The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

Ep 314: The Life and Times of Jerry Pinto

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Jan 30, 2023
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
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The Unseen Is a Revenant With More Than the Usual Freight of Iniquity and Mischance
04:20 • 2min
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My Dada and I Grew Up in Maheem
06:44 • 5min
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Domarize Has a Permanent Grave
11:47 • 2min
5
The Distance Between People Has Changed So Much
13:52 • 3min
6
Then There Was the Jhanaza
17:06 • 5min
7
I Lost My Faith as an Aglas Loses Sand
21:42 • 3min
8
I Think Faith Is Not Simple Anymore Than Atheism Is Not Simple
25:09 • 3min
9
Writing in India Is Just the Most Enormous Gift
27:58 • 2min
10
The Human Need for Religion
29:41 • 4min
11
What Do You Fear?
33:50 • 2min
12
Anxiety and Fear Become a Constant
35:56 • 5min
13
Anxiety and Fear in Traffic
40:55 • 4min
14
I'm a Brahmin and I Am a Hindu and I'll Give You Chicken Any Time
45:20 • 4min
15
I'll Take a Word for It
48:51 • 3min
16
The Real Threat Is Immediacy
51:32 • 5min
17
The Loneliness of the Indian Man
56:28 • 3min
18
Are You Depressed?
59:47 • 3min
19
How Arreal Marriages Are So Bizarre
01:02:30 • 3min
20
Show Down Tell
01:05:57 • 2min
21
I Was a Duffer and I Didn't Know What I Wanted to Be
01:08:01 • 5min
22
Do You Think I Should Take Maths in College?
01:12:32 • 5min
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How Did Your Love of Mathematics Come About?
01:17:11 • 3min
24
The Eighth Standard of Mathematical Processes
01:20:32 • 4min
25
The Greatest Mistake People Make When Playing Poker
01:24:42 • 2min
26
The Art of Clear Writing
01:27:01 • 5min
27
I'm Made of the Stories That I've Read
01:31:51 • 3min
28
The Cigarette Wounded Set Foundation
01:34:41 • 4min
29
The One Thing That Was Missing in All These Places on the Street
01:38:13 • 5min
30
Book Hunger
01:43:00 • 2min
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Do Darshan Once Upon a Time
01:45:04 • 3min
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Is There Something That Is Lost There?
01:48:10 • 2min
33
What Is Common in the Middle Class?
01:50:22 • 5min
34
What I've Learned About Myself I'm a Better Listener
01:55:12 • 5min
35
The Calculator Is Taking Away Some of the Grunt to Work of Our Lives
02:00:16 • 6min
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The Relationship Between Poetry and Reading
02:06:10 • 2min
37
Parfiria's Lover by Robert Browning
02:07:48 • 4min
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The City Island by Nissim Is He Killed Poem to Bombay
02:11:45 • 2min
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Complicit Reading Is the Birth of You as a Writer
02:13:56 • 2min
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How to Read With Deep Attentive Seriousness
02:15:28 • 5min
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How to Avoid Carpal Tunnel Syndrome When You Are Physically Laboring on the Writing
02:20:04 • 5min
42
Writing in English Is Not My First Language
02:24:54 • 4min
43
How Did You Find Your Way in Journaling?
02:28:31 • 1min
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The Art of Journaling
02:29:58 • 6min
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How Did Your Early Writing Become a Writer?
02:35:37 • 2min
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The Poetry of Nissim as a Kill Workshop
02:38:06 • 5min
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I Wanted to Serve Him Back
02:43:07 • 2min
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Pilupo Chikana Valla - The First Time I Heard Nissim Ezekiel Reading Poems
02:45:33 • 3min
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How to Write a Better Poem
02:48:41 • 2min
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Arunathi Subramaniam's Poems Have Levels and Shades
02:51:09 • 6min
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I Love the Red Wheelbarrow
02:56:43 • 2min
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What's Happening With Poetry?
02:58:27 • 3min
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The Mystery of Poems
03:01:54 • 3min
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I'll Offer a Hazard Cav Yards Because an Opinion Is Just Usually an Opinion
03:04:27 • 4min
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You Keep Producing You Keep Putting Stuff Out
03:08:42 • 5min
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The Serious Creators Are Not Just Doing It - You Discover Yourself Faster
03:14:02 • 4min
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You Know the Line Between Production and Overproduction Is Self-Respect
03:17:39 • 3min
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I'm Not a Fetishizer but I'm a Writer
03:20:28 • 2min
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Slash Clear Writing
03:22:12 • 3min
60
What Is Your Journey as a Writer?
