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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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If you feel a desire that you cannot name or understand, does that desire exist? We instinctively think of some desires as leget and others as sinful. Much of what we think of as traditional indian morality is an imposition by the british of victorian prudishness on to a society that has otherwise acknowledged and respected so many different kinds of desires.

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