He's lived a rich life as a journalist, a human rights activist, an author, a columnist -- and now he's written a great book on Gujaratis. Salil Tripathi joins Amit Varma in episode 409 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss his life, his learnings, these times we live in -- and the times that came before.

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Also check out:
1. Salil Tripathi on Twitter, Instagram, Wikipedia, LinkedIn and Amazon.
2. The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community -- Salil Tripathi.
3. The Colonel Who Would Not Repent -- Salil Tripathi.
4. Offence – The Hindu Case -- Salil Tripathi.
5. Detours: Songs of the Open Road -- Salil Tripathi.
6. For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit -- Edited by Shilpa Gupta and Salil Tripathi.
7. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul).
8. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul.
9. Saraswatichandra (Gujarati) (English) -- Govardhanram Tripathi.
10. Gujarat Ni Asmita -- KM Munshi.
11. I Follow the Mahatma -- KM Munshi.
12. Devdutt Pattanaik and the Stories That Shape Us — Episode 404 of The Seen and the Unseen.
13. Ahimsa: 100 Reflections on the Harappan Civilization — Devdutt Pattanaik.
14. Until the Lions -- Karthika Nair.
15. Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity — Manu Pillai.
16. The Forces That Shaped Hinduism -- Episode 405 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manu Pillai).
17. Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain -- Fintan O'Toole.
18. Understanding Gandhi: Part 1: Mohandas — Episode 104 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha).
19. Understanding Gandhi: Part 2: Mahatma — Episode 105 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha).
20. Gandhi Before India -- Ramachandra Guha.
21. Objects From Our Past -- Episode 77 of Everything is Everything.
22. The Diary of Manu Gandhi (Part 1) (Part 2) -- Edited and Translated by Tridip Suhrud.
23. The Ferment of Our Founders — Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila).
24. Lessons from an Ankhon Dekhi Prime Minister — Amit Varma.
25. Akhil Katyal's poem on caste.
26. Midnight's Children -- Salman Rushdie.
27. Bare Feet – a Poem about MF Husain -- Salil Tripathi.
28. My Mother’s Fault -- Salil Tripathi.
29. Jejuri -- Arun Kolatkar.
30. Yashwant Rao -- Arun Kolatkar.
31. The Patriot -- Nissim Ezekiel.
32. Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne -- Satyajit Ray.
33. You're Missing -- Bruce Springsteen.
34. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, Milan Kundera, Ved Mehta and John McPhee on Amazon.
35. All We Imagine as Light -- Payal Kapadia.
36. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha Is the Impartial Spectator — Episode 388 of The Seen and the Unseen.
37. On Tyranny -- Timothy Snyder.
38. Lant Pritchett Is on Team Prosperity — Episode 379 of The Seen and the Unseen.
39. Saving Capitalism From The Capitalists -- Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales.
40. Check out Johan Norberg's great work.
41. The Life and Times of the Indian Economy — Episode 387 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rajeswari Sengupta).
42. India’s Problem is Poverty, Not Inequality — Amit Varma.
43. Stay Away From Luxury Beliefs — Episode 46 of Everything is Everything.
44. On Inequality — Harry Frankfurt.
45. Economic growth is enough and only economic growth is enough — Lant Pritchett with Addison Lewis.
46. Sample SSR conspiracy theory: He’s alive!
47. Amit Varma's 2022 piece on the mess-up at The Wire.