Ep 334: Jayaprakash Narayan Wants to Mend Our Democracy

He was a physician, and then an IAS officer, and then a universally-respected politician. Jayaprakash Narayan joins Amit Varma in episode 334 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe his lifelong quest to complete our task of nation-building. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out:
1. A Life in Indian Politics - Episode 149 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Jayaprakash Narayan). 2. The State of Indian Politics - Episode 50 of The Seen and the Unseen (w JP Narayan). 3. The Myth of Sisyphus (Amazon) (Wikipedia) -- Albert Camus. 4. Factfulness - Hans Rosling. 5. The best stats you’ve ever seen - Hans Rosling. 6. What’s Consolation For An Atheist? (2008) -- Amit Varma. 7. Barun Mitra, Philosopher and Practitioner -- Episode 264 of The Seen and the Unseen. 8. Caged Tiger: How Too Much Government Is Holding Indians Back - Subhashish Bhadra. 9. Subhashish Bhadra on Our Dysfunctional State -- Episode 333 of The Seen and the Unseen. 10. India’s Greatest Civil Servant - Episode 167 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Narayani Basu, on VP Menon). 11. We Are Fighting Two Disasters: Covid-19 and the Indian State - Amit Varma. 12. Rajesh Jain and Dhan Vapasi -- Episode 94 of The Seen and the Unseen. 13. Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin. 14. The Tragedy of Our Farm Bills - Episode 211 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah). 15, The Indian State Is the Greatest Enemy of the Indian Farmer -- Amit Varma. 16. Fixing Indian Education - Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan). 17. Education in India - Episode 77 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Amit Chandra). 18. Understanding Indian Healthcare - Episode 225 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan). 19. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms - Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah). 20. The Forgotten Greatness of PV Narasimha Rao - Episode 283 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati). 21. The Life and Times of Montek Singh Ahluwalia - Episode 285 of The Seen and the Unseen. 22. India’s Lost Decade - Episode 116 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Puja Mehra). 23. Narendra Modi takes a Great Leap Backwards - Amit Varma. 24. The Double ‘Thank-You’ Moment - John Stossel. 25. Whatever happened To Ehsan Jafri on February 28, 2002? - Harsh Mander. 26. Metrics of Empowerment - Episode 88 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Devika Kher, Nidhi Gupta & Hamsini Hariharan). 27. We Should Celebrate Rising Divorce Rates (2008) - Amit Varma. 28. South India Would Like to Have a Word - Episode 320 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nilakantan RS). 29. Animal Farm -- George Orwell. 30. Guns, Germs And Steel -- Jared Diamond. 31. Yuval Noah Harari on Amazon. 32. The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2023 -- Martin Daunton. Check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It’s free! Episode art: ‘Build’ by Simahina.

[@SrikanthGarimella12]

This was some of the best three hours I spent on RUclips. I am grateful to Mr Amit Verma for such a insightful discussion. I have been listening to Jayaprakash Narayana sir since his time as an MLA in Andhra Pradesh but never did I hear speak on so many issues. More power to you all _/\_

[@satejpatil875]

Why is this so underrated??

[@TR-lb4om]

It's interesting how Amit's idealism made way to JP's realism.

[@Abhishek-nj6rf]

It's 2023 bro atleast have time slabs

[@zoomer619]

lmaooo

[@unified2002]

Talking of agnosticism and atheism. The Indian thought takes the position of rational agnosticism by saying that we cannot know entities like God etc by means of reason and at the same criticizes people like Kant because he is unjustified in ruling out the possibility of suprasensuous knowledge of noumenal entities. Here is what Swami Vivekananda says -
"Kant has proved beyond all doubt that we cannot penetrate beyond the tremendous
dead wall called reason. But that is the very first idea upon which all
Indian thought takes its stand, and dares to seek, and succeeds in finding something
higher than reason, where alone the explanation of the present state is to
be found."
- Swami Vivekananda. CW(1:199)

[@unified2002]

Can you bring Acharya Prashant to podcast ?

[@Anish61097]

Abyee yar yaha mahol bigad usko bulake

[@graham9316]

'PromoSM'