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50 CONVERSATIONS · 50 PERSPECTIVES

Fifty conversations.
Fifty ways of looking back.

Fifty conversations selected from Soul Connection’s long-form archive. Arunava Khasnobis returns to each episode—its words, silences, tensions and takeaways—to write his own perspective in an original Bengali essay and a distinct English edition.

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From episode to essay

These essays are ready to read. Bengali and English begin from the same source, but each has its own language, structure and reading rhythm.

01
People · Parenting · Is Your Parenting Killing Your Child's Curiosity? Dr. Debajyoti Kar | SC PODCAST EP #163

A child’s curiosity: do our answers kill the question?

Parental anxiety, performance culture and a safe space for questions, grounded in the Soul Connection episode.

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02
Cinema · Survival · Tota Roy Chowdhury: ইন্ডাস্ট্রির কদর্য দিক | SC PODCAST EP #151

After seeing the industry’s ugliness: can an artist preserve tenderness?

Rejection, hierarchy, survival and the distance between craft and self-worth, grounded in the Tota Roy Chowdhury conversation.

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03
Music · Practice · Haimanti Sukla: এখনও “ধা”-টা ঠিক জায়গায় লাগেনি | SC PODCAST EP #144

The note still has not landed: an artist’s long relationship with incompleteness

Listening, riyaaz and humility before a single note, grounded in the Haimanti Sukla conversation.

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04
Music · Lineage · Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri on Ali Akbar Khan and musical lineage | SC PODCAST EP #133

Finding one’s own voice under the guru’s shadow

Lineage, discipline, embodied knowledge and originality, grounded in Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri’s memories.

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05
Theatre · Resilience · Soumya Mukherjee: দিল্লির show-তে দর্শক মাত্র দুজন | SC PODCAST EP #157

Performing for two people: does art shrink with its audience?

Empty seats, embarrassment, rehearsal and the ethics of attention, grounded in Soumya Mukherjee’s experience.

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06
Conversation · Listening · Indrajit Lahiri: podcast-এ scripted প্রশ্নের সমস্যা | SC PODCAST EP #139

Beyond scripted questions: does a good interviewer know or listen?

Research, follow-up, ego and the craft of living conversation, grounded in Indrajit Lahiri’s critique.

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THE EDITORIAL METHOD

Beyond popularity—the lasting value of a conversation

01

Depth

An episode that opens a new question instead of offering an easy answer.

02

Range

A broad field of art, mind, relationships, society, health, work and lived experience.

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Arunava’s return

Not a guest-summary, but what the conversation makes Arunava think now, as its host.

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The source conversation

Every essay remains connected to its original video, so the reader can return to the conversation.

THE COMPLETE COLLECTION

A map of fifty conversations

Released cards link to both essay and video. The remaining conversations are available to watch now; their reading links will appear here as each essay is released.

Cinema & Craft

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Music & Performance

07 conversationsBack to index ↑

Mind & Relationships

07 conversationsBack to index ↑

Society & History

07 conversationsBack to index ↑

Health & Wellbeing

06 conversationsBack to index ↑

Work, Money & Technology

04 conversationsBack to index ↑

Lives & Worldviews

05 conversationsBack to index ↑