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Episode 284: The Life and Times of Nilanjana Roy

…Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya).
65. Films, Feminism, Paromita — Episode 155 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Paromita Vohra).
66. The Kavita Krishnan Files — Episode 228 of The Seen and the Unseen.
67. Manjima Bhattacharjya: The Making of a Feminist — Episode 280 of The Seen and the Unseen.
68. I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Dĕd — Translated by Ranjit Hoskote.
69. Lal Ded’s poem on wrestling with a tiger.
70. Anarchy is a likelier future for the west than tyranny — Janan Ganesh.
71. The Better Angels of Our Nature — Steven Pinker.
72. The Ferment of Our Founders — Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila).
73. Rukmini Sees India’s Multitudes — Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S).
74. A Life in Indian Politics — Episode 149 of The…

Episode 287: The Life and Times of Urvashi Butalia

…The Seen and the Unseen (w Aanchal Malhotra).
8. Tales from the Kathasaritsagara — Somadeva (translated by Arshia Sattar).
9. The Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account.
10. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen.
11. The Will to Change — Bell Hooks.
12. Men Must Step Up Now — Amit Varma.
13. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Washington Irving.
14. Mahadevi Varma and Sheila Bhatia.
15. The Life and Times of Abhinandan Sekhri — Episode 254 of The Seen and the Unseen.
16. The Ferment of Our Founders — Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila).
17. Rukmini Sees India’s Multitudes — Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S).
18. The Verdict: Decoding India’s Elections — Prannoy Roy and Dorab Sopariwala.
19. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The…

Episode 288: Chandrahas Choudhury’s Country of Literature

…Fyodor Dostoevsky.
13. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
14. The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist — Orhan Pamuk.
15. The Ferment of Our Founders — Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila).
16. Jai Arjun Singh Lost It at the Movies — Episode 230 of The Seen and the Unseen.
17. Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert.
18. How Fiction Works — James Wood.
19. Marcel Proust and Karl Ove Knausgaard on Amazon.
20. Six and a Third Acres — Fakir Mohan Senapati.
21. Is There an Indian Way of Thinking? — AK Ramanujan.
22. Sara Rai Inhales Literature — Episode 255 of The Seen and the Unseen.
23. Rukmini Sees India’s Multitudes — Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S).
24. Cuckold — Kiran Nagarkar.
25. Robert Bly on Amazon.
26. A Meditation on Form — Amit Varma.
27. Amitava Kumar…

Episode 293: Womaning in India With Mahima Vashisht

…Unseen.
27. The Road to Freedom — Arthur C Brooks.
28. Clarification Regarding Release of Funds to Prasar Bharti — I&B Ministry press release.
29. A Life in Indian Politics — Episode 49 of The Seen and the Unseen (w JP Narayan).
30. The Darwaza Band campaign with Amitabh Bachchan and Anushka Sharma.
31. The Vidya Balan Nirmal Bharat commercial.
32. Swachh Bharat — Episode 82 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan.
33. The Good Girls — Sonia Faleiro.
34. Two Girls Hanging From a Tree — Episode 209 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sonia Faleiro).
35. Toilet: Ek Prem Katha.
36. Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar’s Swachh Bharat commercial.
37. Twin Peaks — David Lynch.
38. The Life and Times of Nilanjana Roy — Episode 284 of The Seen and the Unseen.
39. My Friend Sancho — Amit Varma.
40. The #MeToo Movement —…

Episode 299: The Reflections of Samarth Bansal

…196 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S).
20. Pramit Bhattacharya Believes in Just One Ism — Episode 256 of The Seen and the Unseen.
21. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
22. Strangers Drowning — Larissa MacFarquhar.
23. Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone’s Head — Episode 58 of Conversations With Tyler.
24. Dil Dhadakne Do — Zoya Akhtar.
25. Kapoor & Sons — Shakun Batra.
26. Why are India’s housewives killing themselves? — Soutik Biswas.
27. Tum Itna Jo Muskura Rahe Ho — Jagjit Singh’s ghazal from Arth.
28. Alice Evans Studies the Great Gender Divergence — Episode 297 of The Seen and the Unseen.
29. Amit Varma’s tweet on winning the Asian Championships of Match Poker.
30. Wanting — Luke Burgis.
31. The Life and Times of Nilanjana Roy —…

