{"id":8814,"date":"2020-03-15T08:32:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T03:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/?p=8814"},"modified":"2020-03-15T08:32:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T03:02:48","slug":"episode-164-the-ideas-of-our-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2020\/3\/15\/episode-164-the-ideas-of-our-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 164: The Ideas of Our Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class=\"iframe-class\" src=\"https:\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/13550798\/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\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1531700257624_130235\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\">\n<div class=\"sqs-block-content\">\n<div id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1560137275805_230172\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\">\n<div class=\"sqs-block-content\">\n<p class=\"\">Contrary to popular belief, the Indian constitution was not a copy-paste job without a vision. It emerged from decades of intellectual ferment. Madhav Khosla joins Amit Varma in episode 164 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe the history of the key ideas that drove our founders and shaped our constitution.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><b>Also check out<\/b>:<br \/>\n1.\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Indias-Founding-Moment-Constitution-Surprising\/dp\/0674247981\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=india%27s+founding+moment&amp;qid=1584216403&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Indias-Founding-Moment-Constitution-Surprising\/dp\/0674247981\/ref%3Dsr_1_1?keywords%3Dindia%2527s%2Bfounding%2Bmoment%26qid%3D1584216403%26sr%3D8-1&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1584306537052000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFPacfbrOuZQh-YGeHwqUzYcIzwQQ\">India&#8217;s Founding Moment<\/a><\/i>\u00a0&#8212; Madhav Khosla<br \/>\n2.\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Indian-Constitution-Oxford-India-Introductions\/dp\/0198075383\/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=madhav+khosla&amp;qid=1584216584&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Indian-Constitution-Oxford-India-Introductions\/dp\/0198075383\/ref%3Dsr_1_2?keywords%3Dmadhav%2Bkhosla%26qid%3D1584216584%26s%3Dbooks%26sr%3D1-2&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1584306537052000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEVGSR1OrLR7gTsQd8fUQZ9Jm6zcg\">The Indian Constitution<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(Oxford Short Introductions) &#8212; 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It emerged from decades of intellectual ferment. Madhav Khosla joins Amit Varma in episode 164 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe the history of the key ideas that drove our founders and shaped our constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814"}],"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=8814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8816,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions\/8816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seenunseen.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}