In this episode our hosts Pragya Tiwari and Raja Sen talk about the idea of a cultural DNA- books, music, and movies that have shaped us as individuals and are formative to the way in which we look at the world. They also talk about their shared cultural DNA as friends, arguing that most important relationships are based on a shared love of culture. Listen in to get to know them and yourselves better.

Show Notes:

• Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen by PG Wodehouse
• Jeeves And Wooster (TV series)
• Blackadder (TV series)
• Haroun And The Sea Of Stories by Salman Rushdie
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
• Thud by Terry Pratchett
• Aladdin Sane by David Bowie
• The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars by David Bowie
• The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa
• Titties & Beer (from the album Baby Snakes) by Frank Zappa
• 8 1/2 by Federico Fellini
• Satyricon by Federico Fellini
• Jalsaghar / The Music Room by Satyajit Ray
• Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne by Satyajit Ray
• Charulata by Satyajit Ray
• The Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray
• Annie Hall by Woody Allen
• Fleabag (TV series)
• Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge by Aditya Chopra
• Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard
• Hero No 1 by David Dhawan
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• Black Bag by Steven Soderbergh
• Ghajini (2008) by AR Murugadoss
• Gangs Of Wasseypur by Anurag Kashyap
• Omkara by Vishal Bhardwaj
• Kaminey by Vishal Bhardwaj
• Dev D by Anurag Kashyap
• Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino
• Waiting For Godot
• Friday Night In San Francisco by Al Di Meola, Paco De Lucia and John McLaughlin
• Dreamers by Bernardo Bertolucci
• Ishqiya by Abhishek Chaubey
• Gulaal (album) by Piyush Mishra
• A Case Of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammad Haneef
• Midnight In Paris by Woody Allen
• A Real Pain by Jesse Eisenberg
• Play It Again, Sam by Woody Allen
• Casablanca by Michael Curtiz