Episode 300: The Gentle Wisdom of Pratap Bhanu Mehta

…Theory of Moral Sentiments — Pratap Bhanu Mehta discusses Adam Smith with Shruti Rajagopalan.
9. Conversation and Society — Russ Roberts discusses Adam Smith with Amit Varma in episode 182 of The Seen and the Unseen.
10. Human — Michael S Gazzaniga.
11. The Interpreter — Amit Varma.
12. Free Will on Wikipedia, Britannica and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
13. Free Will — Sam Harris.
14. Immanuel Kant on Amazon, Wikipedia, Britannica and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
15. The Median Voter Theorem.
16. ‘Thinking and Reflecting’ and ‘The Thinking of Thoughts’: Gilbert Ryle’s essays on ‘thick description’ and Winks vs Twitches, also found in Collected Essays.
17. Thick Description: Towards an Interpretive Theory of Culture — Clifford Geertz.
18. Fighting Fake News — Episode 133 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pratik Sinha).
19. The Greater India Experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast — Arkotong Longkumer.
20. Memories and Things…

Episode 302: The Life and Times of Teesta Setalvad

…Madhav Khosla).
48. India’s Founding Moment — Madhav Khosla.
49. P Sainath interviewed by Teesta Setalvad.
50. A People’s Constitution — Rohit De.
51. All the President’s Men — Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
52. The Citizenship Battles — Episode 152 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Srinath Raghavan).
53. The Tragedy of Our Farm Bills — Episode 211 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah).
54. The Nellie Massacre.
55. The Life and Times of Vir Sanghvi — Episode 236 of The Seen and the Unseen.
56. A Rude Life — Vir Sanghvi.
57. The BJP Before Modi — Episode 202 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati).
58. Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi — Vinay Sitapati.
59. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
60. Gyan Prakash on the…

Episode 306: The History of the Planning Commission

…of Philosophy.
17. John Dewey on Wikipedia, Britannica and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
18. The Ideas of Our Constitution — Episode 164 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Madhav Khosla).
19. Friedrich Hayek on Wikipedia, Britannica, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Econlib.
20. The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism — Friedrich Hayek..
21. ये लिबरल आख़िर है कौन? — Episode 37 of Puliyabaazi (w Amit Varma, on Hayek).
22. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
23. India’s Lost Decade — Episode 116 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Puja Mehra).
24. The Forgotten Greatness of PV Narasimha Rao — Episode 283 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati).
25. The Life and Times of Montek Singh Ahluwalia — Episode 285 of The Seen and the Unseen.
26. The Gentle Wisdom…

Episode 318: The Liberal Nationalism of Nitin Pai

…in Las Vegas — Natasha Dow Schüll.
47. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
48. The Forgotten Greatness of PV Narasimha Rao — Episode 283 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati).
49. The Life and Times of Montek Singh Ahluwalia — Episode 285 of The Seen and the Unseen.
50. The original Takshashila.
51. Understanding Gandhi. Part 1: Mohandas — Episode 104 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha).
52. Understanding Gandhi. Part 2: Mahatma — Episode 105 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha).
53. Hind Swaraj — MK Gandhi.
54. Nikita — Elton John.
55. The Importance of Cities — Episode 108 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Reuben Abraham & Pritika Hingorani).
56. The Gentle Wisdom of Pratap Bhanu Mehta — Episode 300 of…

