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Ep 398: Eve Fairbanks Examines a Fractured Society

Saison 1 · Épisode 398

lundi 9 septembre 2024 • Durée 04:21:42

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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Ep 397: Larry White and the First Principles of Money

Saison 1 · Épisode 397

lundi 2 septembre 2024 • Durée 04:04:59

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. — James C Scott. 9. at the World Economic Forum in Davos. 10. -- Murray Rothbard. 11. . 12. -- Milton Friedman. 13. -- Murray Rothbard. 14. — Henry Hazlitt. 15. -- Ayn Rand. 16. -- Murray Rothbard. 17. -- Alan Greenspan. 18. -- Bernard Bailyn. 19. -- Lawrence H White & Donald J Boudreaux. 20. -- Shruti Rajagopalan and Lawrence H White. 21. — Amit Varma. 22. -- Robert Nozick. 23. . 24. — Friedrich Hayek. 25. -- Lawrence H White. 26. -- Frederick Douglass. 27. -- Walter Bagehot. 28. -- Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz. 29. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb. 30. — Lawrence H White on the 2008 Financial Crisis. 31. -- Russell D Roberts. 32. -- John Allison. 33. -- Alex Gladstein. 34. -- Andrew Bailey, Bradley Rettler and Craig Warmke. 35. -- Fabian Schär and Aleksander Berentsen. 36. -- Hayek. 37. -- George Selgin. 38. -- George Selgin. 39. -- Kevin Dowd. 40. -- Episode 24 of Everything is Everything. 41. — Paul Graham. 42. -- Episode 61 of Everything is Everything. 43. -- Mani Ratnam. 44. -- Ramesh Sippy. 45. -- Chandra Barot. 46. -- Francis Spufford. 47. -- Joachim Fest. 48. , , , and on Spotify. 49. -- Takashi Yamazaki. 50. -- Federico Fellini. 51. -- Federico Fellini. 52. -- Federico Fellini. This episode is sponsored by . Check out and . Use the code for Rs 2500 off. Amit’s newsletter is active again. Subscribe right away to ! It’s free! Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new video podcast. Check out on YouTube. Check out Amit’s online course, .

