| 1 | Oct 21, '25 | Now I have two reasons to cry while watching this video. RIP Daniel Naroditsky. Pure soul. Everyone who loves chess is in pain today. | 97.8× | 354k | 5.1k | 230 | 471 |
| 2 | Jan 2, '23 | He's done pioneering work as a doctor-scientist -- and battled quackery that takes lives. Abby Philips aka @theliverdoc joins me in episode 310 of The Seen and the Unseen to discus | 75× | 272k | 760 | 157 | 106 |
| 3 | Feb 10, '25 | This is a graceful apology without caveat from a well-intentioned kid who always tries his best. That said, I don't think anyone should have to apologize for a bad joke. If you don | 46.7× | 169k | 1.5k | 164 | 104 |
| 4 | Mar 21, '23 | As i get into the cab to the airport, it starts raining. I am surprised and remark rhetorically, "Yeh baarish kahaan se aa gayi?" The cabbie turns, takes a good long look at me, an | 41.6× | 151k | 1.6k | 52 | 15 |
| 5 | Sep 28, '23 | This is a good day to listen to Abby Philips aka @theliverdoc on this old episode: He fights for reason & against quackery against great odds. His account has been blocked toda | 27.9× | 101k | 1.5k | 543 | 78 |
| 6 | Dec 12, '24 | This is @DGukesh talking to @sagarchess1 of @ChessbaseIndia seven years ago. What a moment, that. What a moment, this. | 25.2× | 91k | 1.3k | 225 | 96 |
| 7 | Mar 21, '24 | Free & fair elections don't just mean that voting is free & fair. It also means that the opposition is free to raise funds, to campaign, to speak up. You can rig an electio | 23.8× | 86k | 2.6k | 782 | 56 |
| 8 | Aug 22, '18 | Could this be the greatest newspaper advertisement ever? (via @iamabofh) | 23.5× | 0 | 12k | 5.1k | 48 |
| 9 | Mar 3, '22 | This is one of greatest videos of all time. Just watch till the end! And then watch it again, and again, and again, like I did. Masterful. (Via @cyntalist) | 23.3× | 0 | 14k | 2.5k | 583 |
| 10 | Dec 12, '24 | You would understand if, in this moment of great emotion, @DGukesh did not reset the pieces after the game. But how you do the small things is how you do the big things. That's whe | 21.1× | 77k | 1.5k | 170 | 80 |
| 11 | Jan 14, '20 | 'Maine aapko jawaab de diya hai.' This video is a perfect illustration of how our netas feel they owe us no explanation. They are our masters. We are mere pesky subjects. | 17.5× | 0 | 9.2k | 3k | 103 |
| 12 | Aug 28, '21 | Remarkable self-control by @imVkohli. In a sense, it's a classic Twitter moment. Person with zero knowledge & zero self-awareness tries to give random gyan to actual practition | 15.5× | 0 | 11k | 1.5k | 304 |
| 13 | Apr 19, '24 | If true, this is just evil. It should be a far bigger scandal than anything the cigarette lobby did back in the day. | 14× | 51k | 1.2k | 249 | 51 |
| 14 | Feb 18, '24 | So I'm off to Bangalore to record 9 eps in 10 days, starting tomorrow with @Ram_Guha. And guess who I meet on the flight! | 13.7× | 50k | 777 | 11 | 10 |
| 15 | Apr 23, '24 | 'Is that butter?' 'Yes.' 'Are you sure.' 'Yes.' 'Thanks for clarifying.' 'Now it's ghee.' | 12× | 43k | 1.1k | 67 | 22 |
| 16 | Mar 27, '24 | As a giant of social science passes on, two quick book recommendations. Thinking, Fast and Slow is essential reading, so pick it up if you haven't already. And The Undoing Project | 11.9× | 43k | 707 | 95 | 257 |
| 17 | Dec 27, '24 | Manmohan Singh is one of my heroes. And if you live in India, he should be yours also. Here are some episodes that show why I feel so strongly about the great man. First, my episod | 11.6× | 42k | 806 | 175 | 259 |
| 18 | Aug 22, '24 | Dropping on Monday! 🙂 @zoo_bear @free_thinker | 11.4× | 41k | 945 | 59 | 14 |
