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Amit Varma

The Seen and the Unseen, hosted by Amit Varma, features longform conversations that aim to give deep insights into the subjects being discussed. Timeless and bingeworthy.

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

India has a panoply of laws that prevent corporations from getting into farming, and which prevent farmers from escaping agriculture, by virtue of not being able to sell their farm land for non-agricultural purposes. The Seen Effect of this is that they are protected from exploitation by rapacious capitalists. But are the Unseen Effects much worse?
 
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Ep. 01: Entry and Exit in Agriculture

For any shopper in India, there is no acronym as comforting as MRP: Maximum Retail Price. When you see that on any packaged good, you feel assured that you won't be ripped off. But is it really that simple? Prithwiraj Mukherjee joins Amit Varma to discuss the seen and unseen effects of MRP.
 
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Ep. 07: MRP (Maximum Retail Price)

Healthcare in India is in a dismal state, and so is the state of medical education. Pavan Srinath joins Amit Varma to discuss the role of the Medical Council of India in this mess. Is it a responsible industry watchdog helping keep standards high -- or is it a part of the problem?
 
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Ep. 08: The Medical Council of India

What are the hidden dynamics of the India-Pakistan conflict? What are the possible ways of resolving it? Historian and foreign policy analyst Srinath Raghavan joins Amit Varma in episode 111 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss the game theory and geopolitics of this messy situation.
 
Also check out:
 
 Srinath Raghavan's books on Amazon Unlike Vajpayee & Manmohan, PM Modi thinks prudence in conflict is a self-imposed fetter • -- Srinath Raghavan
 Uncle Sam in South Asia • -- ep 93 of The Seen and the Unseen
 Strategy: A History • -- Lawrence Freedman
 Not War, Not Peace • -- George Perkovich and Toby Dalton
 Images of Terror • -- Philip Jenkins
 Posturing For Peace • -- Vipin Narang
 To Escalate or Not? This is Modi's Zugzwang Moment • -- Amit Varma

Ep. 111: The India-Pakistan Conflict

The history of humanity is more than just the history of men. Historian Ira Mukhoty joins Amit Varma in episode 144 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about going beyond the male gaze to write history. She also discusses Daughters of the Sun, her account of the rich and complex world of Mughal women.
 
Also check out:
 
 Daughters of the Sun 1. -- Ira Mukhoty
 Heroines 2. -- Ira Mukhoty
 Yuganta 3. -- Irawati Karve
 Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World 4. -- Ruby Lal
 Empress: 5. -- Ruby Lal
 Wolf Hall 6. -- Hilary Mantel
 Rebel Sultans 7. -- Manu Pillai
 India = Migration 8. -- Episode 128 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Chinmay Tumbe)
 Early Indians 9. -- Episode 112 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tony Joseph)
 The Deccan Before Shivaji 10. -- Episode 98 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manu Pillai)
 Our Colorful Past 11. -- Episode 127 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manu Pillai)
 
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Ep. 144: Women in Indian History

She worked with Femina for 26 years, 12 of them as editor. And she wrote numerous biographies after that. Sathya Saran joins Amit Varma in episode 406 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss Indian society, feminism, femininity, her life as a journalist and the art of the biography.
 
 (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.)
 
 Also check out:
 1. Sathya Saran on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Amazon.
 2. Ten Years with Guru Dutt: Abrar Alvi's Journey -- Sathya Saran.
 3. Sun Mere Bandhu Re: The Musical World Of SD Burman -- Sathya Saran.
 4. Baat Niklegi Toh Phir: The Life and Music of Jagjit Singh -- Sathya Saran.
 5. Breath of Gold: Hariprasad Chaurasia -- Sathya Saran.
 6. The Dark Side and Other Stories -- Sathya Saran.
 7. How To Look Like Miss India -- Sathya Saran.
 8. Gulzar's Angoor: Insights into The Film -- Sathya Saran.
 9. From Me to You -- Sathya Saran.
 10. Madhumati -- Bimal Roy.
 11. How We Do the Small Things -- Amit Varma.
 12. The Life and Times of Shanta Gokhale — Episode 311 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 13. The Anxious Generation — Jonathan Haidt.
 14. Coming Through Slaughter -- Michael Ondaatje.
 15. Take A Chance On Me -- Abba.
 16. Sahib, Bibi Aur Ghulam -- Guru Dutt.
 17. The Monk and His Music -- Moti Lalwani and Richa Lakhanpal.
 18. Close -- Lukas Dhont.
 19. Girl -- Lukas Dhont.
 20. Mughal-E-Azam -- K Asif.
 21. Pyaasa -- Guru Dutt.
 22. Lekin -- Gulzar.
 22. Ijaazat -- Gulzar.
 24. Angoor -- Gulzar.
 