Ep 388: Niranjan Rajadhyaksha Is the Impartial Spectator

Saison 1 · Épisode 388

lundi 1 juillet 2024 • Durée 03:50:17

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 . 10. -- Brad Bird. 11. . 12. . 13. — Episode 277 of The Seen and the Unseen. 14. -- Ramachandra Guha. 15. — Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan). 16. — Peggy Mohan. 17. -- a website based on James Heckman's work. 18. Select episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Suyash Rai (, ) and Rahul Verma (, ). 19. by Tarabai Shinde on and . 20. by Vibhavari Shirurkar (Malati Bedekar) on and . 21. -- Ramachandra Guha. 22. Simone de Beauvoir (, , ) and Germaine Greer (, , ). 23. on education for girls. 24. of Gokhale, Gandhi and Nehru. 25. — Episode 309 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vikram Sathaye and Roshan Abbas). 26. — Philip Larkin. 27. -- Episode 378 of The Seen and the Unseen. 28. () () -- Rahul Sankritayan. 29. — Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah. 30. -- Mike Brearley. 31. (book one of ) -- Mick Herron. 32. -- Tony Judt. 33. -- Gideon Haigh. 34. -- John Maynard Keynes. 35. — John Kenneth Galbraith. 36. -- Gunnar Myrdal. 37. Aneesh Pradhan on , , , and . 38. — Episode 377 of The Seen and the Unseen. 39. -- Episode 32 of Everything is Everything. 40. -- Michael Kremer. 41. -- Amit Varma. 42. -- Episode 8 of Everything is Everything. 43. -- Christopher Nolan. 44. -- The archives of Amit Varma's column for . 45. -- Ved Mehta. 46. -- Vijaya Rajadhyaksha. 47. Select pieces on the relationship between Raymond Carver and Gordon Lish: , , , . 48. -- Joseph Schumpeter. 49. — Episode 151 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sujata Anandan). 50. -- Chinmaya Kumar and MR Sharan. 51. — C Northcote Parkinson. 52. — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah). 53. — Episode 285 of The Seen and the Unseen. 54. — Episode 283 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati). 55. — Episode 355 of The Seen and the Unseen. 56. — Episode 379 of The Seen and the Unseen. 57. — Episode 28 of Everything is Everything. 58. — Episode 211 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah). 59. -- Episode 33 of Everything is Everything. 60. — Mancur Olson. 61. — Episode 312 of The Seen and the Unseen. 62. . 63. — Ep 86 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Gunvant Patil, in Hindi). 64. — Ep 140 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Barun Mitra & Kumar Anand). 65. — Amit Varma. 66. -- Robert Heilbroner. 67. — Lawrence H White. 68. -- Kenneth Arrow, Hollis Chenery, Bagicha Singh Minhas and Robert Solow. 69. -- Wim Wenders. 70. -- Kiran Rao. 71. -- Episode 40 of Everything is Everything. 72. — Lant Pritchett. 73. — Lant Pritchett. 74. — Lant Pritchett with Addison Lewis. 75. -- Amitav Ghosh. 76. -- GP Pradhan. 77. and . 78. Collections of VD Savarkar's Marathi essays: , . 79. -- Janaki Bakhle. 80. -- SH Deshpande. 81. -- Sheshrao More. 82. -- DN Gokhale. 83. -- YD Phadke. 84. -- Tony Scott. 85. Sriram Raghavan () () and Vijay Anand () (). 86. -- Navdeep Singh. 87. and on Amazon. 88. and on Spotify. 89. -- Haruichi Furudate. 90. — Episode 256 of The Seen and the Unseen. 91. and — Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay. 92. — Rohit Lamba. Niranjan would like to inform listeners that Spontaneous Order would be translated to Marathi as उत्सफूर्त व्यवस्था. This episode is sponsored by . Check out and . Use the code for Rs 2500 off. Amit’s newsletter is active again. Subscribe right away to ! It’s free! Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new video podcast. Check out on YouTube. Check out Amit’s online course, .

Ep 298: The Life and Work of Ashwini Deshpande

Saison 1 · Épisode 298

lundi 10 octobre 2022 • Durée 04:24:36

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. -- Episode 296 of The Seen and the Unseen. 8. Select episodes of The Seen and the Unseen that discussed gender with , , , , , , and . 9. with Ashwini Deshpande's viral and potentially award-winning vocal performance. 10. -- Nayanjot Lahiri. 11. -- GP Deshpande. 12. () () -- GP Deshpande. 13. () ()-- GP Deshpande. 14. -- Ridley Scott. 15. , , , , , , , , , , and . 16. -- Vijay Tendulkar. 17. -- Vijay Sharma. 18. -- Gauri Shinde. 19. and . 20. -- Feroz Khan. 21. -- Episode 294 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Jai Arjun Singh and Subrat Mohanty). 22. — Babbar Subhash. 23. — Song from Dance Dance. 24. -- David Dhawan. 25. and . 26. -- PL Deshpande on Malikarjun Mansur, translated by Ashwini Deshpande. 27. -- Episode 250 of The Seen and the Unseen. 28. -- Basu Chatterjee. 29. from 30. and . 31. . 32. . 33. -- Episode 293 of The Seen and the Unseen. 34. Kaushik Basu and , , and . 35. -- Marianne Bertrand & Sendhil Mullainathan. 36. -- Devah Pager and Bruce Western. 37. -- Devah Pager and Lincoln Quillian. 38. -- Gary Becker. 39. -- Kevin Murphy. 40. -- Kenneth Arrow. 41. -- Kenneth Arrow. 42. — Devika Kher. 43. — Suman Joshi. 44. -- Ashwini Deshpande and Dean Spears. 45. . 46. -- Thomas Sowell. 47. -- Ashwini Deshpande and Rajesh Ramachandran. 48. -- Ashwini Deshpande and Naila Kabeer. 49. -- Ashwini Deshpande and Naila Kabeer. 50. -- Farzana Afridi, Kanika Mahajan and Nikita Sangwan. 51. -- Ashwini Deshpande. 52. -- Nicholas Li. 53. -- Ashwini Deshpande and Jitendra Singh. 54. -- Episode 132 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Namita Bhandare). 55. -- Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya). 56. -- Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen. 57. — Episode 88 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Devika Kher, Nidhi Gupta & Hamsini Hariharan). 58. (2008) — Amit Varma. 59. -- Episode 180 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Alex Tabarrok). 60. — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan). 61. — Episode 225 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan). 62. -- Episode 290 of The Seen and the Unseen. 63. -- Geetanjali Shree. 64. -- Mohammed Rafi song from . 65. — Chaitanya Tamhane. 66. — Chaitanya Tamhane. 67. , , and . 68. -- Damon Galgut. 69. -- Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Check out Amit’s online course, . And subscribe to . It’s free!

