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Ep 322: The Life and Times of Mita Kapur

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of Mimetic Desire

Many girls in India go towards marriage and motherhood because those are the done things. And I'm sort of struck by this story you've told in your book about how you were dating your husband, Bunny. You used to drive to this place called Jal Mahal where you'd be served on by a waiter named Narendra Rator who became more and more senior in state law. He would see you coming with your husband or your then boyfriend and he would, you know, give you your space and give you whatever you wanted. In a sense, you speak about how he witnessed the arc of your relationship to the point where he saw you one day in a saree and he knew that it

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