The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

Over the last few decades, India has changed, cricket has changed, our media has changed -- and one man has seen it all. Ayaz Memon joins Amit Varma in episode 246 of The Seen and the Unseen to reflect on some of what he has seen and learnt. Also check out: 1. Indian Innings: The Journey of Indian Cricket from 1947 -- Edited by Ayaz Memon. 2. Cricket-related episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Harsha Bhogle, Sharda Ugra, Ramachandra Guha, Prem Panicker and Gideon Haigh+Prem Panicker. 3. The Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. 4. The Wisden Book of Test Cricket (1877-1977) -- Compiled & edited by Bill Frindall. 5. The Test where India beat Australia at Brabourne Stadium, 1964. 6. Sachin Tendulkar's first Test, Sunil Gavaskar's last Test, Kapil Dev's 175 and the 1983 World Cup final. 7. Opportunity, Choice and the IPL (2008) -- Amit Varma. 8. What cricket can learn from poker -- Amit Varma. 9. The Tamasha All Purists Should Love -- Amit Varma. 10. Beyond a Boundary -- CLR James. 11. Neville Cardus and Jack Fingleton on Amazon. 12. The Picador Book of Cricket -- Edited by Ramachandra Guha. 13. Hardcore History -- Dan Carlin. 14. How Social Media Threatens Society -- Episode 8 of Brave New World. 15. Kicking Schoolbags (2006) -- Amit Varma. 16. The Jubilee Test, 1980. 17. My Cricketing Years -- Ajit Wadekar. 18. Sunny Days -- Sunil Gavaskar. 19. The Life and Times of Vir Sanghvi -- Episode 236 of The Seen and the Unseen. 20. Deep Work -- Cal Newport. 21. Unlikely is Inevitable -- Amit Varma. 22. The abandoned ODI at Sialkot, October 31, 1984. 23. Mankad's Test, India's first Test win, Gavaskar's 29th, Gavaskar's 30th. 24. R Ashwin's YouTube channel. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader, FutureStack and The Social Capital Compound. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Please subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It’s free! And check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing.

When we pick up medicine from our nearby chemist, we assume that we are getting what we pay for. That trust may be misplaced. Dinesh Thakur joins Amit Varma in episode 245 of The Seen and the Unseen to share the story of the Ranbaxy fraud, and the shoddy state of Indian pharma today. Also check out: 1. Dinesh Thakur's foundation, blog and Twitter. 2. Bottle of Lies : Ranbaxy and the Dark Side of Indian Pharma -- Katherine Eban. 3. The Impact of Regulatory Structure on Quality of Medicines in India -- Talk by Dinesh Thakur. 4. Dinesh Thakur interviewed by News Laundry, Lallantop and The Accad and Koka Report. 5. The Indian pharmaceutical industry is in denial over drug-quality charges -- Dinesh Thakur. 6. Pharma industry’s playbook on low-quality drugs -- Dinesh Thakur and Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu. 7. India’s drug regulator has failed the pandemic stress test -- Dinesh Thakur. 8. In generic drug plants in China and India, data falsification is still a problem -- Katherine Eban and Sony Salzman. 9. Healing the Pharmacy of the World -- KL Sharma. 10. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism -- Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul). 11. Science and Covid-19 -- Episode 221 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Anirban Mahapatra). 12. Slow Ideas -- Atul Gawande. 13. Understanding Indian Healthcare -- Episode 225 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan). 14. The Economics and Politics of Vaccines -- Episode 223 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah). 15. We Must Save Our Farmers -- Amit Varma. 16. ‘Killer cough syrup’ maker failed quality tests several times -- Times of India report on the Jammu deaths. 17. Why lethal cough syrup slipped past the law -- Prabha Raghavan and Arun Sharma. 18. COVID-19: Hundreds Of Clinical Trials Under Way In India, Many Lack Rigour, Say Experts -- Anoo Bhuyan. 19. Clinical trial database hole -- GS Mudur. 20. CDSCO faces CIC ire over ‘misplaced’ 2013 report on ‘irregular’ approval to drugs -- Prabha Raghavan. 21. A Report on Drug Regulator CDSCO’s ‘Irregular’ Approvals Has Gone ‘Missing’ -- The Wire staff. 22. New CDSCO Disclosure Reveals Quality of Medicines Sold in India -- Samir Malhotra. 23. On US blacklist, in India they are in the grey zone -- Ritu Sarin, Kaunain Sheriff M and Jaz Mazoomdar. 24. Poor quality drugs caused Niloufer maternal deaths: Doctors' panel -- Syed Akbar. 25. 