Episode 326: Pushpesh Pant Feasts on the Buffet of Life

…Gaurav Chintamani).
36. Kishore Mahbubani on Amazon.
37. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie — Luis Buñuel.
38. Chance and Necessity — Jacques Monod.
39. Try Anything Twice — Peter Cheyney.
40. Rakesh Raghunathan on YouTube.
41. The Indianness of Indian Food — Episode 95 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vikram Doctor).
42. Cooking the world’s oldest known curry — Soity Banerjee.
43. The Refreshing Audacity of Vinay Singhal — Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen.
44. Stage.in.
45. The Slow Fire Chef on Twitter.
46. Marginal Revolution posts on books.
47. The Myth of the Holy Cow — DN Jha.
48. Elite Imitation in Public Policy — Episode 180 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Alex Tabarrok).
49. The Lady’s Dressing Room — Jonathan Swift.
50. My Friend Dropped His Pants — Amit Varma.
51. A Paean to the Paan —…

Episode 327: The Many Shades of George Fernandes

…and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul.
9. A shoe store brings together two faces of 2002 Gujarat riots — The Hindu.
10. Where Have All The Leaders Gone? — Amit Varma.
11. The Anti-Defection Law — Episode 13 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Barun Mitra).
12. Our Parliament and Our Democracy — Episode 253 of The Seen and the Unseen (w MR Madhavan).
13. The Decline of the Congress — Episode 248 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rahul Verma).
14. Urban Governance in India — Episode 31 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan).
15. South India Would Like to Have a Word — Episode 320 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nilakantan RS).
16. Lessons from an Ankhon Dekhi Prime Minister — Amit Varma’s column on reading.
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
18. Love…

Episode 329: Murali Neelakantan Looks at the World

…Seth.
39. GCN +.
40. The Gentle Wisdom of Pratap Bhanu Mehta — Episode 300 of The Seen and the Unseen.
41. The Life and Times of Jerry Pinto — Episode 314 of The Seen and the Unseen.
42. SVB, Banking and the State of the Economy — Episode 323 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah and Mohit Satyanand).
43. Ashutosh Salil and the Challenge of Change — Episode 312 of The Seen and the Unseen.
44. Laws Against Victimless Crimes Should Be Scrapped — Amit Varma.
45. One Bad Law Goes, but Women Remain Second-Class Citizens — Amit Varma.
46. ये लिबरल आख़िर है कौन? — Episode 37 of Puliyabaazi (w Amit Varma, on Hayek).
47. Elite Imitation in Public Policy — Episode 180 of The Seen and the Unseen (on isomorphic mimicry, with Shruti Rajagopalan and Alex Tabarrok).
48. The Long Road From Neeyat to…

Episode 332: The Life and Times of Uma Chakravarti

…Narayan).
18. Kiran Ahluwalia Finds Our Aam Zameen — Episode 328 of The Seen and the Unseen.
19. Yogendra Yadav on why he was named Salim.
20. The Intellectual Foundations of Hindutva — Episode 115 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aakar Patel).
21. Aakar Patel Is Full of Hope — Episode 270 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aakar Patel).
22. The Ferment of Our Founders — Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila).
23. Early Indians — Episode 112 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tony Joseph).
24. Early Indians — Tony Joseph.
25. Who We Are and How We Got Here — David Reich.
26. A Venture Capitalist Looks at the World — Episode 213 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sajith Pai).
27. Therīgāthā on Wikipedia and Amazon.
28. Arshia Sattar and the Complex Search for Dharma —…

Episode 334: Jayaprakash Narayan Wants to Mend Our Democracy

…Muralidharan).
19. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
20. The Forgotten Greatness of PV Narasimha Rao — Episode 283 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati).
21. The Life and Times of Montek Singh Ahluwalia — Episode 285 of The Seen and the Unseen.
22. India’s Lost Decade — Episode 116 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Puja Mehra).
23. Narendra Modi takes a Great Leap Backwards — Amit Varma.
24. The Double ‘Thank-You’ Moment — John Stossel.
25. Whatever happened To Ehsan Jafri on February 28, 2002? — Harsh Mander.
26. Metrics of Empowerment — Episode 88 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Devika Kher, Nidhi Gupta & Hamsini Hariharan).
27. We Should Celebrate Rising Divorce Rates (2008) — Amit Varma.
28. South India Would Like to Have a Word…

