{"id":126,"date":"2019-06-10T03:27:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T03:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2019\/6\/10\/2019-6-10-episode-124-religion-and-ideology-in-indian-society\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T12:55:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T07:25:59","slug":"episode-124-religion-and-ideology-in-indian-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2019\/6\/10\/episode-124-religion-and-ideology-in-indian-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 124: Religion and Ideology in Indian Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/10096676\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/216869\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">What is the role of religion in Indian society? What is conservatism like in India? Suyash Rai joins Amit Varma in episode 124 of The Seen and the Unseen for a wide-ranging free-wheeling chat on these subjects.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Also check out:<br \/>\n1.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkpragati.com\/podcast\/7642\/the-intellectual-foundations-of-hindutva\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Intellectual Foundations of Hindutva<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; Episode 115 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aakar Patel)<br \/>\n2.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkpragati.com\/podcast\/the-seen-and-the-unseen\/7691\/what-is-libertarianism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What is Libertarianism?<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; Episode 117 of The Seen and the Unseen (w David Boaz)<br \/>\n3.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkpragati.com\/opinion\/3079\/youre-mutton-lobby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You&#8217;re From the Mutton Lobby<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; Episode 49 of The Seen and the Unseen (Amit Varma solo, on our political discourse)<br \/>\n4.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.com\/iublog\/article\/every-act-of-government-is-an-act-of-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Every Act of Government is an Act of Violence<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; Amit Varma<br \/>\n5.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Three-Languages-Politics-Talking-Political\/dp\/1944424466\/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=arnold+kling&amp;qid=1559900166&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Three Languages of Politics<\/em><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; Arnold Kling<br \/>\n6.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkpragati.com\/podcast\/puliyabaazi\/7772\/ye-liberal-aakhir-hai-kaun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">?? ????? ???? ?? ????<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; Episode 37 of Puliyabaazi (w Amit Varma on Hayek)<br \/>\n7.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Ayodhya-Secret-History-Appearance-Masjid\/dp\/9350291460\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=V8ZTA4APXQUS&amp;keywords=ayodhya+the+dark+night&amp;qid=1559900514&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=ayodha+the+dark%2Caps%2C814&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Ayodhya: The Dark Night\u00a0<\/em><\/a><em>&#8212;\u00a0<\/em>Dhirendra K Jha and Krishna Jha<br \/>\n8.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Sacred-Secular-Religion-Worldwide-Cambridge\/dp\/1107648378\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sacred+and+the+secular+pippa&amp;qid=1559900631&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Sacred and Secular<\/em><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart<br \/>\n9.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.com\/iublog\/article\/a-godless-congregation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Godless Congregation<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; Amit Varma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the role of religion in Indian society? What is conservatism like in India? Suyash Rai joins Amit Varma in episode 124 of The Seen and the Unseen for a wide-ranging free-wheeling chat on these subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8513,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/8513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}