| 19 | Jan 11, '20 | 'Where the mind is without fear, And the head is held high.' Martin Sheen reciting Tagore is something to behold! | 10.6× | 0 | 5.5k | 1.9k | 160 |
| 20 | Apr 14, '21 | My father died an hour ago. He was admitted to hospital two weeks ago, all systems failing, couldn't recognise us. Picked up Covid while there, because hey, he always tried everyth | 8.7× | 0 | 7.5k | 370 | 45 |
| 21 | Nov 20, '18 | I'm mildly confused about one thing. Why are some people who say there is no such thing as Brahminical patriarchy upset with those who want to smash it? If it doesn't exist, let th | 6.4× | 0 | 3.7k | 976 | 9 |
| 22 | Feb 4, '21 | When it comes to Bollywood or cricket celebs doing what they're doing, I wonder, is it the carrot or is it the stick? They're rich enough to not be bribed, so it must be fear of so | 6.3× | 0 | 4.5k | 607 | 26 |
| 23 | May 15, '20 | TikTok is on it. | 6.0× | 0 | 3.6k | 988 | 47 |
| 24 | Apr 16, '19 | This is the Modi government in one tiktok video. Optics over Governance. | 5.4× | 0 | 3k | 982 | 40 |
| 25 | Dec 15, '19 | This is the time for opposition leaders to be on the streets with the students. Stand up for the principles you pay lip service to. Don't sit back doing cost-benefit analysis. Clev | 5.2× | 0 | 2.9k | 1k | 2 |
| 26 | Apr 22, '21 | At the moment, Narendra Modi's understanding of federalism appears to be this: The centre focuses on narrative. The states have to do the actual governance. | 5.1× | 0 | 3.5k | 728 | 11 |
| 27 | Dec 19, '19 | Well done, whoever thought of this! (Pic credit: @supriyan) | 4.9× | 0 | 3.2k | 815 | 14 |
| 28 | Oct 2, '20 | Language matters. One of my writing students, Rita Mishra, just shared this note on passive voice with the group. There are so many contexts in which this holds true. Example: 'The | 4.9× | 0 | 2.5k | 961 | 121 |
| 29 | Feb 26, '20 | Stunning. This image says it all. | 4.7× | 0 | 2.6k | 961 | 36 |
| 30 | Jul 21, '21 | Haha, @satishacharya is in the house! | 4.4× | 0 | 3.5k | 394 | 9 |
| 31 | Mar 14, '20 | This is a stunning description of what China did about Covid-19 -- and what we probably don't have state capacity to do. The part about Italy at the end could be true of us soon. | 4.1× | 0 | 1.7k | 905 | 118 |
| 32 | Nov 21, '20 | As episode 200 approaches, I have a big announcement. @WestlandBooks are going to publish a four-volume anthology of The Seen and the Unseen early next year. I'll be curating meaty | 4.0× | 0 | 2.8k | 179 | 117 |
| 33 | Sep 9, '21 | I'll make this my caller tune and never pick up the phone. Sunte raho. | 3.8× | 0 | 2.9k | 233 | 42 |
| 34 | Mar 2, '21 | Once again, @satishacharya just nails it. | 3.8× | 0 | 3k | 400 | 8 |
| 35 | Aug 18, '18 | What's happening in Kerala is heartbreaking. I wish I could do more. So here's my offer for you: If you donate 5k to the CM's relief fund, I'll write a limerick on a subject of you | 3.6× | 0 | 1.6k | 810 | 18 |
| 36 | Mar 4, '21 | Lovely. If @satishacharya did not exist, we would need to invent him. | 3.5× | 0 | 2.8k | 313 | 5 |
| 37 | Jan 26, '21 | Happy Republic Day. And long thread alert! I'm here by an accident of birth, but I love this country, & to love something is to want to know it better. Doing The Seen and the U | 3.1× | 0 | 1.3k | 245 | 555 |
| 38 | Feb 26, '20 | I cannot think of a single benign reason for cops to destroy CCTV cameras. Can you? | 3.0× | 0 | 1.3k | 736 | 21 |
| 39 | Jul 23, '21 | What Niemoller forgot to put. (Via @SanSip.) | 2.9× | 0 | 2.3k | 303 | 14 |
