Ep 217: The Prem Panicker Files

Prem Panicker has been raising hell in Indian journalism for over 30 years: A muckraker and a pioneer, a maverick and an elder statesman, he is loved by fans and feared by the establishment. Prem joins Amit Varma in episode 217 of The Seen and the Unseen for a raw and intimate account of the wounds he got from living, and the lessons he learnt while healing.

Also check out:
1. Smoke Signals -- Prem Panicker's blog.
2. The Peepli Project -- Edited by Prem Panicker
3. The State of the Media -- Episode 46 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Prem Panicker).
4. Money in Cricket -- Episode 41 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Gideon Haigh and Prem Panicker).
5. The New World Upon Us -- Amit Varma.
6. The Glimpse -- Trilok Gurtu.
7. The Out of Eden Walk -- Paul Salopek.
8. A Picture of Hell, and No Kerosene -- Amit Varma.
9. A World of Stopped Watches -- Amit Varma.
10. Being Muslim in India -- Episode 216 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ghazala Wahab).
11. One Way Ticket -- Neil Sedaka.
12. The House of the Dead -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
13. Kettyolaanu Ente Malakha -- Directed by Nissam Basheer.
14. The Hunter Becomes the Hunted -- Episode 200 of The Seen and the Unseen.
15. The Seen and the Unseen episodes with Deepak Shenoy and Sonia Faleiro.
16. Bhimsen -- Prem Panicker (adapted from Randaamoozham by MT Vasudevan Nair).
17. How Social Media Threatens Society -- Episode 8 of Brave New World (Vasant Dhar chatting with Jonathan Haidt). 
18. The Windowpane channel and newsletter.
19. A Meditation on Form -- Amit Varma.
20. Gell-Mann Amnesia.
21. It's Hard to Build and Easy to Destroy -- Amit Varma.

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