{"id":8738,"date":"2020-02-16T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/?p=8738"},"modified":"2020-02-16T09:09:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T03:39:53","slug":"episode-160-participatory-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2020\/2\/16\/episode-160-participatory-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 160: Participatory Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe src=\"https:\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/13167929\/height\/90\/width\/640\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/0e7c7b\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"90\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> In India, we have government of the people and for the people, but not&nbsp;<em>by&nbsp;<\/em>the people. How can we fix this? Polymath thinker Ashwin Mahesh joins Amit Varma in episode 160 of The Seen and the Unseen to chat about participatory democracy, India Against Corruption, the Aam Aadmi Party and what makes a Good Indian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also check out<\/strong>:<br>1.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashwinmahesh.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ashwin Mahesh&#8217;s homepage<\/a>.<br>2.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashwinmahesh.in\/post\/2016\/06\/19\/with-the-government-within-the-government-and-as-the-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">With the Government, Within the Government, As the Government<\/a>&nbsp;&#8212; Ashwin Mahesh<br>3.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2018\/9\/16\/episode-86-the-state-of-our-farmers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The State of our Farmers<\/a>&nbsp;&#8212; Episode 86 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Gunvant Patil)<br>4.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2019\/12\/2\/episode-149-a-life-in-indian-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Life in Indian Politics<\/a>&nbsp;&#8212; Episode 149 of The Seen and the Unseen (w JP Narayan)<br>5.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2020\/2\/2\/episode-158-radically-networked-societies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Radically Networked Societies<\/a>&nbsp;&#8212; Episode 158 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane)<br>6.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2018\/7\/16\/episode-77-education-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Education in India<\/a>&nbsp;&#8212; Episode 77 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Amit Chandra)<br>7.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2017\/4\/10\/episode-13-the-anti-defection-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Anti-Defection Law<\/a>&nbsp;&#8212; Episode 13 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Barun Mitra)\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In India, we have government of the people and for the people, but not&nbsp;by&nbsp;the people. How can we fix this? Polymath thinker Ashwin Mahesh joins Amit Varma in episode 160 of The Seen and the Unseen to chat about participatory democracy, India Against Corruption, the Aam Aadmi Party and what makes a Good Indian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738"}],"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=8738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8741,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions\/8741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}