She learnt journalism in America and spent many years in South Africa writing a portrait of their troubled society, where everything is complicated and nothing is settled -- much like anywhere else. Eve Fairbanks joins Amit Varma in episode 398 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about her life, her work, her craft and the world around her.

(FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.)

Also check out:
1. Eve Fairbanks on Twitter, LinkedIn and her own website.
2. The Inheritors -- Eve Fairbanks.
3. The Dispossession of District Six -- Eve Fairbanks.
4. From Cairo to Delhi With Max Rodenbeck — Episode 281 of The Seen and the Unseen.
5. Wendell Berry on Wikipedia and Poetry Foundation. 
6. Get Married -- Brad Wilcox.
7. The Four Loves -- CS Lewis.
8. The World in a World Cup -- Eve Fairbanks.
9. Robert George's thread on his rhetorical question to his students.
10. Natasha Badhwar Lives the Examined Life — Episode 301 of The Seen and the Unseen.
11. Harmony in the Boudoir — Mark Strand.
12. The Seven Basic Plots -- Christopher Booker.
13. Maharashtra Politics Unscrambled — Episode 151 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sujata Anandan).
14. The Flirting Trap -- Eve Fairbanks. (Scroll down on that page for this piece).
15. The Art of Gathering -- Priya Parker.
16. Common Sense -- Thomas Paine.
17. On Tyranny -- Timothy Snyder.
18. The Origins of Political Order -- Francis Fukuyama.
19. A Meditation on Form — Amit Varma.
20. The Power Broker — Robert Caro.
21. Beautiful Thing — Sonia Faleiro.
22. The Good Girls — Sonia Faleiro.
23. Two Girls Hanging From a Tree — Episode 209 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sonia Faleiro).
24. The Broken Script — Swapna Liddle.
25. Swapna Liddle and the Many Shades of Delhi — Episode 367 of The Seen and the Unseen.
26. RRR -- SS Rajamouli.
27. Here Comes The Groom: A (conservative) case for gay marriage -- Andrew Sullivan.
28. Eric Weinstein Won’t Toe the Line — Episode 330 of The Seen and the Unseen.
29. This Be The Verse — Philip Larkin.
30. William Prince and Khwezi on Spotify.
31. Love: A History -- Simon May.
32. How Far Can Amapiano Go? -- Kelefa Sanneh.

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We take money and banking and finance for granted -- but the way they exist in the world is not the only way they could exist. Lawrence H White joins Amit Varma in episode 397 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss ideas, ideologies, money, crypto and the field he pioneered, free banking.

(FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.)

Also check out:
1. Lawrence H White on Twitter, Wikipedia, Cato, GMU, Amazon and Google Scholar.
2. Free Banking in Britain – Theory, Experience and Debate 1800-1845 -- Lawrence H White.
3. The Clash of Economic Ideas -- Lawrence H White.
4. Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin? -- Lawrence H White.
5. The Incredible Insights of Timur Kuran — Episode 349 of The Seen and the Unseen.
6. The Long Divergence — Timur Kuran.
7. The Problem With Digital Public Goods -- Episode 56 of Everything is Everything.
8. Seeing Like a State — James C Scott.
9. Javier Milei's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
10. For a New Liberty -- Murray Rothbard.
11. Laissez Faire Books.
12. Capitalism and Freedom -- Milton Friedman.
13. Power and Market -- Murray Rothbard.
14. Economics in One Lesson — Henry Hazlitt.
15. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal -- Ayn Rand.
16. Man, Economy and State -- Murray Rothbard.
17. Gold and Economic Freedom -- Alan Greenspan.
18. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution -- Bernard Bailyn.
19. Is Nonprice Competition in Currency Inefficient? -- Lawrence H White & Donald J Boudreaux.
20. Demonetisation and welfare -- Shruti Rajagopalan and Lawrence H White.
21. Narendra Modi takes a Great Leap Backwards — Amit Varma.
22. Anarchy, State and Utopia -- Robert Nozick.
23. Civilization III.
24. The Fatal Conceit — Friedrich Hayek.
25. The Private Mint In Economics: Evidence from American Gold Rushes -- Lawrence H White.
26. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass -- Frederick Douglass.
27. Lombard Street - A Description of the Money Market -- Walter Bagehot.
28. Has Government Any Role in Money? -- Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz.
29. Antifragile -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
30. What Really Happened? — Lawrence H White on the 2008 Financial Crisis.
31. Gambling with Other People's Money -- Russell D Roberts.
32. The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure -- John Allison.
33. Check Your Financial Privilege -- Alex Gladstein.
34. Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin -- Andrew Bailey, Bradley Rettler and Craig Warmke.
35. Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptoassets -- Fabian Schär and Aleksander Berentsen.
36. The Denationalisation of Money -- Hayek.
37. The Theory of Free Banking -- George Selgin.
38. Money: Free and Unfree -- George Selgin.
39. The Experience of Free Banking -- Kevin Dowd.
40. Fixing the Knowledge Society -- Episode 24 of Everything is Everything.
41. The Four Quadrants of Conformism — Paul Graham.
42. The Outlaws -- Episode 61 of Everything is Everything.
43. Guru -- Mani Ratnam.
44. Sholay -- Ramesh Sippy.
45. Don -- Chandra Barot.
46. Red Plenty -- Francis Spufford.
47. Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood -- Joachim Fest.
48. The Madeira, Lords of Atlantis, Man Or Astro-Man?, Satan's Pilgrims and Badmarsh & Shri on Spotify.
49. Godzilla Minus One -- Takashi Yamazaki.
50. Amarcord -- Federico Fellini.
51. Roma -- Federico Fellini.
52. I Vitelloni -- Federico Fellini.

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Episode art: ‘Money on the Mind’ by Simahina.

He's an elder statesman in the worlds of journalism, policy and economics in India -- and he takes the long view. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha joins Amit Varma in episode 388 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about his life and learnings.

(FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.)

Also check out:
1. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha on Twitter, Mint and Artha Global.
2. The Rise of India -- NIranjan Rajadhyaksha.
3. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha interviewed in Marathi by Think Bank: Part 1. Part 2.
4. MV Rajadhyaksha and Vijaya Rajadhyaksha.
5. The Times of India obituary of MV Rajadhyaksha.
6. The Song of Life -- Vijaya Rajadyaksha.
7. Adventures of a Bystander -- Peter F Drucker.
8. The Theory of Moral Sentiments -- Adam Smith's book that contains the concept of the impartial spectator.
9. The Impartial Spectator columns by Niranjan Rajadhyaksha and Shruti Rajagopalan.
10. Ratatouille -- Brad Bird.
11. The Overton Window.
12. John Maynard Keynes on Alfred Marshall.
13. The Rooted Cosmopolitanism of Sugata Srinivasaraju — Episode 277 of The Seen and the Unseen.
14. The Rise and Fall of the Bilingual Intellectual -- Ramachandra Guha.
15. Understanding India Through Its Languages — Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan).
16. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages — Peggy Mohan.
17. The Heckman Equation -- a website based on James Heckman's work.
18. Select episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Suyash Rai (1, 2) and Rahul Verma (1, 2).
19. Stri Purush Tulana by Tarabai Shinde on Amazon and Wikipedia.
20. Kalyanche Nishwas by Vibhavari Shirurkar (Malati Bedekar) on Amazon and Wikipedia.
21. Makers of Modern India -- Ramachandra Guha.
22. Simone de Beauvoir (Wikipedia, Britannica, Amazon) and Germaine Greer (Wikipedia, Britannica, Amazon).
23. Gopal Ganesh Agarkar's essay on education for girls.
24. The omnibus volume of BR Nanda’s biographies of Gokhale, Gandhi and Nehru.
25. The Adda at the End of the Universe — Episode 309 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vikram Sathaye and Roshan Abbas).
26. This Be The Verse — Philip Larkin.
27. Rohit Lamba Will Never Be Bezubaan -- Episode 378 of The Seen and the Unseen.
28. Volga Se Ganga (Hindi) (English) -- Rahul Sankritayan.
29. In Service of the Republic — Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah.
30. Turning Over the Pebbles: A Life in Cricket and in the Mind -- Mike Brearley.
31. Slow Horses (book one of Slough House) -- Mick Herron.
32. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 -- Tony Judt.
33. On Warne -- Gideon Haigh.
34. The Essential Keynes -- John Maynard Keynes.
35. The Age of Uncertainty — John Kenneth Galbraith.
36. Asian Drama -- Gunnar Myrdal.
37. Aneesh Pradhan on Spotify, Amazon, Instagram, Twitter and his own website.
38. Malini Goyal is the Curious One — Episode 377 of The Seen and the Unseen.
39. The UNIX Episode -- Episode 32 of Everything is Everything.
40. The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development -- Michael Kremer.
41. Why Abhijit Banerjee Had to Go Abroad to Achieve Glory -- Amit Varma.
42. Why Talent Comes in Clusters -- Episode 8 of Everything is Everything.
43. The Dark Knight Rises -- Christopher Nolan.
44. Thinking it Through -- The archives of Amit Varma's column for Mint.
45. Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker -- Ved Mehta.
46. Videhi -- Vijaya Rajadhyaksha.
47. Select pieces on the relationship between Raymond Carver and Gordon Lish: 1, 2, 3, 4.
48. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy -- Joseph Schumpeter.
49. Maharashtra Politics Unscrambled — Episode 151 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sujata Anandan).
50. Complaint Resolution Systems: Experimental Evidence from Rural India -- Chinmaya Kumar and MR Sharan.
51. Parkinson’s Law — C Northcote Parkinson.
52. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
53. The Life and Times of Montek Singh Ahluwalia — Episode 285 of The Seen and the Unseen.
54. The Forgotten Greatness of PV Narasimha Rao — Episode 283 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati).
55. The Life and Times of KP Krishnan — Episode 355 of The Seen and the Unseen.
56. Lant Pritchett Is on Team Prosperity — Episode 379 of The Seen and the Unseen.
57. The Reformers — Episode 28 of Everything is Everything.
58. The Tragedy of Our Farm Bills — Episode 211 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah).
59. Public Choice Theory Explains SO MUCH -- Episode 33 of Everything is Everything.
60. The Logic of Collective Action — Mancur Olson.
61. Ashutosh Salil and the Challenge of Change — Episode 312 of The Seen and the Unseen.
62. Rational Ignorance.
63. The State of Our Farmers — Ep 86 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Gunvant Patil, in Hindi).
64. India’s Agriculture Crisis — Ep 140 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Barun Mitra & Kumar Anand).
65. The Indian State Is the Greatest Enemy of the Indian Farmer — Amit Varma.
66. The Worldly Philosophers --  Robert Heilbroner.
67. The Clash of Economic Ideas — Lawrence H White.
68. Capital-Labor Substitution and Economic Efficiency -- Kenneth Arrow, Hollis Chenery, Bagicha Singh Minhas and Robert Solow.
69. Room 666 -- Wim Wenders.
70. Laapataa Ladies -- Kiran Rao.
71. The Brave New Future of Electricity -- Episode 40 of Everything is Everything.
72. What I, as a development economist, have been actively “for” — Lant Pritchett.
73. National Development Delivers: And How! And How? — Lant Pritchett.
74. Economic growth is enough and only economic growth is enough — Lant Pritchett with Addison Lewis.
75. Smoke and Ashes -- Amitav Ghosh.
76. Sata Uttarachi Kahani -- GP Pradhan.
77. Gopal Ganesh Agarkar and Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
78. Collections of VD Savarkar's Marathi essays: 1, 2.
79. Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva -- Janaki Bakhle.
80. Savarkar Te BJP -- SH Deshpande.
81. Sarvakarancha Buddhiwad Ani Hindutvawad -- Sheshrao More.
82. Swatantryaveer Savarkar Ek Rahasya -- DN Gokhale.
83. Shodh Savarkarancha -- YD Phadke.
84. The Taking of Pelham 123 -- Tony Scott.
85. Sriram Raghavan (IMDb) (Wikipedia) and Vijay Anand (IMDb) (Wikipedia).
86. Manorama Six Feet Under -- Navdeep Singh.
87. Agatha Christie and Frederick Forsyth on Amazon.
88. Salil Chowdhury and RD Burman on Spotify.
89. Haikyu -- Haruichi Furudate.
90. Pramit Bhattacharya Believes in Just One Ism — Episode 256 of The Seen and the Unseen.
91. Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister — Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay.
92. Dilip José Abreu: an elegant and creative economist — Rohit Lamba.

Niranjan would like to inform listeners that Spontaneous Order would be translated to Marathi as उत्सफूर्त व्यवस्था.

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Episode art: ‘The Impartial Spectator’ by Simahina.

Her pioneering work has helped us understand how caste and gender remain huge problems in India. But her past goes beyond numbers, into a rich history of aajobas and aajis and theatre and song. Ashwini Deshpande joins Amit Varma in episode 298 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss how she used her economist's gaze to understand our social problems -- and how films and music also played their part.

(For full linked show notes, go to SeenUnseen.in.)

Also check out:
1. Ashwini Deshpande on Twitter, Ashoka, Google Scholar, Amazon and her own website.
2. The Grammar of Caste -- Ashwini Deshpande.
3. Why are Indian Women not employed? -- Ashwini Deshpande's talk for Manthan.
4. What Women Do: Is it even "work"? -- A seminar by Ashwini Deshpande at Ashoka.
5.  The New Grammar of Caste -- Ashwini Deshpande's talk at JNU.
6. Gender and Caste Discrimination and Affirmative Action in India -- Ashwini Deshpande speaks to Shruti Rajagopalan on the Ideas of India podcast.
7. Caste, Capitalism and Chandra Bhan Prasad -- Episode 296 of The Seen and the Unseen.
8. Select episodes of The Seen and the Unseen that discussed gender with Shrayana Bhattacharya, Paromita Vohra, Kavita Krishnan, Urvashi Butalia, Namita Bhandare, Manjima Bhattacharjya, Mahima Vashisht and Alice Evans.
9. Amit Varma's tweet with Ashwini Deshpande's viral and potentially award-winning vocal performance.
10. Archaeology and the Public Purpose -- Nayanjot Lahiri.
11. Rahimatpur: Town along the Kamandalu -- GP Deshpande.
12. Satyashodhak (out-of-print book) (YouTube) -- GP Deshpande.
13. Uddhwasta Dharmashala (Marathi) (English)-- GP Deshpande.
14. Thelma and Louise -- Ridley Scott.
15. Jyoti Subhash, Amruta Subhash, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Ebrahim Alkazi, Rohini Hattangadi, Jayadev Hattangadi, Manohar Singh, Sai Paranjpye, Arun Joglekar, Shriram Lagoo and Amol Palekar.
16. Ghashiram Kotwal -- Vijay Tendulkar.
17. Jai Santoshi Maa -- Vijay Sharma.
18. English Vinglish -- Gauri Shinde.
19. Satyajit Ray and Manmohan Desai.
20. Qurbani -- Feroz Khan.
21. Dance Dance For the Halva Waala -- Episode 294 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Jai Arjun Singh and Subrat Mohanty).
22. Dance Dance — Babbar Subhash.
23. Aagaya Aagaya Halwa Wala — Song from Dance Dance.
24. Ek Aur Ek Gyarah -- David Dhawan.
25. Baba Sehgal and ML Sondhi.
26. The Man Who Resides in Music -- PL Deshpande on Malikarjun Mansur, translated by Ashwini Deshpande.
27. Narendra Shenoy and Mr Narendra Shenoy -- Episode 250 of The Seen and the Unseen.
28. Chhoti Si Baat -- Basu Chatterjee.
29. Raj Kumar's famous dialogue from Waqt.
30. Ashwini Bhide Deshpande and Manik Bhide.
31. Yuval Noah Harari on Amazon.
32. The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
33. Womaning in India With Mahima Vashisht -- Episode 293 of The Seen and the Unseen.
34. Kaushik Basu and Amazon, Twitter, Wikipedia and his own website.
35. Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? -- Marianne Bertrand & Sendhil Mullainathan.
36. Race At Work: Realities of Race and Criminal Record in the NYC Job Market -- Devah Pager and Bruce Western.
37. Walking the Talk? What Employers Say Versus What They Do -- Devah Pager and Lincoln Quillian.
38. The Economics of Discrimination -- Gary Becker.
39. How Gary Becker Saw the Scourge of Discrimination -- Kevin Murphy.
40. The Theory of Discrimination -- Kenneth Arrow.
41. What Has Economics to Say About Racial Discrimination? -- Kenneth Arrow.
42. Who gains from the new Maternity Benefit Act Amendment? — Devika Kher.
43. Here’s What’s Wrong With the Maternity Benefits Act — Suman Joshi.
44. Who is the Identifiable Victim?: Caste Interacts with Sympathy in India -- Ashwini Deshpande and Dean Spears.
45. Identifiable victim effect.
46. Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study -- Thomas Sowell.
47. Dominant or Backward? Political Economy of the Demand for Quotas by Jats, Patels and Marathas -- Ashwini Deshpande and Rajesh Ramachandran.
48. (In)Visibility, Care and Cultural Barriers: The Size and Shape of Women's Work in India -- Ashwini Deshpande and Naila Kabeer.
49. Norms that matter -- Ashwini Deshpande and Naila Kabeer.
50. The gendered effects of droughts -- Farzana Afridi, Kanika Mahajan and Nikita Sangwan.
51. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Gendered Division of Paid and Unpaid Work -- Ashwini Deshpande.
52. Women’s Work in India: Evidence from changes in time use between 1998 and 2019 -- Nicholas Li.
53. Dropping Out, Being Pushed Out or Can’t Get in? Decoding Declining Labour Force Participation of Indian Women -- Ashwini Deshpande and Jitendra Singh.
54. Women at Work -- Episode 132 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Namita Bhandare).
55. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman -- Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya).
56. The Refreshing Audacity of Vinay Singhal -- Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen.
57. Metrics of Empowerment — Episode 88 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Devika Kher, Nidhi Gupta & Hamsini Hariharan).
58. We Should Celebrate Rising Divorce Rates (2008) — Amit Varma.
59. Elite Imitation in Public Policy -- Episode 180 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Alex Tabarrok).
60. Fixing Indian Education — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).
61. Understanding Indian Healthcare — Episode 225 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).
62. Karthik Muralidharan Examines the Indian State -- Episode 290 of The Seen and the Unseen.
63. Ret Samadhi -- Geetanjali Shree.
64. Main Zindagi Ka Saath Nibhata Chala Gaya -- Mohammed Rafi song from Hum Dono.
65. Court — Chaitanya Tamhane.
66. The Disciple — Chaitanya Tamhane.
67. Line of Duty, Downton Abbey, Bridgerton, Shetland, The Good Wife, The Good Fight and Giri/Haji.
68. The Good Doctor -- Damon Galgut.
69. Gangubai Kathiawadi -- Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

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Episode art: 'Patriarchy' by Simahina.