2014 Bilaspur tubectomy deaths: Absconding pharma firm director held -- PTI news report. 26. Clinical Trials in India Need Better Regulations -- Shah Alam Khan. 27. Mozambique raises quality concerns on Indian drug exports -- Deepak Patel. 28. Drug regulation: 27 medicines sold by top firms ‘fail’ quality tests in seven states -- Deepak Patel. 29. 39 Indian drug companies blacklisted by Vietnam -- Pranshu Rathi. 30. Drugs with carcinogenic toxins: banned elsewhere, sold in India -- Priyanka Pulla. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader, FutureStack and The Social Capital Compound. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Please subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It’s free! And check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing.

India's Maharajahs get a bad rap. Both the British empire and our freedom fighters pushed wrong stereotypes about them. Manu Pillai joins Amit Varma in episode 244 of The Seen and the Unseen to chat about the multitudes of our maharajahs -- and much else that matters. Also check out: 1. Manu Pillai's Website, Twitter and Instagram. 2. False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma -- Manu Pillai. 3. Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore -- Manu Pillai. 4. Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji -- Manu Pillai. 5. The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin -- Manu Pillai. 6. Kerala and the Ivory Throne -- Episode 156 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manu Pillai). 7. Our Colorful Past -- Episode 127 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manu Pillai). 8. The Deccan Before Shivaji -- Episode 98 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manu Pillai). 9. Sudhir Sarnobat's epic tweet summing up the first 200 episodes of The Seen and the Unseen. 10. The Hunter Becomes the Hunted -- Episode 200 of The Seen and the Unseen. 11. A Matter of Rats -- Amitava Kumar. 12. Piercing -- Ryu Murakami. 13. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil -- Hannah Arendt. 14. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome -- Mary Beard. 15. The Mapilla Rebellion of Malabar -- Manu Pillai. 16. The many shades of the Mappila insurrection -- Manu Pillai. 17. Malevolent Republic — Kapil Komireddi. 18. Who Broke Our Republic? -- Episode 163 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Kapil Komireddi). 19. Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation -- The Pew Center Research survey of religion in India. (Also: 1, 2.) 20. A Meditation on Form -- Amit Varma. 21. Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism — Dinyar Patel. 22. Dadabhai Naoroji and the Fight for India -- Episode 187 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Dinyar Patel). 23. Understanding India Through Its Languages -- Peggy Mohan. 24. Young India -- Episode 83 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Snigdha Poonam). 25. Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire -- Priya Atwal. 26. VP Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India — Narayani Basu. 27. India’s Greatest Civil Servant -- Episode 167 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Narayani Basu). 28. India’s Security State -- Episode 242 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Josy Joseph). 29. Lessons from 1975 -- Amit Varma (2015 piece). 30. There Comes Papa. Please subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It’s free! And check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing.

In the last 25 years, India has changed, journalism has changed and Barkha Dutt has been at the frontlines. She joins Amit Varma in episode 243 of The Seen and the Unseen to speak about how we got here, and the lessons of these years. Also check out: 1. Barkha Dutt on Twitter, Instagram and the Washington Post. 2. Mojo Story on YouTube. 3. This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines -- Barkha Dutt. 4. The Nurture Assumption -- Judith Rich Harris. 5. Barkha Dutt's conversation with Deep Sidhu. 6. What They Did Yesterday Afternoon -- Warsan Shire. 7. We The Women on Facebook. 8. Memories and Things -- Episode 195 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aanchal Malhotra). 9. Little Crazy Love Song -- Mary Oliver. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader, FutureStack and The Social Capital Compound. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Please subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It’s free! And check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing.

