like feeling blue by the great painter Pablo Picasso. Also, how a color simply created the world’s first blueprints rightly named after it.

All of this and the origin story of blue as we know it ahead in the episode.

I am Abhishek, your host and this is Inwoke.

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Written and produced by Abhishek Kale and music produced by Ashish Pawar

The origin story of the elusive color blue - A color that caused scientific inventions, trade wars and art movements.

InwokeBy Abhishek KaleOct 02, 2019