We're in the 21st century, and it would seem that the world is finally moving towards gender equality, right? Not so fast. Alice Evans joins Amit Varma in episode 297 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss why some parts of the world are crawling slower than others.

(For full linked show notes, go to SeenUnseen.in.)

Also check out:
1. Alice Evans on her blog, website, YouTube, podcast, Google Scholar, King's College and Twitter.
2. Rocking Our Priors -- Alice Evans's podcast.
3. Ten Thousand Years of Patriarchy, Updated! -- Alice Evans.
4. An Intellectual History of the Patriarchy -- Alice Evans.
5. Friendships and Women's Liberation -- Alice Evans.
6. 3 Things I Got Wrong About Patriarchy -- Alice Evans.
7. What Don't We Know About Patriarchy? -- Alice Evans.
8. Overcoming the Global Despondency Trap -- Alice Evans.
9. Ideas of India: The Great Gender Divergence -- Alice Evans on Shruti Rajagopalan's podcast.
10. Ideas of India: Female Friendships and Fraternal Capital -- Alice Evans on Shruti Rajagopalan's podcast.
11. Select episodes of The Seen and the Unseen that discussed gender with Shrayana Bhattacharya, Paromita Vohra, Kavita Krishnan, Urvashi Butalia, Namita Bhandare, Manjima Bhattacharjya and Mahima Vashisht.
12. Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome.
13. We Should Celebrate Rising Divorce Rates (2008) — Amit Varma.
14. Metrics of Empowerment — Episode 88 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Devika Kher, Nidhi Gupta & Hamsini Hariharan).
15. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya).
16. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh — Shrayana Bhattacharya.
17. Chup: Breaking the Silence About India’s Women -- Deepa Narayan.
18. Terror as a Bargaining Instrument -- Francis Bloch and Vijayendra Rao.
19. Russia: Bill to Decriminalize Domestic Violence -- Human Rights Watch.
20. The Argumentative Indian -- Amartya Sen.
21. Climate Change and Our Power Sector -- Episode 278 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshay Jaitly and Ajay Shah).
22. Nuclear Power Can Save the World — Joshua S Goldstein, Staffan A Qvist and Steven Pinker.
23. Emergent Ventures prizes for best new and recent blogs -- Tyler Cowen.
24. Zotero -- Your Personal Research Assistant.
25. Most of Amit Varma’s writing on DeMon, collected in one Twitter thread.
26. On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough -- Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn.
27. The Ties That Bound -- Barbara A Hanawalt.
28. Jared Diamond and Paul Collier on Amazon.
29. Pseudoerasmus.-- Blog about economic history & comparative development.
30. Daron Acemoglu on Amazon.
31. Naila Kabeer on Twitter, LSE, her own website.and Google Scholar.
32. Sylvia Chant at LSE and Google Scholar.
33. Claudia Goldin at Harvard and Google Scholar.
34. Early Indians — Tony Joseph.
35. Tony Joseph’s episode of The Seen and the Unseen.
36. Who We Are and How We Got Here — David Reich.
37. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages — Peggy Mohan.
38. Understanding India Through Its Languages — Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan).
39. On the Economic Origins of Restricting Women’s Promiscuity -- Anke Becker.
40. Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence -- Yiming Cao, Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk, Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn.
41. The Politics of Marriage in Medieval India: Gender and Alliance in Rajasthan -- Sabita Singh.
42. The Ulema-State Alliance: A Barrier to Democracy and Development in the Muslim World -- Ahmet T Kuru.
43. Gendered Morality -- Zahra Ayubi.
44. Parkinson’s Law — C Northcote Parkinson.
45. Sowmya Dhanaraj and Vidya Mahambare speak to Alice Evans on her podcast.
46. Structural Transformation and Employment Generation in India -- Amit Basole.
47. Networks and Misallocation: Insurance, Migration, and the Rural-Urban Wage Gap -- Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig.
48. Curse of the Mummy‐Ji: The Influence of Mothers‐In‐Law on Women in India -- S Anukriti, Catalina Herrera‐Almanza, Praveen Pathak and Mahesh Karra.
49. Gender, Intersectionality and Smartphones in Rural West Bengal -- Sirpa Tenhunen.
50. Private Truths, Public Lies — Timur Kuran.
51. The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development -- Yuhua Wang.
52. Penis pins.
53. Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa -- Nwando Achebe.
54. The Enlightened Economy: Britain and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850 -- Joel Mokyr.
55. The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa -- Nathan Nunn and Leonard Wantchekon.
56. Michael Pollan on coffee.
57. Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions -- Alberto Alesina, Reza Baqir and William Easterly.
58. The Progress of Humanity -- Episode 101 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Steven Pinker).
59. Claiming the State -- Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner.
60. Capable Women, Incapable States -- Poulami Roychowdhury.
61. The Big Questions -- Steven Landsburg.
62. A Godless Congregation — Amit Varma.
63. Honour and Shame: Women in Modern Iraq -- Sana Al-Khayyat.

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The evil of caste will be solved not by deliverance from up top but empowerment from down below. Dalit scholar and writer Chandra Bhan Prasad joins Amit Varma in episode 296 of The Seen and the Unseen to explain why the cure for caste lies in capitalism -- and why his two great heroes are Babasaheb Ambedkar and Adam Smith.

(For full linked show notes, go to SeenUnseen.in.)

Also check out:
1. Chandra Bhan Prasad on Twitter, Amazon, Wikipedia. Mercatus, Times of India and Google Scholar.
2. Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs -- Devesh Kapur, D Shyam Babu and Chandra Bhan Prasad.
3. What is Ambedkarism? -- Chandra Bhan Prasad.
4. Dalit Phobia: Why Do They Hate Us -- Chandra Bhan Prasad.
5. When Adam Smith entered an Ambedkar village -- Chandra Bhan Prasad.
6. In defence of suit, boot -- Chandra Bhan Prasad.
7. How Piketty got it wrong -- Chandra Bhan Prasad.
8. Who was the real Ambedkar? -- Chandra Bhan Prasad.
9. On Ambedkarism, Caste and Dalit Capitalism -- Chandra Bhan Prasad in conversation with Shruti Rajagopalan in the Ideas of India podcast.
10. 'Indian languages carry the legacy of caste' -- Chandra Bhan Prasad interviewed by Sheela Bhatt.
11. Rethinking Inequality: Dalits in Uttar Pradesh in the Market Reform Era -- Devesh Kapur, Chandra Bhan Prasad, Lant Pritchett and D Shyam Babu.
12. The Collected Writings and Speeches of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar.
13. The Dalit Emancipation Manifesto of 1951 -- Babasaheb Ambedkar.
14. Select episodes of The Seen and the Unseen that discussed caste with TM Krishna, Shruti Rajagopalan and Manu Pillai.
15. Select episodes of The Seen and the Unseen that discussed the 1991 reforms with Shruti Rajagopalan+Ajay Shah, Vinay Sitapati and Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
16. Select episodes of The Seen and the Unseen that discussed gender with Shrayana Bhattacharya, Paromita Vohra, Kavita Krishnan, Urvashi Butalia, Namita Bhandare, Manjima Bhattacharjya and Mahima Vashisht.
17. Ramchandra Keh Gaye Siya Se -- Song from Gopi.
18. The Laws of Manu (Manu Smriti) -- The Penguin edition & the Buhler translation.
19. India’s Problem is Poverty, Not Inequality — Amit Varma.
20. What Have We Done With Our Independence? — Episode 186 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pratap Bhanu Mehta).
21. Devesh Kapur at University of Pennsylvania.
22. Crusader Sees Wealth as Cure for Caste Bias -- The New York Times profile of Chandra Bhan Prasad by Somini Sengupta.
23. In an Indian Village, Signs of the Loosening Grip of Caste -- The Washington Post piece on Chandra Bhan Prasad by Emily Wax.
24. Small Holdings in India and Their Remedies -- Babasaheb Ambedkar.
25. Aims and Objects of the Republican Party of India -- Babasaheb Ambedkar.
26. Ambedkar's memorandum to the British (in Volume 10 of his collected works).

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Imagine being a young girl growing up in a world of constant curfews, occasional raids, army bunkers outside homes, and the fear that whoever leaves home may not return. Farah Bashir joins Amit Varma in episode 295 of The Seen and the Unseen to speak about her childhood in Kashmir — and the act of writing about it.

(For full linked show notes, go to SeenUnseen.in.)

Also check out:
1. Farah Bashir on Twitter and Instagram.
2. Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir -- Farah Bashir.
3. Kashmir and Article 370 — Episode 134 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Srinath Raghavan).
4. Curfewed Night -- Basharat Peer.
5. The Good Women Of China -- Xinran.
6. Svetlana Alexievich on Amazon.
7. Portrait of a Turkish Family -- Irfan Orga.
8. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen.
9. Sharon and My Mother-in-Law -- Suad Amiry.
10. Derry Girls on Netflix and Wikipedia.
11. Nazia Hasan on Spotify.
12. Little Women -- Louisa May Alcott.
13. Nikaah -- BR Chopra.
14. Things Fall Apart -- Chinua Achebe.
15. Sonnets -- William Shakespeare.
16. Hussain Haidry, Hindustani Musalmaan -- Episode 275 of The Seen and the Unseen.
17. The Life and Times of Nilanjana Roy — Episode 284 of The Seen and the Unseen.
18. The Life and Times of Urvashi Butalia — Episode 287 of The Seen and the Unseen.
19. Ghazal -- Agha Shahid Ali.
20. Farah Bashir on the Raw Mango campaign.
21. The Wretched of the Earth -- Frantz Fanon.
22. Kaabil: That Old Regressive Bollywood Strikes Again -- Amit Varma.
23. Georges Simenon on Amazon.
24. Varun Grover Is in the House -- Episode 292 of The Seen and the Unseen.
25. Masaan — Directed by Neeraj Ghaywan and written by Varun Grover.
26. Against White Feminism -- Rafia Zakaria.
27. Another Birth and Other Poems -- Forugh Farrokhzad.
28. The Late Bourgeois World -- Nadine Gordimer.
29. Telling Times -- Nadine Gordimer.
30. Kashmir ki Kali -- The Shakti Samanta film starring a Bengali!
31. Territory of Desire -- Ananya Jahanara Kabir.
32. Mahjoor and Habba Khatoon.
33. Ali Saffuddin and Parvaaz on Spotify.
34. Toni Morrison on Amazon.
35. The Patience Stone -- Atiq Rahimi.
36. Elena Ferrante on Amazon.
37. Milkman -- Anna Burns.
38. Paradise Lost -- John Milton.
39. Macbeth -- William Shakespeare.
40. Greta Gerwig on IMDb, Wikipedia and Mubi.
41. Hisham Matar on Amazon.
42. Museum of Innocence -- Orhan Pamuk.
43. Bell Hooks and WG Sebald on Amazon.
44. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya).
45. Vivian Gornick on Amazon.
46. The Odd Woman and the City — Vivian Gornick.
47. Fierce Attachments -- Vivian Gornick.
48. Shame On Me -- Tessa McWatt.
49. Home Fire -- Kamila Shamsie.
50. Joan Didion and Jane Austen on Amazon.

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You can lose yourself in cinema -- and you can find yourself in it. Jai Arjun Singh and Subrat Mohanty join Amit Varma in episode 294 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about the films in their lives, why we should watch old films, why we should watch new films, why Bollywood and Hollywood and other woods are all great, and why we live in a wonderful technicolor world. This episode is a celebration of cinema!

(For full linked show notes, go to SeenUnseen.in.)