 This episode is sponsored by Rang De, a platform that enables individuals to invest in farmers, rural entrepreneurs and artisans.
 
 Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here.
 
 Amit and Ajay also bring out a weekly YouTube show, Everything is Everything. Have you watched it yet? You must!
 
 And have you read Amit’s newsletter? Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It’s free!
 
 Also check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing.
 
 Episode art: ‘Beauty’ by Simahina.

Ep 406: Sathya Saran and the Shaping of the Indian Woman

He was born in Sikkim and lives in the USA, and in the course of engaging with his identity, has written powerful books of Sikh history, and revived its music. Sarbpreet Singh joins Amit Varma in episode 407 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss his life, his writing, his music and the lessons of Sikhism.
 
 (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.)
 
 Also check out:
 1. Sarbpreet Singh on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Linktree and Amazon.
 2. The Story of the Sikhs -- Sarbpreet Singh's podcast on Spotify.
 3. The Gurmat Sangeet Podcast.
 4. The Gurmat Sangeet Project.
 5. The Story of the Sikhs: 1469-1708 -- Sarbpreet Singh.
 6. Cauldron, Sword and Victory: The Rise of the Sikhs -- Sarbpreet Singh.
 7. The Camel Merchant of Philadelphia -- Sarbpreet Singh.
 8. Kultar's Mime -- Sarbpreet Singh.
 9. Night of the Restless Spirits: Stories from 1984 -- Sarbpreet Singh.
 10. The Sufi's Nightingale -- Sarbpreet Singh.
 11. Nanak Was Here — Episode 166 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Amardeep Singh).
 12. Devdutt Pattanaik and the Stories That Shape Us -- Episode 404 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 13. Sarbpreet Singh in conversation with Jerry Pinto.
 14. The Life and Times of Jerry Pinto — Episode 314 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 15. Em and the Big Hoom — Jerry Pinto.
 16. History of the Sikhs -- JD Cunningham.
 17. Khyal: Creativity within North India's Classical Music Tradition -- Bonnie Wade.
 18. Who are the Guilty? -- The PUCL report about the 1984 riots.
 19. Gangster Rule -- Madhu Kishwar.
 20. Anthropological Knowledge and Collective Violence: The Riots in Delhi, November 1984 -- Veena Das.
 21. 100 Years of Solitude -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
 22. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ramachandra Guha: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
 23. In The City of Slaughter -- Hayyim Nahman Bialik.
 24. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil — Hannah Arendt.
 25. The Pluralism Project.
 25. Kaya Taran -- Sashi Kumar.
 26. A History of the Sikhs -- Khushwant Singh.
 27. Kirtan Sewa Malaysia.
 
 This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off.
 
 Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here.
 
 Amit and Ajay also bring out a weekly YouTube show, Everything is Everything. Have you watched it yet? You must!
 
 And have you read Amit’s newsletter? Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It’s free!
 
 Also check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing.
 
 Episode art: ‘Seeker’ by Simahina.

Ep 407: Sarbpreet Singh Finds His Sikhism

His earlier episodes on this show have been huge hits, and as he completes a trilogy of books, he returns to complete a trilogy of episodes. Amitava Kumar joins Amit Varma in episode 408 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about writing, noticing, painting, travelling, trees, and unfulfilled train journeys.
 
 (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.)
 
