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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.

A weekly show hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah, in which the hosts bring frames from across disciplines to examine our world.

Economic policy sounds boring – but it affects all our lives. In episode 4 of The Book Club, Amit Varma raves about 'In Service of the Republic', a masterful book by Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah that distills decades of experience of shaping public policy. In their book, Kelkar and Shah write...

Indian society is toxic, sexist, misogynist -- and it has always been this way. In episode 9 of The Book Club, Amit Varma raves about 'Yuganta', Irawati Karve's masterpiece about the sociology of the Mahabharata...

In episode 13 of The Book Club, Amit Varma talks about Vivek Shanbhag's masterpiece Ghachar Ghochar, a moving portrait of the innards of an Indian family.

Check out the most interesting Turning points in Indian Cricket with Amit Varma and Prem Panicker and their insights on those events...

Check out the most interesting Turning points in Indian Cricket with Amit Varma and Prem Panicker and their insights on those events...

Check out the most interesting Turning points in Indian Cricket with Amit Varma and Prem Panicker and their insights on those events...

Check out the most interesting Turning points in Indian Cricket with Amit Varma and Prem Panicker and their insights on those events...

Check out the most interesting Turning points in Indian Cricket with Amit Varma and Prem Panicker and their insights on those events...

Check out the most interesting Turning points in Indian Cricket with Amit Varma and Prem Panicker and their insights on those events...

Check out the most interesting Turning points in Indian Cricket with Amit Varma and Prem Panicker and their insights on those events...

Check out the most interesting Turning points in Indian Cricket with Amit Varma and Prem Panicker and their insights on those events...

Check out the most interesting Turning points in Indian Cricket with Amit Varma and Prem Panicker and their insights on those events...

Check out the most interesting Turning points in Indian Cricket with Amit Varma and Prem Panicker and their insights on those events...

Hosted by Amar Varma and Amit Jethani, Mantle Mondays brings you authentic conversations with builders, founders, and funders every other Monday.

What does Shaheen Bagh have in common with Tahrir Square in Egypt and Gezi Park in Istanbul? A lot! In episode 12 of The Book Club, Amit Varma discusses 'Twitter and Tear Gas' by Zeynep Tufekci, which looks at the similarity in citizen protests across the world over the last decade.

The GDP is today more a political tool than a statistical one. In episode 11 of The Book Club, Amit Varma recommends 'GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History" by Diane Coyle, a perfect primer on the origin and drawbacks of this controversial measure.

India may seem sexually repressed and prudish–but in the past, we just been just the opposite. In episode 10 of The Book Club, Amit Varma discusses 'Infinite Variety', Madhavi Menon's eye-opening history of desire in India.

Never throw good money after bad. And don't be imprisoned to the past. Amit Varma and Vivek Kaul begin with a story from Vietnam and end with a musing on bad relationships, explaining the factor common to both: THE SUNK COST FALLACY. Every single day, we encounter this fallacy in our lives...