| 40 | Feb 26, '18 | It's sickening how TV anchors are justifying their tasteless speculation of Sridevi's death by saying it's in the 'public interest'. There is a difference between the public intere | 2.8× | 0 | 1.9k | 424 | 1 |
| 41 | Jan 15, '20 | Beware of single men. (Now with subtitles. Masterpiece ending!) | 2.8× | 0 | 1.4k | 482 | 74 |
| 42 | Apr 29, '21 | Along with the grief, there is anger. I hope we can stop grieving one day. And I hope we never lose this anger. Those who allowed this to happen, who made it *worse*, must be held | 2.7× | 0 | 1.6k | 462 | 27 |
| 43 | Aug 26, '18 | We must reject the BJP dream of a Tukde-Tukde India. My column today in the Times of India about the two Ideas of India, and who the real anti-nationals are: | 2.6× | 0 | 1.1k | 567 | 20 |
| 44 | Apr 30, '19 | On the left, ladies and gentlemen, is the Modi government between 2014 and 2019. | 2.6× | 0 | 1.7k | 373 | 8 |
| 45 | Sep 2, '18 | Brilliant, again, from @akhilkatyal. | 2.5× | 0 | 1.4k | 542 | 4 |
| 46 | Nov 28, '21 | This is such a tragedy. If anyone tells you that things in India are just fine, that critics are overstating things, point them to this. One of our finest comedians forced into sil | 2.5× | 0 | 1.6k | 378 | 22 |
| 47 | Jun 21, '21 | There is not one day in the past three months that I have not either received condolences or given them. There are phone numbers on my phone that it breaks my heart to look at -- b | 2.5× | 0 | 1.7k | 334 | 20 |
| 48 | Jul 10, '22 | People who discover The Seen and the Unseen often wonder which episodes to check out first. Some thoughts in this thread. First, at a basic level, here are the 25 most-downloaded e | 2.4× | 0 | 1k | 117 | 524 |
| 49 | Dec 3, '18 | This is photoshop. Everyone knows his feet face backwards. | 2.4× | 0 | 1.6k | 282 | 2 |
| 50 | Oct 30, '21 | So glad @imVkohli spoke out. And I don't think he did it 'late'. People who achieve excellence ignore social media for a reason. They won't know in real time what poison is being b | 2.3× | 0 | 1.9k | 180 | 5 |
| 51 | Sep 17, '19 | In the worst of times, we will have the best of cartoons. @CartoonistSan nails it again. | 2.2× | 0 | 1.4k | 389 | 11 |
| 52 | Feb 1, '22 | These are some of the recent books published by Westland that have been sharing a shelf at home. They've been shut down today. They've published some of the best & bravest non- | 2.1× | 0 | 1.1k | 254 | 174 |
| 53 | Jan 16, '20 | India's Chief of Defence Staff is talking about putting children in camps. Wow. | 2.1× | 0 | 860 | 478 | 8 |
| 54 | Dec 23, '21 | This is an incredible thread. I'm waiting to see which political parties speak up against those calling for the genocide of Indian Muslims. Some of them will try to ride the tiger. | 2.1× | 0 | 1.3k | 328 | 24 |
| 55 | May 21, '21 | A friend just sent me this. I thought it must be parody. No. It's real: If the virus doesn't get you, the bureaucracy will. | 2.0× | 0 | 855 | 432 | 21 |
| 56 | Sep 12, '20 | Narendra Modi is cut of the same cloth as Indira Gandhi -- but he's smarter. He's figured that you don't need to declare an emergency & arrest everyone. Arrest some, harrass ot | 2.0× | 0 | 1.3k | 324 | 17 |
| 57 | Sep 15, '18 | First I thought, "Doesn't this guy get the concepts of Comparative Advantage snd Opportunity Cost? He should pay someone to clean his garden so he can do something else instead." T | 2.0× | 0 | 1k | 347 | 3 |
| 58 | Jan 30, '20 | Meanwhile, brave Delhi cops risk their lives to arrest a dangerous miscreant who appears to be wielding a deadly copy of the constitution. | 2.0× | 0 | 1.1k | 425 | 5 |