 Also check out
 1. Amitava Kumar on Instagram, Substack, Twitter, Amazon, Vassar, Granta and his own website.
 2. The Green Book: An Observer's Notebook -- Amitava Kumar.
 3. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 4. Amitava Kumar Finds His Kashmiri Rain -- Episode 364 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 5. The Blue Book: A Writer’s Journal — Amitava Kumar.
 6. The Yellow Book: A Traveller’s Diary — Amitava Kumar.
 7. My Beloved Life: A Novel -- Amitava Kumar.
 8. A Million Mutinies Now -- VS Naipaul.
 9. The Trees — Philip Larkin.
 10. Before the Storm -- Amitava Kumar.
 11. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages — Peggy Mohan.
 12. Understanding India Through Its Languages — Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan).
 13. A Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth.
 14. Caste, Capitalism and Chandra Bhan Prasad — Episode 296 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 15. ‘Indian languages carry the legacy of caste’ — Chandra Bhan Prasad interviewed by Sheela Bhatt.
 16. The Refreshing Audacity of Vinay Singhal — Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 17. Stage.in.
 18. Laapataa Ladies -- Kiran Rao.
 19. Kanthapura -- Raja Rao.
 20. All About H Hatterr -- GV Desani.
 21. From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada -- Sudha Bharadwaj.
 22. India is Broken -- Ashoka Mody.
 23. Being Mortal -- Atul Gawande.
 24. Earwitness to Place -- Bernie Krause interviewed by Erin Robinsong.
 25. All That Breathes -- Shaunak Sen.
 26. Frog: 1 Poetry: 0 -- Amitava Kumar.
 27. The Heat Will Kill You First -- Jeff Goodell.
 28. Danish Husain and the Multiverse of Culture — Episode 359 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 29. The Artist's Way -- Julia Cameron.
 30. An excerpt from Wittgenstein’s diary — Parul Sehgal on Twitter.
 31. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — Ludwig Wittgenstein.
 32. Burdock -- Janet Malcolm.
 33. Hermit in Paris — Italo Calvino.
 34. Objects From Our Past -- Episode 77 of Everything is Everything.
 35. The Wisden Book of Test Cricket (1877-1977) — Compiled & edited by Bill Frindall.
 36. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul.
 37. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul).
 38. The Ferment of Our Founders — Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila).
 39. Private Truths, Public Lies — Timur Kuran.
 40. The Incredible Insights of Timur Kuran — Episode 349 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 41. Bhavni Bhavai -- Ketan Mehta.
 42. All We Imagine as Light -- Payal Kapadia.
 43. Secondhand Time -- Svetlana Alexievich.
 44. Amitava Kumar's post with Danish Husain's postcard.
 45. Fire Weather -- John Vaillant.
 46. Ill Nature -- Joy Williams.
 47. Hawk -- Joy Williams.
 
 This episode is sponsored by Rang De, a platform that enables individuals to invest in farmers, rural entrepreneurs and artisans.
 
 Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here.
 
 Amit and Ajay also bring out a weekly YouTube show, Everything is Everything. Have you watched it yet? You must!
 
 And have you read Amit’s newsletter? Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It’s free!
 
 Also check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing.
 
 Episode art: ‘Gulmohar’ by Simahina.

Ep 408: Amitava Kumar Finds His Gulmohar Tree

He's lived a rich life as a journalist, a human rights activist, an author, a columnist -- and now he's written a great book on Gujaratis. Salil Tripathi joins Amit Varma in episode 409 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss his life, his learnings, these times we live in -- and the times that came before.
 
 (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.)
 