Also check out:
1. Jai Arjun Singh on Twitter and Instagram.
2. Haal-Chaal Theek Thaak Hai -- Subrat Mohanty and Pavan Jha's podcast.
3. Jai Arjun Singh Lost It at the Movies -- Episode 230 of The Seen and the Unseen.
4. Jabberwock — Jai Arjun Singh’s blog.
5. Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron: Seriously Funny Since 1983 — Jai Arjun Singh.
6. The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee -- Jai Arjun Singh.
7. Popcorn Essayists: What Movies do to Writers -- Edited by Jai Arjun Singh.
8. The Golden Era -- Subrat Mohanty's YouTube playlist of 100 lesser-known songs from the golden era of Hindi film music (mostly 1935-65).
9. The Unseen Lata -- Subrat Mohanty's YouTube playlist of 54 lesser-heard songs from Lata Mangeshkar, from 1948 to 1976.
10. Old posts by Subrat Mohanty from the Passion For Cinema web archives.
11. Some Spotify playlists, courtesy Nishant Shah, from Haal-Chaal Theek Thaak Hai episodes: 1, 2, 3, 4.
12. Pavan Jha's YouTube channel.
13. The only 1980s Maltova Mum commercial I could locate from the 1980s. (Couldn't find Singer.)
14. Kashmir Ki Kali -- Shakti Samanta.
15. Mughal-E-Azam -- K Asif.
16. Khuda Nigehbaan Ho -- Song from Mughal-E-Azam, sung by Lata Mangeshkar, music by Naushad, lyrics by Shakeel Badayuni.
17. Cinema Paradiso -- Giuseppe Tornatore.
18. Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan -- talk show by Tabassum. 
19. Old episodes of Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan with RD Burman, Deepti Naval, Anand Bakshi and Bhupinder.
20. The Indiana Jones and Superman franchises.
21. The Evil Dead -- Sam Raimi.
22. Sam Raimi, Wes Craven and John Carpenter.
23. The Fugitive and The Bodyguard.
24. The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Milan Kundera.
25. The Antichrist -- Friedrich Nietzsche.
26. The 400 Blows -- Francois Truffaut.
27. Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom -- Pier Paolo Pasolini.
28. Łódź Film School and Andrzej Wajda.
29. Do the Right Thing -- Spike Lee.
30. On Exactitude in Science (Wikipedia) -- Jorge Luis Borges.
31. Titus Andronicus -- William Shakespeare.
32. A Chess Story (previously published as The Royal Game) -- Stefan Zweig.
33. The World of Yesterday -- Stefan Zweig.
34. The Friday the 13th franchise.
35. Tracy and Hepburn -- Garson Kanin.
36. Bhimsen Joshi, Mallikarjun Mansur, Kumar Gandharva and Lata Mangeshkar on Spotify.
37. Vijay Anand, Guru Dutt, Raj Kapoor, Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
38. Guide -- Vijay Anand.
39. Kaagaz Ke Phool -- Guru Dutt.
40. Jean-Luc Godard and Federico Fellini.
41. Shankar–Jaikishan, Hasrat Jaipuri, Shailendra, Mukesh, KA Abbas, Ramanand Sagar and Kidar Sharma.
42. Aag, Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Awaara, Barsaat and Shree 420.
43. Nargis and Nadira.
44. Mud Mud Ke Na Dekh -- Song from Shree 420, sung by Asha Bhosle and Manna Dey, music by Shankar-Jaikishan, lyrics by Shailendra.
45. Orson Welles.
46. Squid Game on Netflix.
47. The Immediate Experience -- Robert Warshow.
48. Dil Dhadakne Do, Luck by Chance and Gully Boy -- Zoya Akhtar.
49. Casablanca -- Michael Curtiz.
50. Yudh and Tridev -- Rajiv Rai.
51. Amit Varma’s Twitter threads on the MAMI festival from 2018 and 2019.
52. The Art of Translation -- Episode 168 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Arunava Sinha).
53. Dead Poet's Society -- Peter Weir.
54. The desire to help, and the desire not to be helped — Roger Ebert’s review of Goodbye Solo.
55. Pauline Kael on Amazon.
56. Dekalog — Krzysztof Kieślowski. (And Roger Ebert’s essay on it.)
57. The Dead — John Huston.
58. In the Bedroom -- Todd Field.
59. Devdas (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) and Parineeta (Pradeep Sarkar).
60. Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Vikram Seth.
61. Raag Darbari (Hindi) (English) — Shrilal Shukla.
62. PG Wodehouse on Amazon and Wikipedia.
63. Films, Feminism, Paromita — Episode 155 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Paromita Vohra).
64. Dharmyug and Dharamvir Bharati.
65. Andha Yug (Hindi) (English) -- Dharamvir Bharati.
66. Suraj ka Satvaan Ghoda -- Dharamvir Bharati.
67. Gunahon Ka Devta — Dharamvir Bharati.
68. Sara Rai Inhales Literature — Episode 255 of The Seen and the Unseen.
69. The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande — Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen.
70. Anil Biswas, SD Burman, Chitragupt, Roshan, C Ramchandra and Madan Mohan.
71. Naushad and Aan.
72. Maan Mera Ehsan -- Song from Aan, sung by Mohammad Rafi, music by Naushad, lyrics by Shakeel Badayuni.
73. Sebastian D'Souza, Anthony Gonsalves, Ghulam Mohammed and Mohammed Shafi.
74. Khayyam and RD Burman.
75. The Long Tail -- Chris Anderson.
76. The Sound of Music -- Robert Wise.
77. Do-Re-Mi -- Song from The Sound of Music.
78. Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi on Spotify.
79. Tosca -- Giacomo Puccini -- performed at Arena di Verona.
80. Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Lizzo and Billie Eilish on Spotify.
81. About That Time -- Lizzo.
82. Renaissance -- Beyoncé.
83. Ae Dil Hai Mushkil -- Karan Johar.
84. Aar Paar, Geeta Dutt and Eminem.
85. Pet Shop Boys, Guns N' Roses, U2, REM and Stone Temple Pilots on Spotify.
86. Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.
87. How This Nobel Has Redefined Literature -- Amit Varma.
88. Mera Joota Hai Japani -- Song from Shree 420, sung by Mukesh, music by Shankar-Jaikishen, lyrics by Shailendra.
89. Sahir Ludhianvi and Majrooh Sultanpuri.
90. Do Bigha Zamin -- Bimal Roy.
91. Dharti Kahe Pukaar Ke -- Song from Do Bigha Zamin, sung by Manna Dey and Lata Mangeshkar, music by Salil Chowdhury, lyrics by Shailendra.
92. Varun Grover Is in the House -- Episode 292 of The Seen and the Unseen.
93. Mondegreen.
94. Tragedy -- Bee Gees.
95. Aap Jaisa Koi -- Song from Qurbani, sung by Nazia Hassan, music by Biddu Appaiah, lyrics by Masth Ali & Shashi Pritam.
96. Ek Akela Is Shaher Mein -- Song from Gharaonda, sung by Bhupinder Singh, music by Jaidev, lyrics by Gulzar.
97. Jonathan Haidt on Amazon.
98. Amar Akbar Anthony and Andrei Tarkovsky.
99. 2001: A Space Odyssey -- Stanley Kubrick.
100. Mirza Ghalib (and the show on him by Gulzar).
101. Roy Lichtenstein, Drowning Girl, Jackson Pollock, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso and the Pre-Raphaelites.
102. The Wire, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
103. Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorcese, Quentin Tarantino, Coen Brothers and Preston Sturges.
104. Ball of Fire -- Howard Hawks.
105. The Lady Eve -- Preston Sturges.
106. Barbara Stanwyck and Lawrence Olivier.
107. Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma and Alfred Hitchcock.
108. How to Read and Why -- Harold Bloom.
109. Malayankunju -- Sajimon Prabhakar.
110. Muqaddar Ka Sikandar -- Prakash Mehra.
111. Agatha Christie on Amazon and Wikipedia.
112. Nayak -- Satyajit Ray.
113. Prakash Mehra and Kader Khan.
114. Laawaris -- Prakash Mehra.
115. Don and Majboor.
116. Sample SSR conspiracy theory: He’s alive!
117. David Cronenberg.
118. Masaan — Directed by Neeraj Ghaywan and written by Varun Grover.
119. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins.
120. Chacha Bhatija, Parvarish, Amar Akbar Anthony and Dharam Veer -- Manmohan Desai.
121. Man, Woman and Child -- Erich Segal.
122. Man, Woman and Child (1983 film) -- Dick Richards.
123. Masoom -- Shekhar Kapoor.
124. Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Mani Kaul, Kumar Shahani, Mrinal Sen and Robert Bresson.
125. Au Hasard Balthazar -- Robert Bresson.
126. Uski Roti -- Mani Kaul.
127. Narendra Shenoy and Mr Narendra Shenoy — Episode 250 of The Seen and the Unseen.
128. Calcutta 71 -- Mrinal Sen.
129. Ivan's Childhood, Solaris and Andrei Rublev -- Andrei Tarkovsky.
130. Stanislaw Lem on Amazon and Wikipedia.
131. Cahiers du Cinéma and Mayapuri.
132. Black Friday and Paanch -- Anurag Kashyap.
133. Navdeep Singh, Sudhir Mishra, Neeraj Ghaywan, Raj Kumar Gupta and Rajkumar Kohli.
134. Nagin and Nagina.
135. Jaani Dushman -- Rajkumar Kohli.
136. Three Colors: Blue -- Krzysztof Kieślowski.
137. Three Colors: Red -- Krzysztof Kieślowski.
138. Three Colors: White -- Krzysztof Kieślowski.
139. The Double Life of Veronique -- Krzysztof Kieślowski.
140. The legendary Babbar Subhash.
141. Dance Dance -- Babbar Subhash.
142. Aagaya Aagaya Halwa Wala -- Song from Dance Dance.
143. Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro -- Kundan Shah.
144. Leke Pehla Pehla Pyar -- Song from CID, sung by Shamshad Begum, Asha Bhosle and Mohammad Rafi., music by OP Nayyar, lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri.
145. Rote Hue Aate Hain Sab -- Song from Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, sung by Kishore Kumar, music by Kalyani-Anandji, lyrics by Anjaan.
146. Kai Baar Yun Bhi Dekha Hai -- Song from Rajnigandha, sung by Mukesh, music by Salil Chowdhury, lyrics by Yogesh.
147. Rim Jhim Gire Saawan -- Song from Manzil, sung by Lata Mangeshkar, music by RD Burman, lyrics by Yogesh.
148. Andrew Sarris and André Bazin.
149. Sergei Eisenstein and the Odessa Steps sequence.
150. Court — Chaitanya Tamhane.
151. Khosla Ka Ghosla, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, Love Sex Aur Dhokha, Shanghai and Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! -- Dibakar Banerjee.
152. Jean Renoir.
153. Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirō Ozu.
154. Tokyo Story -- Yasujirō Ozu.
155. Rashomon -- Akira Kurosawa.
156. The 2012 Sight and Sound poll of the 100 Greatest Films of All Time.
157. Early Summer -- Yasujirō Ozu.
158. Make Way for Tomorrow -- Leo McCarey.
159. Citizen Kane -- Orson Welles.
160. Vertigo -- Alfred Hitchcock.
161. Setsuko Hara.
162. Sara Akash -- Basu Chatterjee.
163. Bhuvan Shome -- Mrinal Sen.
164. KK Mahajan.
165. One Cut of the Dead -- Shin'ichirō Ueda.
166. Unsane -- Steven Soderbergh.
167. Promising Young Woman -- Emerald Fennell.
168. Psycho -- Alfred Hitchcock.
169. Hitchcock's Films Revisited -- Robin Wood.
170. Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, Witness, Dead Poet's Society and The Truman Show -- Peter Weir.
171. Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.
172. John Ford and Girish Shahane.
173. Everything is Cinema -- Don Palathara.
174. Hi Mom! -- Brian De Palma.
175. Taxi Driver -- Martin Scorcese.
176. Joyful Mystery -- Don Palathara.
177. The Postman Always Rings Twice -- Tay Garnett.
178. Treasure of the Sierra Madre -- John Huston.
179. Noir’s arc - notes on an excellent anthology -- Jai Arjun Singh.
180. Key Largo -- John Huston.
181. Gun Crazy -- Joseph H Lewis.
182. Sullivan's Travels -- Preston Sturges.
183. O Brother, Where Art Thou? -- Coen Brothers.
184. Winchester '73 and Bend of the River -- Anthony Mann.
185. Shaheed (1948) -- Ramesh Saigal, starring Dilip Kumar.
186. Andaz -- Mehboob Khan.
187. Duniya Na Mane -- V Shantaram.
188. Some Like it Hot and Ace in the Hole -- Billy Wilder.
189. Ernst Lubitsch and James Wong Howe.
190. Sweet Smell of Success -- Alexander Mackendrick.
191. Mere Apne -- Gulzar.
192. Haal Chaal Thik Thak Hai -- Song from Mere Apne, sung by Kishore Kumar and Mukesh, music by Salil Chowdhury, lyrics by Gulzar.
193. Mr Sampat -- SS Vasan.
194. Miss Malini -- Kothamangalam Subbu.
195. Mr. Sampath: The Printer Of Malgudi -- RK Narayan.
196. Achhe Din Aa Rahe Hain -- Song from Mr Sampat, sung by Shamshad Begum and ML Vasantakumari, music by Balkrishna Kalla, lyrics by Pandit Indra Chander.
197. Parakh -- Bimal Roy.
198. O Sajna Barkha Bahaar Aayee -- Song from Parakh, sung by Lata Mangeshkar, music by Salil Chowdhury, lyrics by Shailendra.
199. Oonche Log -- Phani Majumdar.
200. Major Chandrakanth -- K Balachander.
201. Jaag Dil-E-Deewana -- Song from Oonche Log, sung by Mohammad Rafi, music by Chitragupt, lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri.
202. Birendranath Sircar, RC Boral and Timir Baran.
203. PC Barua, Bimal Roy and KL Saigal.
204. Devdas (1936) -- PC Barua.
205. President -- Nitin Bose.
206. Ek Bangla Bane Nyara -- Song from President, sung by KL Saigal, music by RC Boral, lyrcs by Kidar Sharma.
207. Street Singer -- Phani Majumdar.
208. Babul Mora Naihar Chhooto Hi Jaye -- Song from Street Singer, sung by KL Saigal, music by RC Boral, lyrics by Nawab Wajid Ali Shah.
209. Wajid Ali Shah.
210. Shatranj Ke Khilari -- Satyajit Ray.
211. Duniya, Yeh Duniya, Toofan Mail-- Song from Jawab, sung by Kanan Devi, music by Kamal Dasgupta, lyrics by Pandit Madhur.
212. Rajnigandha -- Basu Chatterjee.
213. Rajnigandha/राजनीगंधा -- Mannu Bhandari.
214. The Conversation -- Francis Ford Coppola.
215. Deer Hunter -- Michael Cimino.
216. The Godfather -- Francis Ford Coppola.
217. The Godfather: Part 2 -- Francis Ford Coppola.
218. Sisters -- Brian De Palma.
219. Blow Out -- Brian De Palma.
220. Blowup -- Michelangelo Antonioni.
221. The Long Goodbye and Nashville -- Robert Altman.
222. The Missouri Breaks -- Arthur Penn.
223. The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, What's Up, Doc? and Targets -- Peter Bogdanovich.
224. This is Orson Welles -- Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich.
225. Hitchcock -- Francois Truffaut.
226. Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not  -- Howard Hawks.
227. The Big Sleep -- Raymond Chandler.
228. William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway on Amazon.
229. Johny Mera Naam and Jewel Thief -- Vijay Anand.
230. Sholay -- Ramesh Sippy.
231. Back to the Future -- Robert Zemeckis.
232. Mr India -- Shekhar Kapoor.
233. Rahul Rawail, JP Dutta, Mukul Anand and Rajiv Rai.
234. Hathyar and Ghulami -- JP Dutta.
235. Raat Bhat Jaam Se Jaam Takrayega -- Song from Tridev with galaxy of villains.
236. Naseeb -- Manmohan Desai.
237. Dan Dhanoa, Mahesh Anand, Dalip Tahil and Tej Sapru.
238. The Ramsay Brothers!
239. Don't Disturb the Dead: The Story of the Ramsay Brothers -- Shamya Dasgupta.
240. Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche -- Tulsi and Shyam Ramsay.
241. Veerana -- Ramsay Brothers.
242. Purana Mandir -- Ramsay Brothers.
243. Govinda!
244. Ilzaam -- Shibu Mitra.
245. I am a Street Dancer and Main Aaya Tere Liye from Ilzaam.
246. Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction -- Quentin Tarantino.
247. Halloween -- John Carpenter.
248. A Nightmare on Elm Street -- Wes Craven.
249. Scream -- Wes Craven.
250. Terminator 2: Judgment Day -- James Cameron.
251. Mad Max: Fury Road -- George Miller.
252. Nicholas Cage and Keanu Reeves.
253. Wild at Heart -- David Lynch.
254. Red Rock West -- John Dahl.
255. The Last Seduction -- John Dahl.
256. Edward Norton in American History X and Rounders.
257. New Delhi Times -- Ramesh Sharma.
258. Drohkaal -- Govind Niahalani.
259. Gupt and Mohra by Rajiv Rai.
260. Sonam!
261. Wild -- Nicolette Krebitz.
262. Waves -- Trey Edward Shults.
263. Climax -- Gaspar Noé.
264. Mother! -- Darren Aronofsky.
265 Eho — Dren Zherka.
266. The Magic Mountain -- Thomas Mann.
267. Invisible Cities -- Italo Calvino.
268. Cosmicomics -- Itali Calvino.
269. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller -- Italo Calvino.
270. A House For Mr Biswas -- VS Naipaul.
271. A Bend in the River -- VS Naipaul.
272. Middlemarch -- George Eliot.
273. Mrs Dalloway -- Virginia Woolf.
274. To the Lighthouse -- Virginia Woolf.
275. Decline and Fall -- Evelyn Waugh.
276. Scoop -- Evelyn Waugh.
277. Brighton Rock -- Graham Greene.
278. Brighton Rock (1948 film) -- John Boulting.
279. Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis.
280. Lucky Jim -- Kingsley Amis.
281. The Siege Of Krishnapur -- JG Farrell.
282. Alfie -- Lewis Gilbert.
283. Get Carter -- Mike Hodges.
284. Blame it on Rio -- Stanley Donen.
285. Gangs of Wasseypur -- Anurag Kashyap.
286. Tamas -- Govind Nihalani.

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The world we live in is designed by men for men. What is it like to be a woman in this world? Mahima Vashisht joins Amit Varma in episode 293 of The Seen and the Unseen to share her experiences documenting all that is unseen by men and lived by women.

(For full linked show notes, go to SeenUnseen.in.)

Also check out:
1. Mahima Vashisht on Twitter and Buy Me A Coffee.
2. Womaning in India -- Mahima Vashisht's newsletter.
3. The Womaning in India podcast.
4. The All-Powerful Female Imposter Syndrome -- Mahima Vashisht.
5. Maternity Discrimination is killing women's careers -- Mahima Vashisht.
6. Body shaming women is our favourite national pastime -- Mahima Vashisht.
7. Let's talk about Office Toilets -- Mahima Vashisht.
8. The Raja Beta Syndrome -- Mahima Vashisht.
9. Fabulous Lives of Indian Housewives -- Mahima Vashisht.
10. What is obstetric violence? (Aka my birth story) -- Mahima Vashisht.
11. Women face selective deafness in meetings -- Mahima Vashisht.
12. Lessons from the Tarun Tejpal judgment -- Mahima Vashisht.
13. The Great Indian Dhakosla -- Mahima Vashisht.
14. Kavitha Rao and Our Lady Doctors -- Episode 235 of The Seen and the Unseen.
15. The Memoirs of Dr Haimabati Sen — Haimabati Sen (translated by Tapan Raychoudhuri).
16. Nobody Told Me -- John Lennon.
17. The Sunk Cost Fallacy.
18. Koffee With Karan.
19. An Unsuitable Boy -- Karan Johar.
20. The Nurture Assumption -- Judith Rich Harris.
21. The Confidence Gap — Katty Kay and Claire Shipman.
22. Dunning-Kruger Effect (Wikipedia).
23. Poker at Lake Wobegon — Amit Varma.
24. India = Migration — Episode 128 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Chinmay Tumbe).
25. India Moving — Chinmay Tumbe.
26. The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande — Episode 263 of The Seen and the 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 90 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Supriya Nair & Nikita Saxena).
41. Inside Bill's Brain -- Decoding Bill Gates.
42. Daily Rituals — Mason Currey.
43. Daily Rituals: Women at Work — Mason Currey.
44. The tweet Mahima referred to about Albert Einstein's wife.
45. Eileen Mary O’Connell's tweet about Marie Curie and Mariah Carey.
46. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya).
47. The Life and Times of Urvashi Butalia — Episode 287 of The Seen and the Unseen.
48. The Incredible Curiosities of Mukulika Banerjee -- Episode 276 of The Seen and the Unseen.
49. It is immoral to have children. Here’s why — Amit Varma.
50. Men Must Step Up Now — Amit Varma.
51. Superforecasting — Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner.
52. Who gains from the new Maternity Benefit Act Amendment? — Devika Kher.
53. Here’s What’s Wrong With the Maternity Benefits Act — Suman Joshi.
54. This Be The Verse — Philip Larkin.
55. Deep Work — Cal Newport.
56. Invisible Women -- Caroline Criado Perez.
57. The controversy over the woman with an oxygen cylinder cooking in the kitchen.
58. We Should Celebrate Rising Divorce Rates (2008) -- Amit Varma.
59. The Kavita Krishnan Files -- Episode 228 of The Seen and the Unseen.
60. Fearless Freedom — Kavita Krishnan.
61. Why Loiter? — Shilpa Phadke.
62. The Jackson Katz quote on passive sentence constructions.
63. Manjima Bhattacharjya: The Making of a Feminist — Episode 280 of The Seen and the Unseen.
64. Karthik Muralidharan Examines the Indian State -- Episode 290 of The Seen and the Unseen.
65. Whole Numbers and Half Truths — Rukmini S.
66. Rukmini Sees India’s Multitudes — Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S).
67. How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings -- Sarah Cooper.
68. Untamed -- Glennon Doyle.
69. Shrill -- Lindy West.
70. Steal Like an Artist -- Austin Kleon.
71. Show Your Work -- Austin Kleon.
72. Keep Going -- Austin Kleon.
73. Hannah Gadsby, Tig Notaro, James Acaster and Karunesh Talwar.
74. And here's Mahima's post with more show notes!

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He's one of our finest writers, lyricists, comedians, dissenters -- and the breadth of his work is matched by the depth of his insights. Varun Grover joins Amit Varma in episode 292 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about his life and work so far.

(For full linked show notes, go to SeenUnseen.in.)

