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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...

Public discourse has become toxic, and there is no better illustration of this than snark. We don't talk to people any more, we mock. We don't engage any more, we ridicule. In episode 7 of The Book Club, Amit Varma speaks about 'Snark', David Denby's prescient book about the degeneration of our conversations.

Do you want to ignite your reading habit? Do you wish you read more books? Tune in every week to "The Book Club with Amit Varma". Every Sunday, our host will fill you in on the merits of one particular book, and the many contexts that make it worth reading. We will cover all genres and account for all tastes–and hey, you could use it as a catalyst to start your own little book club! In the first episode of The Book Club, Amit Varma explains why there are so many great reasons to read Orwell's essays.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We often think in binaries: something either happened, or it did not. But a far better way to look at the world is through PROBABILISTIC THINKING. This is also how we should evaluate the most important decision in Mahendra Singh Dhoni's career. Listen in for the full dope!...

Published in 1792, The Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft is not just a pioneering work of feminism, but also a step forward for political philosophy in general. Amit Varma explains how it drove liberalism forward with its argument, radical at the time, that human rights extended to all humans, and not just to men.

What is the purpose of the law? What should be the role of the state? Are we subjects or citizens? In episode 6 of The Book Club, Amit Varma argues that we have normalised oppression by the state, and we need to examine it anew with clear eyes. There is no better guide to this than Frédéric Bastiat's 19th-century masterpiece, 'The Law.'

Humans are the only species who can reprogram themselves. This is astounding. In episode 8 of The Book Club, Amit Varma recommends you read 'Hacking Darwin' by Jamie Metzl, a lucid summation of the technological implications of genetic science – and the ethical questions they raise...

Politics in India is deeply complex, and nowhere is this as apparent as in Maharashtra, where centuries-old fault lines of caste, region and ideology collide. In episode 5 of The Book Club, Amit Varma raves about Sujata Anandan's 'Maharashtra Maximus', the perfect guide to this complex subject.