The 4 Best The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma Podcast Episodes
1) Ep 186: What Have We Done With Our Independence?
As India completes 73 years, it's worth taking stock of our journey so far. Pratap Bhanu Mehta joins Amit Varma in episode 186 of The Seen and the Unseen, an Independence Day Special that takes a disc...Show More
2) Ep 185: Fixing Indian Education
It is a humanitarian and moral failure that 73 years after Independence, our education system remains broken. We have failed our children through all this time. Karthik Muralidharan joins Amit Varma i...Show More
3) Ep 244: The Multitudes of Our Maharajahs
India's Maharajahs get a bad rap. Both the British empire and our freedom fighters pushed wrong stereotypes about them. Manu Pillai joins Amit Varma in episode 244 of The Seen and the Unseen to chat a...Show More
4) Ep 242: India's Security State
We are subjects, not citizens -- and India's state is designed to keep us that way. Josy Joseph joins Amit Varma in episode 242 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss the astonishing ways in which Indi...Show More
5) Ep 434: An Ode to Meanderness
Enough serious talk about economics and geopolitics. As the year draws to an end, it's time to sit and chill with friends -- and let the mind meander. Shruti Rajagopalan and Pranay Kotasthane join Ami...Show More
6) Ep 433: The Life and Times of the Takshashila Institution
India's policy ecosystem was once a desolate landscape, stuck in bad ideas of the past. One institution shook it all up. Nitin Pai and Pranay Kotasthane join Amit Varma in episode 433 of The Seen and ...Show More
7) Ep 432: Vasant Dhar's Lifetime in Artificial Intelligence
He's been working in AI since the late 1970s, and started a pioneering machine learning hedge fund in the 1990s. Now he's a professor, a podcaster, a Substacker, a yoda -- and has just written a crack...Show More
8) Ep 431: Ghazala Wahab and the Hindi Heartland
Our Hindi Heartland has more people than the USA and Western Europe combined -- and is arguably more diverse. Ghazala Wahab joins Amit Varma in episode 431 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe her r...Show More
9) Ep 430: Aneesh Pradhan: A Life in Hindustani Music
When it comes to Hindustani music, he is both a doer and a thinker. A great tabla player, he has written books about the history and theory of music. Aneesh Pradhan joins Amit Varma in episode 430 of ...Show More
10) Ep 429: Rudraneil Sengupta is Embedded
He wrote the definitive history of Indian wrestling. His longform reportage has taken him into strange territories. He embedded himself with the Delhi police and has now come out with his first crime ...Show More