Objects From Our Past | Episode 77 | Everything is Everything

[@praveenkaurwar3188]

From 26:40 to 26:43. That is so adorable. Two grown men blushing.

[@shenoyn]

Such a beautiful episode! One of the things I used to love was traveling on BEST buses whenever I wanted to clear my mind. I would catch one of those 84 no buses from Andheri to Cross Maidan (iirc), and come right back, dreaming all the way, no interruptions. There used to be all those second hand book dealers there, around flora fountain where you'd sometimes find gems. I discovered Bertrand Russell there. The Free Man's Worship. I remember reading the first few pages there, about Mephistopheles telling Dr Faust about creation and being captivated. And so many other great books. There seemed to be so much time! I remember taking the train to Churchgate , walking to Nariman Point, and spending the whole day in the British Council Library reading British periodicals and newspapers. Sometimes friends would tag along. I remember a particularly sassy friend from Bandra whose universe was contained between Pali market and Lands End. He came with me to the British Council Library and naturally, he was from Bandra, got bored with the lack of action. He dragged me out and promised to take me to wondrous places in Bandra. He had come with me in a Churchgate train and didn't like the look of that station at all. "Let's go from VT" he said "we'll get a train directly to Bandra". Alas, I had no idea where VT was, being a western line lad, and he, well he was from Bandra. He knew everything. We wandered around and saw a gothic looking building which my friend assured me was VT station. I had seen photos of the place and I thought that could be it. Actually, it was Bombay High court. We entered and for the life of me I couldn't see trains nor tracks. "Let's ask this TC" my friend said, and spent the next five minutes freaking out some poor lawyer in a black coat, interrogating him as to the location of the ticket window. Thinking back, we were lucky we didn't run into a passing judge and think he was the station master otherwise we might have spent the rest of our youth in the cooler for contempt. Sigh. Them days!

[@amitvarma]

What a beautiful comment! Thanks Naren! 🙂

[@aviralgupta393]

@@shenoyn this was quite riveting and nostalgic. thanks for the nice read.

[@va3bhav]

Laughed out so loud in the end.!

[@PranjalAwasthi]

The handwritten letter from Amit's Mother is so great !! The advice to bathe daily is soo typical. Loved it

[@kampanther]

Mark my words. On a future date, Everything is Everything will blow up like crazy and there will be millions of people discovering and listening to each episode. It'll be sure and it'll be sudden. In a matter on months and days, it'll be the new big thing. Watch on!

[@amitvarma]

Thank you for the kind words. Somehow, I doubt it. We do this as a labour of love, and we'll continue for that reason. I stopped dreaming of grand success years ago! 🙂

[@peermanzoor2296]

always a wholesome experience to listen u guys

[@apoorvshah3276]

"What Bengal thinks today, the rest of India hopes never happens to them." - Ajay Shah, I had to pause and laugh for 2 mins straight. :D

[@kampanther]

Tears in eyes by the end ❤

[@tarunsukhija8961]

Thank you and thank you. For the first 58 minutes and 40 seconds. Separately for the last 57 seconds.

[@sanjaysajeev]

Playboy reminded me of Shel Silverstein and his children's book The Giving Tree. I first came across the story in school. At that time, I didn’t know about the connection between him and the magazine. Then, four months ago, I watched a video titled "The Most Controversial Children’s Book in History" by Solar Sands. In the video, his friendship with Hugh Hefner (the founder of Playboy) was mentioned. This made me wonder how their friendship began, as one was a writer and the other an adult magazine founder. Today, while watching this video, I learned that Playboy being a magazine that values written art. This brought everything together, and it all clicked into place. The point of this passage is that everything is everything.

[@kampanther]

Whoa! How I could guess in advance that your first drawn would be a mixtape. Been listening to you for too long 😊

[@aditimascarenhas5608]

Hemingway on writing and truth- “I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think. ‘Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.’ So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say. If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut that scroll-work or ornament out and throw it away and start with the first true simple declarative sentence I had written.”

[@HarjeetSingh-xl4bg]

Thank you for sharing this! Profound stories, and a realisation of how things are changing.

[@rushiprajapati2710]

Beautiful Episode

[@aviraltripathi9232]

Hopefully the Video doesn't get age restricted or worse taken down.

[@avalokarts]

Dropping in on friends unannounced...

[@prakharsingh4815]

Keep going comrades

[@rambabuthota729]

Such a breezy episode, want more lighter side of you guys, just an episode on talking abt preferred vacations, food tastes or may ne start the episode asking the legend mr. Shah are you a mountain or beach person?😂😊

[@MMR3000]

No recommendations?

[@aditimascarenhas5608]

Playboy :)

[@ud1976]

1 minute into the video and the music is causing major Sherlock Holmes vibes from the 80s Grenada show

[@aviralgupta393]

I have read Enid Blyton a lot too. Secret Seven (15 books), Famous Five (22 books) were my constant companions after school. I must have read the whole series over and over. We bought The Naughtiest Girl in the School (also by Enid Blyton) from a book shop at the railway station while going on a trip. That book taught me that it was bravery and not cowardice to change one's opinions. I also had all the Sherlock Holmes short stories. I think I still have most of these at home.

[@aditimascarenhas5608]

These were such wonderful books for me. The Faraway Tree and the Wishing Chair were my first adventures.

[@prembagui7104]

A good meme made by you might be the closest thing to a mix tape from the 90s.

[@shreyasaadityaks2225]

Glad for Vlogs- 🥺

[@oflavia2910]

would love to see you cover your take on the changing trends in US politics, compared to India politics. I watched lex speak to vivek and this idea came up. Second a podcast on thought experiments on how AI enters our lives, has entered, will enter, what we could relax and look forward to.. there's many moving parts but all in all things are meant to get easier right?

[@bibhuprasadmohapatra5766]

I like the music.

[@ShubhamSRaheja]

Amit's mom's letter 😭

[@dineshpandiyan64]

That first one minute! ❤ Amit, you should try acting sometimes

[@amitvarma]

Be careful what you wish for.

[@aviralgupta393]

@@dineshpandiyan64 He's in the right city too for that 😂