Welcome to Episode 1 of EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING, a weekly podcast hosted by AMIT VARMA and AJAY SHAH. We will release an episode every Friday from now on. Please like and subscribe!

THIS WEEK we speak about:

1. Good snakes and bad snakes.
2. Why seagulls are bastards.
3. Uncles and Anti-Uncles.
4. Why aggressively conventional-minded people hold us back.
5. The joys of reading.
6. Dogs in the nightime and a great rock band embracing their age.

USEFUL RESOURCES:

1. Amit on Twitter:   / amitvarma  
2. Ajay on Twitter:   / ajay_shah  
3. The Seen and the Unseen -- Amit's audio podcast: https://seenunseen.in/
(Also on all podcast apps. And YouTube, though less than 1% of listens come from here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSeenAndTh...
4. In Service of the Republic -- Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah: https://amzn.eu/d/hwGILb3
5. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh -- Shrayana Bhattacharya: https://amzn.eu/d/5nq3xdl
6. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman -- Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya):    • Ep 259: The Loneliness of the Indian ...  
7. The Four Quadrants of Conformism -- Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/conformism....
8. Eppur Si Muove: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet...
9. Population Is Not a Problem, but Our Greatest Strength -- Amit Varma: https://indiauncut.com/population-is-...
10. India’s Problem is Poverty, Not Inequality -- Amit Varma: https://indiauncut.com/indias-problem...
11. It Is Immoral to Have Children. Here’s Why -- Amit Varma: https://indiauncut.com/it-is-immoral-...
12. Private Truths, Public Lies -- Timur Kuran: https://amzn.eu/d/9RpGknb
13. Hussain Haidry, Hindustani Musalmaan -- Episode 275 of The Seen and the Unseen:    • Ep 275: Hussain Haidry, Hindustani Mu...  
14. Kashi Ka Assi -- Kashinath Singh: https://amzn.eu/d/1oMRre7
15. Lessons from an Ankhon Dekhi Prime Minister -- Amit Varma's piece on the importance of reading: https://indiauncut.com/lessons-from-a...
16. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time -- Mark Haddon: https://amzn.eu/d/i7hwM8z
17. What Is It Like to Be a Bat? — Thomas Nagel: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pd...
18. The Tell-Tale Brain -- VS Ramachandran: https://amzn.eu/d/eFJdIeA
19. Songs of Surrender -- U2: https://open.spotify.com/album/3fqPfb...
20. In a Silent Way -- Episode 316 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Gaurav Chintamani):    • Ep 316: In a Silent Way  
21. Is Old Music Killing New Music? — Ted Gioia: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc...
22. Beat a Drum -- REM:    • Beat A Drum  
22. Eric Weinstein Won't Toe the Line -- Episode 330 of The Seen and the Unseen:    • Ep 330: Eric Weinstein Won't Toe the ...  
23. The Time a Stiff Caught Fire — Keith Yates on Billy Joel: https://keithyates.com/the-time-a-sti...

Produced by Vartika Singh:    / @vartikasingh7  .
Camera by Rakshita Singh.
Thanks to Gaurav Chintamani for helping with the sound:   / gaurav_chintamani