 Also check out:
 1. Salil Tripathi on Twitter, Instagram, Wikipedia, LinkedIn and Amazon.
 2. The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community -- Salil Tripathi.
 3. The Colonel Who Would Not Repent -- Salil Tripathi.
 4. Offence – The Hindu Case -- Salil Tripathi.
 5. Detours: Songs of the Open Road -- Salil Tripathi.
 6. For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit -- Edited by Shilpa Gupta and Salil Tripathi.
 7. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul).
 8. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul.
 9. Saraswatichandra (Gujarati) (English) -- Govardhanram Tripathi.
 10. Gujarat Ni Asmita -- KM Munshi.
 11. I Follow the Mahatma -- KM Munshi.
 12. Devdutt Pattanaik and the Stories That Shape Us — Episode 404 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 13. Ahimsa: 100 Reflections on the Harappan Civilization — Devdutt Pattanaik.
 14. Until the Lions -- Karthika Nair.
 15. Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity — Manu Pillai.
 16. The Forces That Shaped Hinduism -- Episode 405 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manu Pillai).
 17. Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain -- Fintan O'Toole.
 18. Understanding Gandhi: Part 1: Mohandas — Episode 104 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha).
 19. Understanding Gandhi: Part 2: Mahatma — Episode 105 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha).
 20. Gandhi Before India -- Ramachandra Guha.
 21. Objects From Our Past -- Episode 77 of Everything is Everything.
 22. The Diary of Manu Gandhi (Part 1) (Part 2) -- Edited and Translated by Tridip Suhrud.
 23. The Ferment of Our Founders — Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila).
 24. Lessons from an Ankhon Dekhi Prime Minister — Amit Varma.
 25. Akhil Katyal's poem on caste.
 26. Midnight's Children -- Salman Rushdie.
 27. Bare Feet – a Poem about MF Husain -- Salil Tripathi.
 28. My Mother’s Fault -- Salil Tripathi.
 29. Jejuri -- Arun Kolatkar.
 30. Yashwant Rao -- Arun Kolatkar.
 31. The Patriot -- Nissim Ezekiel.
 32. Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne -- Satyajit Ray.
 33. You're Missing -- Bruce Springsteen.
 34. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, Milan Kundera, Ved Mehta and John McPhee on Amazon.
 35. All We Imagine as Light -- Payal Kapadia.
 36. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha Is the Impartial Spectator — Episode 388 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 37. On Tyranny -- Timothy Snyder.
 38. Lant Pritchett Is on Team Prosperity — Episode 379 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 39. Saving Capitalism From The Capitalists -- Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales.
 40. Check out Johan Norberg's great work.
 41. The Life and Times of the Indian Economy — Episode 387 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rajeswari Sengupta).
 42. India’s Problem is Poverty, Not Inequality — Amit Varma.
 43. Stay Away From Luxury Beliefs — Episode 46 of Everything is Everything.
 44. On Inequality — Harry Frankfurt.
 45. Economic growth is enough and only economic growth is enough — Lant Pritchett with Addison Lewis.
 46. Sample SSR conspiracy theory: He’s alive!
 47. Amit Varma's 2022 piece on the mess-up at The Wire.
 48. Television Price Controls — Episode 27 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ashok Malik).
 49. The Selfish Altruist -- Tony Vaux.
 50. Sadanand Dhume's tweet on the hypocrisy around The Satanic Verses.
 51. Bad Elements -- Ian Buruma.
 52. Biju Rao Won’t Bow to Conventional Wisdom — Episode 392 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 53. Can Economics Become More Reflexive? — Vijayendra Rao.
 54. The Life and Times of Teesta Setalvad — Episode 302 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 55. Aakar Patel Is Full of Hope — Episode 270 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 56. The Wal-Mart Effect -- Charles Fishman.
 57. Modern South India -- Rajmohan Gandhi.
 58. The Adda at the End of the Universe — Episode 309 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vikram Sathaye and Roshan Abbas).
 59. Whatever happened To Ehsan Jafri on February 28, 2002? — Harsh Mander. 60. Jai Jai Garvi Gujarat -- Narmad.
 61. The Populist Playbook -- Episode 42 of Everything is Everything.
 62. Where the Green Ants Dream -- Werner Herzog.
 63. People's Linguistic Survey of India -- GN Devy and others.
 64. The Refreshing Audacity of Vinay Singhal — Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 65. Stage.in.
 66. Reading Lolita in Tehran -- Azar Nafisi.
 67. Two Concepts of Liberty — Isaiah Berlin.
 68. Understanding the State -- Episode 25 of Everything is Everything.
 69. The First Assault on Our Constitution — Episode 194 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh).
 70. Shruti Rajagopalan’s talk on the many amendments in our constitution.
 71. Caged Tiger: How Too Much Government Is Holding Indians Back — Subhashish Bhadra.
 72. Subhashish Bhadra on Our Dysfunctional State — Episode 333 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 73. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 74. Goodbye Solo — Ramin Bahrani.
 75. The desire to help, and the desire not to be helped — Roger Ebert’s review of Goodbye Solo.
 76. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada -- Shahu Patole.
 77. Firaaq -- Nandita Das.
 78. How the BJP Wins — Prashant Jha.
 79. The BJP’s Magic Formula — Episode 45 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Prashant Jha).
 80. The Year of Living Dangerously -- Peter Weir.
 81. Ingmar Bergman, Satyajit Ray, Francois Truffaut and Aparna Sen.
 82. The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and London Review of Books.
 83. Ravi Shankar, Zakir Hussain and Vilayat Khan on Spotify.
 84. Nadine Gordiner, Fintan O'Toole, Ilya Kaminsky, Karthika Nair, Ruchir Joshi, Kiran Desai, Nilanjana Roy, Sunil Gavaskar and Mike Brearley.
 
 This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off.
 
 Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here.
 
 Amit and Ajay also bring out a weekly YouTube show, Everything is Everything. Have you watched it yet? You must!
 
 And have you read Amit’s newsletter? Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It’s free!
 
 Also check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing.
 
 Episode art: ‘Asmita’ by Simahina.

Ep 409: Salil Tripathi and the Gujaratis

She's an economist, an institution-builder, an ecosystem-nurturer and one of our finest thinkers. Shruti Rajagopalan joins Amit Varma in episode 410 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about her life & times -- and her remarkable work.
 