| 59 | Nov 13, '21 | We live in times when the vile no longer bother to hide their vileness. Like, wtf even is this? | 2.0× | 0 | 1.4k | 145 | 15 |
| 60 | Apr 20, '22 | Modern Neros will not fiddle while Rome burns, they will fiddle *because* Rome burns. And they will joke about the demand for kerosene. | 2.0× | 0 | 1.4k | 247 | 6 |
| 61 | Sep 2, '17 | This is hilarious. Woman who got exposed peddling fake news on live TV is asking @saliltripathi, "Do you know who I am?" 😂 | 2.0× | 0 | 796 | 512 | 0 |
| 62 | Jan 15, '20 | What is the three-letter word for distraction? @CartoonistSan slays it again. | 2.0× | 0 | 1k | 387 | 10 |
| 63 | Mar 31, '20 | What a gorgeous New Yorker cover by the great Chris Ware! | 2.0× | 0 | 1.4k | 254 | 15 |
| 64 | Jan 3, '20 | 1. This is a particularly idiotic thing to say because in a democracy, we will obviously protest the wrongdoings of our own state. We are not stakeholders in Pakistan. Like, duh! 2 | 1.9× | 0 | 911 | 399 | 11 |
| 65 | Sep 9, '20 | I hope future historians, to understand these times, turn to our cartoonists first. @satishacharya, sublime as always. | 1.8× | 0 | 1.4k | 182 | 3 |
| 66 | Sep 9, '20 | The Republic employees who left don't deserve our admiration, but they do deserve our sympathy. Every human being is a work in progress. That last thing they did was the right thin | 1.8× | 0 | 1.5k | 142 | 6 |
| 67 | Dec 29, '17 | Hema Malini, who is from Ammankudi, is saying on TV that the Kamala Mills fire shows that Mumbai is overcrowded, and migrants should not be allowed to come here. They should stay i | 1.8× | 0 | 743 | 427 | 0 |
| 68 | Feb 14, '20 | I have a hypothetical question for those who support the ruling dispensation. Is there *anything* that would make you change your mind? Anything at all? This is a thought experimen | 1.8× | 0 | 782 | 401 | 13 |
| 69 | May 18, '21 | Listeners who have just discovered The Seen and the Unseen are asking how they should binge on the show. I'll share three methods. To begin with, here are the 25 most downloaded ep | 1.8× | 0 | 749 | 109 | 359 |
| 70 | Sep 17, '21 | Beautiful. | 1.8× | 0 | 1.3k | 133 | 7 |
| 71 | Apr 6, '19 | Wave of joblessness. Wave of bigotry and hatred. Wave of empty rhetoric. We see the wave all right, Mr Modi. Do you? | 1.7× | 0 | 1k | 295 | 1 |
| 72 | Mar 28, '21 | I couldn't resist. 🤓 | 1.6× | 0 | 1.3k | 86 | 5 |
| 73 | Jan 6, '20 | Take a bow, @satishacharya! 👏👏 | 1.5× | 0 | 847 | 330 | 6 |
| 74 | Aug 30, '19 | There's so much nonsense going on that I don't know what is a distraction from what. | 1.5× | 0 | 1k | 218 | 2 |
| 75 | Aug 25, '20 | This is not an aberration. This *is* the Indian state. | 1.5× | 0 | 839 | 285 | 12 |
| 76 | Dec 19, '21 | Am in Chandigarh to clear up my dad's house, and found marijuana growing under his car. And elsewhere in random places. Somewhere up there, he might be getting even higher. | 1.5× | 0 | 1.3k | 33 | 15 |
| 77 | Apr 6, '20 | Magnificent. @MANJULtoons, you are a legend. | 1.5× | 0 | 914 | 258 | 10 |
| 78 | Jun 15, '18 | The genius of @MANJULtoons. | 1.4× | 0 | 718 | 320 | 2 |
| 79 | Jan 28, '22 | So I finally caught Covid. Came like a storm. Good luck to me, I guess. 😣 | 1.4× | 0 | 928 | 13 | 2 |
| 80 | Nov 12, '22 | I've been critical of Rahul Gandhi in the past, but I am so impressed with what he is doing now. Boots on the grounds, doing the hard yards, walking the talk -- all those cliches. | 1.4× | 0 | 1k | 129 | 5 |
| 81 | May 23, '19 | VICTORY SPEECH Dear Leader said to me, from a height, “Amit, I have shown you all my might. Your limericks are poo.” I said, “Sir, that is true, But your winning does not make you | 1.4× | 0 | 797 | 203 | 5 |
