The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Jun 05, 2023

The Life and Times of Uma Chakravarti

She's been a historian and a filmmaker. She's worked on feminism and caste and Buddhism. She's collected oral histories of India's traumas. She's mentored generations. The legendary Uma Chakravarti joins Amit V...

346 mins

May 29, 2023

Gurwinder Bhogal Examines Human Nature

It is not the world that is the problem but the flawed ways in which we think about it. Gurwinder Bhogal joins Amit Varma in episode 331 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about his interest in meta-cognition -...

128 mins

May 22, 2023

Eric Weinstein Won't Toe the Line

He's a freethinker who's never been scared to rattle orthodoxies. Eric Weinstein joins Amit Varma in episode 330 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about how he became the man he is. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTE...

173 mins

May 08, 2023

Kiran Ahluwalia Finds Our Aam Zameen

Her career spans decades and genres, and she's brought together worlds that seldom meet. Kiran Ahluwalia joins Amit Varma in episode 328 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss her life, her music and the ethic t...

283 mins

May 01, 2023

The Many Shades of George Fernandes

George Fernandes was an activist, politician, minister, thinker -- and was as complicated as the times he lived in. Rahul Ramagundam joins Amit Varma in episode 327 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss his bio...

272 mins

Apr 24, 2023

Pushpesh Pant Feasts on the Buffet of Life

He taught international relations for a living, and he lived Indian culture -- food, clothes, music, films, languages, the whole package. Pushpesh Pant joins Amit Varma in episode 326 of The Seen and the Unseen...

324 mins

Apr 17, 2023

Shaili Chopra and the Sisterhood

Women in India are much more than either bechari, badass or bitch -- and they won't be defined any more by the male gaze. Shaili Chopra joins Amit Varma in episode 325 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss her...

262 mins

Apr 10, 2023

Akshaya Mukul and the Life of Agyeya

Agyeya was a writer, a rebel, a soldier, a lover-- and a man who shaped modern Hindi literature. Akshaya Mukul joins Amit Varma in episode 324 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about the life of this remarkabl...

255 mins

Apr 03, 2023

SVB, Banking and the State of the Economy

What happened at SVB? Is our banking system in crisis? What are we to make of our economy? Ajay Shah and Mohit Satynanand join Amit Varma in episode 323 of The Seen and the Unseen to tackle these complicated qu...

196 mins

Mar 27, 2023

The Life and Times of Mita Kapur

She's been an author, an entrepreneur, a literary agent, an organiser of events and a mother -- but her finest achievement is perhaps her making of herself. Mita Kapur joins Amit Varma in episode 322 of The See...

256 mins