 (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.)
 
 Also check out:
 1. Shruti Rajagopalan on Twitter, Substack, Instagram, her podcast, Ideas of India and her own website.
 2. Emergent Ventures India.
 3. The 1991 Project.
 4. Life Lessons That Are Priceless -- Episodes 400 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 5. Other episodes of The Seen and the Unseen w Shruti Rajagopalan, in reverse chronological order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.
 6. The Day Ryan Started Masturbating -- Amit Varma's newsletter post explaining Shruti Rajagopalan's swimming pool analogy for social science research.
 7. A Deep Dive Into Education -- Episode 54 of Everything is Everything.
 8. Fixing Indian Education — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).
 9. Population Is Not a Problem, but Our Greatest Strength -- Amit Varma.
 10. Our Population Is Our Greatest Asset -- Episode 20 of Everything is Everything.
 11. Where Has All the Education Gone? -- Lant Pritchett.
 12. Lant Pritchett Is on Team Prosperity — Episode 379 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 13. The Theory of Moral Sentiments — Adam Smith.
 14. The Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith.
 15. Commanding Heights -- Daniel Yergin.
 16. Capitalism and Freedom -- Milton Friedman.
 17. Free to Choose -- Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman.
 18. Economics in One Lesson -- Henry Hazlitt.
 19. The Road to Serfdom -- Friedrich Hayek.
 20. Four Papers That Changed the World -- Episode 41 of Everything is Everything.
 21. The Use of Knowledge in Society -- Friedrich Hayek.
 22. Individualism and Economic Order -- Friedrich Hayek.
 23. Understanding the State -- Episode 25 of Everything is Everything. 
 24. Richard E Wagner at Mercatus and Amazon.
 25. Larry White and the First Principles of Money -- Episode 397 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 26. Fixing the Knowledge Society -- Episode 24 of Everything is Everything.
 27. Marginal Revolution.
 28. Paul Graham's essays.
 29. Commands and controls: Planning for indian industrial development, 1951–1990 -- Rakesh Mohan and Vandana Aggarwal.
 30. The Reformers -- Episode 28 of Everything is Everything.
 31. India: Planning for Industrialization -- Jagdish Bhagwati and Padma Desai.
 32. Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration -- Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith.
 33. Cows on India Uncut.
 34. Abdul Karim Khan on Spotify and YouTube.
 35. The Surface Area of Serendipity -- Episode 39 of Everything is Everything.
 36. Objects From Our Past -- Episode 77 of Everything is Everything.
 37. Sriya Iyer on the Economics of Religion -- The Ideas of India Podcast.
 38. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ramachandra Guha: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
 39. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Pratap Bhanu Mehta: 1, 2.
 40. Rohit Lamba Reimagines India’s Economic Policy Emphasis -- The Ideas of India Podcast.
 41. Rohit Lamba Will Never Be Bezubaan — Episode 378 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 42. The Constitutional Law and Philosophy blog.
 43. Cost and Choice -- James Buchanan.
 44. Philip Wicksteed.
 45. Pratap Bhanu Mehta on The Theory of Moral Sentiments -- The Ideas of India Podcast.
 46. Conversation and Society — Episode 182 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Russ Roberts).
 47. The Common Sense of Political Economy -- Philip Wicksteed.
 48. Narendra Shenoy and Mr Narendra Shenoy — Episode 250 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 49. Sudhir Sarnobat Works to Understand the World — Episode 350 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 50. Manmohan Singh: India's Finest Talent Scout -- Shruti Rajagopalan.
 51. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah).
 52. The Life and Times of Montek Singh Ahluwalia — Episode 285 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 53. The Forgotten Greatness of PV Narasimha Rao — Episode 283 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati).
 54. India’s Massive Pensions Crisis — Episode 347 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah & Renuka Sane).
 55. The Life and Times of KP Krishnan — Episode 355 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 56. Breaking Through — Isher Judge Ahluwalia.
 57. Breaking Out — Padma Desai.
 58. Perestroika in Perspective -- Padma Desai.
 59. Shephali Bhatt Is Searching for the Incredible — Episode 391 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 60. Pics from the Seen-Unseen party.
 61. Pramod Varma on India’s Digital Empowerment -- Episode 50 of Brave New World.