Also check out:
1. Varun Grover on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and IMDb.
2. Masaan -- Directed by Neeraj Ghaywan and written by Varun Grover.
3. Aisi Taisi Democracy on YouTube. Twitter and Instagram.
4. Sandeep aur Pinky Faraar -- Directed by Dibakar Banerjee and co-written by Varun Grover.
5. Biksu -- Raj Kumari (illustrations) and Varun Grover (words).
6. Learn Screen Writing -- Varun Grover's course on Front Row.
7. Varun Grover interviewed on Slow Cafe by Neelesh Misra.
8. Guftagoo with Varun Grover.
9. Moh Moh Ke Dhaage -- Lyrics by Varun Grover.
10. Tu Kisi Rail Si -- Lyrics by Varun Grover.
11. Mann Kasturi -- Lyrics by Varun Grover.
12. Network -- Sidney Lumet.
13. Hot Drinks Equal Warm Feelings.
14. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul).
15. A Life in Indian Politics — Episode 149 of The Seen and the Unseen (w JP Narayan).
16. Massive fire breaks out at Chitrakoot ground in Andheri.
17. Private Truths, Public Lies — Timur Kuran.
18. I, Pencil -- Leonard Read.
19. Uski Roti -- Mani Kaul.
20. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind — Gustave le Bon.
21. Crowds and Power — Elias Canetti.
22. Nikaah -- BR Chopra.
23. Masoom -- Shekhar Kapur.
24. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
25. The Refreshing Audacity of Vinay Singhal -- Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen.
26. Stage.in.
27. The Indianness of Indian Food — Episode 95 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vikram Doctor).
28. Blowin' in the Wind -- Bob Dylan.
29. You're Missing -- Bruce Springsteen.
30. Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh and Dushyant Kumar.
31. M Indicator.
32. Range -- David Epstein.
33. The desire to help, and the desire not to be helped — Roger Ebert’s review of Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo.
34. Georges Simenon on Amazon.
35. Fast Car -- Tracy Chapman.
36. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life -- Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen.
37. Aadha Gaon -- Rahi Masoom Raza.
38. Biba Sada Dil Morr De -- Nusrat Fatek Ali Khan.
39. Mirza Ghalib on Rekhta.
40. Early Indians — Episode 112 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tony Joseph).
41. Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From — Tony Joseph.
42. Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, SD Burman, RD Burman and Abida Parveen on Spotify.
43. From Cairo to Delhi With Max Rodenbeck -- Episode 281 of The Seen and the Unseen.
44. Invisible Cities -- Italo Calvino.
45. The Rooted Cosmopolitanism of Sugata Srinivasaraju -- Episode 277 of The Seen and the Unseen.
46. Songs of Life -- Puneet Aghi.
47. Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! -- Sooraj Barjatya.
48. Surabhi.
49. Forrest Gump, Notting Hill and Rambo.
50. Majid Majidi, Abbas Kiorastami and Jafar Panahi.
51. Loha, Farishtay, Border and Gadar.
52. Babel and Amores Perros.
53. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie -- John Cassavetes.
54. Mean Streets and Taxi Driver by Martin Scorcese.
55. Flow: The Psychology of Happiness -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
56. Ellevoro on Instagram and Trip Advisor.
57. Wanting — Luke Burgis.
58. Gunahon Ka Devta -- Dharamvir Bharati.
59. It is Immoral to Have Children. Here’s Why — Amit Varma.
60. The Four Quadrants of Conformism — Paul Graham.
61. The Importance of Satya -- Episode 241 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Uday Bhatia).
62. The Great Man Theory of History.
63. Gaata Rahe Mera Dil -- Lyrics by Shailendra.
64. Surinder Kaur, Asa Singh Mastana, Mehdi Hassan, Ghulam Ali, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Parveen Sultana and Noor Jehan on Spotify.
65. Satyajit Ray on Wikipedia, IMDb and Amazon.
66. Agantuk -- Satyajit Ray.
67. The Wind Rises -- Hayao Miyazaki
68. Michael Haneke on Wikipedia and IMDb.
69. Dekalog — Krzysztof Kieślowski.
70. The Three Colours Trilogy --  Krzysztof Kieślowski.
71. A Short Film About Love --  Krzysztof Kieślowski.
72. A Short Film About Killing --  Krzysztof Kieślowski.
73. The God of Small Things -- Arundhati Roy.
74. Dharamvir Bharati, Harishankar Parsai, Uday Prakash and Manohar Shyam Joshi.
75. Raag Darbari (Hindi) (English) — Shrilal Shukla.
76. Naiyer Masud on Wikipedia, Rekhta and Amazon.
77. Collected Stories -- Naiyer Masud.
78. Shamsur Rahman Faruqi on Wikipedia, Rekhta and Amazon.
79. Kai Chaand The Sar-e-aasman --  Shamsur Rahman Faruqi.
80. Sara Rai Inhales Literature -- Episode 255 of The Seen and the Unseen.
81. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, That Obscure Object of Desire — Luis Buñuel.
82. The Dead -- John Huston.

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He was born in a small village in Haryana, built and lost one of the biggest viral sites in the world, and is now building a Netflix for India's dialects. Vinay Singhal joins Amit Varma in episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen to speak about what he learnt from Witty Feed, the philosophy behind his new venture Stage, and how India lives, truly lives, in its dialects.

(For full linked show notes, go to SeenUnseen.in.)

Also check out:
1. Vinay Singhal on Twitter and LinkedIn.
2. Stage.in.
3. Building Netflix for Bharat (2020) -- Vinay Singhal.
4. What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur (2016) -- Vinay Singhal.
5. 5 Ways to keep people before business (2017) -- Vinay Singhal.
6. Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing Their World -- Snigdha Poonam.
7. Young India -- Episode 83 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Snigdha Poonam).
8. SuperSiblings -- Prachi Garg.
9. Wanting -- Luke Burgis.
10. Where Have All The Leaders Gone? — Amit Varma.
11. The Double ‘Thank-You’ Moment — John Stossel.
12. Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative.
13. Paper Menagerie -- Ken Liu.
14. A Venture Capitalist Looks at the World -- Episode 213 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sajith Pai).
15. The Indus Valley Playbook -- Sajith Pai.
16. India2, English Tax and Building for the Next Billion Users -- Sajith Pai.
17. Understanding India Through Its Languages — Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan).
18. Real Steel -- Shawn Levy.
19. The Rocky series.
20. The Martian -- Ridley Scott.
21. The Good Doctor on Netflix.
22. The Hard Thing About Hard Things -- Ben Horowitz.
23. The Infinite Game -- Simon Sinek.
24. Zero to One -- Peter Thiel.
25. The Lean Startup -- Eric Ries.
26. Startup School.

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The illustration for this episode is by Nishant Jain aka Sneaky Artist. Check out his podcast, Twitter, Instagram and Substack.

She's skated down tekdis, played volleyball for her state, run through deserts and wrestled a bear with her bare hands. Ok, not the last one. Shruti Jahagirdar joins Amit Varma in episode 289 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss women's sports in India, fitness, nutrition and a world without limits.

Also check out:
1. Shruti Jahagirdar on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
2. Halomi Fitness, Shruti Jahagirdar's startup.
3. The Evolution of Cricket -- Episode 97 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Harsha Bhogle).
4. Building Sports Ecosystems -- Episode 126 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Joy Bhattacharjya).
5. The State of Indian Sport -- Episode 238 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Joy Bhattacharjya and Nandan Kamath).
6. Other episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on sport with Ram Guha, Prem Panicker, Sharda Ugra, Ayaz Memon, Snehal Pradhan and Pradeep Magazine.
7. Wait But Why by Tim Urban.
8. This Ramesh Nagdev was a blazing bat -- Makarand Waingankar.
9. Chak De! India -- Shimit Amin.
10. The Sporting Spirit — George Orwell.
11. Allah Ke Bande -- Kailash Kher.
12. Kusha Kapila and the B-Plus Baccha..
13. Wanting — Luke Burgis.
14. Atomic Habits -- James Clear.
15. Barefoot in the Park -- Neil Simon.
16. Tiger Muay Thai.
17. Former British Boxing Champ Julius Francis knocks out troublemaker.
18. Gimme Mo -- Mohit Satyanand's newsletter.
19. The Bell Hooks quote posted by Shruti Jahagirdar.
20. Everybody Lies — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz.
21. The Mary Oliver quote posted by Shruti Jahagirdar.
22. The Case Against Sugar — Gary Taubes.
23. The Big Fat Surprise: why butter, meat, and cheese belong in a healthy diet — Nina Teicholz.
24. The Obesity Code — Jason Fung.
25. Nina Teicholz on The Joe Rogan Experience.
26. Wheat Belly -- William Davis..
27. The Four Quadrants of Conformism -- Paul Graham.
28. Population Is Not a Problem, but Our Greatest Strength — Amit Varma.
29. The Diabetes Code -- Jason Fung.
30. Hikikomori.
31. The Confidence Gap — Katty Kay and Claire Shipman.
32. Everything is Illuminated -- Liev Schreiber, based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.
33. The White Balloon -- Jafar Panahi.
34. Majid Majidi on Wikipedia and IMDb.
35. Panchayat, Season 2.
36. Schitt's Creek.
37. This is Us.
38. The Playbook- A Coach's Rules for Life.

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Our greatest moral imperative is to solve the problem of poverty -- and after over 75 years, we still have some distance to travel. Rajeswari Sengupta joins Amit Varma in episode 387 of The Seen and the Unseen for a deep dive into how we got here, where we went wrong, what we got right, and how we should look at the Indian economy going forward.

(FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.)

Also check out:
1. Rajeswari Sengupta's homepage.
2. Demystifying GDP — Episode 130 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rajeswari Sengupta).
3. Twelve Dream Reforms — Episode 138 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan, Rajeswari Sengupta & Vivek Kaul).
4. Two-and-a-Half Bengalis Have an Economics Adda -- Episode 274 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rajeswari Sengupta and Shrayana Bhattacharya).
5. Talks & Discussions on the Indian Economy featuring Rajeswari Sengupta.
6. Rajeswari Sengulta's writings on the Indian economy.
7. Rajeswari Sengupta's writing for Ideas for India.
8. Rajeswari Sengupta's writing on the Leap Blog.
9. Rajeswari Sengupta's pieces on GDP: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
10. Rajeswari Sengupta's pieces on fiscal policy: 1, 2, 3.
11. Rajeswari Sengupta's pieces on the banking crisis: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
12. Rajeswari Sengupta's pieces on the financial sector: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
13. Rajeswari Sengupta's pieces on Covid: 1, 2, 3, 4.
14. Getting the State out of Our Lives -- Rajeswari Sengupta's TEDx talk.
15. Why Freedom Matters -- Episode 10 of Everything is Everything.
16. The Reformers -- Episode 28 of Everything is Everything.
17. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
18. The Life and Times of Montek Singh Ahluwalia — Episode 285 of The Seen and the Unseen.
19. The Forgotten Greatness of PV Narasimha Rao — Episode 283 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati).
20. India’s Lost Decade — Episode 116 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Puja Mehra).
21. The Life and Times of KP Krishnan -- Episode 355 of The Seen and the Unseen.
22. Lant Pritchett Is on Team Prosperity -- Episode 379 of The Seen and the Unseen.
23. Josh Felman Tries to Make Sense of the World — Episode 321 of The Seen and the Unseen.
24. Rohit Lamba Will Never Be Bezubaan -- Episode 378 of The Seen and the Unseen.
25. Yugank Goyal Is out of the Box — Episode 370 of The Seen and the Unseen.
26. The State of Our Farmers — Ep 86 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Gunvant Patil, in Hindi).
27. India’s Agriculture Crisis — Ep 140 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Barun Mitra & Kumar Anand).
28. The Tragedy of Our Farm Bills — Episode 211 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah).
29. The Art and Science of Economic Policy — Episode 154 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah).
30. Two Economic Crises (2008 & 2019) — Episode 135 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Mohit Satynanand).
31. The Indian Economy in 2019 — Episode 153 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vivek Kaul).
32. Subhashish Bhadra on Our Dysfunctional State -- Episode 333 of The Seen and the Unseen.
33. The Importance of Data Journalism — Episode 196 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S).
34. Rukmini Sees India’s Multitudes — Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S).
35. Pramit Bhattacharya Believes in Just One Ism — Episode 256 of The Seen and the Unseen.
36. Understanding the State -- Episode 25 of Everything is Everything.
37. When Should the State Act? -- Episode 26 of Everything is Everything.
38. Public Choice Theory Explains SO MUCH -- Episode 33 of Everything is Everything.
39. Our Population Is Our Greatest Asset -- Episode 20 of Everything is Everything.
40. What's Wrong With Indian Agriculture? -- Episode 18 of Everything is Everything.
41. The Long Road to Change -- Episode 36 of Everything is Everything.
42. India Needs Decentralization -- Episode 47 of Everything is Everything.
43. Beware of These Five Fallacies! -- Episode 45 of Everything is Everything.
44. Stay Away From Luxury Beliefs -- Episode 46 of Everything is Everything.
45. Graduating to Globalisation -- Episode 48 of Everything is Everything (on I18N).
46. Ask Me ANYTHING! -- Episode 50 of Everything is Everything.
47. Four Papers That Changed the World -- Episode 41 of Everything is Everything.
48. The Populist Playbook -- Episode 42 of Everything is Everything.
49. The 1991 Project.
50. The quest for economic freedom in India — Shruti Rajagopalan.
51. What I, as a development economist, have been actively “for” — Lant Pritchett.
52. National Development Delivers: And How! And How? — Lant Pritchett.
53. Economic growth is enough and only economic growth is enough — Lant Pritchett with Addison Lewis.
54. Is India a Flailing State?: Detours on the Four Lane Highway to Modernization — Lant Pritchett.
55. Is Your Impact Evaluation Asking Questions That Matter? A Four Part Smell Test — Lant Pritchett.
56. The Perils of Partial Attribution: Let’s All Play for Team Development — Lant Pritchett.
57. Some episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on the state of the economy: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
58. Accelerating India’s Development — Karthik Muralidharan.
59. Unshackling India -- Ajay Chhibber and Salman Soz.
60. India Grows At Night -- Gurcharan Das.
61. India’s Problem is Poverty, Not Inequality -- Amit Varma.
62. Mohit Satyanand's newsletter post on the informal sector.
63. Pratap Bhanu Mehta's column on mission mode interventions.
64. The Hedonistic Treadmill.
65. 77% low-income households saw no income increase in the past 5 yrs -- Vasudha Mukherjee.
66. Pandit’s Mind — The 1951 Time magazine cover story on Jawaharlal Nehru.
67. Economic Facts and Fallacies -- Thomas Sowell.
68. An Autobiography -- Jawaharlal Nehru.
69. The Double 'Thank You' Moment -- John Stossel.
70. Profit = Philanthropy — Amit Varma.
71. India After Gandhi -- Ramachandra Guha.
72. The China Dude Is in the House -- Episode 231 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manoj Kewalramani).
73. The Dragon and the Elephant -- Episode 181 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Hamsini Hariharan and Shibani Mehta).
74. Caste, Capitalism and Chandra Bhan Prasad — Episode 296 of The Seen and the Unseen.
75. The Collected Writings and Speeches of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar.
76. Population Is Not a Problem, but Our Greatest Strength -- Amit Varma.
77. How to assess the needs for aid? The answer: Don’t ask -- William Easterly.
78. The White Man's Burden -- William Easterly.
79. The Elusive Quest for Growth -- William Easterly.
80. The Tyranny of Experts -- William Easterly.
81. Planners vs. Searchers in Foreign Aid — William Easterly.
82. Pandit’s Mind — The 1951 Time magazine cover story on Jawaharlal Nehru.
83. 75 Years of India’s Foreign Exchange Controls -- Bhargavi Zaveri Shah.
84. Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India’s Economic Future — Raghuram Rajan and Rohit Lamba.
85. The History of the Planning Commission — Episode 306 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nikhil Menon).
86. Adam Smith on The Man of System.
87. The Use of Knowledge in Society — Friedrich Hayek.
88. Price Controls Lead to Shortages and Harm the Poor -- Amit Varma.
89. The Great Redistribution -- Amit Varma.
90. Backstage: The Story behind India’s High Growth Years -- Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
91. The Indian State Is the Greatest Enemy of the Indian Farmer -- Amit Varma piece, which contains the Sharad Joshi shair.
92. India’s Massive Pensions Crisis — Episode 347 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah & Renuka Sane).
93. The Economic Legacies of Colonial Rule in India -- Tirthankar Roy.
94. The Semiconductor Wars — Episode 358 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane & Abhiram Manchi).
95. BR Shenoy on Wikipedia and Indian Liberals.
96. BR Shenoy: Stature and Impact -- Peter Bauer.
97. The Foreign Exchange Crisis and India's Second Five Year Plan -- VKRV Rao.
98. India’s Water Crisis — Episode 60 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vishwanath S aka Zenrainman).
99. The Delhi Smog — Episode 44 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vivek Kaul).
100. Fixing Indian Education — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).
101. Education in India — Episode 77 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Amit Chandra).
102. The Profit Motive in Education — Episode 9 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Parth Shah).
103. Our Unlucky Children (2008) — Amit Varma.
104. Where Has All the Education Gone? — Lant Pritchett.
105. Every Act of Government Is an Act of Violence -- Amit Varma.
106. Narendra Modi takes a Great Leap Backwards -- Amit Varma on DeMon & Mao killing sparrows.
107. The Emergency: A Personal History — Coomi Kapoor.
108. Coomi Kapoor Has the Inside Track — Episode 305 of The Seen and the Unseen.
109. Seven Stories That Should Be Films -- Episode 23 of Everything in Everything, in which Amit talks about the Emergency.
110. Milton Friedman on the minimum wage.
111. The Commanding Heights -- Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw.
112. Bootleggers and Baptists: The Education of a Regulatory Economist -- Bruce Yandle.
113. Raees: An Empty Shell of a Gangster Film — Amit Varma.
114. Josh Felman on Twitter, Project Syndicate, JH Consulting and The Marginal Economist.
115. Obituaries of SV Raju by Niranjan Rajadhyaksha and Samanth Subramanian.
116. Breaking Out -- Padma Desai.
117. Breaking Through -- Isher Judge Ahluwalia.
118. India’s Far From Free Markets (2005) — Amit Varma in the Wall Street Journal.
119. Naushad Forbes Wants to Fix India — Episode 282 of The Seen and the Unseen.

To immerse yourself in literature is to immerse yourself in the world. Chandrahas Choudhury joins Amit Varma in episode 288 of The Seen and the Unseen to chat about reading, writing, friendship, Mumbai and the guests at his fantasy dinner table.

Also check out:
1. Chandrahas Choudhury on Instagram and Amazon.
2. The Middle Stage -- Chandrahas Choudhury's blog.
3. My Country Is Literature -- Chandrahas Choudhury.
4. Days of My China Dragon -- Chandrahas Choudhury.
5. Clouds -- Chandrahas Choudhury.
6. Arzee The Dwarf -- Chandrahas Choudhury.
7. Bamana Arzee -- Chandrahas Choudhury, translated by Sindhubala Choudhury. 
8. The Life and Times of Abhinandan Sekhri -- Episode 254 of The Seen and the Unseen.
9. Two Men Who Left Third Man Alone -- Amit Varma and Chandrahas Choudhury.
10. The Curse of Knowledge.
11. Eunice De Souza on Amazon.
12. House of the Dead —  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 Finds the Breath of Life -- Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen.
28. Georges Simenon on Amazon.
29. Beautiful Thing — Sonia Faleiro.
30. Two Girls Hanging From a Tree — Episode 209 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sonia Faleiro).
31. Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay on Amazon.
32. The Business of Books -- Episode 150 of The Seen and the Unseen (w VK Karthika).
33. The Bear Came Over the Mountain -- Alice Munro.
34. Against Rang De Basanti -- Chandrahas Choudhury.
35. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya).
36. A Godless Congregation -- Amit Varma.
37. Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek.
38. The City -- CP Cavafy.
39. Junoon on Spotify.
40. Verrier Elwin on Amazon.
41. The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin: An Autobiography.
42. Suite Francaise -- Irène Némirovsky.
43. Taking Stock of Our Republic — Episode 157 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha).

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She helped generations of women in India find a voice. She expanded the worldview of countless people. She confronted the horrors of our past and the fissures of our present. Urvashi Butalia joins Amit Varma in episode 287 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about her life and learnings.

