Episode 6 – Senior Fellow at the Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies Abhijit Iyer-Mitra
ANI Podcast with Smita Prakash
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The Indian Left Is Not Left Leaning
The right in this country does not invest in education, research or archiving. They don't invest in human beings. That's why all the think tanks in this country are all left. All the media is left. But you tell me the well-funded ones are left leaning? That's a whole different thing. It doesn't mean they're particularly perspicacious because the Indian left also has certain very severe problems. Okay. In my experience, think tanks have a mix of both right and left. And mostly think tanks in India seldom do any research. They do events. Events are not research. Whether it's quackery or not, you can decide later. But in my
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