Ep 236: The Life and Times of Vir Sanghvi
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Affluence and Politics in India
Many families that didn't, say, have telephones, didn't have cars, didn't acitytake newspapers. Suddenly the children come into the kind of affluence theyhave not seen. The whole notion of a phone being a classified or a dignifying factor is over because everybody now has more than one mobile phone and then they can do everything on it. So when that happened, when this new middle class was created, partly because te collapse of the old signifiers, and partly because the huge rate of growth,. i think the attempt of people at the top to try and convey this to people died and i think many people were blind sighted by them. They wanted to erase memories
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