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Ep 341: The Steady Determination of Yamini Aiyar

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of Democracy in the Indian State

The story of the Indian state is about these precisely these distortions that democracy is pricing open spaces. The economy is so tied to the state that it's not able to achieve its potential, which essentially makes the state the only site of empowerment. Democracy opens you up to new pay new opportunities but all those opportunities are basically looking to grab the state because there is no other form of access to power and expression of power in a deeply hierarchical society.

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