In this episode, Tarun and Ashish discuss their experiences and ideas on happiness. Is it something that is experienced individually or as a collective? How does loneliness affect people's happiness? And there's also a little poem by Rumi.

Tarun and Ashish play with some ideas of happiness using parts of an episode from Simon Sinek’s podcast A Bit of Optimism. Sinek and his guest, Mo Gawdat, talk about what they have learnt about happiness through their experiences. Join in as they discuss whether or not there are hacks to happiness.

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In this episode, Tarun and Ashish are in conversation with the wonderful Angie Kim. Angie is the author of the book Happiness Falls that we have been talking about, and another called Miracle Creek, too, among other things. She spends time talking in this episode about her work, life, and ideas on happiness.

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Tarun and Ashish introduce the theme of the second season. The focus is on a book by Angie Kim called Happiness Falls, and about the idea of happiness itself.

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Tarun and Ashish finally get down to explaining what the name of this podcast is all about, and they discuss more about Tarun's journey with autism and the people around him. In this episode, they also reflect upon the biases and misconceptions that often drive the assumptions we make.

Tarun and Ashish are in conversation with Hari Srinivasan. Hari is a brilliant researcher and poet, and many other things all rolled into one. The conversation focuses on Hari’s ideas on false binaries as well as his advocacy and interest in poetry.

Poetry and autism are often friends. They understand each other even when some think they are mysterious. Today, Tarun and Ashish are going to read and discuss poetry written by autistic people.

In this episode Ashish and Tarun converse about non-speaking autism - what it is and about life as a non-speaking autistic.