Episode 340: Aakash Singh Rathore, the Ironman Philosopher

…in Mahim — Jerry Pinto.
24. Eric Weinstein Won’t Toe the Line — Episode 330 of The Seen and the Unseen.
25. Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas — Natasha Dow Schüll.
26. The Dharma Bums — Jack Kerouac.
27. The Beat Generation.
28. Kicking Schoolbags — Amit Varma.
29. The Sex Pistols and Clash.
30. Unsatisfied — The Replacements.
31. Fixing Indian Education — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).
32. Yukio Mishima on Wikipedia, Britannica and Amazon.
33. The Poetic Feminism of Paromita Vohra — Episode 339 of The Seen and the Unseen.
34. Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar: Life and Mission — Dhananjay Keer.
35. CB Khairmode’s 12-volume Marathi biography of Ambedkar.
36. The Ferment of Our Founders — Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila).
37. India’s Greatest Civil Servant — Episode 167 of The Seen and…

Episode 341: The Steady Determination of Yamini Aiyar

…Block Level Education Bureaucracy — Yamini Aiyar and Shrayana Bhattacharya.
7. Rights, Accountability and Citizenship: Examining India’s Emerging Welfare State — Yamini Aiyar and Michael Walton.
8. Citizen vs labharthi? Interrogating the welfare state — Yamini Aiyar.
9. The Looking-Glass Self.
10. Wanting — Luke Burgis.
11. René Girard on Amazon and Wikipedia.
12. Luke Burgis Sees the Deer at His Window — Episode 337 of The Seen and the Unseen.
13. The Overton Window.
14. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
15. Fixing Indian Education — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).
16. Understanding Indian Healthcare — Episode 225 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).
17. Karthik Muralidharan Examines the Indian State — Episode 290 of The Seen and the Unseen.
18. Ashutosh Salil and the…

Episode 354: Figuring Out Motherhood

…— Episode 128 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Chinmay Tumbe).
19. India Moving — Chinmay Tumbe.
20. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya).
21. The Loneliness of the Indian Man — Episode 303 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nikhil Taneja).
22. Murali Neelakantan Looks at the World — Episode 329 of The Seen and the Unseen.
23. The Nurture Assumption — Judith Rich Harris.
24. This Be The Verse — Philip Larkin.
25. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
26. Happiness Class: A Film by Samina Mishra.
27. Natasha Badhwar Lives the Examined Life — Episode 301 of The Seen and the Unseen.
28. Our Unlucky Children (2008) — Amit Varma.
29. Hold on to Your Kids — Gordon…

Episode 355: The Life and Times of KP Krishnan

India has travelled a long way in the last few decades — and one man had an inside view of the whole process, shaping policy and trying to fix the nation. KP Krishnan joins Amit Varma in episode 355 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about his extraordinary life and learnings.

Also check out:
1. KP Krishnan at Centre for Policy Research..
2. KP Krishnan interviewed in CPR Perspectives by Rohan Venkat: Part 1, Part 2.
3. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ajay Shah: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
4. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
5. India’s Lost Decade — Episode 116 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Puja Mehra).
6. The Forgotten Greatness of PV…

Episode 357: Seema Sirohi and the View From Washington

She’s covered US-India relations as a foreign correspondent for more than 30 years — and now she’s told that momentous story in a book. Seema Sirohi joins Amit Varma in episode 357 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about her life as a journalist — and the love-hate relationship between countries that she saw at close quarters.