03:25:16 • 3min
61
I Don't Have a Lack of Rupes
03:27:47 • 2min
62
Translation - I Could Have Been a Bad Translator
03:30:11 • 4min
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Surviving Women Men by Anil Dharkar
03:34:08 • 4min
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Bomb Day - I'm Coming to Bomb Day and I'll Give Him 15 Minutes
03:37:52 • 5min
65
The Economics of Publishing in India
03:43:10 • 4min
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I'm Happy for You to Buy This Book if You Like It
03:47:29 • 3min
67
Parumita Voora Is Writing
03:50:03 • 4min
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You Know What I've Learned in My Life Is That You Will Go Through Life Thinking of Stuff as Big Deal When I Do This It Will Be a Big Deal
03:53:37 • 3min
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The Frame of Thin Desires
03:56:43 • 5min
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The Thick Desire That Fuels All of Us
04:02:03 • 6min
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The Nature of Memory
04:07:45 • 3min
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Writing Disgusting Bitch
04:10:40 • 4min
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The Main Character Syndrome
04:15:06 • 3min
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Self-Aggrandizment
04:18:29 • 3min
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The Process of Writing Is an Act of Self-Revelation
04:21:35 • 3min
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You Don't Get a Say in Your Pronoun
04:24:53 • 3min
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The Art of Clear Writing - Day Two
04:27:55 • 2min
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A Novel About Pancreatic Cancer
04:29:33 • 3min
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I Love That Chapter Where You Get Angry With Her
04:32:22 • 4min
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Mental Illness and Mental Abuse
04:36:17 • 2min
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You Know You're the Sahab and if You Want It by Diwali He Has to Say Yes
04:37:50 • 5min
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Women in India Are Asked to Eviscerate Their Soul
04:42:41 • 2min
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Mental Illness Is a Disease
04:44:58 • 5min
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Is There a Therapeutic Setting for Mental Health?
04:49:59 • 5min
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School Is One Solution for Mental Illness
04:55:25 • 2min
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How to Deal With Resignation
04:57:50 • 6min
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The Biggest Tragedy in the World
05:03:26 • 3min
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Communication Is Not Easy When You're a Writer
05:06:40 • 5min
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How to Recognize Loneliness
05:11:50 • 5min
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Public Speaking - I've Never Seen a Lebanese Person Rip Out Their Phone
05:17:14 • 2min
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I'm an Introvert and I've Become a Part of a Clear Writing Community
05:19:30 • 5min
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The Magic of the Internet
05:24:16 • 2min
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Is There a Difference Between My Father and My Mother?
05:26:41 • 4min
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I Can't Be Bitter That I Left or I Can Stay
05:30:40 • 2min
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You're Seeing Your Parents Through the Lens of the Refracting Lens of Literature
05:32:56 • 4min
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How to Deal With Grief
05:37:06 • 2min
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I've Done the Book and I'm Not Reading It Right Now
05:38:57 • 3min
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Is There a Relationship Between a Book and a Novel?
05:41:36 • 4min
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Is There a Zone of Comfort in Literature?
05:45:16 • 2min
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I'm Pinto G You Don't Look Like a Pinto
05:47:34 • 2min
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Is There a Word That Says This All This That I'm Feeling?
05:49:20 • 2min
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The Uncertain Principle of Human Emotional Intelligence
05:51:03 • 1min
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The Art of Clear Writing Is an Online Course
05:52:24 • 5min
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Amit and Ranjit Are Truly Amazing
05:57:16 • 5min
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I've Got Reformatry Zeal and I'm Going Beyond the Brief
06:02:32 • 2min
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I'm a Writer and I Want Time to Write and I Will Not Brush My Teeth
06:04:55 • 5min
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Translators and Writing and I'm a Writer and a Translator - I've Got a Thousand Word Rule
06:10:16 • 3min
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Is There a Way to Fight Gainam Nisya?
06:12:54 • 3min
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Women's Literature - Life of the Women
06:15:29 • 4min
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Teaching Is a Heavy Investment
06:19:04 • 3min
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How Did the Bankruptcy Act Start?
06:22:04 • 2min
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I Don't Call Him in TOI
06:24:32 • 4min
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How Do You Get Your Values When You're a Journalist?
06:28:47 • 4min
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I'm a Journalist and I'll Stop Doing This to Me
06:32:58 • 4min
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The Values of Journalism in India
06:36:43 • 5min
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The Induction Process of a Journalist
06:41:28 • 3min
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The PR Agency Is a Resource for the PR Company
06:44:11 • 3min
118
How to Deal With a Rape
06:46:47 • 5min
119
Do Journalists Really Know What They're Doing?
06:51:39 • 4min
120
Is There an Editorial Lacunet?
06:55:11 • 2min
121
MA English Literature - Is There a System for It?
06:57:24 • 3min
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Learning Is Elsewhere Central to the Indian Education System
07:00:52 • 3min
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We Don't Need a Publishing Course
07:04:02 • 6min
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The Importance of Exclamation Marks and Question Marks to Your Writing Journey
07:09:53 • 4min
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Writing a Poem
07:14:04 • 2min
126
Poetry and Criticism and Self-Confidence
07:15:48 • 2min
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Writing for Children - How Did the Craft Evolve
07:17:42 • 2min
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I Don't Want to Write for Children
07:19:40 • 3min
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Feminin's Poems
07:23:09 • 3min
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The Rings of Murder in Mahim
07:26:12 • 5min
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Translating Mandu
07:30:59 • 2min
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Mandu by Uh K Jameson
07:33:21 • 3min
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The Man Writing in Free Fall by Narupama
07:36:19 • 4min
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Mandu and the Short Stories
07:39:55 • 3min
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After My Death Do What You Want All My Diaries
07:42:48 • 2min
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The Impatience for Validation
07:45:03 • 2min
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The Joy of Art Is in the Process of Writing
07:46:58 • 3min
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What Is Alpha Zero?
07:49:38 • 3min
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GPT 4 Is a Large Learning Model
07:52:21 • 2min
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I'll Still Get Joy From You Know What I've Done and What I Don't Want to Do Now
07:54:12 • 5min
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The Mahabharat Is Not Just a Mahabharata
07:59:31 • 5min