Podcast Episodes

Ep 426: The Life and Music of Shubha Mudgal

She's straddled the worlds of Hindustani classical and popular music, and is a legend in both spaces. Shubha Mudgal joins Amit Varma in episode 426 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss her life, her…

Published on 21 hours ago

Ep 425: The Life and Times of Gurcharan Das

Season 1 Episode 425

He reached the top of the corporate world -- and then gave it up to become a writer, with books that probed our deepest questions, and influenced millions of people. Gurcharan Das joins Amit Varma in…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Ep 424: Gitanjali Babbar and the Didis of GB Road

Season 1 Episode 424

Trained as a journalist, but driven by a desire to make a difference, she spent over a decade working with sex workers in Delhi to understand and improve their lives. Gitanjali Babbar joins Amit Varm…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Ep 423: Minar Pimple's Life in Social Work

He founded the iconic organisation Yuva 50 years ago when he was in his early 20s, pioneered social work in India, and went on to drive change for the UN and Amnesty. Minar Pimple joins Amit Varma in…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Ep 422: The Past and Present of Cricket

Season 1 Episode 422

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 Un…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Ep 421: Ira Mukhoty's Quest for Unseen Histories

Season 1 Episode 421

Too much of our history is looked at through either a colonial lens or a patriarchal one. Ira Mukhoty joins Amit Varma in episode 421 of The Seen and the Unseen to share her gaze on India's history, …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Ep 420: Siddhartha Basu Is in the Hot Seat

Season 1 Episode 420

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 a…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Ep 419: India's MSME Landscape -- Some Useful Frameworks

Season 1 Episode 419

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 ep…

Published on 3 months ago

Ep 418: What Just Happened Between India & Pakistan?

Season 1 Episode 418

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…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Ep 417: Caste and the Census

Season 1 Episode 417

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 …

Published on 4 months ago