We are subjects, not citizens -- and India's state is designed to keep us that way. Josy Joseph joins Amit Varma in episode 242 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss the astonishing ways in which India's security state misuses its powers. Also check out: 1. The Silent Coup: A History of India's Deep State -- Josy Joseph. 2. A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India -- Josy Joseph. 3. Investigative Journalism: Silence is an Expensive Commodity -- Josy Joseph's TedX talk. 4. Vultures of Modern India -- Josy Joseph at Manthan Samvaad 2016. 5. The Geography of Genius -- Eric Weiner. 6. Where Have All The Leaders Gone? -- Amit Varma. 7. Franz Kafka, George Orwell and Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Amazon. 8. Poland -- James A Michener. 9. Curfewed Night -- Basharat Peer. 10. Our Moon Has Blood Clots -- Rahul Pandita. 11. The Prem Panicker Files -- Episode 217 of The Seen and the Unseen. 12. Afghanistan: The Bear Trap -- Mohammad Yousaf and Mark Adkin. 13. The Looming Tower -- Lawrence Wright. 14. Jhumpa Lahiri on Writing, Translation, and Crossing Between Cultures — Episode 17 of Conversations With Tyler. 15. The Notebook Trilogy — Agota Kristof. 16. Prem Panicker on writing -- Episode 3 of The Windowpane Sessions. 17. Sixteen Stormy Days — Tripurdaman Singh. 18. The First Assault on Our Constitution -- Episode 194 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh). 19. Emergency Chronicles -- Gyan Prakash. 20. Gyan Prakash on the Emergency -- Episode 103 of The Seen and the Unseen. 21. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul. 22. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul). 23. India, Pakistan, Kashmir: We Won’t Need To Fight A War If We Can Win The Peace -- Amit Varma. 24. Counterinsurgency Warfare — David Galula. 25. The Insurgents — Fred Kaplan. 26. Seven Pillars of Wisdom -- TE Lawrence. 27. The Generation of Rage in Kashmir — David Devadas. 28. Kashmir and Article 370 -- Episode 130 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Srinath Raghavan). 29. The Cobra Effect. 30. KP Raghuvanshi interrogated by Arnab Goswami. 31. The Streetlight Effect. Please subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It’s free! And check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing.

The gangster film and the city film are two genres that took a while to evolve in Bollywood. Uday Bhatia joins Amit Varma in episode 241 of The Seen and the Unseen to explain why Ram Gopal Varma's Satya was a seminal moment, shaped by what came before it, and changing the course of Hindi cinema. Also check out: 1. Satya -- Ram Gopal Varma. 2. Bullets Over Bombay -- Uday Bhatia. 3. Uday Bhatia's Twitter, Blog and author page at Mint Lounge. 4. Jai Arjun Singh Lost It at the Movies -- Episode 230 of The Seen and the Unseen. 5. Greil Marcus, Lester Bangs, David Fricke and Peter Guralnick. 6. Lester Bangs on The Stooges. 7. Pauline Kael on Bonnie and Clyde. 8. Pauline Kael, Lester Bangs and the Twitter Age -- Uday Bhatia. 9. Have You Seen?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films -- David Thomson. 10. Risen From the Depths -- Uday Bhatia on Neecha Nagar. 11. The First Picture Show -- Uday Bhatia. 12. So Many Cinemas -- BD Garga. 13. Jawaharlal Nehru : Rebel and Statesman -- BR Nanda. (More easily available in this omnibus volume.) 14. My Friend Sancho -- Amit Varma. 