The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

Ep 198: Cities and Citizens

Nov 8, 2020

03:07:13

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I Don't Engage With the State About the State of the Road Outside

02:02

The Importance of Local Government Reforms in India

03:27

Are We Just Catching in Our Situations?

03:33

Introduction

3min

Dot I N Slash Support: Scene Unseen

4min

I've Had a Lot of Bad News, but I'm Not Sure if It's Going to Be Good or Bad.

2min

Is There a Pandemic Like This?

4min

What Are You Doing With Your Time?

6min

I've Been Toying With Time Reconstruction

3min

What Is the Difference Between Empathy and Cognitive Impaty?

2min

The Second Brain

5min

What Are Your Thoughts on the Pandemic?

4min

10.

How to Learn Basic Hindi at Age 11 in India?

2min

11.

Were Still Not Comfortable With Conformity?

3min

12.

10 Things That Need to Change

4min

13.

What Are the Effects of Local Government?

4min

14.

Why Aren't You Making Things Better?

3min

15.

What's Your Philosophy About Education?

3min

16.

Indian Colors New Ranges

2min

17.

The Prisoner of Geography

3min

18.

Are We Just Catching in Our Situations?

4min

19.

Is There a Foundation for Participation in Governments?

3min

20.

The State Is a Maibap

5min

21.

The Inertia of the Past

1min

22.

Is There a Directionality?

6min

23.

What's the Big Disaster in India?

1min

24.

Is There a Danger in Citizens Becomeing Political Animals?

5min

25.

Public and Private Problems Are Not So Dissimilar

3min

26.

Urban Planning - The Apathy of the People

2min

27.

Is Tet at Sweet Point?

5min

28.

Then There Was a Doio.

2min

29.

Why Are You Not Supplying Water to My House?

4min

30.

The Pandemic of Power and Accountability in Local Government

6min

31.

The Politics of Municipalization in India

3min

32.

We Have Not Been Comfortable With Small Government

5min

33.

The Constitution of India Provides for a Planning Ar Across Mulps Paltis

4min

34.

The State Is Not Parasite Toward Those Who Engage It

2min

35.

I Don't Engage With the State About the State of the Road Outside

2min

36.

The House of Cards Is Not Built at the Top, It's Built at the Bottom

2min

37.

The Structural Problem of Local Government

2min

38.

The Finance Commissions Are Doing a Bad Job

4min

39.

The 70 Fourth Amendment Is a Seminal Moment

6min

40.

What Is a Good Plan and What Are the Intermediate Steps?

5min

41.

How Much of That Is Because of the Way the System Is Designed?

5min

42.

Can You Come Here?

2min

43.

A Cather Be Cather Problem?

5min

44.

The Hierarchy of Government

5min

45.

The Devil Is in the Details

5min

46.

Is There a Cap in Property Taxation?

3min

47.

The Importance of Local Government Reforms in India

3min

48.

Thetesor's 'One Person, One Vote'

3min

49.

The State Delimitation Is Permissible

4min

50.

What Is the Political Impetus for the Change in the Voting System?

3min

51.

Does Good Governance Require Good Citizens?

3min

52.

The State Is a Construction of the Citizens

2min

53.

Engaging With the State Is Not Enough

3min

54.

The Scene and the Unseen - Episode 3

2min

As our cities are growing, our citizens are growing apathetic. Can we reassert our rights and reform our governance? Ashwin Mahesh joins Amit Varma in episode 198 of The Seen and the Unseen for a wide-ranging conversation on urban governance, citizenship, education and much more. Also check out: 1. Participatory Democracy -- Episode 160 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ashwin Mahesh). 2. Ashwin Mahesh's website. 3. A New, Urban India -- Ashwin Mahesh. 4. The Publicly Managed City -- Ashwin Mahesh. 5. The tweets by Sabyasachi Kar and Naval Ravikant. 6. Tiago Forte's Second Brain, & videos on Roam Research by Thomas Frank & Ali Abdaal. 7. Fixing Indian Education -- Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan). 8. Our Unlucky Children (2008) -- Amit Varma. 9. The Element -- Ken Robinson. 10. Urban Governance in India -- Episode 31 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan). 11. Reforming Urban Governance -- Episode 48 of The Seen and the Unseen (w V Ravichandar). 12. Is India a Flailing State? -- Lant Pritchett. 13. We Are Fighting Two Disasters: Covid-19 and the Indian State -- Amit Varma. 14. Prisoners of Geography -- Tim Marshall. 15. The Importance of Cities -- Episode 108 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Reuben Abraham & Pritika Hingorani.) 16. The Power Broker -- Robert Caro. 17. The Death and Life of Great American Cities -- Jane Jacobs. 18. A Life in Indian Politics -- Episode 149 of The Seen and the Unseen (w JP Narayan). 19. What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been -- Episode 188 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Arvind Subramanian). And do check out Amit’s online courses, The Art of Clear Writing and The Art of Podcasting.

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