 59. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha Is the Impartial Spectator — Episode 388 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 60. Our Parliament and Our Democracy — Episode 253 of The Seen and the Unseen (w MR Madhavan). 61. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Pranay Kotasthane: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
 62. The Overton Window.
 63. When Ideas Have Sex -- Matt Ridley.
 64. The Three Languages of Politics — Arnold Kling.
 65. Arnold Kling and the Four Languages of Politics -- Episode 394 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 66. The Double ‘Thank You’ Moment — John Stossel.
 67. Economic growth is enough and only economic growth is enough — Lant Pritchett with Addison Lewis.
 68. What is Libertarianism? — Episode 117 of The Seen and the Unseen (w David Boaz).
 69. What Does It Mean to Be Libertarian? — Episode 64 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 70. The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom -- David Boaz.
 71. Publish and Perish — Agnes Callard.
 72. Classical Liberal Institute.
 73. Shruti Rajagopalan’s YouTube talk on constitutional amendments.
 74. What I, as a development economist, have been actively “for” -- Lant Pritchett.
 75. Can Economics Become More Reflexive? — Vijayendra Rao.
 76. Premature Imitation and India’s Flailing State — Shruti Rajagopalan & Alexander Tabarrok.
 77. Elite Imitation in Public Policy — Episode 180 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Alex Tabarrok).
 78. Invisible Infrastructure -- Episode 82 of Everything is Everything.
 79. The Sundara Kanda.
 80. Devdutt Pattanaik and the Stories That Shape Us -- Episode 404 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 81. Y Combinator.
 82. Space Fields.
 83. Apoorwa Masuk, Onkar Singh Batra, Naman Pushp, Angad Daryani, Deepak VS and Srijon Sarkar.
 84. Deepak VS and the Man Behind His Face — Episode 373 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 85. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away -- The Beatles.
 86. Caste, Capitalism and Chandra Bhan Prasad — Episode 296 of The Seen and the Unseen.
 87. Data For India -- Rukmini S's startup.
 88. Whole Numbers And Half Truths — Rukmini S.
 89. The Moving Curve — Rukmini S’s Covid podcast, also on all podcast apps.
 90. The Importance of Data Journalism — Episode 196 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S).
 91. Rukmini Sees India’s Multitudes — Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S).
 92. Prosperiti.
 93. This Be The Verse — Philip Larkin.
 94. The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal -- Gurcharan Das.
 95. Zakir: 1951-2024 -- Shruti Rajagopalan.
 96. Dazzling Blue -- Paul Simon, featuring Karaikudi R Mani.
 97. John Coltrane, Shakti, Zakir Hussain, Ali Akbar Khan, Pannalal Ghosh, Nikhil Banerjee, Vilayat Khan, Bismillah Khan, Ravi Shankar, Bhimsen Joshi, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Esperanza Spalding, MS Subbulakshmi, Lalgudi Jayaraman, TN Krishnan, Sanjay Subrahmanyan, Ranjani-Gayatri and TM Krishna on Spotify.
 98. James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, Israel Kirzner, Mario Rizzo, Vernon Smith, Thomas Schelling and Ronald Coase.
 99. The Calculus of Consent -- James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock.
 100. Tim Harford and Martin Wolf.
 101. The Shawshank Redemption -- Frank Darabont.
 102. The Marriage of Figaro in The Shawshank Redemption.
 103. An Equal Music -- Vikram Seth.
 104. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Zubin Mehta and the Belgrade Philharmonic.
 105. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's violin concertos.
 106. Animal Farm -- George Orwell.
 107. Down and Out in Paris and London -- George Orwell.
 108. Gulliver's Travels -- Jonathan Swift.
 109. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass -- Lewis Carroll.
 110. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
 111. The Gulag Archipelago -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
 112. Khosla Ka Ghosla -- Dibakar Banerjee.
 113. Mr India -- Shekhar Kapur.
 114. Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi -- Satyen Bose.
 114. Finding Nemo -- Andrew Stanton.
 115. Tom and Jerry and Bugs Bunny.
 116. Michael Madana Kama Rajan -- Singeetam Srinivasa Rao.
 117. The Music Box, with Laurel and Hardy.
 118. The Disciple -- Chaitanya Tamhane.
 119. Court -- Chaitanya Tamhane.
 120. Dwarkesh Patel on YouTube.
 
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What does it mean to be free? What is the basis of individual rights? Episode 64 of The Seen and the Unseen is a rerun of an old episode of The Pragati Podcast, as Amit Varma tells Pavan Srinath what it means to be a libertarian, and why it all boils down to one word: Consent.
 
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Ep. 64: Libertarianism

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