Ep 297: Alice Evans Studies the Great Gender Divergence

Saison 1 · Épisode 297

lundi 3 octobre 2022 • Durée 04:07:52

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. -- Alice Evans. 9. -- Alice Evans on Shruti Rajagopalan's podcast. 10. -- Alice Evans on Shruti Rajagopalan's podcast. 11. Select episodes of The Seen and the Unseen that discussed gender with , , , , , and . 12. . 13. (2008) — Amit Varma. 14. — Episode 88 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Devika Kher, Nidhi Gupta & Hamsini Hariharan). 15. — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya). 16. — Shrayana Bhattacharya. 17. -- Deepa Narayan. 18. -- Francis Bloch and Vijayendra Rao. 19. -- Human Rights Watch. 20. -- Amartya Sen. 21. -- Episode 278 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshay Jaitly and Ajay Shah). 22. — Joshua S Goldstein, Staffan A Qvist and Steven Pinker. 23. -- Tyler Cowen. 24. -- Your Personal Research Assistant. 25. Most of Amit Varma’s writing on DeMon, collected in . 26. -- Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn. 27. -- Barbara A Hanawalt. 28. and on Amazon. 29. .-- Blog about economic history & comparative development. 30. . 31. Naila Kabeer on , , .and . 32. Sylvia Chant at and . 33. Claudia Goldin at and . 34. — Tony Joseph. 35. of The Seen and the Unseen. 36. — David Reich. 37. — Peggy Mohan. 38. — Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan). 39. -- Anke Becker. 40. -- Yiming Cao, Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk, Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn. 41. -- Sabita Singh. 42. -- Ahmet T Kuru. 43. -- Zahra Ayubi. 44. — C Northcote Parkinson. 45. on her podcast. 46. -- Amit Basole. 47. -- Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig. 48. -- S Anukriti, Catalina Herrera‐Almanza, Praveen Pathak and Mahesh Karra. 49. -- Sirpa Tenhunen. 50. — Timur Kuran. 51. -- Yuhua Wang. 52. . 53. -- Nwando Achebe. 54. -- Joel Mokyr. 55. -- Nathan Nunn and Leonard Wantchekon. 56. . 57. -- Alberto Alesina, Reza Baqir and William Easterly. 58. -- Episode 101 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Steven Pinker). 59. -- Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner. 60. -- Poulami Roychowdhury. 61. -- Steven Landsburg. 62. — Amit Varma. 63. -- Sana Al-Khayyat. Check out Amit’s online course, . And subscribe to . It’s free!

Ep 296: Caste, Capitalism and Chandra Bhan Prasad

Saison 1 · Épisode 296

lundi 26 septembre 2022 • Durée 03:38:11

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. -- Chandra Bhan Prasad. 7. -- Chandra Bhan Prasad. 8. -- Chandra Bhan Prasad. 9. -- Chandra Bhan Prasad in conversation with Shruti Rajagopalan in the Ideas of India podcast. 10. -- Chandra Bhan Prasad interviewed by Sheela Bhatt. 11. -- Devesh Kapur, Chandra Bhan Prasad, Lant Pritchett and D Shyam Babu. 12. . 13. -- Babasaheb Ambedkar. 14. Select episodes of The Seen and the Unseen that discussed caste with , and . 15. Select episodes of The Seen and the Unseen that discussed the 1991 reforms with , and . 16. Select episodes of The Seen and the Unseen that discussed gender with , , , , , and . 17. -- Song from . 18. The Laws of Manu () -- & . 19. — Amit Varma. 20. — Episode 186 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pratap Bhanu Mehta). 21. at University of Pennsylvania. 22. -- The profile of Chandra Bhan Prasad by Somini Sengupta. 23. -- The piece on Chandra Bhan Prasad by Emily Wax. 24. -- Babasaheb Ambedkar. 25. -- Babasaheb Ambedkar. 26. (in Volume 10 of his collected works). This episode is sponsored by . Check out and . Use the code for Rs 2500 off. Check out Amit’s online course, . And subscribe to . It’s free!

