The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

Ep 259: The Loneliness of the Indian Woman

Jan 10, 2022

03:57:37

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Shrayana Bhattacharya

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Love Will Be Transactional Depending on Your Material Security

01:29

I Think There Needs to Be a Big Shift in the Way We Think About Data and Economics

05:53

The Intimate and Incremental Process

02:10

Introduction

3min

Build Your Reading Habit

2min

I Love the Book, but Don't Go by the Title.

2min

My Childhood in India - Chandigar

6min

I Love Sharoks Films

1min

The Interviews With D D Lj

3min

I Man Da Never Be Made Again

2min

Are You Also Watching Yourself?

5min

Women's Heartbreak and Intimacy - A Book Review

2min

10.

Writing and Reading Is the Place Where I've Escaped That Performance Art

2min

11.

The Quest for Yourself, by Anne Delly

3min

12.

Book Review: Odd Woman in the City by Vivian Gornick

4min

13.

The Art of Love

4min

14.

Why Did You Choose Economics Per Se?

2min

15.

Economists, I'm a Part of the Community

3min

16.

I Think the Real World Isn't Interesting to You, Right?

3min

17.

The Economy Is a Feeling Being

2min

18.

The Female Gaze Towards the Economy

5min

19.

The Economy Is a Subset of Society

2min

20.

Are Gate Keepers Become Irrelevant?

5min

21.

The Cost of Access to Information and Data

1min

22.

I Think There Needs to Be a Big Shift in the Way We Think About Data and Economics

6min

23.

Then I'll Double Down a Couple of the Things You've Said, Ammat

6min

24.

Is There a Space for Heretics to Do What They Do?

4min

25.

Ther Spittaseking Salman

5min

26.

What I Learned From Shark Test

4min

27.

Book Review - Diltopagal Har

3min

28.

The Economy of Intimacy

5min

29.

I Thin Aro Might Actually Be One of the Last

2min

30.

Indian Cinema - A Different Beast Than Cinnama Anywhere

4min

31.

I'm Supposed to Make Love to the Women I Work With

2min

32.

The Prime Nise Modi and the Swajpartga Campaign

3min

33.

Is My Domestic Worker Counted?

3min

34.

Women's Work Is Flexible

3min

35.

Are You Working?

6min

36.

The Five Buckets of Theories

5min

37.

Women in Rural India - What's the Problem?

3min

38.

Women's Rights in India - The Importance of Marriage

3min

39.

What Are These Hidden Taxes?

5min

40.

Hidden Taxes and the Upper Crust

5min

41.

Love in Hindi Films

5min

42.

We Love People for What Their Body Signals About Us

2min

43.

I Love You Based on X, Y, Z

3min

44.

Is Love Always Transactional?

5min

45.

Love Will Be Transactional Depending on Your Material Security

1min

46.

Is Your Life Heteronometive?

3min

47.

I Would Not Want to Be Cut Up

3min

48.

Men in Movies Are Probably as Aesthetically AsObjects as Women

4min

49.

Is There a Class Difference Between Men and Women?

3min

50.

Is There a Gain of Material Security in Working Class Communities?

4min

51.

Adultod

5min

52.

You Know, You Can Be an Adult and Still Have That Delish Within You

4min

53.

Women's Rights in Public Space

5min

54.

Is the South Immutable to Change?

4min

55.

Can the Market Really Play a Part in Changing Social Norms?

3min

56.

The Intimate and Incremental Process

2min

57.

Social Change Is Happening in Places We Are Not Studying

4min

58.

Is Your Book Worth Studying?

5min

59.

The Experience of the Research

4min

60.

The Role of Language in Women's Rights

5min

61.

The Language of the Women

2min

62.

Is Marriage the Path to Adventure and Travel

1min

63.

Films Reflect Society, Is There a Chance That Someone Is Looking for a Role Model?

5min

64.

Love Let to Sex

4min

65.

