Episode 01 Politics and Art

If This Is A Man

A poem that opens the crucial book by the same title. Primo Levi captures your attention as he issues a warning…

#3 The Gulag Story

In this episode of the podcast, I talk about the Gulag. Based mostly on my rendition of Anne Applebaum's book Gulag: A History (of the Soviet Camps), which won the Pulitzer Prize and was the international bestseller. Applebaum is an American journalist and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian. She has written for The Washington Post and currently is a staff writer for The Atlantic.  I enjoyed her book and I hope you enjoy this!

#2 Timegate, Attention and Limitation

In this podcast, I talk about Oliver Burkeman's book 4000 Weeks; Time and How to Use It. Oliver is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking.  I talk about the illusion of living our lives in some other section in the future where all our problems will be solved. That Nirvana, where nothing bad happens, and we get endless amount of time to focus on what we actually care about, does not exist. The present moment is all we have. And experience is all we are.

Episode 01 Politics and Art

In this episode of the podcast, I share my thoughts on the relationship between politics and art.