He's a polymath who cares deeply about the world, tries to understand it, and straddles many fields. He's played a key role over the last few decades in India's journey towards development. Ajay Shah joins Amit Varma in episode 402 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about his life and times.
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Also check out:
1. Ajay Shah on
Twitter and
Substack.
2.
Everything is Everything -- Ajay Shah's YouTube show with Amit Varma.
3.
Life Lessons -- A course taught by Ajay Shah and Amit Varma.
4.
In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy — Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah.
5.
XKDR Forum.
6.
The LEAP blog.
7. Previous episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ajay Shah:
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8.
-- Episode 39 of Everything is Everything.
9.
-- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo.
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— Episode 258 of The Seen and the Unseen.
11.
-- Episode 35 of Everything is Everything.
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-- Episode 30 of Everything is Everything.
13.
— Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen.
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— Episode 326 of The Seen and the Unseen.
15.
-- Episode 369 of The Seen and the Unseen.
16.
-- Amit Varma.
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-- Episode 53 of Everything is Everything.
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-- Episode 23 of Everything is Everything (including Ajay's retelling, 'The Fat Frogs of Tatsinskaya').
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— Episode 167 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Narayani Basu, on VP Menon).
22.
— Narayani Basu.
23.
-- Episode 29 of Everything is Everything (including Amit's retelling of VP Menon's story).
24.
— Tony Judt.
25.
-- Edited by Richard Crossman.
26.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 27.
-- Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman.
28.
-- Joni Mitchell.
29.
-- Episode 62 of Everything is Everything.
30. Jim Corbett on
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31.
-- Harish Kapadia.
32.
-- Episode 68 of The Seen and the Unseen.
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34.
-- Episode 54 of Everything is Everything.
35.
-- CP Snow.
36.
-- Jadunath Sarkar.
37.
— Episode 307 of The Seen and the Unseen.
38.
— James C Scott.
39.
— William Easterly.
40.
-- Episode 3 of Everything is Everything.
41. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ramachandra Guha:
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— Episode 355 of The Seen and the Unseen.
43.
-- Episode 20 of Everything if Everything.
44.
-- Amit Varma.
45.
— Episode 109 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rebecca Goldstein).
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-- Episode 57 of Everything is Everything.
47.
— Episode 379 of The Seen and the Unseen.
48.
-- Episode 52 of Everything is Everything.
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-- Episode 24 of Everything is Everything.
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— Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
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-- Episode 28 of Everything is Everything.
52.
-- Episode 21 of Everything is Everything.
53.
-- Episode 18 of Everything is Everything.
54.
— Episode 285 of The Seen and the Unseen.
55.
— Episode 125 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah).
56.
-- Jagdish Bhagwati.
57.
-- Episode 32 of Everything is Everything.
58.
-- Episode 66 of Everything is Everything.
59.
-- Episode 41 of Everything is Everything.
60.
-- Stephen Hopkins.
61.
— Episode 347 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah & Renuka Sane).
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-- Episode 65 of Everything is Everything.
63.
-- Episode 13 of Everything is Everything.
64.
-- The Takshashila Institution.
65.
-- CLR James.
66.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru.
67.
and
— Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay.
68.
-- Episode 36 of Everything is Everything.
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— Episode 211 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah).
70.
-- Jonathan Rauch.
71.
-- Pratik Datta, Radhika Pandey, Ila Patnaik and Ajay Shah.
72.
-- Aneesha Chitgupi, Ajay Shah, Manish Singh, Susan Thomas and Harsh Vardhan.
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— Episode 333 of The Seen and the Unseen.
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— Episode 194 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh).
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— Tripurdaman Singh.
79.
— Subhashish Bhadra.
80.
— Episode 333 of The Seen and the Unseen.
81.
-- Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski.
82.
-- Episode 34 of Everything is Everything.
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-- Episode 37 of Everything is Everything.
84.
-- Episode 48 of Everything is Everything.
85.
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86.
-- Bruce Springsteen.
87.
(2007) -- Ajay Shah.
88.
— Episode 389 of The Seen and the Unseen.
89.
-- Episode 25 of Everything is Everything.
90.
-- Amit Varma.
91.
-- Episode 26 of Everything is Everything.
92.
-- Episode 33 of Everything is Everything.
93.
-- Eamonn Butler.
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-- Ajay Shah.
95.
-- Episode 393 of The Seen and the Unseen.
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-- Robert Graboyes.
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-- Episode 27 of Everything is Everything.
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— Episode 154 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah).
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100.
-- Henrik Karlsson.
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-- Ernest Hemingway.
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-- John Maynard Keynes.
103.
-- Jacob Bronowski.
104.
-- Many authors including Ajay Shah.
105.
-- Ajay Shah.
106.
— Akshay Jaitly and Ajay Shah.
107.
— Episode 278 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshay Jaitley and Ajay Shah).
108.
-- Episode 40 of Everything is Everything.
109.
-- Bjorn Lomborg.
110.
-- Episode 46 of Everything is Everything.
111.
-- Joshua S Goldstein, Staffan A Qvist & Steven Pinker.
112.
-- Ayush Patnaik, Ajay Shah, Anshul Tayal and Susan Thomas.
113.
— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz.
114.
— Amit Varma.
115.
-- Milton Friedman.
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-- James C Scott.
117.
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