Also check out
1. Seema Sirohi on Twitter, Economic Times, India Today and Amazon.
2. Friends with Benefits: The India-US Story — Seema Sirohi.
3. The Luxury Travel Expert on YouTube.
4. The Front Page — Billy Wilder.
5. The Bhopal Gas Tragedies — Episode 35 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan).
6. Playboy Stories: The Best of Forty Years of Short Fiction — Edited by Alice K Turner.
7. Marginal Revolution — Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok.
8. Persuasion — Founded and edited…

Episode 361: Pritika Hingorani Wants to Fix Our Cities

…Urban Governance in India — Episode 31 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan).
34. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya).
35. The Skeptical Environmentalist — Bjorn Lomborg.
36. London 1870-1914: A City at Its Zenith — Andrew Saint.
37. Modi’s Lost Opportunity — ep 119 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Salman Soz).
38. Wanting — Luke Burgis.
39. Luke Burgis Sees the Deer at His Window — Episode 337 of The Seen and the Unseen.
40. We Should Celebrate Rising Divorce Rates (2008) — Amit Varma.
41. Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine — Kavitha Rao.
42. Kavitha Rao and Our Lady Doctors — Episode 235 of The Seen and the Unseen.
43. The Memoirs of Dr Haimabati Sen — Haimabati Sen (translated by Tapan Raychoudhuri).
44. Living…

Episode 364: Amitava Kumar Finds His Kashmiri Rain

…Over With Deepak Shenoy — Episode 271 of The Seen and the Unseen.
80. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
81. The Reformers — Episode 28 of Everything is Everything.
82. Brave New World — Hosted by Vasant Dhar.
83. Among the Believers — VS Naipaul.
84. Tera Mujhse Hai Pehle ka Naata Koi — Soham Chatterjee sings for his dying mother.
85. Eric Weinstein Won’t Toe the Line — Episode 330 of The Seen and the Unseen.
86. Aakash Singh Rathore, the Ironman Philosopher — Episode 340 of The Seen and the Unseen.
87. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil — Hannah Arendt.
88. The Better Angels of Our Nature — Steven Pinker.
89. Particulate Matter — Amitava Kumar.
90. A Seventh Man — John Berger.
91. Khushwant Singh and…

Episode 370: Yugank Goyal Is out of the Box

…— Agnes Callard.
11. The Long Divergence — Timur Kuran.
12. The Incredible Insights of Timur Kuran — Episode 349 of The Seen and the Unseen.
13. Suyash Rai Embraces India’s Complexity — Episode 307 of The Seen and the Unseen.
14. Premchand on Amazon and Wikipedia.
15. Dead Poet’s Society — Peter Weir.
16. Maithili Sharan Gupt and Jaishankar Prasad.
17. Kafan — Premchand.
18. Elite Imitation in Public Policy — Episode 180 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Alex Tabarrok).
19. Is There an Indian Way of Thinking? — AK Ramanujan.
20. The Intimate Enemy — Ashis Nandy.
21. The Colonial Constitution — Arghya Sengupta.
22. Arghya Sengupta and the Engine Room of Law — Episode 366 of The Seen and the Unseen.
23. The History of British India — James Mill.
24. SN Balagangadhara (aka Balu) on Amazon and Wikipedia.
25. Episodes of…

Episode 378: Rohit Lamba Will Never Be Bezubaan

…Politics of Vaccines — Episode 223 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah).
69. In Service of the Republic — Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah.
70. The Semiconductor Wars — Episode 358 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane & Abhiram Manchi).
71. The Smile Curve.
72. Urban Governance in India — Episode 31 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan).
73. We Are Fighting Two Disasters: Covid-19 and the Indian State — Amit Varma.
74. The Child and the State in India — Myron Weiner.
75. Where India Goes — Diane Coffey and Deam Spears.
76. What’s Wrong With Indian Agriculture? — Episode 18 of Everything is Everything.
77. South India Would Like to Have a Word — Episode 320 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nilakantan RS).
78. South vs North: India’s Great Divide — Nilakantan RS.
79. Episodes of The…