Also check out:
1.  Urvashi Butalia at Zubaan and Amazon.
2. The Other Side of Silence -- Urvashi Butalia.
3. Zubaan Books and Kali for Women.
4. Turning the Page for Feminism -- Nilanjana Roy on Urvashi Butalia.
5. Episodes on The Seen and the Unseen that touched on feminism with Paromita Vohra, Kavita Krishnan, Mrinal Pande, Kavitha Rao, Namita Bhandare, Shrayana Bhattacharya, Mukulika Banerjee, Manjima Bhattacharjya and Nilanjana Roy.
6. The Life and Times of Nilanjana Roy -- Episode 284 of The Seen and the Unseen.
7. Memories and Things — Episode 195 of 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 Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul).
20. What Have We Done With Our Independence? — Episode 186 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pratap Bhanu Mehta).
21. The Life and Times of Abhinandan Sekhri -- Episode 254 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Abhinandan Sekhri).
22. Towards Equality: Report of the Committee on Status of Women in India (1974).
23. The Kavita Krishnan Files -- Episode 228 of The Seen and the Unseen.
24. Manjima Bhattacharjya: The Making of a Feminist -- Episode 280 of The Seen and the Unseen.
25. Kamla Bhasin on Wikipedia.
26. Division of Hearts -- Satti Khanna and Peter Chappell.
27. Heer Ranjha.
28. Kumar Gandharva sings Nirgun Bhajans.
29. Reshma sings Bulle Shah.
30. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on Spotify.
31. Ek Onkar -- Harshdeep Kaur.
32. Chaudhvin Ka Chand -- Guru Dutt.
33. Pyaasa -- Guru Dutt.
34. A Question of Silence -- Marleen Gorris.

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Our real heroes are often backstage. Montek Singh Ahluwalia joins Amit Varma in episode 285 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss his life, his learnings and the liberalisation of 1991.

Also check out:
1. Backstage: The Story behind India’s High Growth Years -- Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
2. Breaking Through: A Memoir -- Isher Judge Ahluwalia.
3. The M Document -- Montek Singh Ahluwalia's legendary note from 1990.
4. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
5. The Forgotten Greatness of PV Narasimha Rao -- Episode 283 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati).
6. Public Choice Theory -- Episode 121 of The Seen and the Unseen.
7. Principles of Economics -- Alfred Marshall.
8. Alexandre Dumas on Amazon.
9. Gurbani and Heer Ranjha.
10. The Life and Times of Abhinandan Sekhri -- Episode 254 of The Seen and the Unseen.
11. India’s Problem is Poverty, Not Inequality — Amit Varma.
12. On Inequality — Harry Frankfurt.
13. The Cantillon Effect: Because of Inflation, We’re Financing the Financiers -- Jessica Schultz.
14. Population Is Not a Problem, but Our Greatest Strength -- Amit Varma.
15. State Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century — Francis Fukuyama.
16. The Origins of Political Order — Francis Fukuyama.
17. Political Order and Political Decay — Francis Fukuyama.
18. James Buchanan on Amazon.
19. Jawaharlal Nehru's speech about our "tryst with destiny."
20. Fixing Indian Education — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).
21. Education in India — Episode 77 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Amit Chandra).
22. Fund Schooling, Not Schools (2007) — Amit Varma.
23. Our Unlucky Children (2008) — Amit Varma.
24. The Beautiful Tree — James Tooley.
25. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ajay Shah: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
26. In Service of the Republic — Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah.
27. The Business of Winning Elections -- Episode 247 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shivam Shankar Singh).
28. Most of Amit Varma’s writing on DeMon, collected in one Twitter thread.
29. Narendra Modi Takes a Great Leap Backwards — Amit Varma
30. Minoo Masani, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Isaiah Berlin, John Hicks and Ian Little.
31. Spontaneous Order.
32. The Evolution of Everything -- Episode 96 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Matt Ridley).
33. Jagdish Bhagwati and Padma Desai on Amazon.
34. Elite Imitation in Public Policy -- Episode 180 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Alex Tabarrok).
35. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya).
36.  The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande -- Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Mrinal Pande).
37. Beware of the Useful Idiots -- Amit Varma.
38. The Lost Decade — Puja Mehra.
39. India’s Lost Decade — Episode 116 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Puja Mehra).
40. Managing Climate Change: A Strategy for India -- Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Utkarsh Patel.
41. Mahabharata.
42. Ingmar Bergman, Vittorio de Sica, Federico Fellini and Roman Polanski.
43. Amit Varma's tweet on velociraptors and turkeys.
44. The James Bond films.

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A lifetime spent reading, writing and reflecting teaches you a lot. Nilanjana Roy joins Amit Varma in episode 284 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about books, feminism, family, memory and the state of the world. 

Also check out:
1. Nilanjana Roy on Twitter, Instagram, Amazon, Financial Times, Business Standard and her own website.
2. The Girl Who Ate Books: Adventures in Reading -- Nilanjana Roy.
3. The Wildings -- Nilanjana Roy.
4. The Hundred Names of Darkness -- Nilanjana Roy.
5. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen that discuss reading and writing with Sara Rai, Amitava Kumar, VK Karthika, Sugata Srinivasaraju, Mrinal Pande, Sonia Faleiro, Vivek Tejuja, Samanth Subramanian, Annie Zaidi and Prem Panicker.
6.  Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on the creator ecosystem with Roshan Abbas, Varun Duggirala, Neelesh Misra, Snehal Pradhan, Chuck Gopal, Nishant Jain, Deepak Shenoy and Abhijit Bhaduri.
7. A Meditation on Form -- Amit Varma.
8. Why Are My Episodes so Long? -- Amit Varma.
9. The Prem Panicker Files -- Episode 217 of The Seen and the Unseen.
10. Jonathan Haidt on Amazon.
11. Where Have All the Leaders Gone? -- Amit Varma.
12. The Ranga-Billa Case.
13. Sarojini Naidu on Amazon.
14. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi.
15. The Mahatma and the Poet — The letters between Gandhi and Tagore, compiled by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya.
16. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life -- Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen.
17. Margaret Mascarenhas on Amazon.
18. The Web We Have to Save -- Hossein Derakhshan.
19. The Country Without a Post Office -- Agha Shahid Ali.
20. Wanting — Luke Burgis.
21. René Girard on Amazon and Wikipedia.
22. The Silence of Scheherazade -- Defne Suman.
23. Silver -- Walter de la Mare.
24. Lessons from an Ankhon Dekhi Prime Minister — Amit Varma.
25. George Saunders and Barack Obama on Amazon.
26. A life in 5,000 books -- Nilanjana Roy.
27. Surender Mohan Pathak, Ibne Safi and Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Amazon. 
28. The Power Broker — Robert Caro.
29. The Death and Life of Great American Cities — Jane Jacobs.
30. JRR Tolkien, Ursula Le Guin and Terry Pratchett on Amazon.
31. Forget reading Thomas Piketty. Try a bit of Terry Pratchett -- Robert Shrimsley.
32. Fifty Shades of Grey -- EL James.
33. Ankur Warikoo, Aanchal Malhotra, Manu Pillai and Ira Mukhoty on Amazon.
34. Mahashweta Devi and Naiyer Masud on Amazon.
35. The former homes of Hurree Babu and Putu the Cat.
36. The Life and Times of Abhinandan Sekhri -- Episode 254 of The Seen and the Unseen.
37. Om Namah Volume -- Amit Varma.
38. Salman's Sea of Stories -- Salman Rushdie's Substack newsletter.
39. What Is It Like to Be a Bat? — Thomas Nagel.
40. The Hidden Life of Trees -- Peter Wohlleben.
41. An Immense World -- Ed Yong.
42. The Twitter thread by Sergej Sumlenny that Nilanjana mentioned.
43. The Inheritance of Loss -- Kiran Desai.
44. The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck.
45. Pather Panchali --  Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay.
46. Gora -- Rabindranath Tagore.
47. William Shakespeare, Kalidasa, Geoffrey Chaucer and Krishna Sobti on Amazon.
48. The Cult of Authenticity -- Vikram Chandra.
49. Meenakshi Mukherjee: The Death of a Critic -- Nilanjana Roy.
50. Field Notes from a Waterborne Land: Bengal Beyond the Bhadralok -- Parimal Bhattacharya.
51. Patriots, Poets and Prisoners: Selections from Ramananda Chatterjee's The Modern Review, 1907-1947 -- Edited by Anikendra Sen, Devangshu Datta and Nilanjana Rao.
52. The City Inside -- Samit Basu.
53. Understanding India Through Its Languages -- Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan).
54. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages — Peggy Mohan.
55. The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande -- Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen.
56. Manjula Padmanathan on Amazon.
57. The Life and Letters of Raja Rammohun Roy.
58. If No One Ever Marries Me -- Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
59. If No One Ever Marries Me -- Natalie Merchant.
60. Kavitha Rao and Our Lady Doctors -- Episode 235 of The Seen and the Unseen.
61. Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine — Kavitha Rao.
62. The Memoirs of Dr Haimabati Sen — Haimabati Sen (translated by Tapan Raychoudhuri).
63. Women at Work — Episode 132 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Namita Bhandare).
64. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman -- 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 Seen and the Unseen (w Jayaprakash Narayan).
75. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul).
76. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul.
77. Manohar Malgonkar, Mulk Raj Anand and Kamala Das on Amazon.
78. Kanthapura -- Raja Rao.
79. India’s Greatest Civil Servant -- Episode 167 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Narayani Basu, on VP Menon).
80. Private Truths, Public Lies — Timur Kuran.
81. Alice Munro on Amazon.
82. The Bear Came Over the Mountain -- Amit Varma's favourite Alice Munro story.
83. The Median Voter Theorem.
84. The Ice Cream Vendors.
85. Mohammad Zubair’s Twitter thread on the Dharam Sansad.
86. The Will to Change -- Bell Hooks.
87. Paul Holdengraber, Maria Popova, Rana Safvi and Rabih Alameddine on Twitter.
88. The hounding of author Kate Clanchy has been a witch-hunt without mercy -- Sonia Sodha.
89. Democrats have stopped listening to America’s voters -- Edward Luce.
90. From Cairo to Delhi With Max Rodenbeck -- Episode 281 of The Seen and the Unseen.
91. The Indianness of Indian Food — Episode 95 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vikram Doctor).
92. GN Devy.
93. The Art of Translation -- Episode 168 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Arunava Sinha).
94. Alipura -- Gyan Chaturvedi (translated by Salil Yusufji).
95. Tomb of Sand -- Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell).
96. Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya -- Akshaya Mukul.
97. Ashapurna Devi, Agyeya, Saadat Hasan Manto, Ismat Chugtai, Qurratulain Hyder, Amrita Pritam and Girish Karnad on Amazon.
98. The Adventures of Dennis -- Viktor Dragunsky.
99. Toni Morrison on Amazon.
100. Haroun and the Sea of Stories -- Salman Rushdie.
101. The Penguin Book Of Indian Poets -- Edited by Jeet Thayil.
102. These My Words: The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry -- Edited by Eunice de Souza and Melanie Silgardo.
103. The Autobiography of a Goddess -- Andal (translated by Priya Sarrukai Chabria and Ravi Shankar).
104. Ghachar Ghochar — Vivek Shanbhag (translated by Srinath Perur).
105. Amit Varma talks about Ghachar Ghochar in episode 13 of The Book Club on Storytel.
106. River of Fire -- Qurratulain Hyder.
107. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas -- Ursula K Le Guin.
108. The Left Hand of Darkness -- Ursula K Le Guin.
109. Mother of 1084 -- Mahashweta Devi.
110. Jejuri -- Arun Kolatkar.
111. The Collected Essays of AK Ramanujan -- Edited by Vinay Dharwadker.
112. The Collected Poems of AK Ramanujan.
113. Folktales From India -- Edited by AK Ramanujan.
114. The Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love Poems -- Edited and translated by AK Ramanujan.
115. The Essential Kabir -- Translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra.

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If leaders are to be judged by their actions, PV Narasimha Rao was our tallest leader. Vinay Sitapati joins Amit Varma in episode 283 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss how Rao showed  conviction and political skill in going against the tides of the day to enable the 1991 reforms, which brought hundreds of millions of Indians out of poverty

Also check out:
1. Half-Lion: How PV Narasimha Rao Transformed India -- Vinay Sitapati.
2. Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi -- Vinay Sitapati.
3. The BJP Before Modi -- Episode 202 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati).
4. The Insider -- PV Narasimha Rao.
5. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms -- Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
6. Gandhi's Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India -- Dhirendra Jha.
7. Ascetic Games and Ayodhya: A Dark Night.
8. How the BJP wins: Inside India’s Greatest Election Machine -- Prashant Jha.
9. The BJP’s Magic Formula -- Episode 45 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Prashant Jha).
10. India’s Problem is Poverty, Not Inequality — Amit Varma.
11. On Inequality — Harry Frankfurt.
12. A Life in Indian Politics -- Episode 149 of The Seen and the Unseen.
13. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul.
14. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul).
15. The Life and Times of Vir Sanghvi -- Episode 236 of The Seen and the Unseen.
16. The Clash of Civilizations? (the article) -- Samuel Huntington.
17. The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order -- Samuel Huntington.
18. Cut the Clutter with Shekhar Gupta.
19. Headley And I -- S Hussain Zaidi and Rahul Bhatt.
20. Wanting -- Luke Burgis.
21. Abhijit Bhaduri Breaks the Algorithm -- Episode 279 of The Seen and the Unseen.
22. René Girard on Amazon and Wikipedia.
23. Amit Varma's tweet on winning the Asian Championships of Match Poker.
24. The Blue Bedspread -- Raj Kamal Jha.
25. The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11 -- Lawrence Wright.
26. Modi’s Domination – What We Often Overlook — Keshava Guha.
27. India’s Lost Decade -- Episode 116 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Puja Mehra).
28. The Alchemy of Finance -- George Soros.
29. Sturgeon's Law and Survivorship Bias.
30. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Libertarian -- Amit Varma.
31. Ancient India: Culture of Contradictions -- Upinder Singh.
32. Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History -- Romila Thapar.
33. Romila Thapar, DD Kosambi and Irfan Habib.
34. A Culture of Discrimination Or A Culture Of Emancipation? -- Aravindan Neelakandan on Romila Thapar.
35. The Wire -- David Simon etc.
36. Dekalog — Krzysztof Kieślowski.
37. The Fissures of Modern Hinduism -- Pratap Bhanu Mehta delivers the DD Kosambi Memorial Lecture.
38. Upinder Singh, Nayanjot Lahiri and Iravatham Mahadevan on Amazon.
39. The Power Broker -- Robert A Caro.
40. Robert A Caro on Amazon.
41. The World Is What It Is -- Patrick French.
42. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China -- Ezra Vogel.
43. Lessons from an Ankhon Dekhi Prime Minister — Amit Varma.
44. Sex tape: Andhra Governor N D Tiwari resigns.
45. Bad liver and a broken heart -- Sunil Murthy on Leela Naidu.
46. The Law of Truly Large Numbers.
47. Unlikely is Inevitable -- Amit Varma.
48. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln -- Doris Kearns Goodwin.
49. To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story -- Jairam Ramesh.
50. Brideshead Revisited -- Evelyn Waugh.
51. Brideshead Revisited, the TV series.

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He's been an academic who's studied the country, and a businessman who's created wealth and jobs. Now he wants to help India achieve its potential. Naushad Forbes joins Amit Varma in episode 282 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about his life and learnings -- and the roadmap that can help India lift its citizens.

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He grew up in Cairo, spent many years writing on the Middle East, saw the Arab Spring coming, and was bureau chief of the Economist in South Asia. Max Rodenbeck joins Amit Varma in episode 281 of The Seen and the Unseen to share his experiences in journalism, the lessons he learnt in India, and the troubling ways in which it resembles Egypt.

Also check out:
1. Max Rodenbeck on Twitter, The New York Review of Books and Wikipedia.
2. Cairo: The City Victorious -- Max Rodenbeck.
3. Selected stories on India by the Economist: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
4. The Power of Arabic -- Max Rodenbeck.
5. The Father of Violent Islamism -- Max Rodenbeck.
6. How She Wants to Modify Muslims -- Max Rodenbeck.
7. Bin Laden’s Death: Why the Arab World Shrugs -- Max Rodenbeck.
8. The Long Wait -- Max Rodenbeck.
9. Max Rodenbeck interviewed on What I Did Next.
10. Top Gun -- Tony Scott.
11. The Godfather -- Francis Ford Coppola.
12. Once Upon a Time in the West -- Sergio Leone.
13. Creature Features.
14. Godzilla and Creature From the Black Lagoon.
15. Agatha Christie on Amazon.
16. Tintin on Amazon.
17. Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.
18. Enid Blyton on Amazon.
19. The Golden Age of Murder -- Martin Edwards.
20. $41,754,153! -- Brandon Sanderson.
21. Brandon Sanderson's record-breaking Kickstarter campaign ends with $41.7 million -- K Holt.
22. Brandon Sanderson on Amazon and YouTube.
23. In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones — Pradip Krishen.
24. Gell-Mann Amnesia.
25. A Nile Journal -- Thomas Gold Appleton.
26. Lawrence Wright on Amazon.
27. Roam Research — and Zettelkasten.
28. US-Bangladesh blogger Avijit Roy hacked to death -- BBC.
29. Inside Bangladesh’s killing fields: bloggers and outsiders targeted by fanatics -- Emma Graham-Harrison and Saad Hammadi.
30. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul.
31. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul).
32. The Incredible Curiosities of Mukulika Banerjee -- Episode 276 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Mukulika Banerjee.)
33. The Pathan Unarmed — Mukulika Banerjee.
34. The First Assault on Our Constitution — Episode 194 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh).
35. Nehru’s Debates — Episode 262 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain.)
36. Rukmini Sees India’s Multitudes — Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S).
37. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms -- Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
38. India’s Lost Decade — Episode 116 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Puja Mehra).
39. The Generation of Rage in Kashmir — David Devadas.
40. Radically Networked Societies -- Episode 158 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane).
41. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on agriculture (in reverse chronological order): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
42. Fixing Indian Education -- Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).
43. Education in India — Episode 77 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Amit Chandra).
44. Njáls saga.
45. Honoré de Balzac on Amazon.
46. The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee -- Honoré de Balzac.
47. Michael Pollan on how coffee enabled the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.
48. The Lives of Others -- Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
49. Yol -- Şerif Gören and Yılmaz Güney.
50. Baden Powell on Spotify.
51. Le Bureau.
52. The Anchoring Effect.
53. Narendra Shenoy and Mr Narendra Shenoy -- Episode 250 of The Seen and the Unseen.