| 82 | Oct 2, '18 | A SHOCK FOR MR PAI The colour left Mohandas’s face. He suddenly felt so out of place. He said, ‘I have no clue. I don’t know what to do. I’m not used to dealing with such grace.’ W | 1.3× | 0 | 785 | 254 | 0 |
| 83 | Jun 28, '21 | I keep saying this, & I will say it again: promoting vaccine hesitancy is equal to murder. Bhushan's second sentence below, in particular, is dangerous nonsense. Shame on you, | 1.3× | 0 | 858 | 153 | 8 |
| 84 | Jun 5, '21 | Promoting vaccine hesitancy at a time like this is equal to murder. Shame on you, @pbhushan1. | 1.3× | 0 | 1k | 112 | 4 |
| 85 | Jul 19, '21 | We are ruled by cheap thugs. They will use their power to help friends, crush enemies & stalk women they lust for, as Modi-Shah showed in Gujarat. Don't ascribe greater sophist | 1.3× | 0 | 797 | 216 | 20 |
| 86 | Jul 26, '19 | Thread. | 1.3× | 0 | 798 | 203 | 2 |
| 87 | Jun 13, '21 | I'm exhausted & elated right now. I represented India today in a sport called Match Poker, & we beat the best teams in Asia to be de facto Asian Champions. We also qualifie | 1.2× | 0 | 1.1k | 39 | 11 |
| 88 | Jul 7, '21 | Before I point out that most of the ministers shouldn't be ministers, I must say that most of the ministries shouldn't be ministries. | 1.2× | 0 | 1k | 74 | 2 |
| 89 | Jun 21, '20 | Journalism used to be a quest to establish the truth. It has now become a battle of conflicting narratives. We have gone from seeking to shouting. What went wrong? Nidhi Razdan (@n | 1.2× | 0 | 747 | 123 | 24 |
| 90 | Oct 24, '22 | Phew. I don't know how we made it here, but one episode at a time, here we are. Episode 300! If you're a listener, thank you for being part of my journey. 🙏 I got a special guest | 1.2× | 0 | 806 | 55 | 32 |
| 91 | Jul 24, '20 | I have a joke about The Seen and the Unseen, but it's three hours long. | 1.1× | 0 | 925 | 42 | 2 |
| 92 | Jan 7, '20 | Most people in Bollywood are silent. Deepika Padukone went to effing JNU! Let's not second-guess her intent. The action alone deserves applause. | 1.1× | 0 | 808 | 129 | 3 |
| 93 | Aug 31, '21 | As I keep saying in my writing class, if the writing is not clear, chances are the thinking isn't either. | 1.1× | 0 | 828 | 71 | 6 |
| 94 | Nov 23, '20 | Thank goodness for the internet! | 1.1× | 0 | 734 | 87 | 26 |
| 95 | May 8, '21 | There is a generation of teenagers today who are looking at @bdutt's work and realising that journalism, too, can be a noble calling. This is a big deal. Take care, Barkha. | 1.1× | 0 | 868 | 71 | 1 |
| 96 | Oct 9 | "The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed," said Mahatma Gandhi. On this, he was wrong. @srajagopalan, @pranaykotas & I explain why in ep 1 | 1.0× | 3.6k | 19 | 5 | 5 |
| 97 | Nov 1, '21 | If the people who abused Shami were from Pakistan, & Kohli spoke out against those who abused Shami, then why is the bhakt ecosystem so upset? Bhakts should be applauding Kohli | 1.0× | 0 | 704 | 117 | 4 |
| 98 | Oct 26, '21 | Just finished recording episode 250. The recording of 249 is tomorrow. 251 is already done. The customary post-recording pizza is on the way... | 1.0× | 0 | 831 | 10 | 3 |
| 99 | Oct 15, '21 | A stern warning for those of you who smoke up and try to renew their Netflix subscription with bitcoin. | 0.9× | 0 | 712 | 67 | 6 |
| 100 | Jan 19, '21 | I think Joe Biden will nod knowingly if you whisper in his ear, 'Washington Sundar.' | 0.9× | 0 | 771 | 31 | 1 |
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