15. Haal-Chaal Theek Thaak Hai -- Podcast co-hosted by Subrat Mohanty. 16. O Leke Pehla Pehla Pyar -- Song from CID. 17. The vlogs of Devdutt Dani, Mohammad Salim Khan and Satya Saggar. Films mentioned in this episode: 1. Early Indian crime films: Kismet, Pocket Maar, Awaara. 2. Early Indian noir by Navketan films and others:  Baazi, CID,  Aar Paar, Kala Bazaar. 3. Some post-noir Bollywood: Teesri Manzil, Johny Mera Naam, Blackmail, Zanjeer, Deewar. 4. Ardh Satya. 5. A selection from the 1980s: Vidhaata, Karz, Arjun, Tezaab, Parinda, Hathyaar. 6. Films showcasing Bombay or Bambaiyya: Taxi Driver, Aar Paar, Aakhri Khat, Bombay to Goa, Gharaonda, Guddi, Salaam Bombay and much of the work of Basu Chatterjee and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. 7. Two key precursers: Is Raat Ki Subaah Nahin, Bandit Queen. 8. Ram Gopal Varma's key past films: Rangeela, Shiva, Daud, Company. 9. Miscellaneous mentions: Raakh, Haasil, Munna Bhai MBBS, Gangs of Wasseypur, Aankhon Dekhi. 9. Uday Bhatia's recommendations: China Town, 27 Down, Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan, Sehar. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader, FutureStack and The Social Capital Compound. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Please subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It’s free! And check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing.

You can learn life lessons by actually living life -- or you can take a short cut and learn them from those who have done the living for you. Prakash Iyer joins Amit Varma in episode 240 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss his journey rising to the top of the corporate world, and then sharing the lessons he learnt. Also check out: 1. Prakash Iyer on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Amazon and his own website. 2. How Come No One Told Me That? -- Prakash Iyer. 3. Some talks on YouTube by Prakash Iyer: 1, 2, 3, 4. 4. Luck is All Around -- Amit Varma. 5. The Answer is 42 -- Amit Varma. 6. The Numbers Game -- Amit Varma. 7. Poker at Lake Wobegon -- Amit Varma. 8. Range Rover -- The Archives of Amit Varma's poker column for Economic Times. 9. Air India Express ousts 'Sir' from cockpit, brings in 'Captain.' 10. Defending the Indefensible -- Episode 55 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Yazad Jal). 11. Where Are the Jobs? -- Episode 87 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Yazad Jal). 12. Metrics of Empowerment -- Episode 88 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Devika Kher, Nidhi Gupta and Hamsini Hariharan). 13. The #MeToo Movement -- Episode 90 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Supriya Nair and Nikita Saxena). 14. Men Must Step Up Now -- Amit Varma. 15. Ranveer Brar's YouTube channel. 16. Brian Tracy on Amazon, YouTube and his own website. 17. Roshan Abbas and the Creator Economy -- Episode 239 of The Seen and the Unseen. 18. How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali Abdaal. 19. My Top 10 Tips for Aspiring YouTubers — Ali Abdaal. 20. Art & Fear -- David Bayles and Ted Orland. 21. Georges Simenon on Amazon. 22. Malcolm Gladwell on Amazon. 23. Dan Ariely on Amazon. 24. Fraudulent data raise questions about superstar honesty researcher. 25. Behram Contractor (aka Busybee) on Amazon. Please subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It’s free! And check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing.