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The world is changing for women -- but is it getting better? Manjima Bhattacharjya joins Amit Varma in episode 280 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe her journey as a feminist and why she believes in the long arc. She also talks about her book Intimate City, and the changing face of sex work in India.

Also check out:
1. Manjima Bhattacharjya on Twitter, YouTube and Google Scholar.
2. Intimate City -- Manjima Bhattacharjya.
3. Mannequin: Working Women in India's Glamour Industry -- Manjima Bhattacharjya.
4. Jhumpa Lahiri on Amazon.
5. Empire of the Sun -- Steven Spielberg.
6. In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones — Pradip Krishen.
7. Farouk Abdul-Aziz and Kuwait Cine Club.
8. Nancy Drew on Wikipedia and Amazon.
9. The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande -- Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen.
10. Some episodes on The Seen and the Unseen that touched on feminism with Paromita Vohra, Kavita Krishnan, Kavitha Rao, Namita Bhandare and Shrayana Bhattacharjya, 
11. Kali For Women.
12. Jagori.
13. Mrityudand -- Prakash Jha.
14. The Ferment of Our Founders -- Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila).
15. Rukmini Sees India’s Multitudes — Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S).
16. Bargaining with Patriarchy -- Deniz Kandiyoti.
17. On the Road to Change -- A conversation between Kavita Krishnan and Amit Varma.
18. If It’s Monday It Must Be Madurai — Srinath Perur.
19. One Bad Law Goes, but Women Remain Second-Class Citizens -- Amit Varma.
20. Most of Amit Varma’s writing on DeMon, collected in one Twitter thread.
21. Who gains from the new Maternity Benefit Act Amendment? -- Devika Kher.
22. Here’s What’s Wrong With the Maternity Benefits Act -- Suman Joshi.
23. Why Children Labour (2007) -- Amit Varma.
24. Metrics of Empowerment — Episode 88 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Devika Kher, Nidhi Gupta and Hamsini Hariharan).
25. The #MeToo Movement -- Episode 90 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Supriya Nair and Nikita Saxena).
26. An Economist Looks at #MeToo -- Episode 92 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan).
27. Superforecasting — Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner.
28. The Problem that Has No Name -- Betty Friedan.
29. Kamla Bhasin and Abha Bhaiya.
30. Live Sex Acts -- Wendy Chapkis.
31. Beautiful Thing — Sonia Faleiro.
32. Two Girls Hanging From a Tree -- Episode 209 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sonia Faleiro).
33. Daily Rituals — Mason Currey.
34. Daily Rituals: Women at Work — Mason Currey.
35. Thin Places -- Ann Armbrecht.
36. Cheryl Strayed on Amazon.
37. Mahanagar — Satyajit Ray.
38. India = Migration -- Episode 128 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Chinmay Tumbe).
39. India Moving — Chinmay Tumbe.
40. Abhimaan -- Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
41. Natasha Badhwar on Amazon.
42. Parenthood -- Episode 43 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Natasha Badhwar).
43. Yuzvendra Chahal's bullying.
44. Memories and Things — Episode 195 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aanchal Malhotra).
45. Temporarily Yours – Intimacy, Authenticity and the Commerce of Sex -- Elizabeth Bernstein.
46. The Girlfriend Experience.
47. Everybody Lies — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz.
48. The Truth About Ourselves — Amit Varma.
49. Literotica stories archive.
50. The news article about a journalist and some artists forced to strip to their underwear.
51. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on the creator economy with Roshan Abbas, Varun Duggirala, Neelesh Misra, Snehal Pradhan, Chuck Gopal, Nishant Jain, Deepak Shenoy and Abhijit Bhaduri.
52. 11th Lane: Kamathipura -- Sudharak Olwe.
53. Tawaif -- Episode 174 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Saba Dewan).
54. Notting Hill and Pretty Woman.
55. An Educated Woman In Prostitution -- Manada Devi.
56. Factory Girls -- Leslie T Chang.
57. Gangubai Kathiawadi -- Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
58. Elles -- Malgoska Szumowska.
59. The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Philip Kaufman.
60. Roger Ebert's review of Unbearable Lightness.
61. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, That Obscure Object of Desire — Luis Buñuel.
62. The Discreet Charm of the Savarnas -- Rajesh Rajamani.

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If you make space for serendipity in your life, good things happen. Abhijit Bhaduri joins Amit Varma in episode 279 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe his journey from the corporate life to the creator economy -- and the lessons he learnt along the way.

Also check out:
1. Abhijit Bhaduri on Amazon, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and his own website.
2. Dreamers and Unicorns -- Abhijit Bhaduri.
3. The Digital Tsunami -- Abhijit Bhaduri.
4, Selected talks on YouTube by Abhijit Bhaduri: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
5. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on the creator ecosystem with Roshan Abbas, Varun Duggirala, Neelesh Misra, Snehal Pradhan, Chuck Gopal, Nishant Jain and Deepak Shenoy.
6. A Meditation on Form — Amit Varma.
7. The Prem Panicker Files -- Episode 217 of The Seen and the Unseen.
8. The Curse of Knowledge.
9. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life -- Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen.
10. The Invisible Gorilla.
11. When Daddy Was a Little Boy -- Alexander Raskin and Lev Tokamakov. (Original cover.)
12. Tuntunir Galpa/The tale of The Tailer-Bird -- Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury.
13. The Complete Adventures of Feluda -- Satyajit Ray.
14. Mukh Chai Mukh -- Milan Mukhopadhyay.
15. Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Ashapurna Devi, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Banaphul, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Shivani and Munshi Premchand.
16. Ravi Shankar, Bhimsen Joshi and Kishori Amonkar on Spotify.
17. Haré Rama Haré Krishna -- Dev Anand.
18. The Charm of Raga Des - Abhijit Bhaduri.
19. SD Burman and Nikhil Banerjee on Spotify.
20. Is Old Music Killing New Music? -- Ted Gioia.
21. The Universe of Chuck Gopal -- Episode 258 of The Seen and the Unseen.
22. Brave New World -- Episode 203 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vasant Dhar).
23. Wanting -- Luke Burgis.
24. Khushwant Singh and Mulkraj Anand on Amazon.
25. RK Laxman, Mario Miranda and Ajit Ninan.
26. In Search of Excellence -- Tom Peters.
27. Mirch Masala -- Ketan Mehta.
28. Ek Ruka Hua Faisla -- Basu Chatterjee.
29. 12 Angry Men -- Sidney Lumet.
30. Housefull Economics.
31. Manu Pillai and Ramachandra Guha on Amazon.
32. Episodes of the Seen and the Unseen w Manu Pillai: 1, 2, 3, 4.
33. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen w Ramachandra Guha: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
34. The Hedgehog And The Fox — Isaiah Berlin.
35. Are you a career3.0 person stuck in a career1.0 Job? -- Abhijit Bhaduri.
36. Miss Excel on Instagram and TikTok.
37. How an Excel Tiktoker Manifested Her Way to Making Six Figures a Day — Nilay Patel.
38. In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones -- Pradip Krishen.
39. How Social Media Threatens Society — Episode 8 of Brave New World (Jonathan Haidt speaking to host Vasant Dhar).
40. Elite Imitation in Public Policy -- Episode 180 of The Seen and the Unseen (on isomorphic mimicry, with Shruti Rajagopalan and Alex Tabarrok).
41. Skeuomorphic Design.
42. The New World Upon Us -- Amit Varma on Alpha Zero.
43. Google's AlphaZero Destroys Stockfish In 100-Game Match -- Mike Klein.
44. Dicing An Onion -- Gordon Ramsey.
45. Satyajit Ray on Amazon.
46. Feluda @ 50 -- Edited by Boria Mazumdar.
47. Days & Nights In The Forest -- Sunil Gangopadhyay.
48. The Art of Translation -- Episode 168 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Arunava Sinha).
49. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages — Peggy Mohan.
50. Understanding India Through Its Languages -- Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan).

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Our cities have changed -- but the ways in which they are governed and imagined can take time to catch up. Shashi Verma joins Amit Varma in episode 386 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe his journey in thought and action -- and his pioneering work in reshaping urban transport.

(FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.)

Also check out:
1. Shashi Verma on LinkedIn and Centre for London.
2. Shashi Verma on Transport in the 21st Century -- Episode 83 of Brave New World, hosted by Vasant Dhar.
3. The Brave New Future of Electricity -- Episode 40 of Everything is Everything.
4. Guns, Germs and Steel -- Jared Diamond.
5. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul.
6. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul).
7. Deepak VS and the Man Behind His Face — Episode 373 of The Seen and the Unseen.
8. How We Do the Small Things -- Amit Varma.
9. Praise for intelligence can undermine children’s motivation and performance — Claudia Mueller and Carol Dweck.
10. Fixing Indian Education — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).
11. Confronting Constraints: Shashi Verma & Transport for London Tackle a Tough Contract -- Harvard case study.
12. Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure -- Oliver Hart.
13. India: The Dabhol Power Corporation -- Shashi Verma's case study for Harvard Kennedy School.
14. The Practice of Medicine — Episode 229 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Lancelot Pinto).
15. The Epic of Gilgamesh.
16. Dunbar’s number.
17. The Life and Death of Ancient Cities -- Greg Woolf.
18. The Complete Sherlock Holmes -- Arthur Conan Doyle.
19. Urban Governance in India — Episode 31 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan).
20. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
21. The Life and Times of Montek Singh Ahluwalia — Episode 285 of The Seen and the Unseen.
22. The Reformers -- Episode 28 of Everything is Everything.
23. The Death and Life of Great American Cities — Jane Jacobs.
24. The Power Broker — Robert Caro.
25.  Michael Beesley and Cost Benefit Analysis -- CD Foster.
26. Pritika Hingorani Wants to Fix Our Cities -- Episode 361 of The Seen and the Unseen.
27. Reclaim the Sky -- Episode 11 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Alex Tabarrok).
28. Status Quo Bias.
29. Parkinson’s Law — C Northcote Parkinson.
30. Seen/Unseen episodes with singing by Karthik Muralidharan and Ashwini Deshpande -- and no singing by TM Krishna.
31. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages — Peggy Mohan.
32. Understanding India Through Its Languages — Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan).
33. Pyaasa -- Guru Dutt.

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To fight climate change, we need to reform the power sector. Right now, it's dysfunctional. Akshay Jaitly and Ajay Shah join Amit Varma in episode 278 of The Seen and the Unseen to share their roadmap for change. 

Also check out:
1. Akshay Jaitly on Twitter, Linkedin, Nicheless and Substack. Ajay Shah on Twitter and Substack.
2. The lowest hanging fruit on the coconut tree: India's climate transition through the price system in the power sector -- Akshay Jaitly and Ajay Shah.
3. Akshay Jaitly and Ajay Shah's aggregated pieces on energy and climate.
4. The Time To Privatise India’s Electricity Sector Is Now -- Akshay Jaitly and Ajay Shah.
5. Root cause analysis for the electricity crisis -- Akshay Jaitly and Ajay Shah.
6. In Service of the Republic — Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah.
7. The Art and Science of Economic Policy -- Episode 154 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah).
8. Other episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ajay Shah: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
9. We Are Fighting Two Disasters: Covid-19 and the Indian State -- Amit Varma.
10. Naren Shenoy's fancy dress competition.
11. Narendra Shenoy and Mr Narendra Shenoy -- Episode 250 of The Seen and the Unseen.
12. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life -- Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen.
13. The Chronicles of Narnia -- CS Lewis.
14. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -- Roald Dahl.
15. Alistair MacLean and John Steinbeck on Amazon.
16. Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck.
17. Of Mice and Men -- John Steinbeck.
18. André Gide and Albert Camus on Amazon.
19. Another Country -- James Baldwin.
20. Warren Mendonsa Plays the Universal Pentatonic -- Episode 273 of The Seen and the Unseen.
21. Jonathan Haidt on Amazon.
22. Kashmir and Article 370 -- Episode 134 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Srinath Raghavan).
23. Hind Swaraj -- Mohandas Gandhi.
24. Politics and the Sociopath -- Amit Varma.
25. Google Scholar.
26. Roam Research and Zettelkasten.
27. Discom Privatisation Challenged (Dec 2020) -- Akshay Jaitly.
28. Regulation in India: Design, Capacity, Performance -- Edited by Devesh Kapur and Madhav Khosla.
29. The Use of Knowledge in Society -- Friedrich Hayek.
30. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
31. History of UN Climate Talks.
32. The Evolution of the UNFCCC -- Jonathan Kuyper, Heike Schroeder and Björn-Ola Linnér.
33. The COP List.
34. The Road From Rio (1993) -- Prodipto Ghosh and Akshay Jaitly.
35. William Nordhaus versus the United Nations on Climate Change Economics -- Robert P Murphy.
36. Hotter than the human body can handle: Pakistan city broils in world’s highest temperatures -- Ben Farmer.
37. Price Controls Lead to Shortages and Harm the Poor -- Amit Varma.
38. The Tragedy of Our Farm Bills -- Episode 211 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah).
39. Lessons from an Ankhon Dekhi Prime Minister -- Amit Varma.
40. Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All -- Michael Shellenberger.
41. Nuclear Power Can Save the World — Joshua S Goldstein, Staffan A Qvist and Steven Pinker.
42. Kim Stanley Robinson on Amazon.
43. Death at Intervals -- José Saramago.
44. The Shape of Water -- Andrea Camilleri.
45. The Terracotta Dog -- Andrea Camilleri.
46. 12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love -- Jeanette Winterson.
47. The Singularity Is Near -- Ray Kurzweil.
48. Report to Greco -- Nikos Kazantzakis.
49. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics -- Carlo Rovelli.
50. Michael Dibdin on Amazon.

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He grew up breathing Kannada literature -- and he also embraced the globalised world. Sugata Srinivasaraju joins Amit Varma in episode 277 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss this confluence of the old and the new, the near and the far, his society and the world. 

Also check out:
1. Sugata Srinivasaraju in Outlook, ToI/Mumbai Mirror, New Indian Express, The Wire, Mint, Twitter and his own website.
2. Furrows in a Field -- Sugata Srinivasaraju.
3. Pickles from Home: The Worlds of a Bilingual -- Sugata Srinivasaraju.
4. Keeping Faith with the Mother Tongue -- Sugata Srinivasaraju.
5. Sugata Srinivasaraju on his father, Chi Srinivasaraju: 1, 2, 3.
6. Maharashtra Politics Unscrambled -- Episode 151 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sujata Anandan).
7. Dodda Alada Mara (Big Banyan Tree).
8. GP Rajarathnam, AR Krishnashastry, P Lankesh and KS Nissar Ahmed on Wikipedia.
9. The Tell Me Why series of encyclopedias -- Arkady Leokum.
10. Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo and Charles Baudelaire on Amazon.
11. Rayaru Bandaru Mavana Manege -- The KS Narasimhaswamy poem Sugata translated.
12. Phoenix and Four Other Mime Plays -- Chi Srinivasaraju (translated by Sugata Srinivasaraju, who tweeted about it here.).
13. Ahobala Shankara, V Seetharamaiah, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, KV Narayana, Noam Chomsky, DR Nagaraj, Jorge Luis Borges and Tejaswini Niranjana.
14. Lawrence Weschler on how Akumal Ramachander discovered Harold Shapinsky.
15. AK Ramanujan and Gopalakrishna Adiga.
16. The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse -- Edited by Alan Bold.
17. Gandhi as Mahatma: Gorakhpur District, Eastern UP, 1921-22 -- Shahid Amin.
18. Kraurya -- Girish Kasaravalli.
19. Deconstructing Derrida -- Sugata Srinivasaraju.
20. Yaava Mohana Murali -- Gopalakrishna Adiga's poem turned into a song.
21. Ram Guha Reflects on His Life -- Episode 266 of The Seen and the Unseen.
22. Understanding Gandhi. Part 1: Mohandas — Episode 104 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha).
23. Understanding Gandhi. Part 2: Mahatma — Episode 105 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha).
24. Modern South India: A History from the 17th Century to our Times -- Rajmohan Gandhi.
25. Ki Ram Nagaraja at Book Brahma.
26. A Map of Misreading -- Harold Bloom.
27. The Singer of Tales -- Albert Lord and David Elmer.
28. ಪಂಪ ಭಾರತ ದೀಪಿಕೆ: Pampa Bharatha Deepike -- DL Narasimhachar.
29. The Open Eyes: A Journey Through Karnakata -- Dom Moraes.
30. Dom Moraes on DR Bendre's love for numbers.
31. DR Bendre, Kuvempu, Shamba Joshi, MM Kalburgi, Shivaram Karanth, VK Gokak and Chandrashekhar Patil.
32. Da Baa Kulkarni, Sriranga, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Bhisham Sahni, Kartar Singh Duggal and HY Sharada Prasad.
33. His Will Was His God -- Sugata Srinivasaraju on HY Sharada Prasad.
34. Jeremy Seabrook on Amazon.
35. Aakar Patel Is Full of Hope -- Episode 270 of The Seen and the Unseen.
36. The Rise and Fall of the Bilingual Intellectual — Ramachandra Guha.
37. The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande -- Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen.
38. Sara Rai Inhales Literature -- Episode 255 of The Seen and the Unseen.
39. The Art of Translation -- Episode 168 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Arunava Sinha).
40. Negotiating Two Worlds, Bilingualism As A Cultural Idea -- Sugata Srinivasaraju delivers the HY Sharada Prasad Memorial Lecture.
41. Karunaalu Baa Belake -- A Kannada version of 'Lead, Kindly Light'.
42. Liberal impulses of our regional languages -- Sugata Srinivasaraju.
43. Why Resisting Hindi is No Longer Enough -- Sugata Srinivasaraju.
44, The Indianness of Indian Food -- Episode 95 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vikram Doctor).

How did one of the greatest nonviolent movements in history emerge from within the supposedly violent Pathans of the wild frontier? Why do poor people in India vote even though there seems to be no point to it? Why does an ancient garment like the sari endure -- but democracy seem in peril? Mukulika Banerjee joins Amit Varma in episode 276 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss the questions that kept her up at night -- and the lessons they hold for us.

