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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.All Rights Reserved 政治・政府 政治学 社会科学
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  • Ep 451: Manish Sabharwal is a Good Ancestor

    Ep 451: Manish Sabharwal is a Good Ancestor
    2026/08/24
    There should be more to our lives than just doing well for ourselves. Manish Sabharwal joins Amit Varma in episode 451 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe his journey from being a successful entrepreneur to trying to change India. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Manish Sabharwal at LinkedIn and Indian Express. 2. TeamLease. 3. Kashmir Under 370: A Personal History -- Mahendra Sabharwal with Manish Sabharwal. 4. Made in India: The Story of Desh Bandhu Gupta, Lupin and Indian Pharma -- Manish Sabharwal and Sundeep Khanna. 5. A Masterclass on Regulation (and Deregulation) -- Episode 442 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan). 6. The Heckman Equation — a website based on James Heckman’s work. 7. The Agony And The Ecstasy -- Irving Stone. 8. Lust For Life -- Irving Stone. 9. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty -- Albert O Hirschman. 10. The Passions and the Interests -- Albert O Hirschman. 11. Jailed for Doing Business: The 26,134 Imprisonment Clauses in India’s Business Laws. 12. The Vishnu Sahasranama. 13. The Great Transformation -- Karl Polanyi. 14. Wealth and Power -- Orville Schell and John Delury. 15. Caged Tiger: How Too Much Government Is Holding Indians Back — Subhashish Bhadra. 16. Subhashish Bhadra on Our Dysfunctional State — Episode 333 of The Seen and the Unseen. 17. Lake Wobegon Days -- Garrison Keillor. 18. In Defence of Politics -- Bernard Crick. 19. The Overton Window. 20. India’s Problem is Poverty, Not Inequality — Amit Varma. 21. Where Has All the Education Gone? — Lant Pritchett. 22. India After Gandhi -- Ramachandra Guha. 23. Strategy -- Lawrence Freedman. 24. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China -- Ezra Vogel. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Amit Varma, Shruti Rajagopalan and Pranay Kotasthane have just started a new YouTube Show called Watching the Wheels. You must watch it. You must! You simply must!! It's mast!!! Amit Varma runs a 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. And have you read Amit’s newsletter? It's madly active right now! 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: ‘Ancestor’ by Simahina.
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    3 時間 47 分
  • Ep 450: Small Doors Into the Large Rooms of India

    Ep 450: Small Doors Into the Large Rooms of India
    2026/08/10
    On Independence Day week, why not look back at some highlights and lowlights of the last 79 years? Pranay Kotasthane and Raghu S Jaitley join Amit Varma in episode 450 of The Seen and the Unseen, and each of them presents his list. You will find hope and despair, celebration and lament, multitudes. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Pranay Kotasthane on Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon and the Takshashila Institution. 2. Anticipating the Unintended — Pranay Kotasthane and Raghu S Jaitley’s newsletter. 3. Puliyabaazi — Pranay Kotasthane’s podcast (with Saurabh Chandra & Khyati Pathak). 4. The Long Road From Neeyat to Neeti — Episode 313 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane & Raghu S Jaitley). 5. Caste and the Census -- Episode 417 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane & Raghu S Jaitley). 6. Pranay Kotasthane Talks Public Policy — Episode 233 of The Seen and the Unseen. 7. Raghu Sanjaylal Jaitley’s Father’s Scooter — Episode 214 of The Seen and the Unseen. 8. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen w Pranay Kotasthane: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. 9. Clerk -- Manoj Kumar. 10. Mile Sur Mera Tumhara. 11. AiyyoShraddha on Mile Sur Mera Tumhara. 12. A Life in Indian Politics — Episode 149 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Jayaprakash Narayan). 13. Ek Chidiya, Anek Chidiya. 14. The Sporting Spirit -- George Orwell. 15. War Minus The Shooting -- Mike Marqusee. 16. India vs Pakistan, Final at Sharjah, Apr 18 1986. 17. The Soccer War -- Ryszard Kapuscinski. 18. History of European Morals — WEH Lecky. 19. Omkara -- Vishal Bhardwaj. 20. Gol Maal -- Hrishikesh Mukherjee. 21. The Shirur Mutt case. 22. Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity — Manu Pillai. 23. Planning Democracy — Nikhil Menon. 24. The History of the Planning Commission — Episode 306 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nikhil Menon). 25. Abby Philips Fights for Science and Medicine — Episode 310 of The Seen and the Unseen. 26. Aankhen To Kholo Swami. 27. Caged Tiger: How Too Much Government Is Holding Indians Back — Subhashish Bhadra. 28. Subhashish Bhadra on Our Dysfunctional State — Episode 333 of The Seen and the Unseen. 29. India’s Greatest Civil Servant — Episode 167 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Narayani Basu). 30. The Reformers -- Episode 28 of Everything is Everything. 31. Scam 1992 -- Hansal Mehta. 32. Backrooms -- Kane Parsons. 33. Pather Panchali — Satyajit Ray. 34. Court — Chaitanya Tamhane. 35. Scenes From a Situationship -- Vaibhav Munjal. 36. Amit Varma's post on the film. 37. 1000 True Fans — Kevin Kelly. 38. The River -- Jean Renoir. 39. Apur Sansar -- Satyajit Ray. 40. Days & Night In The Forest — Sunil Gangopadhyay. 41. Aranyer Din Ratri — Satyajit Ray. 42. Synecdoche, New York -- Charlie Kaufman. 43. A Sixth Of Humanity -- Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian. 44. Assembling India’s Constitution -- Rohit De and Ornit Shani. 45. Kesavananda Bharati v State of Kerala. 46. Shruti Rajagopalan’s YouTube talk on constitutional amendments. 47. Emergency Chronicles — Gyan Prakash. 48. Gyan Prakash on the Emergency — Episode 103 of The Seen and the Unseen. 49. Sixteen Stormy Days — Tripurdaman Singh. 50. The First Assault on Our Constitution — Episode 194 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh). 51. Nehru: The Debates that Defined India — Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain. 52. Nehru’s Debates — Episode 262 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain). 53. The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom — David Boaz. 54. Saat Hindustani -- KA Abbas. 55. Dr Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani -- V Shantaram. 56. Awaara and Shree 420. 57. Bambai Raat Ki Bahon Mein -- KA Abbas. 58. Faslah -- KA Abbas. 59. The 42nd Amendment. 60. What These Labels Mean — Episode 107 of Everything is Everything. 61. Our Population Is Our Greatest Asset -- Episode 20 of Everything is Everything. 62. Shruti Rajagopalan Dives Into Delimitation — Episode 336 of The Seen and the Unseen. 63. The Right to Property — Episode 26 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan). 64. The Tamilian Gentleman Who Took on the World — Amit Varma. 65. The Life and Times of Chess -- Episode 52 of Everything is Everything. 66. Life Lessons From Chess in 2024 -- Episode 81 of Everything is Everything. 67. The Anti-Defection Law — Episode 13 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Barun Mitra). 68. Our Parliament and Our Democracy — Episode 253 of The Seen and the Unseen (w MR Madhavan). 69. Speech to the Electors of Bristol -- Edmund Burke. 70. The Baptist, the Bootlegger and the Dead Man Walking -- Amit Varma on Lal Bihari Mritak. 71. The Trial -- Franz Kafka. 72. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty — Albert O Hirschman. 73. Genocide -- ...
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    4 時間 57 分
  • Ep 449: Five Assassinations and an Arms Deal