Ep 295: The Girl From Kashmir

Saison 1 · Épisode 295

lundi 19 septembre 2022 • Durée 03:15:19

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. — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen. 9. -- Suad Amiry. 10. Derry Girls on and . 11. . 12. -- Louisa May Alcott. 13. -- BR Chopra. 14. -- Chinua Achebe. 15. -- William Shakespeare. 16. -- Episode 275 of The Seen and the Unseen. 17. — Episode 284 of The Seen and the Unseen. 18. — Episode 287 of The Seen and the Unseen. 19. -- Agha Shahid Ali. 20. . 21. -- Frantz Fanon. 22. -- Amit Varma. 23. . 24. -- Episode 292 of The Seen and the Unseen. 25. — Directed by Neeraj Ghaywan and written by Varun Grover. 26. -- Rafia Zakaria. 27. -- . 28. -- Nadine Gordimer. 29. -- Nadine Gordimer. 30. -- The Shakti Samanta film starring a Bengali! 31. -- Ananya Jahanara Kabir. 32. and . 33. and on Spotify. 34. . 35. -- Atiq Rahimi. 36. . 37. -- Anna Burns. 38. -- John Milton. 39. -- William Shakespeare. 40. Greta Gerwig on , and . 41. . 42. -- Orhan Pamuk. 43. and on Amazon. 44. — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya). 45. . 46. — Vivian Gornick. 47. -- Vivian Gornick. 48. -- Tessa McWatt. 49. -- Kamila Shamsie. 50. and on Amazon. This episode is sponsored by . Check out their offerings . Check out Amit’s online course, . And subscribe to . It’s free!

