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(After what seems like ages!) I'm pleased to present a new podcast episode - with public policy intellectual, Nitin Pai.
Nitin is the reason I joined Twitter in 2016.
Around 2014-15, I used to regularly read a few sites/blogs - and Nitin's blog 'The Acorn' was one of my favourite ones. I used to keep visiting it to check if it had been updated since I last read it.
(Nitin is the co-founder of the Takshashila Institution, a think-tank and school of Public Policy based in Bangalore. He is a public policy intellectual and writes on the topics of geopolitics, defence economics and public policy, among others).
Then in 2016, Nitin stopped posting on the blog. On the home page though, there was a link to his Twitter feed, which was getting regularly updated.
I was like - 'What is this Twitter thing that everyone seems to be talking about? Chalo, let me try it since I need to get Nitin's dope'. And that is how I got sucked into the big, bad world of Twitter.
Initially, I made the mistake of following political experts and commentators... and realised that it was making me upset and angry if I spent too much time on the app. In 2019, I deleted the app and discontinued my account. (I rejoined it later in 2020 on Aditi Parekh's encouragement and started to follow folks from whom I can learn more about the craft of storytelling. It's been great since then).
Anyway, I continued to be a fan of Nitin's thinking and writing - especially:
Needless to say, I was thrilled to have him on the podcast, even though he could only spare 1 hour for the conversation.
Nitin once said - “The stories we tell ourselves shape the reality we live in” – and it is this avatar of his as a student of narratives that I wanted to know more about on this podcast.
In this episode, we dive into several topics around narratives and storytelling:
We also geek out about the meaning and utility of frames and frameworks in storytelling.
Finally, Nitin shares why everyone should read philosophy and fiction.
It’s an eye-opening conversation.
You can enjoy my conversation with Nitin at your favourite podcast location:
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Happy listening!
Further reading links:
- Nitin Pai's website
- Nitin on Twitter, Mastodon, LinkedIn
- Takshashila Institution website and Nitin's interview on the organisation
- Nitin's book, The Nitopadesa
- His article on the Four Levels of Public Discourse
If you find the content valuable, please rate and review this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen to them (links above). It’ll help others like you discover these insights!
This podcast was hosted by me, Ravishankar Iyer. Audio editing by Kartik Rajan. Transcript creation and editing by Amisha Jha and all-round support by Sanket Aalegaonkar.
Thanks,
Ravi
PS: Long-time readers of the podcast episode intro post would be expecting some more extracts from the conversation tagged under the '3Ps' - The Philosophical, the Practical and the Personal - that I used to do earlier. But, to make this intro shorter, I no longer would be adding that section. Instead, I have attached the relevant extracts in the conversation summary itself.
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