{"id":140,"date":"2019-09-16T03:02:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T03:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2019\/9\/16\/2019-9-16-episode-138-twelve-dream-reforms\/"},"modified":"2020-10-04T09:21:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T03:51:57","slug":"episode-138-twelve-dream-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2019\/9\/16\/episode-138-twelve-dream-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 138: Twelve Dream Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/11248304\/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;\">Times are bad &#8212; but pessimists can dream! Tired of only talking about problems, Shruti Rajagopalan, Rajeswari Sengupta and Vivek Kaul join Amit Varma in episode 138 of The Seen and the Unseen, to propose solutions! Three each. Many bad jokes and Bollywood songs are thrown in.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Also check out<br \/>\n1. <a href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/population-is-not-a-problem-but-our-greatest-strength\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Population Is Not a Problem, but Our Greatest Strength<\/a> &#8212; Amit Varma.<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkpragati.com\/housefull-home\/housefull\/1765\/alone-in-the-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alone in the City<\/a> &#8212; Amit Varma<br \/>\n3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkpragati.com\/podcast\/the-seen-and-the-unseen\/5632\/where-are-the-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Where Are the Jobs?<\/a> &#8212; Ep 87 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Yazad Jal)<br \/>\n4. <a href=\"http:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2018\/7\/16\/episode-77-education-in-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Education in India<\/a> &#8212; Ep 77 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Amit Chandra)<br \/>\n5. <a href=\"http:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2017\/8\/14\/episode-31-urban-governance-in-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Urban Governance in India<\/a> &#8212; Ep 31 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan)<br \/>\n6. <a href=\"http:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2018\/6\/24\/episode-74-the-bad-and-complex-tax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Bad and Complex Tax<\/a> &#8212; Ep 74 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan)<br \/>\n7. <a href=\"http:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2017\/7\/24\/episode-28-gst-revisited\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GST Revisited<\/a> &#8212; Ep 28 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vivek Kaul)<br \/>\n8. <a href=\"http:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2019\/3\/18\/episode-112-early-indians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Early Indians<\/a> &#8212; Ep 112 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tony Joseph)<br \/>\n9. <a href=\"http:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2019\/3\/18\/episode-112-early-indians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Immigration<\/a> &#8212; Ep 4 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shikha Dalmia)<br \/>\n10. <a href=\"http:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2017\/4\/17\/episode-14-rent-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rent Control<\/a> &#8212; Ep 14 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Alex Tabarrok)<br \/>\n11. <a href=\"http:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2017\/3\/27\/episode-11-fsi-floor-space-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FSI<\/a> &#8212; Ep 11 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Alex Tabarrok)<br \/>\n12. <a href=\"http:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2019\/8\/5\/episode-132-women-at-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women at Work<\/a> &#8212; Ep 132 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Namita Bhandare)<br \/>\n13. <a href=\"http:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2018\/10\/22\/episode-91-ilampfs-and-the-indian-financial-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IL&amp;FS and the Indian Financial System<\/a> &#8212; Ep 91 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vivek Kaul &amp; Ashutosh Datar)<br \/>\n14. <a href=\"http:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2017\/8\/21\/episode-32-non-performing-assets-npas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The DNA of the NPA<\/a> &#8212; Ep 32 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vivek Kaul &amp; Kumar Anand)<br \/>\n15. <a href=\"http:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2019\/7\/22\/episode-130-demystifying-gdp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Demystifying GDP<\/a> &#8212; Ep 130 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rajeswari Sengupta)<br \/>\n16. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkpragati.com\/podcast\/the-seen-and-the-unseen\/7662\/indias-lost-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">India&#8217;s Lost Decade<\/a> &#8212; Ep 116 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Puja Mehra)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times are bad &#8212; but pessimists can dream! Tired of only talking about problems, Shruti Rajagopalan, Rajeswari Sengupta and Vivek Kaul join Amit Varma in episode 138 of The Seen and the Unseen, to propose solutions! Three each. Many bad jokes and Bollywood songs are thrown in.<\/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\/140"}],"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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9372,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/9372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}