I Love Good by Iris Murdock

6min

66.

You've Been So Viral to So Many People

2min

67.

What Advice Would You Have for Young Women in India?

6min

Indian women are lonely in the bedroom, lonely in the kitchen, lonely in the workplace. Shrayana Bhattacharya joins Amit Varma in episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss the interior and exterior lives of these unseen millions. Also check out 1. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence -- Shrayana Bhattacharya. 2. Select Shah Rukh Khan films: Baazigar, DDLJ, Dil Tho Pagal Hai, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Dilwale, Mohabbatein. 3. Shar Rukh Khan interviews selected by Shrayana: 1, 2, 3, 4. 4. The Power to Choose -- Naila Kabeer. 5. Naila Kabeer on Amazon. 6. Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth -- Marilyn Waring. 7. The Odd Woman and the City -- Vivian Gornick. 8. Vivian Gornick on Amazon. 9. Future Sex -- Emily Witt. 10. Kamala Das's autobiography, poems and stories. 11. Deborah Levy and Bell Hooks on Amazon. 12. Poor Economics -- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo. 13. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty -- Albert O Hirschman. 14. The Art of Loving -- Erich Fromm. 15. The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford. 16. Selected Satire: Fifty Years of Ignorance -- Shrilal Shukla. 17. Most of Amit Varma’s writing on DeMon, collected in one Twitter thread. 18. Dani Rodrik's tweet thread about the 'jerk quotient' in economics. 19. The Hidden Taxes on Women -- Sendhil Mullainathan. 20. "Academia is a giant circlejerk" -- Amit Varma's tweet. 21. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ajay Shah (in reverse chronological order): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 22. The Universe of Chuck Gopal -- Episode 258 of The Seen and the Unseen. 23. Miss Excel on Instagram and TikTok. 24. Bahujan Economics. 25. Raghuram Rajan at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2018. (Minute 5 onwards.) 26. In Service of the Republic -- Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah. 27. Superforecasting -- Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner. 28. Listen, The Internet Has SPACE -- Amit Varma. 29. Raees: An Empty Shell of a Gangster Film -- Amit Varma. 30. The Baptist, the Bootlegger and the Dead Man Walking -- Amit Varma. 31. Bootleggers and Baptists-The Education of a Regulatory Economist -- Bruce Yandle. 32. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Jai Arjun Singh and Uday Bhatia. 33. The Life and Times of Abhinandan Sekhri -- Episode 254 of The Seen and the Unseen. 34. Films, Feminism, Paromita -- Episode 155 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Paromita Vohra). 35. Modi’s Lost Opportunity -- Episode 119 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Salman Soz). 36. Women at Work -- Episode 132 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Namita Bhandare). 37. What explains the decline in female labour force participation in India? -- Urmila Chatterjee, Rinku Murgai and Martin Rama. 38. Why Are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in India? -- Farzana Afridi, Taryn Dinkelman and Kanika Mahajan. 39. India Moving — Chinmay Tumbe. 40. India = Migration -- Episode 128 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Chinmay Tumbe). 41. House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths. 42. The Right to Sex -- Amia Srinivasan. 43. 'Let Me Interrupt Your Expertise With My Confidence' -- New Yorker cartoon by Jason Adam Katzenstein. 44. The Confidence Gap -- Katty Kay and Claire Shipman. 45. The Ugliness of the Indian Male -- Mukul Kesavan. 46. The Blank Noise Project by Jasmeen Patheja. 47. Why Loiter? -- Shilpa Phadke. 48. The Jackson Katz quote on passive sentence constructions. 49. The Kavita Krishnan Files -- Episode 228 of The Seen and the Unseen. 50. Metrics of Empowerment — Episode 88 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Devika Kher, Nidhi Gupta and Hamsini Hariharan). 51. Jane Austen and Pico Iyer on Amazon. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Check out Amit’s online courses, The Art of Clear Writing and The Art of Podcasting. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It’s free!

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