Also check out:
1. Mukulika Banerjee at LSE, Google Scholar, Amazon and Twitter.
2. The Pathan Unarmed -- Mukulika Banerjee.
3. Why India Votes -- Mukulika Banerjee.
4. Cultivating Democracy -- Mukulika Banerjee.
5. The Sari -- Mukulika Banerjee and Daniel Miller.
6. Muslim Portraits: Everyday Lives in India -- Edited by Mukulika Banerjee.
7. The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande -- Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen.
8. Thomas Hardy on Amazon.
9. Maxim Gorky, Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov on Amazon.
10. The Proposal -- Anton Chekhov.
11. Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew on Amazon.
12. The House of the Dead -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
13. An American Werewolf in London -- John Landis.
14. The Emergency: A Personal History -- Coomi Kapoor.
15. Where Have All The Leaders Gone? -- Amit Varma.
16. India’s Greatest Civil Servant -- Episode 167 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Narayani Basu, on VP Menon).
17. The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett.
18. Abdul Ghaffar Khan: Faith Is A Battle -- DG Tendulkar.
19. Kabuliwala -- Rabindranath Tagore.
20. Kabuliwala (1961 film) -- Hemen Gupta.
21. 'That Killed Cat Lives With Me' -- Isaac Asimov's quote.
22. The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock -- TS Eliot.
23. The Life and Times of Nirupama Rao -- Episode 269 of The Seen and the Unseen.
24. The #MeToo Movement -- Episode 90 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Supriya Nair and Nikita Saxena).
25. Urban Governance in India -- Episode 31 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan).
26. 'Tell a Sanghi/Bhakt at a job interview...' -- SirKazamJeevi's tweet.
27. A Life in Indian Politics -- Episode 49 of The Seen and the Unseen (w JP Narayan).
28. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul.
29. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul).
30. Memories and Things -- Episode 195 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aanchal Malhotra).
31. Aakar Patel Is Full of Hope -- Episode 270 of The Seen and the Unseen.
32. Modeling Covid-19 -- Episode 224 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Gautam Menon).
33. Can the Subaltern Speak? -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
34. Gangubai Kathiawadi -- Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
35. Nehru’s Debates -- Episode 262 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain).
36. Mahanagar -- Satyajit Ray.
37. Everybody Lies -- Seth Stephens-Davidowitz.
38. The Truth About Ourselves -- Amit Varma.
39. Electoral Politics in the Time of Change -- Yogendra Yadav
40. The Economics of Voting -- Amit Varma on Rational Ignorance.
41. The Baptist, the Bootlegger and the Dead Man Walking -- Amit Varma on Lal Bihari Mritak.
42. Well Done, Abba -- Shyam Benegal.
43. Rukmini Sees India’s Multitudes -- Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S).
44. The Ferment of Our Founders -- Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila).
45. Women in Rajniti and Lokniti -- Mukulika Banerjee (Go to page 19 to read).
46. Nick Hornby on Amazon.
47. The Business of Winning Elections -- Episode 247 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shivam Shankar Singh).
48. Collective Effervescence on Wikipedia.
49. The Manchester School of Anthropology.
50. Desert Island Discs on BBC.
51. Deshe Bideshe (Bengali) (English) -- Syed Mujtaba Ali.
52. Uday Bhawalkar performs Raag Bhairav.
53. Dhrupad by Ustad Mohiuddin Dagar.
54. Songs of the Earth -- Soumik Datta.
55. Messengers -- Soumik Datta.

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We live in times when all Indian Muslims are forced to be aware of their Muslimness. Hussain Haidry joins Amit Varma in episode 275 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about his life, his art and these difficult times we live in.

Also check out:
1. Hussain Haidry on Twitter, Instagram and IMDb.
2. Hindustani Musalmaan -- Hussain Haidry.
3. Lat -- Hussain Haidry.
4. 10 Poems recommended by Hussain Haidry -- Chalchitra Talks.
5. Being Muslim in India -- Episode 216 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ghazala Wahab).
6. Who Broke Our Republic? -- Episode 163 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Kapil Komireddi).
7. The City and the City -- China Miéville.
8. Nida Fazli and Dushyant Kumar at Rekhta.
9. Maximum City -- Suketu Mehta.
10. Shantaram -- Gregory David Roberts.
11. A Fine Balance -- Rohinton Mistry.
12. The Intellectual Foundations of Hindutva -- Episode 115 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aakar Patel).
13. Aakar Patel Is Full of Hope -- Episode 270 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aakar Patel).
14. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India -- Akshaya Mukul.
15. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism -- Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul).
16. Private Truths, Public Lies -- Timur Kuran.
17. Muslim Portraits: Everyday Lives in India -- Edited by Mukulika Banerjee.
18. Raghu Sanjaylal Jaitley’s Father’s Scooter -- Episode 214 of The Seen and the Unseen (w RSJ).
19. Mohammad Zubair's Twitter thread on the Dharam Sansad.
20. Malevolent Republic -- Kapil Komireddi.
21. The Life and Times of Vir Sanghvi -- Episode 236 of The Seen and the Unseen.
22. The BJP Before Modi -- Episode 202 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati).
23. Arvind Kejriwal's tweet after the abrogation of Article 370.
24. The tweets by Atishi Marlena and Raghav Chadha.
25. Sangham Sharanam Gachchami -- Vijai Trivedi.
26. Ranga Hari on Amazon.
27. A People's Constitution -- Rohit De.
28. Narendra Modi takes a Great Leap Backwards -- Amit Varma.
29. Most of Amit Varma’s writing on DeMon, collected in one Twitter thread.
30. Hussain Haidry's Twitter thread on blocking.
31. Alishan Jafri on Twitter.
32. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life -- Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen.
33. Aadha Gaon -- Rahi Masoom Raza.
34. Chai Coffee -- Hussain Haidry.
35. You're Missing -- Bruce Springsteen.
36. Hussain Haidry interviewed by Ravish Kumar.
37. Imtiaz Dharker on Amazon.
38. Dugg Duggi Dugg -- Song from Jugni. Lyrics by Shellee, music by Clinton Cerejo.
39. Qarib Qarib Singlle on Spotify.
40. Tanha Begum -- Lyrics by Hussain Haidry, music by Rochak Kohli.
41. Mukkabaaz on Spotify.
42. Haathapai -- Lyrics by Hussain Haidry, music by Rachita Arora.
43. Blond Balma -- Lyrics by Hussain Haidry, music by Rachita Arora.
44. Tu Kahaan Hai -- Song from Tripling. Lyrics by Hussain Haidry, music by Nilotpal Bora.
45. Patang -- Song from Tripling. Lyrics by Hussain Haidry, music by Nilotpal Bora.
46. Chacha Vidhayak Hain Humare -- Lyrics by Hussain Haidry, music by Vishal Dadlani.
47. Bandar Baant -- Lyrics by Hussain Haidry, music by Bandish Projekt.
48. Bahut Hua Samman -- Lyrics by Hussain Haidry, music by Rachita Arora.
49. Ankahi Kahaniya -- Amnibus film that includes Madhyantara, with a screenplay by Hussain Haidry, and directed by Abhishek Chaubey.
50. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie -- Luis Buñuel.
51. Laakhon Mein Ek, Season 2 -- Written by Hussain Haidry.
52. लोहे के स्वाद -- Hussain Haidry.
53. Talkhiyan -- Sahir Ludhianvi.
54. Sahir Ludhianvi, Nida Fazli, Ahmad Faraz, Jaun Eliya, Rahat Indori, Waseem Barelvi, Munawwar Rana, Abbas Tabish, Rehman Faris, Azhar Faragh, Ameer Imam, Naeem Sarmad, Nomaan Shauque, Ali Zaryoun, Tehzeeb Hafi and Umair Najmi on Rekhta.
55. Fahrenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury.
56. Rangeela -- Ram Gopal Varma.
57. Ghulam -- Vikram Bhatt
58. On the Waterfront -- Elia Kazan.
59. Get Out -- Jordan Peele.
60. Fandry -- Nagraj Manjule.
61. Where is the Friend's Home? -- Abbas Kiarostami.
62. Soiyega Mat - Hussain Haidry.

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India is in bad shape. Bad economics is one reason why. Economists Rajeswari Sengupta and Shrayana Bhattacharya join Amit Varma in episode 274 of The Seen and the Unseen to take stock of the mess. You don't like dissent? Too bad. We're Bongs, and you cannot shut us up.

Also check out:
1. Shrayana Bhattacharya on Twitter, Instagram and Google Scholar.
2. Rajeswari Sengupta on Google Scholar and her own site.
3. Demystifying GDP -- Episode 130 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rajeswari Sengupta).
4. Twelve Dream Reforms -- Episode 138 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan, Rajeswari Sengupta & Vivek Kaul).
5. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman -- Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya).
6. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh -- Shrayana Bhattacharya.
7. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
8. India’s Lost Decade — Episode 116 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Puja Mehra).
9. The Lost Decade — Puja Mehra.
10. The Art and Science of Economic Policy — Episode 154 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah).
11. Rukmini Sees India’s Multitudes -- Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S).
12. The State of Our Economy (Nov 2021) -- Episode 252 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Puja Mehra and Mohit Satyanand.)
13. Taking Stock of Our Economy (May 2021) — Episode 227 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ila Patnaik).
14. Two Economic Crises (2008 & 2019) — Episode 135 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Mohit Satynanand).
15. The Indian Economy in 2019 — Episode 153 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vivek Kaul).
16. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ajay Shah (in reverse chronological order): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
17. Everything That Was Broken -- Mary Oliver (from Felicity).
18. I Boiled My Buttocks for a Week -- Amit Varma on how we normalize everything.
19. Dekalog -- Krzysztof Kieślowski.
20. What the Economy Needs Now -- Various authors.
21. Beware of the Useful Idiots -- Amit Varma.
22. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on the creator ecosystem with Roshan Abbas, Varun Duggirala, Neelesh Misra, Snehal Pradhan, Chuck Gopal, Nishant Jain and Deepak Shenoy.
23. The Anti-Defection Law — Episode 13 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Barun Mitra).
24. Our Parliament and Our Democracy -- Episode 253 of The Seen and the Unseen (w MR Madhavan).
25. Urban Governance in India -- Episode 31 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan).
26. Emergent Ventures.
27. India’s Problem is Poverty, Not Inequality -- Amit Varma.
28. On Inequality -- Harry Frankfurt.
29. We Must Save Our Farmers — Amit Varma.
30. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on agriculture (in reverse chronological order): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
31. Intent to Implementation : Tracking India's Social Protection Response to COVID-19 -- Shrayana Bhattacharya and Sutirtha Sinha Roy.
32. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
33. Modi’s Lost Opportunity — Episode 119 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Salman Soz).
34. Most of Amit Varma’s writing on DeMon, collected in one Twitter thread.
35. What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been — Episode 188 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Arvind Subramanian).
36. The Median Voter Theorem.
37. The 'bloated and grotesque' tweet by @mrjohndarby.
38. ASER, CMIE and SWAN.
39. The Billion Prices Project.
40. Pramit Bhattacharya Believes in Just One Ism — Episode 256 of The Seen and the Unseen.
41. In Bollywood, women get screen time but very little talk time -- Mohua Das.
42. A Woman, Thinking -- Paromita Vohra.
43. Lost in the Shallows -- Amit Varma on Dear Zindagi.
44. The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande -- Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen.
45. Mrinal Pande’s pieces for Pragati on women in Indian agriculture: 1, 2.

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He's that Blackstratblues guy. He's done rock, blues, sessions work for Bollywood, and you can't put him in a box. Indie music legend Warren Mendonsa joins Amit Varma and guest co-host Chuck Gopal in episode 273 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about his career, how he only aims to make music that makes him happy, and the common thread that binds us all.

Also check out:
1. Warren Mendonsa on Instagram and Twitter.
2. Blackstratblues music and community. Also, on YouTube and Spotify.
3. Anuva's Sky and Ode to a Sunny Day.
4. The therapy that is Blackstratblues -- Deepak 'Chuck' Gopalakrishnan.
5. Warren interviewed by Chuck and Varad Wategaonkar: Part 1 & Part 2.
6. Warren Mendonsa: The Universe Has The Blues -- Interview by Michael Limnios.
7. 2018 interview of Warren by EveryoneLovesGuitar.
8. The Universe of Chuck Gopal -- Episode 258 of The Seen and the Unseen.
9. Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage -- Episode 79 of Conversations With Tyler.
10. The Great Man Theory.
11. Steven Van Zandt: Springsteen, the death of rock and Van Morrison on Covid — Richard Purden.
12. 1000 True Fans — Kevin Kelly.
13. 1000 True Fans? Try 100 — Li Jin.
14. What is Internet? -- Bill Gates on the David Letterman Show.
15. Why Old Music is Killing New Music -- Rick Beato.
16. The viral TikTok video  by doggface208 featuring Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams.'
17. The Volkswagen commercial featuring Nick Drake's 'Pink Moon.'
18. The Time a Stiff Caught Fire -- Keith Yates on Billy Joel.
19. PSP 12" -- Zero.
20. Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale.
21. Derek Trucks talks guitar and plays incredible slide.
22. Turbo Killer -- Carpenter Brut.
23. Afrique Victime -- Mdou Moctar.
24. Tinariwen on Spotify.
25. Dungen on Spotify.
26. The Dungen albums, Ta Det Lugnt and 4, with the song Mina Damer Och Fasaner.
27. Josh Fix on Spotify.
28. This Town Is Making Me Angry -- Josh Fix.
29. The Formula Behind Every Perfect Pop Song -- Seeker.
30. Why We Choke -- Amit Varma (on the Yips).
31. This is Your Brain on Music -- Daniel Levitin.
32. Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality -- TED Talk by Anil Seth.
33. What Colour Is Your Raindrop -- Tajdar Junaid.
34. Dastaan -- Tajdar Junaid.
35. 10 Things I Wish I Knew when I started playing Guitar -- Warren Mendonsa.
36. This Is Spinal Tap -- Rob Reiner.
37. Monty Python's Life of Brian.
38. Masala Lab on Instagram.
39. Krish Ashok on Spotify and Apple Music.
40. A Scientist in the Kitchen -- Episode 204 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Krish Ashok).
41. Bill McClintock on YouTube.
42. Derek Trucks and Michael Landau on Spotify.
43. Nadia - Nitin Sawhney with Jeff Beck live.
44. Where Were You? -- Jeff Beck.
45. Arinjoy Sarkar and Rudi Wallang on YouTube.
46. Achint on Instagram and YouTube.
47. Tejas, Komorebi, Rohan Rajadhyaksha and Sandunes.

Also, do check out Chuck Gopal's specially curated playlist of Indian rock and metal for listeners of The Seen and the Unseen. (Here's a YouTube version.)

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Our freedom fighters didn't just fight the British. They also grappled with each other in the marketplace of ideas and actions. Shruti Kapila joins Amit Varma in episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe how so many of our founders were also innovative political philosophers -- and how we still fight their battles today.

Also check out:
1. Shruti Kapila at Cambridge, The Print and Twitter.
2. Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age -- Shruti Kapila.
3. An Intellectual History for India -- Edited by Shruti Kapila.
4. Political Thought in Action: The Bhagavad Gita and Modern India -- Edited by Shruti Kapila and Faisal Devji.
5. The Death and Life of Great American Cities -- Jane Jacobs.
6. Nehru: The Debates that Defined India — Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain.
7. Nehru’s Debates — Episode 262 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain.)
8. Tryst With Destiny (Text) (Video) -- Jawaharlal Nehru's speech at Independence.
9. Jawaharlal Nehru on Amazon.
10. Carl Schmitt on Amazon, Wikipedia and Britannica.
11. Junoon (1978) on IMDb and Wikipedia.
12. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India -- Akshaya Mukul.
13. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism -- Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul).
14. Hindutva -- VD Savarkar.
15. The Intellectual Foundations of Hindutva — Episode 115 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aakar Patel).
16. Malevolent Republic — Kapil Komireddi.
17. Who Broke Our Republic? -- Episode 163 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Kapil Komireddi).
18. The Multitudes of Our Maharajahs -- Episode 244 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manu Pillai).
19. A Life in Indian Politics -- Episode 149 of The Seen and the Unseen (w JP Narayan).
20. Sigmund Freud on Amazon, Wikipedia and Britannica.
21. An Anthropologist Among Historians -- Bernard S Cohn.
22. The Birth of the Modern World -- CA Bayly.
23. CA Bayly on Amazon.
24. Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar on Amazon.
25. Hilary Mantel on Amazon.
26. Song of Myself, 51 -- Walt Whitman.
27. Indian Unrest -- Valentine Chirol.
28. Rukmini Sees India’s Multitudes -- Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S).
29. Shrimad Bhagwad Gita Rahasya -- Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
30. The Indian War of Independence, 1857 -- Veer Savarkar.
31. Hind Swaraj -- Mahatma Gandhi.
32. Meatless Days -- Sara Suleri.
33. Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie on Amazon.
34. Aguirre, the Wrath of God -- Werner Herzog.
35. Masaan -- Neeraj Ghaywan.
36. Khayal Gatha -- Kumar Shahani.
37. Mirzapur on Prime Video.
38. Paatal Lok on Prime Video.

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Deepak Shenoy wants to ask Amit Varma about the creator economy. Amit wants to talk to Deepak about finance and his new book. Episode 271 of The Seen and the Unseen is a crossover episode with the Capital Mind Podcast in which Amit and Deepak get a jugalbandi going.

