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Hosted by Nithesh S · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 19 episodes
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A podcast where guests are expected to be, nay forced to be vulnerable. The podcast is primarily about books.
Nithesh S hosts Hands Up!, a arts show with 19 episodes published.
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” ― Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka touches upon themes like conditional love, hypocrisy within families and alienation. However, during this conversation
It is quite entertaining to read a book that tells you why the poor are not killing us. Not that I was ever afraid of being killed by a poor person. The book is enjoyable and readable. It might even make you feel intelli
“Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devil must exist as well, because we cannot prove it.” ~ Yoko Ogawa In this episode, I discuss the book “The Housekeeper an
“God had a full beard, Satan had a goatee” ~ Marion Poschmann. The ‘Pine Islands’ is a page turner that tracks the journey of a young Japanese man and a German national (who is a beard researcher) through the forests of
After recording a podcast about the first book "Days at the Morisaki Bookshop" by Satoru Yagisawa, I discuss the sequel to the book with Deeksha Sharma who studies Computational Social Sciences at IIT Jodhpur. In this ep
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for othe
"She knows that no single specific experience led to her loss of language. Language worn ragged over thousands of years, from wear and tear by countless tongues and pens. Language worn ragged over the course of her life,
Mahabharata the epic is a forbidden text in Indian households. I did not know the story completely till I read it on my own at the age of 24. But my friend Prajukta Pradhan has a deep knowledge of the text as her father
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." ~ Jane Austen. In this episode with Dr Angana Moitra, professor at Jindal Global University I discus
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground “Notes from Underground” is a powerful and intense social commentary and monologue of a very frustrated forme
Adolescence is a short but incisive TV series about a child who has turned into a murderer due to his own insecurities and the social media activities of a girl he was interested in. The show articulates the nature of fa
"Don’t be afraid to love someone. When you fall in love, I want you to fall in love all the way. Even if it ends in heartache, please don’t live a lonely life without love." ~ Satoshi Yagisawa in 'Days at Morisaki Booksh
"How are we writing the future of humanity? We're not writing anything, it's writing us. We're windblown leaves. We think we're the wind, but we're just the leaf." ~ Samantha Harvey in Orbital In this episode, Nikita and
“But how could you live and have no story to tell?” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky in White Nights. “White Nights” was a story that healed me in a way. It told me that stories that happen to an individual are not entirely new. Huma
A description of ‘Chaos Theory’ by Grok is as below. “Chaos Theory studies complex systems where small changes in initial conditions can lead to vastly different outcomes, often called the "butterfly” effect. It explores
In this episode of Hands Up! I discuss the book “Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh” by Shrayana Bhattacharya with Bency Ramakrishnan and Nikita Pathak. Bency Ramakrishnan is a policy professional and a lawyer. She confesses
Ramayana has fascinated me as an adult even more than it did during my childhood. As I navigate through knotty personal dilemmas it serves as source of inspiration and guidance. I had heard a liberal take on the epic bef
Ramayana has inspired people in the subcontinent and several nations of south east Asia for centuries. It’s one of the greatest myths of humanity. Yet, it is also controversial in many ways. The treatment of women, espec
“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, me
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