
Ep 287: The Life and Times of Urvashi Butalia
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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How Did You Grow Up Reading Comics?
We were provided with tandamama and hindi magazines and books. And i grew up reading those. My mother was a great admirer of mahade viverma and her poetry. She often told us stories, including the story of hi ranja. So these were the kind of influences, i suppose, that we grew up withat there were many other things. I think nero came to umbala once, and we all were lined up on the streets in our best frocks to meet him. We used to be allowed to go once a week to the cenemas in ambala, defend cinema, capital cinema,. To watch movies, which were very, very
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