Amit Varma, eminent writer, journalist and podcaster, talks about his art and his life with great candidness. Famous for his long-form podcast series, The Seen and the Unseen, Amit has managed to present listeners with a repository of curious and enlightening conversations, patient and unhurried in their spirit. Life lessons, inspiring ideas and Amit’s honest admissions - this episode has all these, and more.

Float like a butterfly, pollinate like a bee. Rajani Mani would probably change the famous Ali quote as she fights for the rights of these productive critters through her documentary.

As far as one could remember only men could earn the highest monastic qualifications. Malati Rao’s ‘The Geshema is Born’, follows the life of Namdol Phuntsok, the first woman ever to be awarded the Geshema degree.

Filmmaker and writer Paromita Vohra will walk you through the experience of writing the 2003 film Khamosh Pani that spotlights violence on women during the partition and the impact on their lives following radicalisation in 1970s Pakistan. As we celebrate 75 years of independence and mark equal number of years of partition, this story deserves a revisit.

Anirban Dutta Gupta talks about how he filmed the isolated Jarawa tribe in Andaman Islands collecting honey and hunting for pig. We have lessons to learn from their practices that also emphasize the need for tribal agency.

Economist Shrayana Bhattacharya speaks about her book "Desperately Seeking Shahrukh" and how Shahrukh Khan transformed into a research method to understand the economic lives of women in India.

Transgender people face many atrocities if they choose to live a normal life attending school and College. Ojaswwee Sharma talks about a documentary he made on Dhananjay who battled prejudices and attacks to fight for the empowerment of her community.

Surabhi Yadav may be an engineer by education but it is her photography that has cast the spotlight on her. Through an Instagram page filled with pictures of women watching a movie, wearing a beauty mask, or eating an ice cream, she throws light on a gender-biased oddity.

>In a recent British Medical Journal article, Madurai, South India-based freelance writer Kamala Thiagarajan underlines how climate change is also about our economy. Her story holds a stethoscope to income losses of underprivileged people falling sick amid soaring temperatures.

Ajoy Ashirwad, The Wire’s political affairs' editor, details a surveillance operation that was uncovered as part of an international collaboration of journalists working on a list of phone numbers that was leaked to them. The Wire traced the spyware's Indian targets, revealing a dismantling of India's privacy laws and even its constitution.

Data journalist Rukmini S In her Scroll.in story unearthed facts that signalled a clear spike in deaths due to the Coronavirus. A mix of on-the-ground reporting and data analysis tells us what the government didn’t want us to know.

Journalist Mridula Chari talks about her recently published longform essay ˜Famished”, meticulous documentation of the hungry millions in India in <a href="www.fiftytwo.in">www.fiftytwo.in</a>