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Ep 161: The History of Desire in India

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Social Pressure to Have Children

The first question you are asked within a month or two of getting married is, when are you going to have children? I think one of the most criminal developments in our country is that on every street corner now in cities, you can see clinics. There's no lack of children. We have pantheons of gods who never actually have their own biological children. So women are not free any longerkow, even now, despite contraception and the advances and contraception,. It's fairly impossible to escape that trajectory. And thent all these narratives, oh, one child will suffer, and a only child will suffer. You need a second child to come along. But it simply doesn't happen

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