Circumstance made him a legend of the quizzing world, but Siddhartha Basu is a man of many parts. He joins Amit Varma in episode 420 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about life, India, the art of asking questions and the answers he has found.

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Also check out:
1. Siddhartha Basu on Wikipedia, Twitter, Instagram and IMDb.
2. Tree of Knowledge, DigiTok.
3. Quizzitok on YouTube.
4. Middlemarch -- George Eliot.
5. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul).
6. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul.
7. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen featuring Ramachandra Guha: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
9. The Life and Times of KP Krishnan — Episode 355 of The Seen and the Unseen.
10. The Life and Times of Vir Sanghvi — Episode 236 of The Seen and the Unseen.
11. Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity — Manu Pillai.
12. The Forces That Shaped Hinduism — Episode 405 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manu Pillai).
13. How to Become a Tyrant -- Narrated by Peter Dinklage.
14. What Is Populism? -- Jan-Werner Müller.
15. The Populist Playbook -- Episode 42 of Everything is Everything.
16. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea -- Richard Fleischer.
17. The Hedgehog And The Fox — Isaiah Berlin.
18. Trees of Delhi : A Field Guide -- Pradip Krishen.
19. The Rooted Cosmopolitanism of Sugata Srinivasaraju — Episode 277 of The Seen and the Unseen.
20. The Refreshing Audacity of Vinay Singhal — Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen.
21. Stage.in.
22. Dance Like a Man -- Mahesh Dattani.
23. How Old Are You? -- Rosshan Andrrews.
24. The Mehta Boys -- Boman Irani.
25. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- James Joyce.
26. Massey Sahib -- Pradip Krishen.
27. Derek O'Brien talks to Siddhartha Basu -- Episode 6 of the Quizzitok Podcast.
28. Kwizzing with Kumar Varun.
29. Ivanhoe, Treasure Island and Black Beauty.
30. Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Allan Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, TS Eliot and Vivekananda.
31. Ramayana and Mahabharata -- C Rajagopalachari.
32. Paradise Lost -- John Milton.
33. Morte d'Arthur -- Alfred Tennyson.
34. Death of a Salesman -- Arthur Miller.
35. Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, <a href="https://www.amazon.in/stores/Mukul-Kesavan/author/