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Ep 167: India's Greatest Civil Servant

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Weepy Menon's Family

I think the problem with telling history a lot these days is your tendency to sanitize, your tendency to eulogize. My family didn't intend on doing that from the getgo. They've absolutely been a hundred % forthcoming with all his shortcomings. Can you take over the congress some day? No, i would not want to do any such thing. It's still an inspirational story. I mean, this is a kid who dropped out of matriculate and burnt his fricking school at 13,. He ran away to work in a coal mine, and went from there to sell towels on the streets of bombaya. And then went on to become one of india's

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