Ep 294: Dance Dance For the Halva Waala

Saison 1 · Épisode 294

lundi 12 septembre 2022 • Durée 04:50:43

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. -- Subrat Mohanty's YouTube playlist of 100 lesser-known songs from the golden era of Hindi film music (mostly 1935-65). 9. -- Subrat Mohanty's YouTube playlist of 54 lesser-heard songs from Lata Mangeshkar, from 1948 to 1976. 10. from the Passion For Cinema web archives. 11. Some Spotify playlists, courtesy Nishant Shah, from Haal-Chaal Theek Thaak Hai episodes: , , , . 12. . 13. I could locate from the 1980s. (Couldn't find Singer.) 14. -- Shakti Samanta. 15. -- K Asif. 16. -- Song from , sung by Lata Mangeshkar, music by Naushad, lyrics by Shakeel Badayuni. 17. -- Giuseppe Tornatore. 18. -- talk show by Tabassum. 19. Old episodes of with , , and . 20. The and franchises. 21. -- Sam Raimi. 22. , and . 23. and . 24. -- . 25. -- Friedrich Nietzsche. 26. -- Francois Truffaut. 27. -- Pier Paolo Pasolini. 28. and . 29. -- Spike Lee. 30. () -- Jorge Luis Borges. 31. -- William Shakespeare. 32. (previously published as ) -- Stefan Zweig. 33. -- Stefan Zweig. 34. . 35. -- Garson Kanin. 36. , , and on Spotify. 37. , , , and . 38. -- Vijay Anand. 39. -- Guru Dutt. 40. and . 41. , , , , , and . 42. , , and43. and . 44. -- Song from , sung by Asha Bhosle and Manna Dey, music by Shankar-Jaikishan, lyrics by Shailendra. 45. . 46. on Netflix. 47. -- Robert Warshow. 48. , and -- Zoya Akhtar. 49. -- Michael Curtiz. 50. and -- Rajiv Rai. 51. Amit Varma’s Twitter threads on the MAMI festival from and . 52. -- Episode 168 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Arunava Sinha). 53. -- Peter Weir. 54. — Roger Ebert’s review of . 55. . 56. — Krzysztof Kieślowski. (And on it.) 57. — John Huston. 58. -- Todd Field. 59. (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) and (Pradeep Sarkar). 60. , and . 61. Raag Darbari () () — Shrilal Shukla. 62. PG Wodehouse on and . 63. — Episode 155 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Paromita Vohra). 64. and . 65. () () -- Dharamvir Bharati. 66. -- Dharamvir Bharati. 67. — Dharamvir Bharati. 68. — Episode 255 of The Seen and the Unseen. 69. — Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen. 70. , , , , and . 71. and . 72. -- Song from , sung by Mohammad Rafi, music by Naushad, lyrics by Shakeel Badayuni. 73. , , and . 74. and . 75. -- Chris Anderson. 76. -- Robert Wise. 77. -- Song from . 78. and on Spotify. 79. -- Giacomo Puccini -- performed at Arena di Verona. 80. , , and on Spotify. 81. -- Lizzo. 82. -- Beyoncé. 83. -- Karan Johar. 84. , and . 85. , , , and on Spotify. 86. and . 87. -- Amit Varma. 88. -- Song from , sung by Mukesh, music by Shankar-Jaikishen, lyrics by Shailendra. 89. and . 90. -- Bimal Roy. 91. -- Song from Do Bigha Zamin, sung by Manna Dey and Lata Mangeshkar, music by Salil Chowdhury, lyrics by Shailendra. 92. -- Episode 292 of The Seen and the Unseen. 93. . 94. -- Bee Gees. 95. -- Song from Qurbani, sung by Nazia Hassan, music by Biddu Appaiah, lyrics by Masth Ali & Shashi Pritam. 96. -- Song from Gharaonda, sung by Bhupinder Singh, music by Jaidev, lyrics by Gulzar. 97. . 98. and . 99. -- Stanley Kubrick. 100. (and by Gulzar). 101. , , , , and . 102. , and . 103. , , , and . 104. -- Howard Hawks. 105. -- Preston Sturges. 106. and . 107. , and . 108. -- Harold Bloom. 109. -- Sajimon Prabhakar. 110. -- Prakash Mehra. 111. Agatha Christie on and . 112. -- Satyajit Ray. 113. and . 114. -- Prakash Mehra. 115. and . 116. Sample SSR conspiracy theory: ! 117. . 118. — Directed by Neeraj Ghaywan and written by Varun Grover. 