Also check out:
1. Deepak Shenoy on LinkedIn and Twitter.
2. Money Wise: Timeless Lessons on Building Wealth -- Deepak Shenoy.
3. Capitalmind, Deepak Shenoy’s investment research and wealth management company.
4. The Capitalmind Podcast and YouTube channel.
5. Lessons in Investing (and Life) -- Episode 208 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Deepak Shenoy).
6. If You Are a Creator, This Is Your Time -- Amit Varma.
7. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on the creator ecosystem with Roshan Abbas, Varun Duggirala, Neelesh Misra, Snehal Pradhan, Chuck Gopal and Nishant Jain.
8. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty -- James Thurber.
9. Mungerilal Ke Haseen Sapne (on Wikipedia and YouTube).
10. The Truman Show -- Peter Weir.
11. Losing My Religion -- REM.
12. With or Without You -- U2.
13. Conversation and Society -- Episode 182 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Russ Roberts).
14. Econ Talk (by Russ Roberts) and Conversations with Tyler (by Tyler Cowen).
15. The Prem Panicker Files -- Episode 217 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Prem Panicker).
16. The Connell Guide to How to Write Well -- Tim de Lisle.
17. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life -- Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen.
18. The Life and Times of Abhinandan Sekhri -- Episode 254 of The Seen and the Unseen.
19. Rukmini Sees India’s Multitudes -- Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S).
20. Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas — Natasha Dow Schüll.
21. When Harry Met Sally -- Rob Reiner.
22. Dil Dhoondhta Hai Phir Wohi Fursat Ke Raat Din -- Bhupinder Singh.
23. Dave Barry on Amazon.
24. Indian Society: The Last 30 Years -- Episode 137 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Santosh Desai).
25. Gurpriya Sidhu's tweet thread on sitting alone at cafes.
26. Self-Esteem (and a Puddle) -- Amit Varma's post with Douglas Adams's puddle quote.
27. The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande -- Episode 262 of The Seen and the Unseen.
28. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus -- John Gray.
29. The Blank Slate -- Steven Pinker.
30. $800,000 to Zero - The FASCINATING History of DaVinci Resolve -- Alex Jordan of Learn Color Grading.
31. Casey Neistat and MrBeast on YouTube.
32. 1000 True Fans — Kevin Kelly.
33. 1000 True Fans? Try 100 — Li Jin.
34. Sinocism -- Bill BIshop's Newsletter.
35. Steven Van Zandt: Springsteen, the death of rock and Van Morrison on Covid — Richard Purden.
36. Blueprint for Armageddon -- Episode 50-55 of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History.
37. The Universe of Chuck Gopal -- Episode 258 of The Seen and the Unseen.
38. Miss Excel on Instagram and TikTok.
39. How an Excel Tiktoker Manifested Her Way to Making Six Figures a Day — Nilay Patel.
40. AR Rahman on Spotify.
41. Nuclear Power Can Save the World — Joshua S Goldstein, Staffan A Qvist and Steven Pinker.
42. Beware of Quacks. Alternative Medicine is Injurious to Health -- Amit Varma.
43. Dave Chappelle on Netflix.
44. Ideas of India -- Shruti Rajagopalan's podcast.
45. Narendra Shenoy and Mr Narendra Shenoy -- Episode 250 of The Seen and the Unseen.
46. Superforecasting — Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner.
47. Dunbar's Number.
48. Poker and Stock Markets -- Episode 47 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Mohit Satyanand).
49. So it’s now 20,000, is it a big deal? -- Deepak Shenoy's famous ghazals post from 2007.
50. Hoshwalon Ko Khabar Kya -- Jagjit Singh, from Sarfarosh.
51. Tum Ko Dekha Toh Ye Khayal Aaya -- Jagjit Singh, from Saath Saath.
52. La Pila De Sharab Ai Saqi -- Jagjit Singh.
53. How I Made $4,790,000 in 2021 -- Ali Abdaal.
54. The Power of Imagination — Mohammed Salim Khan.
55. Don't Get Fooled By Success (2005) -- Amit Varma.
56. The Life and Times of Nirupama Rao -- Episode 269 of The Seen and the Unseen.
57. Zerodha Varsity.
58. The Motley Fool.
59. The YouTube Channels of Rachana Ranade and Ishmohit Arora.
60. Stock Market For Beginners (Hindi) -- Pranjal Kamra.
61. Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour -- William Ackman.
62. Liar's Poker -- Michael Lewis.
63. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist -- Roger Lowenstein.
64. When Genius Failed -- Roger Lowenstein.
65. Peter Lynch on Amazon.
66. Market Wizards & The New Market Wizards by Jack D Schwager.
67. The Complete TurtleTrader: How 23 Novice Investors Became Overnight Millionaires -- Michael W Covel.
68. Invest Like the Best — Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s podcast.
69. Books we Like: On Investing, Trading & More — The Capitalmind team.

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Things are bad -- so bad that he's written two books about it. Aakar Patel joins Amit Varma in episode 270 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss politics, the media and his reasons for being hopeful in spite of all the doom and gloom.

Also check out:
1. Aakar Patel on Twitter, Amazon, Deccan Chronicle, Business Standard and the Times of India.
2. Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here -- Aakar Patel.
3. Price of the Modi Years -- Aakar Patel.
4. The Intellectual Foundations of Hindutva -- Episode 115 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aakar Patel).
5. The Tank Man video. (And the Wikipedia page.)
6. August Landmesser, who may have been the man who didn't salute.
7. The Life and Times of Abhinandan Sekhri -- Episode 254 of The Seen and the Unseen.
8. Amit Varma's Twitter thread on Westland shutting down.
9. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty -- Albert O. Hirschman.
10. Selected episode of The Seen and the Unseen on the economy: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
11. Nehru: The Debates that Defined India — Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain.
12. Nehru's Debates -- Episode 262 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain.)
13. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul.
14. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism -- Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul).
15. A People's Constitution -- Rohit De.
16. Narendra Modi takes a Great Leap Backwards — Amit Varma on Demonetisation.
17. Most of Amit Varma’s writing on DeMon, collected in one Twitter thread.
18. India's Undeclared Emergency -- Arvind Narrain.
19. The Silent Coup: A History of India’s Deep State — Josy Joseph.
20. India’s Security State -- Episode 242 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Josy Joseph).
21. Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir -- Arun Ferreira.
22. Sixteen Stormy Days — Tripurdaman Singh.
23. The First Assault on Our Constitution -- Episode 194 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh).
24. Integral Humanism -- Deendayal Upadhyaya.
25. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind -- Gustave le Bon.
26. Crowds and Power -- Elias Canetti.
27. The Life and Times of Nirupama Rao -- Episode 269 of The Seen and the Unseen.
28. Kashmir and Article 370 -- Episode 134 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Srinath Raghavan).
29. Steven Van Zandt: Springsteen, the death of rock and Van Morrison on Covid — Richard Purden.
30. State Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century -- Francis Fukuyama.
31. The Origins of Political Order -- Francis Fukuyama.
32. Political Order and Political Decay -- Francis Fukuyama.
33. The Great Man Theory of History.
34. Modi’s Domination – What We Often Overlook — Keshava Guha.
35. My Country, My Life -- LK Advani.
36. Modi’s Lost Opportunity -- Episode 119 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Salman Soz).
37. A Rude Life — Vir Sanghvi.
38. The Life and Times of Vir Sanghvi -- Episode 236 of The Seen and the Unseen.
39. Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi — Vinay Sitapati.
40. The BJP Before Modi -- Episode 202 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati).
41. Lessons from an Ankhon Dekhi Prime Minister -- Amit Varma.
42. Excerpts from Narendra Modi's interview by Madhu Kishwar.
43. Obituary of a Culture -- Ashis Nandy.
44. The Second Coming — William Butler Yeats.
45. Beware of the Useful Idiots -- Amit Varma.
46. Joy Das's tweet thread about Indian Muslims being called Pakistanis.
47. Television Price Controls -- Episode 27 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ashok Malik).
48. Fighting Fake News -- Episode 133 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pratik Sinha).
49. Dhanya Rajendran Fights the Gaze -- Episode 267 of The Seen and the Unseen.
50. Aakar Patel's tweet on protests as a craft.
51. Here Comes The Groom: A Conservative Case for Gay Marriage -- Andrew Sullivan.
52. Radically Networked Societies -- Episode 158 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aakar Patel).
53. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Kumar Gandharva on Spotify.
54. The Histories -- Herodotus.
55. Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Julius Caesar on Amazon.
56. Baburnama: A Memoir -- Babur.
57. The Life of the Bee -- Maurice Maeterlinck.
58. Edward O Wilson on Amazon.
59. NASASpaceflight on YouTube.
60. Ludwig van Beethoven on Spotify.

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A lifetime in diplomacy gave Nirupama Rao an inside view of the making of the first draft of history. She joins Amit Varma in episode 269 of The Seen and the Unseen to share her life lessons -- and what still keeps her buzzing every day.

Also check out:
1. Nirupama Rao on Twitter, Substack, Instagram and her own website. Her bio and work are here.
2. The Fractured Himalaya -- Nirupama Rao.
3. A Life in Diplomacy -- Nirupama Rao's talk at Claremont McKenna College.

To understand modern India, we must understand the history of Hindutva -- and we must wrestle with Savarkar. Vinayak Chaturvedi joins Amit Varma in episode 385 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss his life and work as a historian -- and the importance of history in shaping the present moment.

(FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.)

(This episode was recorded in March, 2024.)

Also check out:
1. Vinayak Chaturvedi at UC Irvine and Amazon.
2. Hindutva and Violence: VD Savarkar and the Politics of History -- Vinayak Chaturvedi.
3. Peasant Pasts – History and Memory in Western India -- Vinayak Chaturvedi.
4. Imaginary Homelands -- Salman Rushdie.
5. The Road and No Country for Old Men -- Cormac McCarthy.
6. No Country for Old Men -- Joel and Ethan Coen.
7. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages — Peggy Mohan.
8. Understanding India Through Its Languages — Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan).
9. Partha Chatterjee on Amazon, Wikipedia and Columbia University.
10. The Egg -- Andy Weir.
11. Deepak VS and the Man Behind His Face -- Episode 373 of The Seen and the Unseen.
12. The Incredible Insights of Timur Kuran -- Episode 349 of The Seen and the Unseen.
13. Private Truths, Public Lies — Timur Kuran.
14. The Long Divergence — Timur Kuran.
15. Some plagiarism complaints against Claudine Gay: 1, 2, 3, 4.
16. The Exquisite Irony of Claudine Gay's Downfall -- Glenn Loury with John McWhorter.
17. Why Did Harvard Cancel Its Best Black Professor? -- Documentary by Rob Montz on the destruction of Roland Fryer.
18. “A White Male Would Probably Already Be Gone” -- Carol Swain interviewed by Christopher Rufo.
19. How one hearing brought down two Ivy League presidents -- Sareen Habeshian.
20. Carlo Ginzburg and Christopher Bayly.
21. The Birth of the Modern World -- CA Bayly.
22. Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire -- CA Bayly.
23. The Indian Ideology -- Perry Anderson.
24. Event, Metaphor, Memory : Chauri Chaura -- Shahid Amin.
25. Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania -- Steven Feierman.
26. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India -- Ranajit Guha.
27. Maps Are Magic -- Episode 44 of Everything is Everything.
28. On Exactitude in Science — Jorge Luis Borges.
29. Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars -- CA Bayly.
30. The Cheese and the Worms -- Carlo Ginzburg.
31. From Peasant Pasts to Hindutva Futures? -- Vinayak Chaturvedi.
32. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul.
33. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul).
34. The Life and Times of Vir Sanghvi -- Episode 236 of The Seen and the Unseen.
35. A Rude Life — Vir Sanghvi.
36. The BJP Before Modi — Episode 202 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati).
37. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
38. Essentials Of Hindutva -- VD Savarkar.
39. Farewell Waltz -- Milan Kundera.
40. A Zone of Engagement -- Perry Anderson.
41. Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas -- Perry Anderson.
42. BR Ambedkar's interview on BBC from 1955.
43. Hindutva before Hindutva: Selected Writings and Discourses of Chandranath Basu in Translation -- Edited by Amiya Sen.
44. The Ferment of Our Founders — Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila).
45. The Many Shades of George Fernandes -- Episode 327 of The Seen and the Unseen.
46. The Life and Times of George Fernandes — Rahul Ramagundam.
47. Hind Swaraj — MK Gandhi.
48. Annihilation of Caste — BR Ambedkar.
49. Understanding Gandhi: Part 1: Mohandas — Episode 104 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha).
50. Understanding Gandhi: Part 2: Mahatma — Episode 105 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha).
51. The Indian War of Independence: 1857 -- VD Savarkar.
52. Savarkar: The True Story of the Father of Hindutva -- Vaibhav Purandare.
53. The Populist Playbook -- Episode 42 of Everything is Everything.
54. The Intellectual Foundations of Hindutva — Episode 115 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aakar Patel).
55. Hindu-Padpaadshahi (Hindi Edition) -- VD Savarkar.
56. Veer Savarkar -- Dhananjay Keer.
57.  GS Sardesai, VK Rajwade and Jadunath Sarkar.
58. The Collected Works of MK Gandhi and BR Ambedkar.
59. Swapna Liddle and the Many Shades of Delhi — Episode 367 of The Seen and the Unseen.
60. Episodes of the Seen and the Unseen with Srinath Raghavan: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
61.  Episodes of the Seen and the Unseen with Manu Pillai: 1, 2, 3, 4.
62. Episodes of the Seen and the Unseen with Ramachandra Guha: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
63. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ira Mukhoty, Parvati Sharma and Rana Safvi.
64. John McEnroe plus Anyone -- Edward Said.
65. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste -- Pierre Bourdieu.
66. Lendl, Becker, McEnroe, & Wilander interviewed in the Tennis Legends Podcast.
67. Ben Böhmer, Sultan+Shepard, Nora En Pure, U2 and New Order on Spotify.
68. The Zone of Interest -- Jonathan Glazer.
69. Oldboy -- Park Chan-wook.
70. Burning -- Lee Chang-dong.
71. Memories of Murder -- Bong Joon-ho.
72. Return to Seoul -- Davy Chou.
73. Past Lives -- Celine Song.
74. Monster -- Kore-eda Hirokazu.
75. The Wind From Far Away -- Amit Varma (on Monster among other things).
76. Shoplifters -- Hirokazu Kore-eda.
77. Nobody Knows --   Hirokazu Kore-eda.
78. Broker --   Hirokazu Kore-eda.
79. A Death in the Family -- Book 1 of Karl Ove Knausgaard's A Struggle.
80. In Search Of Lost Time -- Marcel Proust.
81. My Saga -- Karl Ove Knausgaard's essay for NYT.

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Russia's invasion of Ukraine is not just a seminal moment in world history, but a teachable one. Pranay Kotasthane and Nitin Pai join Amit Varma in episode 268 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss concepts and frameworks of foreign policy that can help us make sense of this turmoil.

If this subject interests you, consider signing up for Takashshila's GCPP: Defence & Foreign Affairs course. Registration is open for the May Cohort.

Also check out:
1. Pranay Kotasthane Talks Public Policy -- Episode 233 of The Seen and the Unseen.
2. Foreign Policy is a Big Deal — Episode 170 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane & Manoj Kewalramani).
3. Radically Networked Societies — Episode 158 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane).
4. Democracy in Pakistan -- Episode 79 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane & Hamsini Hariharan.)
5. Older episodes of The Seen and the Unseen w Pranay Kotasthane: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
6. Understanding Foreign Policy — Episode 63 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nitin Pai).
7. Anticipating the Unintended — Pranay Kotasthane’s newsletter (with RSJ).
8. Puliyabaazi — Pranay Kotasthane’s podcast (with Saurabh Chandra).
9. Selected episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on China: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
10. Ram Guha Reflects on His Life -- Episode 266 of The Seen and the Unseen.
11. Dhanya Rajendran Fights the Gaze -- Episode 267 of The Seen and the Unseen.
12. The End of History? -- Francis Fukuyama's essay.
13. The End of History and the Last Man -- Francis Fukuyama's book.
14. The Great Man Theory of History.
15. Russia's War on Ukraine: A Roundtable -- Bari Weiss speaks to Niall Ferguson, Walter Russell Mead and Francis Fukuyama.
16. Around the halls: Implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine -- Brookings roundup of expert views, including from Marvin Kalb.
17. Modi’s Domination – What We Often Overlook — Keshava Guha.
18. The Median Voter Theorem.
19. Social Theory of International Politics -- Alexander Wendt on constructivism in international relations.
20. Hindutva -- VD Savarkar.
21. The Intellectual Foundations of Hindutva -- Episode 115 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aakar Patel, discussing Hindutva among other things).
22. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul.
23. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism -- Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul).
24. Whole Numbers and Half Truths — Rukmini S.
25. Rukmini Sees India’s Multitudes -- Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S).
26. Why I am a Hindu -- Shashi Tharoor.
27. The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of A Nation -- Granville Austin.
28. A People's Constitution -- Rohit De.
29. Three Conundrums -- Anticipating the Unintended  #159 by RSJ and Pranay Kotasthane.
30. Through The Looking Glass --  Anticipating the Unintended  #160 by RSJ and Pranay Kotasthane.
31. No man is an island entire of itself... --  Anticipating the Unintended  #161 by RSJ and Pranay Kotasthane.
32. The Overton Window.
33. India's Strategies for a New World Order -- Anirudh Kanisetti, Anupam Manur, Pranay Kotasthane and Akshay Alladi.
34. The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence -- Daniel Drezner, Henry Farrell and Abraham L Newman.
35. Nuclear Power Can Save the World -- Joshua S Goldstein, Staffan A Qvist and Steven Pinker.
36. Public Choice Theory -- Episode 121 of The Seen and the Unseen.
37. The Idiot -- Fyodor Dostoevsky.
38. 'Stop the war.' 44 Top Russian Players Publish Open Letter To Putin -- Sam Copeland.
39. Alexander Grischuk's emotional press conference after Russia invaded Ukraine. (Watch from 4:20.)
40. Power and International Relations -- David A Baldwin.
41. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers -- Paul M Kennedy.
42. The Power of Nations: Measuring What Matters -- Michael Beckley.
43. The game theory concept of Chicken.
44. India in the Nuclear Age -- Episode 80 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Lt Gen Prakash Menon).
45. National Power After AI -- Matthew Daniels and Ben Chang.
46. Why liberal democracies have a distinct edge on cyber capability -- Nitin Pai.
47. The Business of Winning Elections -- Episode 247 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shivam Shankar Singh.)
48. Can Democracy Survive in the Information Age? --  Eric Rosenbach and Katherine Mansted on the Authoritarian Information Paradox.
49. The Use of Knowledge in Society -- Friedrich Hayek.
50. ये लिबरल आख़िर है कौन? — Episode 37 of Puliyabaazi (w Amit Varma, on Hayek.)
51. Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas -- Natasha Dow Schüll.
52. Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching -- Adam Alter.
53. The Dark Psychology of Social Networks -- Jonathan Haidt and Tobias Rose-Stockwell.
54. The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium -- Martin Gurri.
55. Social media are turbocharging the export of America’s political culture -- The Economist.
56. America in South Asia -- Episode 93 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Srinath Raghavan).
57. The Geopolitics of the Bangladesh War -- Episode 113 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Srinath Raghavan).
58. The India-Pakistan Conflict -- Episode 111 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Srinath Raghavan).
59. Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy -- Richard Hanania.
60. Narendra Shenoy and Mr Narendra Shenoy -- Episode 250 of The Seen and the Unseen.
61. The Lessons of History -- Will and Ariel Durant.
62. Fallout of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict + -- A constantly evolving note by the Takshashila Institution.

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