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Ep 266: Ram Guha Reflects on His Life

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Writers Can't Shape Society

When you're 20, it looks like 25 is a long way away. 30 is an old man, right? And equally, when you look back in the past, the past seems distant. How i became a historian was a series of absolutely random accidents. I think what really changes society much more than the ideas of a historiano or sociologist are the inventions of a scientist and an engineer. You may be on the left, but don't join the communist party - that's your business. Above all, if you are intellectual, one must have absolute independence from political parties to do their job properly.

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