119. — Barry Jenkins. 120. , , and Manmohan Desai. 121. -- Erich Segal. 122. (1983 film) -- Dick Richards. 123. -- Shekhar Kapoor. 124. , , , , and . 125. -- Robert Bresson. 126. -- Mani Kaul. 127. — Episode 250 of The Seen and the Unseen. 128. -- Mrinal Sen. 129. , and -- Andrei Tarkovsky. 130. Stanislaw Lem on and . 131. and . 132. and -- Anurag Kashyap. 133. , , , and . 134. and . 135. -- Rajkumar Kohli. 136. -- Krzysztof Kieślowski. 137. -- Krzysztof Kieślowski. 138. -- Krzysztof Kieślowski. 139. -- Krzysztof Kieślowski. 140. 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(1948) -- Ramesh Saigal, starring Dilip Kumar. 186. -- Mehboob Khan. 187. -- . 188. and -- . 189. and . 190. -- Alexander Mackendrick. 191. -- Gulzar. 192. -- Song from Mere Apne, sung by Kishore Kumar and Mukesh, music by Salil Chowdhury, lyrics by Gulzar. 193. -- SS Vasan. 194. -- Kothamangalam Subbu. 195. -- RK Narayan. 196. -- Song from , sung by Shamshad Begum and ML Vasantakumari, music by Balkrishna Kalla, lyrics by Pandit Indra Chander. 197. -- Bimal Roy. 198. -- Song from Parakh, sung by Lata Mangeshkar, music by Salil Chowdhury, lyrics by Shailendra. 199. -- Phani Majumdar. 200. -- K Balachander. 201. -- Song from Oonche Log, sung by Mohammad Rafi, music by Chitragupt, lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri. 202. , and . 203. , and . 204. (1936) -- PC Barua. 205. -- Nitin Bose. 206. -- Song from , sung by KL Saigal, music by RC Boral, lyrcs by Kidar Sharma. 207. -- Phani Majumdar. 208. -- Song from , sung by KL Saigal, music by RC Boral, lyrics by Nawab Wajid Ali Shah. 209. . 210. -- Satyajit Ray. 211. -- Song from , sung by , music by Kamal Dasgupta, lyrics by Pandit Madhur. 212. -- Basu Chatterjee. 213. -- Mannu Bhandari. 214. -- Francis Ford Coppola. 215. -- Michael Cimino. 216. -- Francis Ford Coppola. 217. -- Francis Ford Coppola. 218. -- Brian De Palma. 219. -- Brian De Palma. 220. -- Michelangelo Antonioni. 221. and Robert Altman. 222. -- Arthur Penn. 223. , and -- Peter Bogdanovich. 224. -- Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich. 225. -- Francois Truffaut. 226. and -- Howard Hawks. 227. -- Raymond Chandler. 228. and on Amazon. 229. and -- Vijay Anand. 230. -- Ramesh Sippy. 231. -- Robert Zemeckis. 232. -- Shekhar Kapoor. 233. , , and . 234. and -- JP Dutta. 235. -- Song from with galaxy of villains. 236. -- Manmohan Desai. 237. , , and . 238. 239. -- Shamya Dasgupta. 240. -- Tulsi and Shyam Ramsay. 241. -- Ramsay Brothers. 242. -- Ramsay Brothers. 243. 244. -- Shibu Mitra. 245. and from Ilzaam. 246. and -- Quentin Tarantino. 247. -- John Carpenter. 248. -- Wes Craven. 249. -- Wes Craven. 250. -- James Cameron. 251. -- George Miller. 252. and . 253. -- David Lynch. 254. -- John Dahl. 255. -- John Dahl. 256. in and . 257. -- Ramesh Sharma. 258. -- Govind Niahalani. 259. and by Rajiv Rai. 260. 261. -- Nicolette Krebitz. 262. -- Trey Edward Shults. 263. -- Gaspar Noé. 264. -- Darren Aronofsky. 265 — Dren Zherka. 266. -- Thomas Mann. 267. -- Italo Calvino. 268. -- Itali Calvino. 269. -- Italo Calvino. 270. -- VS Naipaul. 271. -- VS Naipaul. 272. -- George Eliot. 273. -- Virginia Woolf. 274. -- Virginia Woolf. 275. -- Evelyn Waugh. 276. -- Evelyn Waugh. 277. -- Graham Greene. 278. (1948 film) -- John Boulting. 279. and . 280. -- Kingsley Amis. 281. -- JG Farrell. 282. -- Lewis Gilbert. 283. -- Mike Hodges. 284. -- Stanley Donen. 285. -- Anurag Kashyap. 286. -- Govind Nihalani. This episode is sponsored by . Check out their offerings . Check out Amit’s online course, . And subscribe to . It’s free!