    Ep 449: Five Assassinations and an Arms Deal
    2026/07/27
    The 1980s were box office, and General K Sundarji was Forrest Gump, everywhere all at once. Probal DasGupta joins Amit Varma in episode 449 to tell the story of a fascinating man and the turbulent times he lived in. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Probal DasGupta on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Amazon. 2. General Brasstacks: The Sundarji Story -- Probal Dasgupta. 3. Watershed 1967: India’s Forgotten Victory Over China — Probal DasGupta. 4. Camouflaged: Forgotten Stories from Battlefields — Probal DasGupta. 5. Of Some Consequence: A Soldier Remembers -- K Sundarji. 6. Blind Men of Hindoostan -- K Sundarji. 7. Probal DasGupta Goes to the Himalayas With Books in His Bag -- Episode 412 of The Seen and the Unseen. 8. Shooting Straight: A Military Biography of Lt Gen. Rostum K Nanavatty -- Arjun Subramaniam. 9. Fair & Square interview of SK Sinha about Operation Bluestar. 10. The Light Has Gone Out -- Jawaharlal Nehru's speech after Mahatma Gandhi died. 11. The Geopolitics of the Bangladesh War — Episode 113 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Srinath Raghavan). 12. 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh — Srinath Raghavan. 13. Testaments Betrayed — Milan Kundera. 14. Pratap: A Defiant Newspaper -- Chander Mohan and Jyotsna Mohan. 15. Boforsgate: A Journalist's Pursuit of Truth -- Chitra Subramaniam. 16. Assignment Colombo -- JN Dixit. 17. 100 Years of Solitude -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (translated by Gregory Rabassa). 18. Nuremberg -- James Vanderbilt. 19. Spotlight -- Tom McCarthy. 20. Munich – The Edge of War -- Christian Schwochow. 21. The Plot Against America -- Philip Roth. 22. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny -- Kiran Desai. 23. The Indian Empire At War -- George Morton-Jack. 24. A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole. 25. Until August -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 26. Portnoy's Complaint -- Philip Roth. Amit Varma, Shruti Rajagopalan and Pranay Kotasthane have just started a new YouTube Show called Watching the Wheels. You must watch it. You must! You simply must!! It's mast!!! Amit Varma runs a 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. And have you read Amit’s newsletter? It's madly active right now! 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: ‘Five Assassinations and an Arms Deal’ by Simahina.
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    5 時間 42 分
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