
Ep 161: The History of Desire in India
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The History of Desire
When you teach students about how to write an opeed, you sort of insist to them on accessibility. And that's something i pride myself on as well. Because i think writing should be accessible, not in the sense of dumbed down. I am a great believer in rigor, but that it needs to draw people in insufficiently so that they want to deal with that difficulty. Rite f you put them off at the very outset, then they're not going to come in to deal withthat difficulty. What is important is perhaps a journey, and not so much the destination and your destiny through all this was this book which we are talking about today.
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