Ep 293: Womaning in India With Mahima Vashisht

Saison 1 · Épisode 293

lundi 5 septembre 2022 • Durée 05:45:26

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. -- Mahima Vashisht. 13. -- Mahima Vashisht. 14. -- Episode 235 of The Seen and the Unseen. 15. — Haimabati Sen (translated by Tapan Raychoudhuri). 16. -- John Lennon. 17. . 18. . 19. -- Karan Johar. 20. -- Judith Rich Harris. 21. — Katty Kay and Claire Shipman. 22. (Wikipedia). 23. — Amit Varma. 24. — Episode 128 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Chinmay Tumbe). 25. — Chinmay Tumbe. 26. — Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen. 27. -- Arthur C Brooks. 28. -- I&B Ministry press release. 29. — Episode 49 of The Seen and the Unseen (w JP Narayan). 30. The Darwaza Band campaign with and . 31. The Vidya Balan . 32. -- Episode 82 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan. 33. — Sonia Faleiro. 34. — Episode 209 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sonia Faleiro). 35. . 36. Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar's . 37. -- David Lynch. 38. — Episode 284 of The Seen and the Unseen. 39. -- Amit Varma. 40. — Episode 90 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Supriya Nair & Nikita Saxena). 41. . 42. — Mason Currey. 43. — Mason Currey. 44. Mahima referred to about Albert Einstein's wife. 45. about Marie Curie and Mariah Carey. 46. — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya). 47. — Episode 287 of The Seen and the Unseen. 48. -- Episode 276 of The Seen and the Unseen. 49. — Amit Varma. 50. — Amit Varma. 51. — Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner. 52. — Devika Kher. 53. — Suman Joshi. 54. — Philip Larkin. 55. — Cal Newport. 56. -- Caroline Criado Perez. 57. over the woman with an oxygen cylinder cooking in the kitchen. 58. (2008) -- Amit Varma. 59. -- Episode 228 of The Seen and the Unseen. 60. — Kavita Krishnan. 61. — Shilpa Phadke. 62. on passive sentence constructions. 63. — Episode 280 of The Seen and the Unseen. 64. -- Episode 290 of The Seen and the Unseen. 65. — Rukmini S. 66. — Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S). 67. -- Sarah Cooper. 68. -- Glennon Doyle. 69. -- Lindy West. 70. -- Austin Kleon. 71. -- Austin Kleon. 72. -- Austin Kleon. 73. , , and . 74. And with more show notes! This episode is sponsored by . Check out their offerings . Check out Amit’s online course, . And subscribe to . It’s free!

Ep 292: Varun Grover Is in the House

Saison 1 · Épisode 292

lundi 29 août 2022 • Durée 04:25:42

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. -- Lyrics by Varun Grover. 10. -- Lyrics by Varun Grover. 11. -- Lyrics by Varun Grover. 12. -- Sidney Lumet. 13. . 14. — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul). 15. — Episode 149 of The Seen and the Unseen (w JP Narayan). 16. . 17. — Timur Kuran. 18. -- Leonard Read. 19. -- Mani Kaul. 20. — Gustave le Bon. 21. — Elias Canetti. 22. -- BR Chopra. 23. -- Shekhar Kapur. 24. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 25. -- Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen. 26. . 27. — Episode 95 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vikram Doctor). 28. -- Bob Dylan. 29. -- Bruce Springsteen. 30. and . 31. . 32. -- David Epstein. 33. — Roger Ebert’s review of Ramin Bahrani's . 34. . 35. -- Tracy Chapman. 36. -- Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen. 37. -- Rahi Masoom Raza. 38. -- Nusrat Fatek Ali Khan. 39. . 40. — Episode 112 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tony Joseph). 41. — Tony Joseph. 42. , , , and on Spotify. 43. -- Episode 281 of The Seen and the Unseen. 44. -- Italo Calvino. 45. -- Episode 277 of The Seen and the Unseen. 46. -- Puneet Aghi. 47. -- Sooraj Barjatya. 48. . 49. , and . 50. , and . 51. , , and . 52. and . 53. -- John Cassavetes. 54. and by Martin Scorcese. 55. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. 56. Ellevoro on and . 57. — Luke Burgis. 58. -- Dharamvir Bharati. 59. — Amit Varma. 60. — Paul Graham. 61. -- Episode 241 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Uday Bhatia). 62. . 63. -- Lyrics by Shailendra. 64. , , , , , and on Spotify. 65. Satyajit Ray on , and . 66. -- Satyajit Ray. 67. -- Hayao Miyazaki 68. Michael Haneke on and . 69. — Krzysztof Kieślowski. 70. -- Krzysztof Kieślowski. 71. -- Krzysztof Kieślowski. 72. -- Krzysztof Kieślowski. 73. -- Arundhati Roy. 74. , , and . 75. Raag Darbari () () — Shrilal Shukla. 76. Naiyer Masud on , and . 77. -- Naiyer Masud. 78. Shamsur Rahman Faruqi on , and . 79. -- Shamsur Rahman Faruqi. 80. -- Episode 255 of The Seen and the Unseen. 81. , , — Luis Buñuel. 82. -- John Huston. This episode is sponsored by . Check out their offerings . Check out Amit’s online course, . And subscribe to . It’s free!