Ep 287: The Life and Times of Urvashi Butalia
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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What if the Cor Truth About an Unpleasant Truth About Our Past Is Something Uglier?
I love this idea of inertia, actually. I think one of the things that about india that i strongly feel is that we are totally unwilling to confront unpleasant truths about our past and even our present. We kind of wish them away. And that has been, i think, one of the reasons why, for example, with partition, we've been so reluctant too confrontit. So in a sense, if you look at the hollow cost, you see that you can easily pin point the nazes and the fact that they are the ones who perpetrated the violence on the jews. To confront that par would be like saying that we have to come up against ourselves. We have to see
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