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Ep 332: The Life and Times of Uma Chakravarti

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Paradox of Social Change in India

i think there are parallel societies in the sense that we occupy different centuries at the same time 21st 20th 19th you know i can be part of this small little parallel society of globalized cosmopolitan people who don't even think of religion and whatever but we are a very tiny chunk. urbanization mitigates the effect of caste a bit because incentive change in cities with larger economic networks and discrimination gets more costly so you know so maybe there is slow change that can happen from urbanization from technology empowering individuals and so on and so forth but by and large our society still seems to be mired where it was what is your sense?

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