Last year, I had a few conversations with few people that were so good that I felt that it should have been a podcast. Visual memories can be captured in a photograph and preserved. But how do we preserve conversations that are memorable? Recordings?

But people behave differently when they are being photographed or recorded. They become guarded and often don’t say things that they would have in the presence of a different kind of audience.

You might remember the Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. It says that the position and the velocity of an object cannot both be measured exactly, at the same time. Similarly, the authenticity of a person and their ability to articulate themselves to a particular set of audience can’t coexist without adversely affecting each other.

In spite of this limitation, I badly wanted to act on a thought I have been carrying for quite some time. I finally invited Angana, a friend whom I know for more than 6 months to discuss a book that both of us loved. And it did turn out to be a great conversation.

We did not realise that we had spoken for 56 minutes when we checked the length of the recording. Though the conversation doesn’t have any spoilers of the book, it does carry a summary of the story followed by a discussion about the characters. We also spoke about the impact of the book on us, our emotions and our perception of the human nature.

I hope that the podcast inspires you to read the book. I had published a kind of review about the same book earlier on this blog.

Do check out the episodes on Spotify.

The podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts and Youtube.