The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by 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.
Episodes
Cricket is the most unusual of games with the most unusual of histories -- which can reveal so much about our society and our times. Tim Wigmore joins Amit Varma in episode 422 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss the history of Test cricket -- and how the game is changing today.
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1. Tim Wigmore on Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, Cricinfo and the Daily Telegraph.
2. Te...
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1. Ira Mukhoty on Instagram, Twitter, Goodreads and Amazon.
2. Women in Indian History -- Episode 155 of T...
Circumstance made him a legend of the quizzing world, but Siddhartha Basu is a man of many parts. He joins Amit Varma in episode 420 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about life, India, the art of asking questions and the answers he has found.
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Also check out:
1. Siddhartha Basu on Wikipedia, Twitter, Instagram and IMDb.
2. Tree of Knowledge, DigiTok.
3. Quizzitok on YouTube.
4. ...
Firms are the means of economic progress. India's micro, small and medium enterprises have been hobbled for decades, and flounder even today. Sudhir Sarnobat and Narendra Shenoy join Amit Varma in episode 419 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss this landscape -- and Sudhir's brilliant new venture that aims to tackle this.
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1. Sudhir Sarnobat on Twitter and Linked...
Why did the attacks in Pahalgam happen? What took place in the skirmishes after that? What have we learnt about geopolitics and our military preparedness? Pranay Kotasthane and Aditya Ramanathan join Amit Varma in episode 418 of The Seen and the Unseen to try to clear some of the fog of war.
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1. Pranay Kotasthane on Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon and the Takshashila Ins...
Data is apolitical and always useful, right? Then why is the caste census so controversial? Pranay Kotasthane and Raghu S Jaitley join Amit Varma in episode 417 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss its history, context and implications.
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Also check out:
1. Pranay Kotasthane on Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon and the Takshashila Institution.
2. Anticipating the Unintended — Pranay Kotas...
The most astonishing men lie in the far, forgotten corners of history. Kavitha Rao joins Amit Varma in episode 416 of The Seen and the Unseen to shed light on the life and times of two magnificent failures, Chatto and Roy.
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1. Kavitha Rao on Twitter, Instagram, Amazon and her own website.
2. Spies, Lies and Allies: The Extraordinary Lives of Chatto and Roy -- Kavit...
He observed our society from up close as an advertising man -- and then became an iconic storyteller on Twitter. Ramakrishna Desiraju aka Ramki joins Amit Varma in episode 415 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about his journey, and all that it taught him.
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Also check out:
1. Ramakrishna Desiraju aka Ramki on LinkedIn and Twitter.
2. Cartwheel Creative Consultancy.
3. Selected l...
He learnt his craft from Shyam Benegal, became a pioneer & a legend of advertising filmmaking, learnt & taught scuba diving, started the Prithvi Cafe, and lived every moment to the full in a million different ways. Prahlad Kakar joins Amit Varma in episode 414 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about his long and wondrous life.
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One of India's tragedies lies in the schooling of our children. We have let our kids down. Can we fix this problem? Shaheen Mistri joins Amit Varma in episode 413 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe her journey -- and what she has learnt about education.
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Also check out:
1. Shaheen Mistri on Instagram, LinkedIn, Wikipedia and Facebook.
2. Redrawing India: The Teach For India S...
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Also check out:
1. Probal DasGupta on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Amazon.
2. Wa...
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Also check out:
1. Vishal Nevatia at True North.
2. Ingredients for high growth firms -- Vishal Nevatia in 2015.
3. Shephali Bhatt ...
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Also check out:
1. Shruti Rajagopalan on Twitter, Substack, Instagram, her podcast, Ideas of India and her own website.
2. Emergent Ventures I...
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Also check out:
1. Salil Tripathi on Twitter, Instagram, Wikipedia, Li...
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.
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1. Amitava Kumar on Instagram, Substack, Twitter, Amazon, V...
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1. Sarbpreet Singh on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Li...
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.
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Also check out:
1. Sathya Saran on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Amazon.
2. Ten Years ...
Every simple story about it is wrong: Hinduism contains multitudes. And it went into the directions it did for specific reasons. Manu Pillai joins Amit Varma in episode 405 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe the role of history in the shaping of Hinduism -- and Hindu nationalism.
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Also check out:
1. Manu Pillai on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Amazon and his own website.
2. Go...
Our societies, our norms, our values are all shaped by stories from the past. Devdutt Pattanaik joins Amit Varma in episode 404 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss his life, our society and why we should take mythology seriously.
Note: This is Part 2 of a 12-hour episode, being uploaded in two parts now because Spotify and YouTube don't allow uploads over 12 hours. So do listen to Part 1 first -- and if you are on another podcas...
Our societies, our norms, our values are all shaped by stories from the past. Devdutt Pattanaik joins Amit Varma in episode 404 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss his life, our society and why we should take mythology seriously.
Note: This is Part 1 of a 12-hour episode, being uploaded in two parts now because Spotify and YouTube don't allow uploads over 12 hours. So if you are on another podcast app, just play the full version...
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