If you're a creative person, there is no better time to be alive. Roshan Abbas joins Amit Varma in episode 239 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe his remarkable journey as a creator -- and to explain why the best is yet to come. Also check out: 1. Roshan Abbas on Twitter, Instagram and his own homepage. 2. Kommune on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 3. Speechless: What would you say if your life depended on it? A Pocket-Guide to Public Speaking -- Roshan Abbas and Siddharth Banerjee. 4. Always Kabhi Kabhi, directed by Roshan Abbas, on ErosNow, JioCinema, Amazon (DVD) and Amazon Prime (outside India).  5. A Road Less Travelled -- Roshan Abbas's TedX talk. 6. Roshan Abbas interviewed by Vishal Gondal, Varun Duggirala and Cyrus Broacha. 7. Tom Peters on Amazon -- and VUCA in Wikipedia. 8. A Creator of the Floating World -- Episode 218 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Varun Duggirala). 9. Dreamy Dutch Coffee -- Prahniika Borkar | The Storytellers 10. Storytelling and Conversation -- Episode 197 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Neelesh Misra). 11. 1000 True Fans — Kevin Kelly. 12. 1000 True Fans? Try 100 — Li Jin. 13. How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers -- Ali Abdaal. 14. My Top 10 Tips for Aspiring YouTubers -- Ali Abdaal. 15. Amit Varma's session on podcasting for Chalchitra Talks with Varun Duggirala & others. 16. Select episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on Indian agriculture: 1, 2, 3, 4. 17. Osho Jain on Instagram, and Prateek Kuhad and Ankur Tiwari on YouTube. 18. A Scientist in the Kitchen -- Episode 204 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Krish Ashok). 19. Twitter and Tear Gas — Zeynep Tufekci. 20. Radically Networked Societies -- Episode 158 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane). 21. Kavitha Rao and Our Lady Doctors -- Episode 235 of The Seen and the Unseen. 22. A Meditation on Form -- Amit Varma. 23. Biology - A Functional Approach -- MBV Roberts. 24. Confluence of Cultures -- Saiyed Anwer Abbas. 25. Amit Varma on the Getting Meta podcast, hosted by Deepak Gopalakrishnan. 26. An Adman Reflects on Society & the Self -- Episode 199 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ambi Parameswaran). 27. Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything -- Elizabeth Gilbert. 28. The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity -- Julia Cameron. 29. All You Who Sleep Tonight -- Vikram Seth. 30. Everybody Hurts -- REM. 31. The Hunter Becomes the Hunted -- Episode 200 of The Seen and the Unseen, in which Amit Varma talks about his own creator journey. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader, FutureStack and The Social Capital Compound. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Please subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It’s free! And check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing.

Indian sport has never been healthier. Joy Bhattacharjya and Nandan Kamath join Amit Varma in episode 238 of The Seen and the Unseen to share their inside view on what has happened behind the scenes to bring us here. Also check out:1. GoSports Foundation. 2. Building Sports Ecosystems -- Episode 126 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Joy Bhattacharjya). 3. Go!: India's Sporting Transformation -- Edited by Nandan Kamath & Aparna Ravichandran. 4. Great sporting nations are built on collaborative efforts -- Nandan Kamath. 5. Some print interviews of Nandan Kamath, in reverse chronological order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 6. Nandan Kamath on sports governance (YouTube talk). 7. 87.58 for 1.3 bn: Will Neeraj Chopra's javelin hurl spearhead a turn in India's Olympic medal-hauling capabilities? -- Joy Bhattacharjya. 8. Winning medals wasn’t always so serious, whisky-swilling shooters and café-stopping runners were once Olympians too -- Joy Bhattacharjya. 9. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms -- Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan & Ajay Shah). 10. A Shot At History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold -- Abhinav Bindra and Rohit Brijnath. 11. A Cricket Tragic Celebrates the Game -- Episode 201 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ramachandra Guha). 12. The Tamilian gentleman who took on the world -- Amit Varma. 13. The Girl From Haryana -- Amit Varma. 14. Relative Age Effect (Wikipedia). 15. Outliers: The Story of Success -- Malcolm Gladwell. 16. The Psychological Impact of the Partition of India -- Edited by Sanjeev Jain and Alok Sarin. Do follow Joy Bhattacharjya and Nandan Kamath on Twitter. Please subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It’s free! And check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing.

