In this first episode, Vinayak Varma interviews Samanth Subramanian, the award-winning journalist and author of The Web Beneath the Waves, A Dominant Character, This Divided Island, and Following Fish. Subramanian has written for The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times, WIRED, Granta, Harper's, Wall Street Journal, Mint, and several other major publications. He was the global news editor for Quartz, and is currently on the editorial board of Equator, the new magazine of politics, culture and art.

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