The liberalisation of 1991 lifted more than a quarter of a billion people in India out of poverty. And yet, we often don't recognise their importance, and have gone backwards in the last decade. Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah join Amit Varma in episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss what life was like before 1991, where we had gone wrong, what we put right and what remains to be done. Also check out: 1. The 1991 Project. 2. The quest for economic freedom in India -- Shruti Rajagopalan. 3. Ideas and Origins of the Planning Commission in India -- Shruti Rajagopalan. 4. The Art and Science of Economic Policy -- Episode 154 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah). 5. The Economics and Politics of Vaccines -- Episode 223 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah). 6. The Tragedy of Our Farm Bills -- Episode 211 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah). 7. Other episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ajay Shah: 1, 2, 3. 8. In Service of the Republic — Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah 9. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen w Shruti Rajagopalan, in reverse chronological order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. 10. Population Is Not a Problem, but Our Greatest Strength -- Amit Varma. 11. Raghu Sanjaylal Jaitley’s Father’s Scooter -- Episode 214 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Raghu Sanjaylal Jaitley). 12. Anticipating the Unintended — Pranay Kotasthane and Raghu Sanjaylal Jaitley’s newsletter. 13. The Dark Side of the Moon -- Pink Floyd. 14. Wish You Were Here -- Pink Floyd. 15. Free to Choose -- Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman. 16. The Road to Serfdom -- Friedrich Hayek. 17. The Fatal Conceit --  Friedrich Hayek. 18. The Clash of Economic Ideas -- Lawrence H White. 19. Pandit's Mind -- The 1951 Time magazine cover story on Jawaharlal Nehru. 20. Lessons from an Ankhon Dekhi Prime Minister -- Amit Varma. 21. An Autobiography -- Jawaharlal Nehru. 22. The Discovery of India -- Jawaharlal Nehru. 23. The First Assault on Our Constitution -- Episode 194 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh). 24. Profit = Philanthropy -- Amit Varma. 25. India Unbound -- Gurcharan Das. 26. India Transformed: 25 Years of Economic Reforms -- Edited by Rakesh Mohan. 27. Fixing Indian Education -- Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan). 28. Understanding Indian Healthcare -- Episode 225 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).  29. Modi's Lost Opportunity -- Episode 119 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Salman Soz). 30. Bootleggers and Baptists-The Education of a Regulatory Economist — Bruce Yandle. 31. Pigs Don’t Fly: The Economic Way of Thinking about Politics — Russell Roberts. 32. Raees: An Empty Shell of a Gangster Film — Amit Varma. 33. The White Man's Burden -- William Easterly. 34. The Tyranny of Experts -- William Easterly. 35. Planners vs. Searchers in Foreign Aid -- William Easterly. 36. We, the People -- Nani Palikhiwala. 37. India’s Agriculture Crisis — Episode 140 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Barun Mitra & Kumar Anand). 38. DeMon, Morality and the Predatory Indian State -- Episode 85 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan). 39. Most of Amit Varma’s writing on DeMon, collected in one Twitter thread. 40. Narendra Modi Takes a Great Leap Backwards — Amit Varma 41. Beware of the Useful Idiots -- Amit Varma. 42. Restaurant Regulations in India -- Episode 18 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Madhu Menon). 43. India’s Problem is Poverty, Not Inequality -- Amit Varma. 44. On Inequality -- Harry Frankfurt. 45. Breaking the Caste Barrier: Intergenerational Mobility in India -- Viktoria Hnatkovska, Amartya Lahiri and Sourabh B Paul. 46. Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Methods and Estimates Across Time, Space, and Communities -- Sam Asher, Paul Novosad and Charlie Rafkin. 47. Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs -- Devesh Kapur, D Shyam Babu and Chandra Bhan Prasad. 48. Taking Stock of Our Economy -- Episode 227 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ila Patnaik). 49. India's Lost Decade -- Episode 116 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Puja Mehra). 50. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's books on Amazon. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader, FutureStack and The Social Capital Compound. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Please subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It’s free! And check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing.